Is this where I am supposed to introduce myself? I am sure I will be given a gentle rebuke if it is not.
My given name is Steve, I am English, living in the billiard table that is known as the Netherlands. I have been here over four years and can hardly speak two words strung together, I think they based Klingon on Dutch.
I stumbled across this forum while surfing the net for por... erm SciFi films, books, and stuff. I wasn't sure what sort of folk you were so my profile is a little tame and well, boring I suppose. Maybe if I can work up the enthusiasm I will change it. Anyway I have been reading SciFi since I was about 12, I think my first book was a collection of stories by Theodore Sturgeon. I can remember being called in by my sister to watch the first showing of Lost in Space on UK TV, I can also just about remember watching William Hartnell play Dr Who.
Of the more recent SciFi TV stuff I loved B5, Voyager, the original Star Trek, DS9 was ok but I didn't really like Next Generation until little Wesley was out of the picture. I am sorry call me old fashioned but what Captain would say "Sure kid you can get in the pilots chair of this multi-billion credit star ship with 1,000 (or whatever) crew members aboard, just don't steer us into a star OK? chortle chortle." Maybe I am not getting the gist right or maybe I am just a boring old fart, but I just couldn't see it myself.
Anyway I have rambled enough for now I think, (if anyone reading this is stall awake)so I shall shut up and say more another time, if anyone is interested.
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And as for that rebuke, technically, the Officer's Lounge is where the non-Sci-Fi babblage is theoretically supposed to go, but if anyone truly feels strongly about it, you will find that this thread will be moved there itself.
I'm a bit younger. The first sci-fi I read was -- I think -- the novelisation of Star Wars. Star Trek was in syndication, and the only British stuff I got was vastly delayed and run on our local PBS station. My favourite Doctor is Jon Pertwee, although this new chap has a bit of a flair that I like...
I have to disagree about Wesley, but that's probably because Wil is just a great guy, and very close to my own age, and a total geek as well, so we have a lot in common.
Now, go jump into the Officer's Lounge or Flameboard and hold forth about one of the topics of the day.
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Welcome.
Not to hijack the thread, but who ended up getting that coveted 1701 member number?
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Whatever happened to that guy? I've never seen him before. Is he just one of those random trolls who wander in every once in a while, make a post or two then bugger off to wherever trolls go?
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quote:I stumbled across this forum while surfing the net for por... erm SciFi films, books, and stuff.
And with a joke like that, I'm sure you'll fit in here just fine.
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Isn't Lee the one with several GB of porn on his system?
It is sad to see that the 1701 went to waste.
Oh, uhh, yeah, hello there Steve, got any books to pitch?
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It's been a while since you posted about it, that I read anyway, so GBs is all I knew about.
So, what do you do, join as a webmaster and get all the promo zips? My nephew did that, his wife promptly made him delete is all. Several days of downloads gone.
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Erm, I don't recall exactly when we had this conversation, but I really don't have Gigabytes of porn on my computer. I can only presume that I made some jokey comment at some point. . ?
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"on my computer" Notice how easily he wriggled out of it....he doesn't have gigs of porn on his computer, they're all on DVDROM!!
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Druss921
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Hello again,
Thanks for the welcome.
Well there was a bit of SciFi in there doesn't that count?
A book to plug?? Well now you mention it.... (nuvva bad joke) naaahh I play around scribbling a few stories, more fantasy than SciFi but I wouldn't inflict them on anyone. I actually frown (thats the closest to a frown I can find, sorry.) upon people who are not up front with that sort of thing.
I shall think of some terrifically interesting and intelectual comment on the modern face of SciFi, or maybe just talk about William Shatners wig.
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(thats the closest to a frown I can find, sorry.) upon people who are not up front with that sort of thing.
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