http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=ashes-to-ashes The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Mon, 20 May 2013 07:30:36 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26128#post-71214 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:26:14 +0000 simonjmr 71214@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Jump they say </p> <p>I'm afraid of Americans </p> <p>WOuld be good titles - though Tin Machine would set the mood for the program, not up to classic standard of the previous titles. Also with Dean Gaffney on board it would set expectations. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26128#post-71195 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:45:10 +0000 virtuallywill 71195@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>iPhone, tweets... in the 90's.<br /> Surely we need a Bowie song for the title... Tin Machine ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26128#post-71189 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:38:53 +0000 Smaug 71189@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Macarena! I knew that's what the show should have been called. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26128#post-71134 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:22:20 +0000 Nick McCarr 71134@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Has to happen.<br /> I can just see Gene Hunt doing the Macarena. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26128#post-71114 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:38:21 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 71114@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I like this, good work smaug </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26128#post-71107 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:55:34 +0000 Smaug 71107@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A spokesperson for BBC drama has announced the long-anticipated third series of 'Life on Mars'. Following on from previous runs set in the 70's and 80's, the show will follow CID in Coventry during the 1990's. Opposite Philip Glenister's old school copper Gene Hunt will be new boy Ryan Boyce, who will be played by Dean Gaffney. Ryan works at the Apple shop where Sam Tyler, the protagonist from 'Life on Mars', bought an iPhone. He begins receiving tweets from Tyler, and when he is electrocuted by a faulty iPod shuffle Ryan is senting hurtling back twenty years to 1992.</p> <p>The first episode immediately brings Ryan and Gene head-to-head as Coventry is wracked by a turf-war between Oasis and Blur fans. Other plotlines involve the duo facing a "Friends" obssessed serial killer, black-marketeers importing Adidas poppers and an OJ Simpson copycat stalking the city, not killing people.</p> <p>To be titled 'Ebeneezer Goode', the series will be hitting our screens in the Autumn. Matthew Graham, creator and lead writer, explains the choice:<br /> "We wanted to give it a name that was evocative of the decade. Hundreds were rejected before we settled on this one: Lightning Seeds' 'Sugar Coated Iceberg' was deemed too environmentally sensitive, we couldn't get the copywright for anything by The Cardigans and Belinda Carlisle is surprisingly litigious."</p> <p>When asked why the title for the new series wasn't a David Bowie song like the previous two, he replied: "We never meant to have a Bowie theme. The first two were just a coincidence. Did he even do any songs in the 90's?" </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5063#post-13951 Tue, 25 May 2010 13:09:22 +0000 Ludicity 13951@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>In a surprise twist to the State Opening of Parliament, the Queen revealed that everyone involved was dead and only existed in a parallel dimension.</p> <p>‘This may be difficult for some of you to take in,’ said the Queen, ‘but every one here in the Palace of Westminster is a ghost. You are all sinners waiting in a state of purgatory as punishment for your crimes.’</p> <p>‘This a major disappointment,’ said BBC political editor Nick Robinson, ‘I have been watching Parliament since Season One and this ending just seems like a terrible cop out.’</p> <p>Writers of the long running drama had struggled to find an exit strategy after a series of increasingly convoluted and preposterous storylines. ‘We needed to find some way of tying up all those loose ends,’ said writer, Ashley Pharoah, ‘we toyed with a nuclear bomb or a plane crash but in the end we decided that it was easiest to pretend that none of it had happened in the first place.’</p> <p>Fans of the show say that the clues were there all along. ‘The House of Lords was obviously full of people who had already passed away,’ said political historian, Professor Peter Hennessy, ‘Gordon Brown had been walking around with a deathly pallor for months and many of us had already twigged that David Cameron wasn’t really human.’</p> <p>‘The whole thing had been going on far too long anyway,’ said parliamentary commentator Matthew Parris, ‘and some of the recent plot twists had stretched credulity too far. A coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberals. I mean, really…’</p> <p>Many fans still remain confused. ‘I realise that all the politicians are ghosts,’ said one, ‘but were they all a figment of the Queen’s imagination or is she dead too?’ Meanwhile, others are wondering whether the recent General Election had actually happened. ‘I distinctly remember voting,’ said housewife, Mrs Maureen Grebe, ‘but then I woke up and discovered a government that nobody had voted for. Was that all part of some crazy dream as well?’</p> <p>‘Why did it all have to end like this?’ bemoaned the show’s newest character, Nick Clegg, as tears rolled down his face, ‘things were all going so well for me and now it turns out I don’t even exist. What a swizz.’</p> <p>The complete DVD box set of Parliament is now available in the shops at a cost of £6.2 billion. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10483 Mon, 03 May 2010 08:57:59 +0000 ronseal 10483@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Rick,</p> <p>I can make it if it's in London or Surrey-ish.</p> <p>YOu're in Eastbourne? have you ever been to Seaford? It's jolly nice. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10220 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:13:10 +0000 fernandomando 10220@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And so we return to the start- every time I have been out for drinks with those from newsbiscuit, pregnancy or childbirth has swiftly followed </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10217 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:03:44 +0000 rickwestwell 10217@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sexual activities are your business, eh?<br /> I had no idea you were a professional! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10204 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:50:13 +0000 allmyownstunts 10204@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And to think, at the Chandos I believed you when you said you were a lawyer. