RE #18

Not positive, but I don't think it existed 25 years ago.

15 years IIRC and the Esperanto episode was from the third season I belive.

#20 Speech Therapist...and a friggin' princess. The worst kind, according to Billy Crystal...was high maintenance but thought she was low maintenance. Some day if I ever get into a career in stand-up, however, she ought to be worth at least a 45 minute set.

#21 I wasn't really tracking the exact time. Just recalled checking it out and not digging it at all. Besides, can't keep track of time well after eating those shrooms.

RE #22

It grows on you.

"Fawlty Towers" or "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin" it isn't, but like most British humor, it'll grow on you if you give it a chance.

BTW: If you've ever seen Robert Lewellin (sic?) (Kryten) and Chris Barrie (Rimmer) impovising without a script, OMG, those two are hysterical. They're both trained as impressionists and are just insane in person, Robert especially...

Perhaps I just didn't/don't have the patience with work wringing me out. I always did enjoy Fawlty Towers, however. Pretty much anything with Cleese in it. Impeccable timing and just a cutting wit. Did you ever see his eulogy of Chapman? Staggeringly funny. Classic in the Monty Python vein, too.

Haven't had the pleasure of the improv you mentioned. However, another Brit, Eddie Izzard, is one of the funniest people alive, IMHO.

Here's a two minute segment of the eulogy. I saw it from a much larger venue (I'm thinking Hollywood Bowl?), delivered to a larger crowd. On video, that is.

Shoot...now I remember. It's on one of the discs of Life of Python. Amazon still carries it. I have the 2 disc set somewhere.

We just grilled and ate a 1.3lb lobster tail and two prime strip steaks!

damn! You guys are making me feel like a pauper--I ate 3 tamales for breakfast/lunch, and then roasted chicken for dinner.

Dang, how'd I miss this?!

Slab of baby-backs went on the grill 10 minutes ago.

I marinated them in a pint of my favorite spicy sauce overnight and the top rack at about 300-350F!

Rfenst,

Do you prepare any venison, adn if so how do you like to marinate?

davey

No venison.

I roasted a whole Canada goose NYE. Stuffed it with oranges, fresh thyme and bay leaf. Finished with a Triple Sec/marmalade glaze. Fresh cranberry sauce and chestnut stuffing on the side. It was damn good.

BTW, pac -- nice work. I'm hearing it recited in Burroughs voice with Chet Baker wailing in the background.....

#3 LOL. Thanks. I'd actually forgotten all about it. Then again, I've had one of those days that if were heavily into LSD, it probably would have made my head operate better. No damage to anyone else...mostly just forgetting this, then forgetting that, etc...spilled coffee in the new truck, etc.

*sigh*

BTW, if you like Canadian goose, come up here and bring a trailer. I'll let you borrow my 12 gauge. Damned things are like big flying rats around here...except the poop is waaaaaaay bigger. Some places get them landing in such large numbers you wonder what the hell they could be feeding on...doesn't look like there is even room to bend down to get anything.

Red Dwarf Forever...

Love that show...