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The IT Crowd DVDs have just shipped — with subtitles in leet! The IT Crowd is a convulsively funny British TV show about sysadmins, created by Graham Linehan, who is best known for writing the classic show Father Ted.

I love the IT Crowd, one of the best comedy’s for years. It’s just oo long to wait for series 2. The rumour mill says that series 2 will be eight episodes instead of 6. Great stuff!

The DVD is on my christmas list

tip: Boing Boing

Ha ha ! What a donkey! I’ve always been worried about going on ‘Millionaire’ just in case this ever happened, it’s a certainty that none of your friends would ever let you forget it!

tip: geekologie

Ha ha! I’ve not seen Troops for such a long time. One of the best Star Wars mock-ups ever. I remember the first time I saw it and I was astounded then at the quality of the visuals, they look great even now!

Lucas should have hired these guys for the prequels!

A fun little list of Rock Band Name Origins, how accurate they are, who can say, most of these things are generally hearsay. I suppose only the band members will ever really know the truth.

Here’s a few of my faves

THE BEATLES - 1) original member Stuart Sutcliffe came up with THE BEETLES , as a play on Buddy Holly’s group THE CRICKETS who they loved. They were using the name THE QUARRYMEN and sometimes THE SILVER BEETLES - later it became THE BEATLES emphasizing the BEAT aspect of music (and poetry?). 2) Lennon lists the influence of the film “The Wild One”, which featured a motorcycle gang called the Beetles (unconfirmed). John Lennon is generally credited with combining Beetles and Beat to come up with THE BEATLES spelling. Lennon was also fond of saying he had a vision as a child of a flaming pie in the sky that said “You are Beatles with an “A”

COUNTING CROWS - Comes from old English nursery rhyme which had to do with predicting the future from the numbers of birds seen. Originally the rhyme was about magpies, but as people came over to America, crows were used instead. From the song “A Murder of One” one of the versions of the rhyme goes “one for sorrow, two for joy, three for girls, four for boys, five for
silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told…” Adam Duritz liked the rhyme…

LED ZEPPELIN - Jimmy Page was drinking with Moon and Entwhistle, who were bitching about their band mates Daltrey and Townshend. They joked about the two of them starting a band with Jimmy, and one of them said “Yeah, that will go over like a lead balloon”. When Jimmy formed his own band, he remembered this and thought “Lead Zeppelin” would be good, both from that conversation and the heavy/light contradiction similar to the band named IRON BUTTERFLY. They decided to drop the “a” so Americans wouldn’t mispronounce it.

1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time…I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?

2. People who are willing to get off their ass to search the entire room for the tv remote because they refuse to walk to the tv and change the channel manually.

3. When people say “Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too”. Damn right! What good is cake if you can’t eat it?

4. When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you’ve found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they? Gonna Kick their asses!

5. When people say while watching a film “did you see that?”. No Loser, I paid to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor. Sori 2say, im one of those people.

6. People who ask “Can I ask you a question?”…. Didn’t really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?

7. When something is ‘new and improved!’. Which is it? If it’s new, then there has never been anything before it. If it’s an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn’t be new.

8. When people say “life is short”. What the hell?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that’s longer?

9. When yo u are waiting for the bus and someone asks “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here, dumbass?

Quite funny, and you do kinda think these things!

(tip: Guinnesspig)

YouTube - Chad Vader - Day Shift Manager (episode 1)

Nothing like a good Star Wars parody