February 09, 2006

I am the spirit of dark and lonely water

THe BBC are showing a different public information film every day in February The National Archives

  • Brilliant. Just as good as the old commercials from the War Amps, with kids getting caught in the wood chipper. Until they replaced the children with hockey sticks, and later, and amputated kids vacariously through Astar. Good times, good times. Astar is probably more nightmare-inducing than imagining yourself losing your arms by foolishly climbing the hydro towers to retrieve that stray kite...
  • Astar was part of my nightmares. Those creepy soulless eyes, that weird square head. Eeep! They always played that ad right before Mr. Dressup.
  • Can't see this, simce the [seemingly uninstallable] WinMediaPlayer fights with RealPlayer. But if it lives up to the promise of the words of your first link, it ought to be magical. Possibly, judging by the prrevious comments here, a black and tarnish magic.
  • The end is golden. "I'll be back back back back back back"
  • Who's doing the narration? The voice is sooo familiar!
  • It's just begging to be turned into a techno video.
  • Who's doing the narration? The voice is sooo familiar! Donald Pleasence
  • Aaaargh! Some warning that this was a video link would have been nice. Not to mention that I wouldn't touch RealPlayer with a ten-foot pole.
  • But... but... RealPlayer loves you and wants you to be happy. Always trust the RealPlayer. Consume. Consume. Consume.
  • Ooga_, I have a longer pole if you'd like. but it's been used to poke Kitfisto
  • It was the salmon mousse...er...it was the salmon...
  • I would buy the spirit of lonely water a beer. I mean, here's this lonely guyentity who has a really cool job: luring unsuspecting people to their deaths. Think of the stories he could tell, the near misses, the escapes, the almost got-away but didn't, Mary Jo Kapechne...
  • Ah, Donald Pleasance; the weakest of the Blofelds...
  • Huzzah!!!
  • Ah, Donald Pleasance; the weakest of the Blofelds... Blasphemy! Donald Pleasance is the only decent Blofeld there ever was
  • Indeed. Gray was almost OK, but the weakest clearly was Telly Savalas, with a near rival in Max von Sydow. Telly's Blofeld was all nice and shit, no hint of evil at all. I hope you were just poking the bear on this one, Underpants, otherwise my respect for you will have plunged into a giant smokestack.
  • And BearGuy will probably have something to say about this poking too.
  • Caotain Foon: Tell you what, I'll be the Spirit of Dork. and you, Mr Spork, will be the Only Wader. Mr Spork: With all respect, captain, I believe your role is better-suited to the talents of Dork Dumb McCoy.