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Riddley Walker

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:20:34 +1200

here are some links to EMF and ELF research portals, a metastudy including NZ reseach and a US site with a general overview.

they all seem to be from an anti stance. it seems health effects are diverse, which is not unusual for chronic…

reece palmer

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:29:32 +1200

Back in the day my parents used to dutifully trot me off to church with them of a sunday eve and I'd sit for the first few years listen to the guy in the suit and kind of try to take it in 'cos the stories were quite good. After…

Jason Kemp

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:23:30 +1200

HAd quite forgotten about Gigantor till now

A quick check on the Gigantor show he looked less like a pylon and more like a oil can and was Japanese in origin "Iron Man#28" from 1958 cartoon and adapted for the West in about 1964. Even more surprising there is a…

Juha Saarinen

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:43:46 +1200

"...a good, honest, toiling son of the soil."

Saved you from being a horny-handed one too, I reckon.

Reminds me, I owe you beer or ten still for chopping down that tree for us, and elegantly bopping it away with your shoulder as the trunk fell.

David Haywood

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:11:29 +1200

Another lovely post, Mr Slack...

And thanks so much for including Erica Lloyd's doco — absolutely bloody brilliant!

As a lad, I used to climb the pylon in the park at Green Bay. I could get pretty high too — looking down on the tiny ant-like people who walked beneath…

Nobody Important

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:23:45 +1200

D'oh!

It was Simba in Lion King, not the other way around ...

andrew llewellyn

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:37:01 +1200

Wasn't it Simba?

Which was the Lion King? Simba or Kimba? The White Lion was the other.

But the villain was the dead father's brother, who had a scar too.

Nobody Important

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:34:12 +1200

Kimba the White Lion

Wasn't it Simba?

Whichever name, Disney's Lion King was (IMHO) a complete rip-off. (And by 'rip-off' I mean 'homage'; lest the PA legal team be worried)

andrew llewellyn

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:21:45 +1200

pitched it to the kids as proto-anime

Which it totally is!

Andrew remains looking youthful because of his full head of hair

No-one can remember what its original colour was though. I was thinking of dying it dark brown for my 40th – but after a grilling from the pharmacy…

David Slack

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:33:26 +1200

Which totally shows your age

I make no secret of mine. Andrew remains looking youthful because of his full head of hair. Bastard. Bet he had no pylons outside his house.

Russell Brown

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:31:51 +1200

But I'll blame the pylons.
They're imposing and eerie to an adult's eyes, but to a child's they're just impossibly vast and other-worldly.

Martin Phillipps from the Chills once drew a lovely illustration called 'Machines Crossing' (I think it was published in the first Jesus on a Stick comic) which…

Russell Brown

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:28:11 +1200

Bigger than big, taller than tall... Gigantor!
If I had the capacity to retain something useful instead of years & years of obscure TV themes to shows that I mostly didn't like anyway, I might have made something of myself.

Which totally shows your age. I found some Gigantor on the…

andrew llewellyn

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:17:12 +1200

Bigger than big, taller than tall... Gigantor!

If I had the capacity to retain something useful instead of years & years of obscure TV themes to shows that I mostly didn't like anyway, I might have made something of myself.

andrew llewellyn

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:15:41 +1200

I haven't done the google/wikipedia thing, but I suspect that the absence of Gigantor (the space age robot – he's. at. your command! Gigantor the space age robot, he's a-a-a-at your command... Giga-a-a-a-ntor!) from our screens is also related to the lack of other Japanese fare such as Kimba the…

Public Address

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:15:41 +1200

Discussion from blog post.