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Hugbot

Lorna wrote:

Is that a typical example of the dialogue from Plan 9?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5_Yj...5_YjTdgep8
 
Paula
We recently watched the Riff Trax version of Plan Nine. It was hilarious. My favorite line is 'Stupid Stupid Stupid'.
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Lurena
Great comics again. Make me smile for hours after reading this thread!
Thank you so much!

Hugbot wrote:

Brad wrote:

Plan 9 made it to Germany? On behalf of America, I humbly apologize.

As far as I know, it never got theatrical release in Germany.
About 20 years ago, a TV station showed Tim Burton's Ed Wood - followed as a special gimmick by Plan 9. That's when I watched it.

Hold your breath!
But Plan 9 From Outer Space is being turned into an opera.

The legendary, and legendarily bad, cult film from 1957will get the classical music treatment courtesy of Thai composer, and B-movie fanatic, Somtow Sucharitkul.

Plan 9 From Outer Space: A Really Grand Opera by Somtow Sucharitkul is currently in the libretto stage. Rehearsals will begin in earnest next year. Sucharitkul plans to release a teaser “suite from the opera” and to premiere the full opera in 2024. Torsten Neumann, director of the Oldenburg Film Festival, Germany’s leading indie film fest, is producing.
*No, I am not. I am not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going.*
 
Lorna

Indeed Hilarious
I look behind me, what do I see? A pair of golden wings seem to be attached to me.
 
OneSparePart

Hugbot wrote:

ellen york wrote:

Have we solved the mystery of the missing reactor? It was stolen by irate hotel guests to prevent middle-of-the-night science experiments?



ellen york wrote:

As always I am impressed by your attention to detail. The mass spec looks quite similar to the ones in my real-life lab.

Thanks. The drawing is based on a 6495C triple quadrupole mass spec from Agilent Technologies coupled with a 1290 Infinity II HPLC.

Ohhhh... That one...
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
 
OneSparePart

Paula wrote:

Hugbot wrote:

Sorry to bring this up, Paula, but you mentioned it yourself at the last Moloch rewatch:

i.imgur.com/6uOkgYX.jpg


Well, that was a surprise reading your comic today, Hugbot. And I prefer 'great' to 'large' like in Kaiser Wilhelm der Gross..... <grin> Do you remember all of our conversations in their entirety? I'm amazed!

Huggy is Mr (evil) Memory Man...
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
 
Hugbot

Lurena wrote:

Great comics again. Make me smile for hours after reading this thread!

Thank you! Glad to make you smile!

Lurena wrote:

Plan 9 From Outer Space: A Really Grand Opera by Somtow Sucharitkul is currently in the libretto stage. Rehearsals will begin in earnest next year.

Deary me! And I never thought I would read the words "in earnest" in the context of Plan 9.
 
Hugbot

OneSparePart wrote:

Huggy is Mr (evil) Memory Man...

Yessssss!!!!!!! Frown
 
Hugbot
i.imgur.com/VcpK09z.jpg
 
Joe Dredd

Brad wrote:

Plan 9 made it to Germany?


It was renamed Plan Nein of course.
 
Joe Dredd


It's easy to get them mixed up, isn't it? I'm always confusing the triple quadrupole model with the quadruple tripole. And don't get me started on whether it's the 1290 Infinity II or the 1291 Infinity III!
 
Joe Dredd


I was hoping we'd see Og leaning into shot and frowning in that last panel.

And what's the object on the floor next to TT? I've been meaning to ask since last time. Is it a clue or just a slice of pizza? ("I'll just leave this for later, here on the floor." Delicious isn't the word!*)

Well folks, what will happen in the next exciting instalment? Will Sherlock Holmes return to solve the crime, or will it be up to our zany gang of Horizonites? Will the baddie turn out to be ze Fluute? Will they solve it by peeking ahead several strips? What will they do for power now?


* Neither is tasty, healthy, safe, etc.
 
Joe Dredd


"In the wrong hands..."

"Hands? What are hands?"
 
