What are you like? Posted Tue Apr 3 21:39:41 BST 2001 by Radiator Head Child

A gen-you-ine question.
Do you all sound like you're trying to recreate Monty Python sketches with full on whiny voiced stiltedness as I imagined?
Are you all wearing oversized glasses and keeping biros in your pockets?
Do you all proudly wear t-shirts with obscure comedy acts names printed on them?
Am I really headed for this life that lays before me like some dreaded horrible black thing that you don't want to touch because God knows what is underneath-
I digressed, erm basically, are all us lot geeks?
And is the comedy fan geek really the stereotype we expect?
(I'm not talking corpses here, because they already fufil every stereotype known to manikins).

Just asking. It's nothing personal.


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Posted By TJ on Tue Apr 3 21:52:59 BST 2001:


>Do you all sound like you're trying to recreate Monty Python sketches with full on whiny voiced stiltedness as I imagined?

No. The occasional Morrisism might creep into my everyday speech, but I'm not a reciter.

>Are you all wearing oversized glasses and keeping biros in your pockets?

I don't wear glasses, and I have a fountain pen for all occasions. I am, after all, a writer.

>Do you all proudly wear t-shirts with obscure comedy acts names printed on them?

I have a self-made Blue Jam t-shirt, but apart from that, no. Obscure bands, maybe.

>Am I really headed for this life that lays before me like some dreaded horrible black thing that you don't want to touch because God knows what is underneath-

No, because I very much doubt that many of the people on here are as 'sad' as you appear to think. Certainly none of the ones I've met have been.

>I digressed, erm basically, are all us lot geeks?

Nope.

>And is the comedy fan geek really the stereotype we expect?

No, because I've never actually met a 'comedy geek'. Most comedy fans I know appear to live life to the full.

>(I'm not talking corpses here, because they already fufil every stereotype known to manikins).

No they don't. They are top blokes, and no mistake.


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Posted By Thecomicbookstoreguy on Tue Apr 3 21:54:04 BST 2001:

the biros are there for convenience


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Posted By 'Peter O' on Tue Apr 3 23:04:09 BST 2001:

I am a nude lady.


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Posted By Mogwai on Tue Apr 3 23:06:26 BST 2001:

Having informed opinions on something you enjoy *in itself* does not make you a geek. It's if you're incapable of talking about anything else that you might find yourself duly tagged ( http://www.theonion.com/onion3636/holy_grail_quotes.html ).


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Posted By Mogwai on Tue Apr 3 23:09:36 BST 2001:

>I am a nude lady.

I wish we'd had nude teachers at my school.


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Posted By 'Phil' on Tue Apr 3 23:11:33 BST 2001:

I'm Son of Shaggy. As in Scooby's mate, not the Boombastic fellow.


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Posted By Ailie on Tue Apr 3 23:28:28 BST 2001:

TJ is a nerd...




He's in denial.


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Posted By Ailie on Tue Apr 3 23:41:24 BST 2001:

>TJ is a nerd...


Actually, I'll retract that incase he goes in the huff. : )


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Posted By 'paul twist' on Tue Apr 3 23:41:44 BST 2001:

There's a bit in "Going Deaf For A Living" where Steve Lamacq describes how he often daydreams about new records and gigs when he's bored by conversation (or something to that effect). That pretty much sums me up. Plus I apparently like things just cos they're not popular and are "weird". These are the opinions of fellow 22-year-olds. Some people never grow up.


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Posted By Ailie on Tue Apr 3 23:55:09 BST 2001:

>erm basically, are all us lot geeks?


I can only _really_ speak for myself.

RHC, as the creator of a Mark Lamarr website, I can assure you that I do not fit into the category of geek.













Anyone seen a thermos lying around?


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Posted By Radiator Head Child on Wed Apr 4 06:43:12 BST 2001:

I despair.
And henceforth model myself on Bridget Jones.


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Posted By Ailie on Wed Apr 4 08:47:52 BST 2001:

>And henceforth model myself on Bridget Jones.


Does this mean that every posting you make will be prefixed by your weight and daily calorie intake?



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Posted By Radiator Head Child on Wed Apr 4 19:30:54 BST 2001:

>Does this mean that every posting you make will be prefixed by your weight and daily calorie intake?

Weight: 7.5 stone
Calories: lots. need more. more. more.

No.


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Posted By 'Namecheck Pasolini ' on Thu Apr 5 11:32:16 BST 2001:

This is all very well, and its all very fine, Radey, but it begs the question of what you yourself are like. Im guessing Darlene off "Roseanne". Or mayhaps Julia Sallallallawallawallawallah. Or mebbee even Marmalade Atkins ("Dodgy taste in comedians warning!",sung by Bad Manners)

Other inspired guesses-
Bel-Simon Pegg. Or, if wet, The Son Off "Wait Til Your Father Gets Home"
(The hippy one)

Mogwai-John Ratzenberg. Or if not actually wet, but a bit muggy,Mike Harding.

Butler Of Unruliness-That Bloke Who Was The Fading Rocker Type From That "Six Tribes Of Pop" Article From Last Fridays Guardian. Or, if pissing it down, Robbie Coltrane.

Bent Halo-A strange composite of all three Goodies. With a Jim Thirwell Remix of "Black Pudding Bertha" playing in the bakground.

Stewart Lee- That bloke from Everything But The Girl.


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Posted By 'Baby Coelacanth' on Thu Apr 5 13:24:59 BST 2001:

I have shiny scales. And glasses.


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Posted By Charlie Brooker on Thu Apr 5 14:46:14 BST 2001:

I've got a big corporate cock in my mouth and both legs in plaster.


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Posted By MikeSOTCAA on Thu Apr 5 15:10:39 BST 2001:

>I've got a big corporate cock in my mouth and both legs in plaster.

Or is it just the way you walk?


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Posted By Radiator Head Child on Thu Apr 5 20:12:51 BST 2001:

If you can imagine what I look like then you may be breaking the law.


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Posted By Bean Is A Carrot on Fri Apr 6 10:22:51 BST 2001:

I know what you look like...I think.


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Posted By Joe4SOTCAA on Fri Apr 6 12:27:18 BST 2001:

Psst - she was the one with the blue coat.


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Posted By Bean Is A Carrot on Fri Apr 6 13:49:10 BST 2001:

>Psst - she was the one with the blue coat.

It also had fur lining.


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Posted By Radiator Head Child on Fri Apr 6 18:19:58 BST 2001:

Yes. I burnt the coat later though, so you'll never find me now.


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Posted By Green Isaac on Fri Apr 6 20:09:43 BST 2001:

>Yes. I burnt the coat later though, so you'll never find me now.

Yes we will, you'll be the one wearing the blazer. :-)


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Posted By Unruly Butler on Sat Apr 7 10:38:23 BST 2001:

Blue coat? Oh, I'd always imagined RHC in a little red plastic mac, skipping round Venice, driving Donald Sutherland potty.

So that wasn't you, then?


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Posted By Radiator Head Child on Sat Apr 7 12:10:55 BST 2001:

>So that wasn't you, then?

No there was a mix up and I ended up in being possessed by satan. My neck still canes.


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Posted By Thecomicbookstoreguy on Sun Apr 8 14:09:36 BST 2001:

http://toolboxdesign.com/simpsons/New%20Pages/Comic%20Book%20Guy.html


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