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There is a favourite character, but this seems to be strictly about names.

I'd say Manny Calavera. His name rolls of the tongue quite smoothly.

oh my god! I was just staring at this picture of a room and a ghost screamed at me! This is sick!

Because Maude's death led to the introduction of Cousin Oliver.

Fluke is on the right track with the pokemon comic, the joke itself is funny and his execution will improve.

Plus I'm tempted to scan some of the comics I did at a roughly similar age.

I am Australia's greatest sporting moment.

Some people already mentioned Fawlty Towers, and I would definetely support that idea. Of course I would also have liked more episodes, but maybe its even better that way - speaking of Monty Pythong, I really think there were too many episodes and lots of them was not very funny in the end.
I love the beginning however, but "Monty Python's Flying Circus" seems not to be out there in complete DVD-editions, or is it?

* Vince Twelve strokes his 14 DVD Monty Python's Flying Circus Box Set

14 DVD's might make up 1% of the things that were funnier than the Dead Parrot Sketch though.

Lennon was the direct inspiration for Linkin Park, American Idol and R. Kelly's Trapped In The Closet Helm.

Oh, and a post coital thought (of all places) reminds me I neglected the Big Wheel. He has a big wheel.

And I won't say "'nuff said"

I assume it will be a biological experiment thingy like Ultimate Venom rather than an alien.

And they could have it bond with a street mime and it'd be a more complex and interesting character than Eddie Brock.

Also, why haven't we seen the Hypno Hustler in the films yet?

Or Spot, The Gibbon, The Grizzly, The Ringer, Stegron, the spider-kid, humbug, the mudman (you know, the amalgam of Sand and hydro man), the 30, 000 odd "half baked" spideys from Maximum Clonage, fusion (the midget scientist/midget janitor destruction machine), red ghost's super apes, ramrod, the cyclone (he can totally spin real fast), demogoblin (a triumph of writing, really!), slyde, Cardiac (who has the superpower of appearing endlessly in the early 90's and then suddenly dissapearing for all time), the hate monger (alien ape man of course, no hitler clones for me!), the gold bug, cyborg Silvermane, The Answer (who is he? A good question, and he is THE ANSWER...and that is the extent of his character).

These are all classic villains! 40 years legacy of classic writing.

The Incredibles was originally written by Bird for Warner incidently, I guess since people woefully overlooked The Iron Giant, which was adorable.

Toy Story 2 was initially meant to be a crappy straight to video sequel in the line of all the other films released by Disney, but Pixar found, to their shock, that unlike Disney themselves, they had some form of creative dignity, and threw out all that had already been made, and restarted to produce a decent film.

And with ties to Disney being severed now, I don't think any more Pixar sequels will be forthcoming.

On another note, Sony believes they can get 6-7 films out the current Spider-Man franchise [provided they don't panic and muck it up like Warner  did with Batman in the 90's after Batman Returns]. I hope by the seventh film they have the greatest enemy Spider-Man ever faced, namely Howard Mackie.

I severely doubt they'd use The Lizard. Having two sympathetic mad scientist characters in a row would be pushing it a bit.

On the other hand, Venom (well, Eddie Brock really), like every thing from Michelinie's period is just bland and stupid.

I think though that the marketing people want a villain that will go well in trailers, and the Sandman morphing and the symbiote...squelching around, is more impressive than classic Kraven homoeroticism or Rose daintyness.

Also, I am now arguing about supervillains on the internet, goodbye dignity!

Rugby League is the second most popular form of football in terms of money, crowds and TV ratings, and 3rd in terms of player numbers. Rugby Union is third and fourth respectively. League is the most popular sport in NSW and Queensland however.

Since you may not know what Rugby League is, a century ago the working class players in Yorkshire and then Sydney realised they couldn't continue being amateur since they got injuries and thus couln't work. So they professionalised and tweaked the rules to make it more spectator friendly. The Middle class players remained amateur a class divide emerged (the olympics prohibited professional players as well in this period, to keep out the working class sportsman who couldn't afford to do sports at that level just for fun).

The main difference in rules are the fact that there are no lineouts, rucks are replaced by  simple restart of play called the "play the ball" and a team can only be tackled 6 times before they have to give over possesion [a bit like 4 downs in gridiron except you can't get another down, so they usually kick after the 5th tackle].

There's subsequently alot less ruck penalties and penalty goals are far far less important than in Union.

Of course, Rugby Union is now professional, and the successful teams (not the Austalian team) begin to look more and more like they're playing league, so maybe professional play is a vector.

The only other country where League is more popular than union is Papua new Guinea though, and elsewhere it's restricted to Maoris in New Zealand and Yorkshire in England.

There's a rough guide to Rugby League and Rugby Union then.

I prefer Rugby League to Rugby Union.

That's what happens when you go to a public school.

Homebrewing will taste better than Miller or Budweiser.

Bud is the second worst beer I have ever drunk [the worst was a Dutch chocolate flavoured one].

It's a pity about prohibition. The US had some of the finest brewing lineage in the world thanks to German and Dutch settlers, and prohibition wiped it out, leaving only the near beer brewers who haven't actually got back to brewing beer yet.

I downloaded 330 mb of a game from HOTU. I also got a few other 100mb plus games.

It ended up not working.

I also downloaded 600 mb of movie once, but it turned out to be a fake file. Interestingly there was a strange occurance that made it download at 40kb/sec at times, on a 56k modem. I know this is impossible, but it came down in just a few hours, and windows seemed to think there was hundreds of mb of file there.

Last time I saw Foxe playing for Australia was in 1999.

Funnily enough, the old administration, Soccer Australia, with all it's corruptness and incompetence, collapsed two years ago was was replaced by the Football Federation of Australia, who asked all the media to start saying "football" rather than "soccer" (which worked both because the other sports with that name are all played in winter, whilst soccer is played in summer to be in line wtih most seasons in the Northern Hemisphere).
They wanted to get rid of the traditional nickname for the Australian team, the Socceroos....but this victory has put paid to that concept.

Before a qualifying match way back in the 70's against Cameroon in "neutral" Mozambique a witch doctor put a curse on Australia.

Since then the football team has qualified, then been forced by FIFA to play more matches and end up not qualifying, been forced to travel to odd corners of the world to play politically tricky countrys that were too difficult for other federations, like Iran or Israel and in 1997 was the only team out of over 200 competing teams who did not lose a single match but failed to qualify on the away goal rule [no repechage, sudden death no matter what].

Last year a comedian went to Mozambique and had the curse lifted.

It looks like it paid off.

Cross white trash with inner urban council estates y'all [Which you don't have in that dang land of rent control] and some kinda of mangled urban culture, and you're getting closer son.