OneSparePart

Joe Dredd wrote:



It's easy to get them mixed up, isn't it? I'm always confusing the triple quadrupole model with the quadruple tripole. And don't get me started on whether it's the 1290 Infinity II or the 1291 Infinity III!

You can't beat the Ouroboros Lister model S7 Ep3....that was truly marvellous
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
 
ellen york

Joe Dredd wrote:



I was hoping we'd see Og leaning into shot and frowning in that last panel.

And what's the object on the floor next to TT? I've been meaning to ask since last time. Is it a clue or just a slice of pizza? ("I'll just leave this for later, here on the floor." Delicious isn't the word!*)

Well folks, what will happen in the next exciting instalment? Will Sherlock Holmes return to solve the crime, or will it be up to our zany gang of Horizonites? Will the baddie turn out to be ze Fluute? Will they solve it by peeking ahead several strips? What will they do for power now?


* Neither is tasty, healthy, safe, etc.


I think it is piece of broken glass with what looks like a drop of blood on it. There is also blood on a piece of the glass still in the frame and mud (or possibly surprise poo) on the bottom of the window. Sadly as it is the power source for my portable lab that has been stolen it will be difficult to analyze these clues.
 
Joe Dredd
Egad Holmes, is there no end to your talents?

Very astutely observed, Ellen. So, you're saying we can see blood because it was the work of a mutoid? Or perhaps even an, ahem, putoid? Er, I think we'd better abandon this line of questioning.

Now, obviously it must have been someone familiar with the topography of the lady's boudoir and... er, I think we'd better abandon this line of questioning too.
 
Hugbot
Nice to see you eagerly discussing the clues I left in the pictures... the story seems to have already captivated you!

i.imgur.com/FqJf0aV.jpg
Edited by Hugbot on 06-10-2023 07:30
 
M1795537OCVirn
(snigger)
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
 
Lorna
I hate to point out at this stage. I am very much at fault here. A valuable portable reactor and no bars on the window!! I should have asked Paula to keep guard. She would have chased any intruders away with her Welsh Sign!!
I look behind me, what do I see? A pair of golden wings seem to be attached to me.
 
Paula

Joe Dredd wrote:

Brad wrote:

Plan 9 made it to Germany?


It was renamed Plan Nein of course.


Oh, Joe, you didn't. You DID! Groan....
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Paula

Lorna wrote:

I hate to point out at this stage. I am very much at fault here. A valuable portable reactor and no bars on the window!! I should have asked Paula to keep guard. She would have chased any intruders away with her Welsh Sign!!


I'd do more that that, Lorna. I'd give a giant karate chop -while saying out loud 'karate chop'- to anyone who touched the machine and then hit them over the head with my Welsh Street sign. Just ask TT, when I walloped him a con or two ago just for being smart about Del Grant!
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Paula
Hugbot, or Huggy as you are affectionately called in our home, you are one amazing dude. You have me laughing out loud more times than not. Please keep up the comics. I love them.
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Hugbot

Lorna wrote:

I am very much at fault here. A valuable portable reactor and no bars on the window!!

Don't blame yourself. I think the management would have protested if you had tried to install bars at the hotel windows!
Edited by Hugbot on 06-10-2023 06:55
 
Hugbot

Paula wrote:

Hugbot, or Huggy as you are affectionately called in our home, you are one amazing dude. You have me laughing out loud more times than not. Please keep up the comics. I love them.
Thank you! The strips are already planned up to episode 154.
 
Hugbot

ellen york wrote:

Sadly as it is the power source for my portable lab that has been stolen it will be difficult to analyze these clues.

Well, there are always the classical wet-chemical methods:

i.imgur.com/rANiwSD.jpg
 
ellen york
So we are looking for someone who takes sugar in their coffee. Or is the coffee stain a red herring (like the red paint)?
 
Hugbot

ellen york wrote:

So we are looking for someone who takes sugar in their coffee.

Well spotted! (Not surprisingly, since you are the expert.)

ellen york wrote:

Or is the coffee stain a red herring (like the red paint)?

Let's see... there are still two more clues at the crime scene.
 
