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2010/12/15 20:25:23
Subject: Imperial Steam Punk (update now with first propeller engine)
Viktor von Domm wrote: ähm...this sound like supernanny gone bad...liked supermodels gone bad more^^ actually^^
Lenny Henry- "you know what i'd like to see? Jamaican supernanny. 'this is the naughty chair.' 'oh, what's that for?' 'when they are naughty...YOU HIT THEM WITH IT!!!'"
Viktor von Domm wrote:ähm...whats a centaur...will have a quick google search...
The DKoK equivalent of a chimera- 5 person.
Viktor von Domm wrote:p.s. nice sense of humor for a fourteen year old (thats right doesnt it?)
thanks sigged!
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DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+ JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles. corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day. greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid.
2010/12/15 20:33:43
Subject: Imperial Steam Punk (update now with first propeller engine)
Then make it able to carry five people, and have Leman Russ style treads(Smaller) on it. That pic even has the Centaur weapon layout to driver of the Centaur to a T.
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"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2010/12/15 20:48:20
Subject: Re:Imperial Steam Punk (update now with first propeller engine)
Just wondering if you´ve ever come across this Anime flic..."Steamboy"
The imagery should be right up your street!
Re the bren gun carrier... my grandad always used to say "Backs against the wall, just give me a Bren gun, a case of ammunition and an extra barrel (seems it was wont to overheat!)!
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Speak softly
& carry a big stick!
2010/12/15 20:52:20
Subject: Re:Imperial Steam Punk (update now with first propeller engine)
to be honest i love the bren gun, she is looking absolutly cool...aslo would always use the sterling patchet over a HK MP5 any day of the week...
the bren carrier i will keep in mind looks very good...
at shrike: thanks for siggin me^^ great honor^^
Lenny Henry- "you know what i'd like to see? Jamaican supernanny. 'this is the naughty chair.' 'oh, what's that for?' 'when they are naughty...YOU HIT THEM WITH IT!!!'"
thats a great post man, my wife is a nurserey nurse working in the kidergarten and she will love it^^ we often saw super nanny back in the first days here in germany and it was all utter crap...all bad acting and nothing for real but hell lot of feeling ashamed of the whole human lot due to the scenes to be seen there...lol
Automatically Appended Next Post: at easytiger, recognized instatly the shape^^
seems there is a hughe movemnet for steampunk out there...just scatched the tip of an imense iceberg it seems...also the steamboy looks a bit like the rocketeer...which is also quite steamy ^^
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have you ever seen fawlty towers? best (and first) sitcom ever!!!
DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+ JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles. corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day. greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid.
2010/12/15 20:58:41
Subject: Imperial Steam Punk (update now with first propeller engine)
too true, sadly next to never shown in german telly but we saw some in our english classes...made a paper and a presentational comedy play once on british humor and the not being able to translate adequatly in german...as we tend to be too stiff in humor here...
ah, Fawlty towers, and Black Adder, my favorites followed by Are you being served?
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2010/12/15 21:11:13
Subject: Re:Imperial Steam Punk (update now with first propeller engine)
Looked forward to Monty Python nights on OPB and also Benny Hill years ago. Public Television also had the Blake's 7 and Dr. Who playing as well.,
Automatically Appended Next Post: Some of the Gaunt's Ghosts stories had dirigibles in them.
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"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2010/12/15 22:30:40
Subject: Imperial Steam Punk (update now with first propeller engine)
saw lots of benny hill when i was young but his farty humor and so wasn´t my type of humor...like the black british humor more^^
black adder in every instalment is so bad and naughty...also rowan atkinson is the best...just dont like is mr. bean stuff as i think its rather poor...he could do better...
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2010/12/15 22:42:29
Subject: Imperial Steam Punk (update now with first propeller engine)
Yeah, but Sandy Mitchell decided to inject some humor into the grim dark future!
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2010/12/16 09:00:10
Subject: Imperial Steam Punk (update now with first propeller engine)
seems after i read something about these books of him that i should try to read them...after all what i read about other 40k novelas its seemingly worth a read...hmmm...thanks for the hint sir!
Once you start, you won't get enough! Also, you will realize that the images on the cover are part of the jokes!
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2010/12/16 12:15:58
Subject: Imperial Steam Punk (update now with first propeller engine)
Viktor von Domm wrote:saw lots of benny hill when i was young but his farty humor and so wasn´t my type of humor...like the black british humor more^^
black adder in every instalment is so bad and naughty...also rowan atkinson is the best...just dont like is mr. bean stuff as i think its rather poor...he could do better...
yep. I get fed up with it. top TV shows:
Live @ the apollo (rhod gilbert and lenny henry)
Blackadder series 2, 3 and blackadder goes forth
Fawlty towers
Monty python (not a TV show, but meh)
try hot shots! part deux- funny as straying a little...
my fave bits in the 40k novels are:
in rynn's world, when the vice minister of education wets himself, called an idiot, and thrown ito the sea by crimson fists,
In first and only, when a captain challenges a junior commissar to a duel, and while nattering about what a "base creature" the commissar is, get punched by him.
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DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+ JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles. corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day. greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid.
2010/12/16 20:20:45
Subject: Imperial Steam Punk (update now with first propeller engine)
Speaking of british authors read Iain banks. Amazing and funny - some is brutal and unpleasant at the same time though. I recommend 'look to windward' and 'excession' as two of his least bloody but most funny sci-fi books.
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Your english is pretty good, do you find it hard to understand some of the humour when you read it in another language? In my frensh class in school we did a lesson on jokes in french and despite being quite good at written french back then I didn't get any of the jokes until they were explained.
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does he use accents like pratchett does? i really like it when an author adds character by showing speach habbits of his characters...
and i have just found out that he is scottish....will keep your hint in mind...
Yeah well theres a whole species of intellegent machines that live in a sort of harmony with the people in those books and the way he writes their communication between each other is done really well to represent their machine intelligence (they are sometimes a bit nuts as well)
Automatically Appended Next Post: I would characterise him as first an formost an intelectual writer and only secondly a comedian (dark humour and satire mostly) but then you could say the same thing about all the other british authors you mention, except pratchet who is a humourist first and an intelectual writer second (a close second)
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yep, was always the best part in a good book to spot the smaller things...every child laughs for the banana joke...
have you read by chance the coop work of pratchett and gaiman? the omen? this is one of my favorite....and it is one i acually had tears in my eyes at the end...not from laughing but that the last page was in fact the last page of the book...made me sad...
But my favourite ever comedy book for laughing at and with the british is sue townsends "the queen and I" in which a new socialist government decides to abolish the monarchy and appropriate their wealth and they and up living on a council estate on welfare! They have to go to the job center. This is guaranteed to make the british people (especially those who have lived in a coucil estate and claimed welfare) laugh their tits off
thats something only you brits could get away with... here you would get so nasty looks that you yourself would commit brainsuicide by sheer selfinduced guilty feelings...
So, basically, the Imperium shows Cain as a Hero, in their view, almost like a rock star for their grim universe, and allof thi8s is accomplished because all he wants is a cushy hotel, good food, do some card playing and to retire at a ripe old age and avoid the bad things out there.....apparently the Emperor has other ideas.^^
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2010/12/16 22:44:42
Subject: Imperial Steam Punk (update now with first propeller engine)
thanks 
