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[matgb]

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  Sky One to resurrect Blake's 7? | The Register
  It'll either be great or awful. But I do want to know who'll play Servalan.
  (tags: TV Blake's+7)
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  Masturbation may prevent prostate cancer - Yahoo! News
  See, it is good for you: Studies on animals have shown that carcinogens like 3-methylchloranthrene can be harbored in the prostate. Frequent

Comments

[innerbrat]

Well done!

The first lines strike me more as 100 really good novels famous for their first lines and/or opening imagery - because, for example, It was love at first sight isn't so much a noticeably fantastic line.

And where the Hell was Day of the Triffids?

[matgb]

I know not, TBH I only really scanned them and saved them to go back when more in the mood.

Also, Glue worked fine, danke-and if you edit it and remove auto formatting all the extra linebreaks go for added bonus. So now I have to go look at your CSS and figure out how I want to do mine I guess.

[davegodfrey]

Why thank you...

[matgb]

You're welcome.

[pmoodie]

Sky One to resurrect Blake's 7?

Oh dear. Just the fact that it's a Sky One production is setting off alarms in my brain. It should be The Beeb, if anyone.

Still, I might tune in if they get someone as hot as Jacqeline Pearce to play Serve-a-flan. :)

[matgb]

Battlestar Galactica was a Sky co-production, they're reasonably new to commissioning original shows, but make a lot of money off of genre TV imports. TBH, despite the Murdoch association, I think Sky might be better than the snobby Beeb at genre.

OTOH, the Beeb are doing their own show, not got a link to hand though, was in a Times article I read in t'pub.

[pmoodie]

American Book Review :: 100 Best First Lines from Novels

Yay for there being a bit of Kurt Vonnegut, but boooo for there being no Raymond Chandler or Hunter S Thompson! :(

[misscoollinda]

I heard about the masturbation/prostate link on Dan Savage's podcast this week. Has the church denied it yet? Any benefits to be found from female masturbation?

[matgb]

Any benefits to be found from female masturbation?

Great big smile on SB's face?

Oh, sorry, you mean medically? Not seen anything. And I'm the last person to ask about the opinions of any churches ;-)

[misscoollinda]

Great big smile on SB's face?

Well, that's a given ;)

When I was in catholic school, I remember the teacher telling us that girls could get pregnant from masturbating - that their bodies also produced sperm in small amounts. No, I didn't believe it.

[matgb]

No, I didn't believe it.

That's good. But I've no doubt others did, and that means either the teacher was directly lying or was completely unqualified to teach.

Ouch.