Hugbot
i.imgur.com/dTzM5uC.jpg
 
Hugbot
i.imgur.com/eFU3EMx.jpg
 
Hugbot
i.imgur.com/Ulf8sHE.jpg
 
Lorna


What fun!!
I look behind me, what do I see? A pair of golden wings seem to be attached to me.
 
Joe Dredd
He's a charismatic chap, that TT. He suggests they go to Montreal and everyone agrees, as if he's said "Let's go to the pub." (Gosh - maybe they think they are going to a pub. Aren't they going to get a surprise when they turn up in Canada? "I thought it was funny we got on a boat!")

And knowing Huggy's propensity for Easter eggs, I'm wondering about the name of that vessel.
 
Hugbot

Joe Dredd wrote:

And knowing Huggy's propensity for Easter eggs, I'm wondering about the name of that vessel.

It's not so much an Easter egg as a bit of self-indulgence.
The design of the Anderson is based on a ship that I built of Lego in my primary school days:
i.imgur.com/y7ZRj2D.jpg
It even had an appearance in one of the comic strips I "drew" at the time. There was also a "technical" drawing accompanying the strip:
i.imgur.com/x47zcSi.jpg
I have no idea how I came up with the name. One might think that I named the yacht after Ian Anderson but I didn't know Jethro Tull at the time.
Probably I just misspelled the name of H. C. Andersen.
 
littlesue

Hugbot wrote:

Joe Dredd wrote:

And knowing Huggy's propensity for Easter eggs, I'm wondering about the name of that vessel.

It's not so much an Easter egg as a bit of self-indulgence.
The design of the Anderson is based on a ship that I built of Lego in my primary school days:
i.imgur.com/y7ZRj2D.jpg
It even had an appearance in one of the comic strips I "drew" at the time. There was also a "technical" drawing accompanying the strip:
i.imgur.com/x47zcSi.jpg
I have no idea how I came up with the name. One might think that I named the yacht after Ian Anderson but I didn't know Jethro Tull at the time.
Probably I just misspelled the name of H. C. Andersen.


Oh, isn't he cute.....
Cold! You don't know the meaning of the word cold!
Cold is when you have ice on the INSIDE of your window!!


Sue's Book Shelf https://www.mediafire.com/folder/z1xg...Zine_Shelf

Rebel Run Video https://youtu.be/8prqS-XZtLo
 
Joe Dredd
Thanks Huggy. That's great, what a fun thing to include.

Hans Christian Anderson was my first thought. I wondered if it was a joke about the characters being disembodied heads with no hands/Hans, but it didn't really seem to fit so I discounted it.

I suppose if you had known Jethro Tull at the time, the ship design would have incorporated some form of seed drill.
 
Hugbot

littlesue wrote:

Oh, isn't he cute.....

Not to mention the light blue/orange striped sweater... Shock
And these were only the early 70s... it would get worse!
 
Hugbot

Joe Dredd wrote:

I suppose if you had known Jethro Tull at the time, the ship design would have incorporated some form of seed drill.

GrinGrin
 
Hugbot
i.imgur.com/il6H5a1.jpg
 
littlesue

Hugbot wrote:

littlesue wrote:

Oh, isn't he cute.....

Not to mention the light blue/orange striped sweater... Shock
And these were only the early 70s... it would get worse!


There's nothing wrong with light blue and orange...my Mum and Dad's kitchen was orange wall paper, the hall way stairs and landing a shade of blue patterned wall paper and the front room...mauve!!!
Cold! You don't know the meaning of the word cold!
Cold is when you have ice on the INSIDE of your window!!


Sue's Book Shelf https://www.mediafire.com/folder/z1xg...Zine_Shelf

Rebel Run Video https://youtu.be/8prqS-XZtLo
 
littlesue


Dear Huggy, I am now humming Ghost Riders in the Sky!!!
Cold! You don't know the meaning of the word cold!
Cold is when you have ice on the INSIDE of your window!!


Sue's Book Shelf https://www.mediafire.com/folder/z1xg...Zine_Shelf

Rebel Run Video https://youtu.be/8prqS-XZtLo
 
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