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10186 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:18:08 +0000 fernandomando 10186@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Frodo. A name forever linked with 'Lord of the Rings'. Since the films, the evil Lord Sauron is a flaming vagina watching everything from above, and ultimately destroyed by 'the one ring to rule them all'.</p> <p>I'll have you know that my sexual activities are my business. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10157 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:03:48 +0000 Mary Evans 10157@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Frodo! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Stanny, you're a gem. Sorry Ferdy, that's gonna stick.</p> <p>Looking forward to it gang. I'll be the one that looks like Mr Greedy. </p> <p>And thanks Gengo, you're a gent.<br /> ('Poof') </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10153 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:54:24 +0000 Stan Laurel 10153@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Monday 21st June is good for me.<br /> Await news of venue. Liked the look of the Southwark boozer that Frodo mentioned ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10152 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:32:22 +0000 andhrimnir 10152@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>who's June? Sounds like a bit of a goer. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10140 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:49:06 +0000 Genghis Cohen 10140@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Me too.</p> <p>Nice FP today, Mary. ('God, that was a disaster. Whose idea was that? She's just a talentless woman.') Really, top stuff. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10132 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:36:31 +0000 Mary Evans 10132@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Monday works for me, Ricky boy. And my waters. xx </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10131 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:30:14 +0000 Scroat 10131@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Try telling that to King Canute, or Cnut as Rikkor would have it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10056 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:00:48 +0000 edward hack 10056@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You can't control the waters </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10054 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:48:39 +0000 Scroat 10054@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I was thinking of several leisurely ones. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10036 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:10:10 +0000 edward hack 10036@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oh great...bang goes my Spanish Honduras party theme barbeque<br /> Why don't we just take some cans round to A&amp;E ...save them having to come out<br /> If Mary's water breaks at least no one will notice. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10009 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:27:53 +0000 rickwestwell 10009@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>OK gang - how about Monday 21st June? Seems like more people could make it then, and at least the pubs should be quietish. And we'll only be missing Spain vs Honduras :-)</p> <p>Any violent objections? If not, we'll work out a good pub. I'm not fussy, anywhere we can squeeze Mary in will do. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10003 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:02:26 +0000 Mary Evans 10003@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Will still be a few weeks off, Oxy, although bring an epidural along just in case. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-10000 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:45:59 +0000 sauce 10000@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>I'm still waiting for those gussett stained jeans (36" waist - 31" leg)<br /> You haven't let somebody else take them have you? </blockquote><br /> No, but we've had to fly them at half mast from the church pole: only way to deal with the smell. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-9989 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:21:03 +0000 Oxbridge 9989@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If I can wangle working in London that week, I'll make it. Please keep us posted.</p> <p>Aren't you due to drop about then Maz? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-9921 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:46:37 +0000 edward hack 9921@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm still waiting for those gussett stained jeans (36" waist - 31" leg)<br /> You haven't let somebody else take them have you? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-9919 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:43:37 +0000 sauce 9919@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I won't have a work rota till June (if I'm lucky). Manager's just quit so I'm in charge (as assistant manager) till someone else is given the job. I'm not applying as I don't want to be full time but I have a feeling that the area manager may expect me to drop everything and cover - possibly 6 days a week. In which case, as she hasn't deigned to answer my email on the subject of the (May, let alone June) rota, she's in for a rude awakening come Friday, when the other woman finishes.<br /> (Sorry to whinge, but I am feeling very very pissed off about the lack of communications; they'll be losing another member of staff at this rate.) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-9886 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:26:08 +0000 Mary Evans 9886@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Me also. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-9849 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:04:45 +0000 Scroat 9849@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Any day's fine by me. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3343&page=2#post-9837 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:01:41 +0000 rickwestwell 9837@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You'd all be welcome in Oz any time! :-)</p> <p>Just woken up - this time difference is a bugger.</p> <p>If not everyone can make friday, are monday or thurs better? </p> <p>Des - if my missus-to-be came along, we'd also be joined by our twin 4 year old monsters, who would probably demolish chez Custard before you could say "that's why you shouldn't meet people from the internet" :-)</p> <p>I'm fine with any day - can people post back saying what days they can do, and we'll feed the into the special date-o-matic computer to work out the best one. </p> <p>Otherwise, I could happily get pissed in London every night that week... </p>