Re: [scifinoir2] Dr Who's companion

[Daryle Lockhart]

Lenny Henry as the Doctor would be awesome. He's still relatively an  
unknown in the states and with the right  writing it  could  really   
be a great show. I actually think that  Lenny's age probably had more  
to do with him not getting the role than him being Black. They seem  
to  be targeting a younger audience. It will  be interesting watching  
this new season.

On Aug 13, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Martin Pratt wrote:

It's been considered. Lenny Henry, the Brit comedian, was one of the  
finalists to play the Doctor in the Fox movie that we all know and hate.

Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can't say I dig the  
hair, but an interesting move. I don't suppose they'd
ever consider getting a Brother to play the Doctor's next incarnation???

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From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of being_marian
Sent: Saturday, 12 August, 2006 19:49
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [scifinoir2] Dr Who's companion

Dr Who seems to have acquired a Black companion.
http://www.bbc. 
co.uk/doctorwho/gallery/doctormartha/

http://www.bbc.

co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/08/10/35549.shtml

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Re: [scifinoir2] Dr Who's companion

[Martin Pratt]

I thought so, too, when I first heard the rumor. When they gave the role to 
Paul McGann, I had to look him up, because I'd never heard of him. Here in the 
States, they dug up almost every movie he'd ever been in and threw it on-air, 
trying to catch the wave. Still couldn't name a one of them if life and limb 
depended.

Daryle Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  
Lenny Henry as the Doctor would be awesome. He's still relatively an 
unknown in the states and with the right writing it could really 
be a great show. I actually think that Lenny's age probably had more 
to do with him not getting the role than him being Black. They seem 
to be targeting a younger audience. It will be interesting watching 
this new season.

On Aug 13, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Martin Pratt wrote:

It's been considered. Lenny Henry, the Brit comedian, was one of the 
finalists to play the Doctor in the Fox movie that we all know and hate.

Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can't say I dig the 
hair, but an interesting move. I don't suppose they'd
ever consider getting a Brother to play the Doctor's next incarnation???

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From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of being_marian
Sent: Saturday, 12 August, 2006 19:49
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [scifinoir2] Dr Who's companion

Dr Who seems to have acquired a Black companion.
http://www.bbc. 
co.uk/doctorwho/gallery/doctormartha/

http://www.bbc.

co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/08/10/35549.shtml

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RE: [scifinoir2] [Fwd: Janet Jackson Poses Topless for Vibe]

[Martin Pratt]

Wasn't bad, which says something, as I'm normally a hater of all things remade. 
Didn't follow the original storyline (not that these things ever do), but it 
entertained me well enough, didn't leave me with a bad taste. Wouldn't buy it, 
though. It's not worth a second viewing, IMO.

Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Was that movie any good? As 
the fall and winter months approach, I always
start looking for things to do while I'm indoors: catch up on comic maxi
series (like "Civil War"), read good books, and see movies at home. I wonder
if I should add this one to the list?

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From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Martin Pratt
Sent: Sunday, 13 August, 2006 13:28
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] [Fwd: Janet Jackson Poses Topless for Vibe]

I noticed it when I sat through the remake of "Assault on Precinct 13".
Didn't know it was him until halfway through.

Keith Johnson mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net>
comcast.net> wrote: true dat! Didja peep how Ja Rule went from being a
scrawny looking man-boy a
couple years back to have a prison body? I saw him on the cover of a mag
last year and had to do a double take. And once Will Smith got bulked up for
"Ali", he's held on to that swoll-up look. More power to 'em: I work out
quite a bit, but I can't squeeze in more than an hour or so each day. I take
yoga and Pilates at my gym, which are included with the monthly membership.
But I really want to get into more serious yoga and start into martial arts
to boot. But it costs money to do all that. It would be amazing to have a
lifestyle that permitted the kind of intense physical regime actors and
singers can get--along with all the nutritionists, personal trainers, and
martial arts instructors you could ever need! 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  ups.com
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On
Behalf Of Astromancer
Sent: Saturday, 12 August, 2006 23:36
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  ups.com
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] [Fwd: Janet Jackson Poses Topless for Vibe]

Come on, Keith, these folks are rich! They can definitely afford it if the
military can...

Keith Johnson mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net>
comcast.net> wrote: True, but like I said, if so, it's not a healthy regime
that one would
recommend for most people. You need some serious support and caretaking for
a weight loss like that, especially if coupled with such an incredible
increase in muscle tone. Those are two different aspects of physical
training, either one of which would task average people in so short a time.
But hey, when you have that kind of dough and your success is (largely)
based on your looks, of course it's possible!

