July 10, 2005

Have you ever played Tom Baker or Normal? Give it a go. I particularly enjoy the extended version of Tom Baker, Steptoe, Blakey or Normal, which I play against my wife and cat, neither of whom know wtf I'm on about. Gleefully, I laugh, as my Steptoe is unsurpassable.
posted by Chyren 19 years ago
  • This game should be included in the Stoner Olympics!
  • Photographic evidence of the unsurpassability of your Steptoe is required, thus allowing prospective challengers to enter the arena. OBEY.
  • I tried TBoN on mrs deconstructo, then lost half-an-hour trying to explain Dr. Who. I gave up & played the game for another half hour by myself, losing only 1/4 of the time (or winning 3/4 of the time, depending on whose side I was on).
  • I'm not going to give potential competitors advance opportunity to study my Steptoe, fish tick, I'm not as gullible as that. Nor will I supply MP3 samples of my Blakey. You'll have to get up in the morning to catch me out.
  • Sounds like it's time for the MoFi Flicker Steptoe Pageant, with the Reigning Steptoe-monkey to receive a monkey t-shirt.* *Shirt and international next-day courier service graciously supplied by Squidranch out of the goodness of his heart. ;-)
  • Good Lord, that's the first time I've seen Blakey in twenty-five years. Neat fun.
  • What if your normal face is a Tom Baker?
  • You do realise that everyone outside of the UK is currently going "wtf?" at this. Still, I can't do a Blakey. I can do a very respectable Mr Bronson From Grange Hill. More subtle, I admit, but one for the purists nonetheless.
  • You do realise that everyone outside of the UK is currently going "wtf?" at this. wtf?
  • You do realise that everyone outside of the UK is currently going "wtf?" at this. After what happened this week, you Brits deserve to get a little nationalistic on us. As a young USAian, I spent many years perfecting my Tom Baker
  • Nothing that achieves popularity in Newcastle under Lyme should be considered as sutiable for public consumption, including this ostensibly amusing passtime. Remember, many of those poor benighted people are supporters of Stoke City or possessed of similar delusions common to the heavy clay-bearing soils of the Midlands. Be warned.
  • Here we go. Soon as you group the Poms in one room, they start making tribal grunts, drawing lines and squaring off like Caesar never made it across the pond. ;) Canadians and Australians are also well familiar with On the Buses and Steptoe and Son. They *still* show the reruns of Baker's Dr over here on channel 2.
  • fucked that up. I blame Abiezer.
  • I'd like to see Open All Hours again. And what was that Oz show with the Alzheimerish mother? That was a good wots-her-name, that was.
  • Blakey's a funny thing with me - I missed seeing On the Buses but he was kind of knocking around the culture so I could have a stab at an impression. Thankfully they repeated Stepoe and Son ad nauseam right through my childhood. Tom Baker? Is it not a touch sacriligeous even to attenmpt an impression of the Great Man? Maybe tribalism Chy, but you didn't have to grow up only a few miles up the road from those whining clayhead twats the fine folk of the Potteries and its environs. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's my near neighbours. They're just like me, the bastards.
  • Clearly unfit for this game, alas: the only times I've seen Dr Who he was someone else.
  • I have just seen an ASCII representation of a bloke giving you the finger not once but twice, and here it is: ‹^› ‹(•¿•)› ‹^› Maybe looks a bit like Tom in the right light? Any road up, I'm sure it will come in handy.
  • Not entirely ASCII...
  • Koko: see here. But I think we all know the answer anyway...
  • fish tick: MOTHER AND SON ABC / 42x30m-e / 1984-94 Writer: Geoffrey Atherden / Producer/Director: Geoff Portman Sitcom. Middle aged writer Arthur Beare returns to his Mother's home following the breakdown of his marriage. His Mum, who has a touch of senile dementia, exploits her illness by being extremely demanding of her son. A UK version of this show appeared in 1997 on the BBC under the title Keeping Mum. With:- RUTH CRACKNELL as Maggie Beare / GARRY McDONALD as Arthur Beare / HENRI SZEPS as Robert Beare / JUDY MORRIS as Liz Beare / SUZANNE ROYLANCE as Deidre
  • That's the wots-her-name! Thanks! And sorry about your flu.
  • Cheers fish tick. I'm much better now. Puke-free!
  • I'll get you for this, Butler!
  • Nice one, Chy. I quietly pissed myself laughing.
  • When Tom is having sex, he not only describes what's happening, but also speaks of himself in the third person - e.g. Tom's putting it in now and Tom's cumming Whatta guy! (I did not learn this from personal experience)
  • Thanks for that lovely image.
  • kitfisto says you're welcome.
  • "Tom Baker? Is it not a touch sacriligeous even to attempt an impression of the Great Man?" Tell that to Jon Culshaw
  • If you click those links and are using RealAlternative, and you don't laugh, something may be wrong with your humour circuits.