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Sent: Friday, 11 August, 2006 02:37
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Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] [Fwd: Janet Jackson Poses Topless for Vibe]

It's possible, guys...saw too many fat bodies in boot camp turn into what
the girls call hunks and we called Marines in no time flat...

KeithBJohnson@  comcast.net wrote: Yeah,
lots of people--such as Tom Joyner--find it hard to believe she dropped 60
pounds *and* got that incredibly cut in such a short time. It's only been
maybe two months at most. Even if she did, it's not healthy at all. I know
that she's fallen out many times in the past due to exhaustion and poor
eating habits. And I know for a fact her workout regimes aren't the best.
They're the kind only someone with lots of money should attempt, as you need
dedicated nutritionists, cooks, personal trainers, hell--massage therapists!
A whole team of people to make sure you don't kill yourself. No matter what
anyone says, losing weight and getting fit is a slow process, and losing
about 2.5 pounds a week is a realistic and practical standard. Any more than
that--which is the Hollywood way--can be dangerous. 

One of the things that bothers me in modern society is the obssession with
being too slim and impossiby fit. Now Jackson looks good--and thank God she
has a Black butt that won't go away!--but so many actresses and entertainers
are working themselves out to look like emaciated skeletons. I hate the
message that sends to young girls. Sometimes I feel as if I'm the only guy
left who still thinks the voluptuous look of the old days is the best: for
non-Black women, that'd be Rita Hayworth, Racquel Welch, Sophia Loren,
Yvette Mimieux, Yvonne Craig (Batgirl, Green Orion Slave Girl in Star Trek
the OS). Nowadays you can bet that when I think a white actress has a shape,
someone will tell her she's fat, and you'll come back later to see she's
dropped twenty or so pounds. A few like Scarlett Johannsen resist it, 

[scifinoir2] Re: Dr Who's companion

[being_marian]

Ha!
Which population in GB is greater?  Eastern (Paki and Indian) or
Black?   There are more British-Eastern stars than British-Black movie
stars aren't there?   Do you want to nominate Chiwetel Ejiofor?  He
presents a good profile.


--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Keith Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Can't say I dig the hair, but an interesting move. I don't suppose
they'd
> ever consider getting a Brother to play the Doctor's next incarnation???
> 
>   _  
> 
> From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of being_marian
> Sent: Saturday, 12 August, 2006 19:49
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [scifinoir2] Dr Who's companion
> 
> 
> 
> Dr Who seems to have acquired a Black companion.
> http://www.bbc. 
> co.uk/doctorwho/gallery/doctormartha/
> 
> http://www.bbc.
>

> co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/08/10/35549.shtml
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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RE: [scifinoir2] Re: say good bye to the thongs?

[James Landrith]

I offered to buy some for The Wife.

 

"Not amused" would be an understatement.

 

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Behalf Of Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 11:49 PM
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: say good bye to the thongs?

 

OK guys, i swear this is scifi. i'm sorry, I had to send it. Buttless 
underwear!?!?!

C V wrote:
> Did you all know there was such a thing as 'backless underwear'? I
> swear...I'm getting old and have seen it all.
> AND they're having a sale now! where the heck have i been?
>
> http://www.backless

lingerie.com/?cid=1134&sid=4029&pid=0&mid=494
>
> Camille [perhaps its 1/2 off??] LOL
>
>

 



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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: say good bye to the thongs?

[Daryle Lockhart]

I loved your capitalisation. I have been referring to my wife as  
Number One for some time now,  but "The Wife" is a LOT more DS9.  
"Responding all stop. Awaiting response from The Wife, Captain."

But again, I think the offer was sort of the wrong approach. The  
thong is a garnish. You don't offer in advance. You sort of get to  
Jamaica on holiday,  everybody's relaxed in the suite after a long  
day doing nothing and a drink or two, and you break it out like "hm?"  
and it's either yea or nay.


On Aug 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, James Landrith wrote:

I offered to buy some for The Wife.

"Not amused" would be an understatement.

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From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 11:49 PM
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: say good bye to the thongs?

OK guys, i swear this is scifi. i'm sorry, I had to send it. Buttless
underwear!?!?!

C V wrote:
 > Did you all know there was such a thing as 'backless underwear'? I
 > swear...I'm getting old and have seen it all.
 > AND they're having a sale now! where the heck have i been?
 >
 > http://www.backless

lingerie.com/?cid=1134&sid=4029&pid=0&mid=494
 >
 > Camille [perhaps its 1/2 off??] LOL
 >
 >

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RE: [scifinoir2] Re: say good bye to the thongs?

[James Landrith]

True, I'll have to try that approach next time.  All I can remember from
that conversation is something about "stank" and one of my ex-girlfriends.
The rest is all a blur.

 

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Behalf Of Daryle Lockhart
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 3:30 PM
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: say good bye to the thongs?

 


I loved your capitalisation. I have been referring to my wife as 
Number One for some time now, but "The Wife" is a LOT more DS9. 
"Responding all stop. Awaiting response from The Wife, Captain."

But again, I think the offer was sort of the wrong approach. The 
thong is a garnish. You don't offer in advance. You sort of get to 
Jamaica on holiday, everybody's relaxed in the suite after a long 
day doing nothing and a drink or two, and you break it out like "hm?" 
and it's either yea or nay.






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[scifinoir2] Experts meet to decide Pluto fate

[brent wodehouse]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4789531.stm

Last Updated: Monday, 14 August 2006

Experts meet to decide Pluto fate


Astronomers are gathering in the Czech capital, Prague, hoping to define
exactly what counts as a planet.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) hopes to settle the question of
Pluto, which was first spotted in 1930.

Experts are divided over whether Pluto - further away and considerably
smaller than the eight other planets in our Solar System - deserves the
title.

The stakes were raised when a bigger planet-type body, known as 2003
UB313, was discovered by a US astronomer.

Any decision to downgrade Pluto would send shockwaves through the
scientific community, instantly outdate textbooks, and change how the
basics of the Solar System are taught in schools.

There are suggestions the scientists could decide to include Pluto in a
new classification system that marks it out as different to the eight
larger planets.

"So far it looks like a stalemate," said Pavel Suchan of the IAU meeting's
local organisation committee. "One half wants Pluto to remain a planet,
the other half says Pluto is not worth being called a planet."

Since 1930, astronomers have become aware of a vast population of small,
icy bodies resembling Pluto that orbit the Sun beyond Neptune, in a region
called the Kuiper Belt.

This led some astronomers to argue that Pluto belonged with this
population of "icy dwarfs", not with the objects we call planets.

Allowances could once be made for Pluto on account of its size. At just
2,360km (1,467 miles) across, Pluto is significantly smaller than the
other planets. But until recently, it was still the biggest known Kuiper
Belt Object (KBO).

That changed with the discovery of 2003 UB313 by Professor Mike Brown and
colleagues at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

After being measured with the Hubble Space Telescope, it was shown to be
some 3,000km (1,864 miles) in diameter, making it larger than the ninth
planet.

Now delegates to the Prague conference are being asked to agree for the
first time on a formal definition of what a planet is.

"My feeling is that they would like to re-classify Pluto. One idea would
be to make Pluto an "ice dwarf". This would be a new subdivision of the
planet family, rather like the asteroids," said Peter Bond of the UK's
Royal Astronomical Society.

One potential outcome of the meeting would be the promotion of 2003 UB313
- nicknamed Xena, after the TV warrior princess - into the exclusive club
of "official" planets.

Some observers even believe the new definition of planet could cover other
objects smaller than both Pluto and Xena. These include the KBOs Sedna and
Quaoar.

Alternatively, Pluto's status as the ninth planet could also be in danger
if the experts decide it no longer makes the grade.

"It could mean the number of planets leaps to 20 or more, or it drops to
eight. But I think most people would prefer not to drop Pluto altogether,"
Mr Bond told the BBC News website.

About 3,000 astronomers and scientists are meeting in Prague, where the
issue will be put to a vote.

The meeting opens on Monday and is due to last 12 days.



 
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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Dr Who's companion

[Martin Pratt]

I'll second that.

being_marian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Ha!
Which population in GB is greater? Eastern (Paki and Indian) or
Black? There are more British-Eastern stars than British-Black movie
stars aren't there? Do you want to nominate Chiwetel Ejiofor? He
presents a good profile.

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Keith Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Can't say I dig the hair, but an interesting move. I don't suppose
they'd
> ever consider getting a Brother to play the Doctor's next incarnation???
> 
> _ 
> 
> From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of being_marian
> Sent: Saturday, 12 August, 2006 19:49
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [scifinoir2] Dr Who's companion
> 
> 
> 
> Dr Who seems to have acquired a Black companion.
> http://www.bbc. 
> co.uk/doctorwho/gallery/doctormartha/
> 
> http://www.bbc.
>

> co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/08/10/35549.shtml
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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>



 


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[scifinoir2] "The Wicker Man"

[being_marian]

Well, they've gone and remade my favorite pagan movie, "the Wicker man".  
http://thewickermanmovie.warnerbros.com/wickerman.html

We just don't know when to leave a good movie alone.  And in the
present religious environment, I don't expect the same ending.  Thank
goodness, I have the original on dvd.

Further reading shows that the original movie stars and writers are
furious also.
http://news.scotsman.com/movies.cfm?id=1921042005








 
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