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gdav writes "Well, after all that talk about Bill Nighy, it's actually going to be Christopher Ecclestone. He was prominent in Cracker, Our Friends in the North, and more recently 28 Days Later."
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GNAA Interviews CowboyNeal
by GNAA staff
UPDATE! UPDATE!
Since the original posting of this article there has been some doubts about authenticity of CowboyNeal. Rest assured, however, he was indeed the real CowboyNeal. We could tell by the smell coming from his pants.
On January 17 2004, select members of the GNAA interviewed CowboyNeal on IRC channel #caoine at irc.caoine.org.
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According to Google Zeitgeist, there are about 80% of Internet Explorer 6 users. The only platform supporting Internet Explorer 6 is, of course, Microsoft Windows. These statistics are consistent with the earlier presented graphs of the operating systems used to access Google, with the Windows family consistently taking the top 3 ranks. Out of remaining 20%, the split is even between MSIE 5.5, MSIE 5.0, both Windows-only browsers. Netscape 5.x (including Mozilla) counts for only a measly 5% of browsers used to access Google. As you can see from the graph, this sample was calculated starting from March 2001 until September 2003.
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The following are select portions of the chat transcript kept by official GNAA stenographer (and Ringmusculaturis II Leader), Captain B. Dick
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GNAA Member AbdullaH introduces himself to CowboyNeal
[5:09:26] AbdullaH: Hello, Sir! My name is Abdullah Ihram Mohammad Bin Zular Krokar Tehroham Kumr, I am a TERRORIST. My father was on the first plane that crashed in the World Tarde Center. I get a boner every time CNN plays that tape. If you wish to help me in my quest for WORLD SLAVERY, please purchase a kalashnikov at your nearest kalashnikov store and HELP ME KILL ALL AMERICANS!
[5:09:29] CowboyNeal: if this is part of that jihad I keep hearing about, it's a pretty fucking lame part of it
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CowboyNeal is questioned about his feelings towards civil rights; uses both the N, and K-words
[5:21:11] timecop: CowboyNeal: do you have something against niggers?
[5:21:24] CowboyNeal: nay, some of best friends are nigs
[5:23:47] CowboyNeal: like all my kike friends too?
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GNAA Member timecop inquires about Slashdot moderation policies. CowboyNeal admits to cleaning peoples' shit up for a living.
[5:16:04] timecop: I have a problem with my slashdot account
[5:16:09] timecop: it has Karma: excellent
[5:16:10] timecop: but I post at -1
[5:16:12] timecop: WHAT THE FUCK?!
[5:16:19] CowboyNeal: yeah, sucks, don't it?
[5:16:26] CaptBDick: wow that can happen?
[5:16:41] timecop: CowboyNeal: mind to explain what the FUCK is going on?
[5:17:00] CowboyNeal: you got downmodded into oblivion at least once, and there's no second chances
[5:17:17] timecop: no, i got a better theory
[5:17:35] timecop: some nazis downmodded a bunch of my comments and set a flag to fuck all my posts
[5:17:41] timecop: because someone doesnt agree with my OPINIONS
[5:18:05] Cowb
i am teh awesome
Hitler has come back to life, and is touching my junk liberally!
Christopher Eccleston to play Dr. Who 0:11 Saturday 20 March 2004 Rejected
Only submitted this last night, but what do I know, I only heard it from the horses mouth, ie BBC radio 5 news....
/. Where the truth
Doctor who? Say again please.
I really dont like these kind of moview, I dont even think the braud audience of Slashdot does either.
That, and I am really, really tired because I didnt sleep all night. How many times can one not sleep nights before it becomes dangerous to his health?
Sorry... I have nothing else do say, I just dont like these kind of movies. More Hackers please, more gibsons and 3d flythroughs.
nothing beats the good ol' Tom Baker days. Not that I didn't like the other doctors...
If Stranger in a Strange Land is ever made into a movie, I think Jim Carrey should play Michael Valentine Smith and Sean Connery should play Jubal Harshaw.
-- SKYKING, SKYKING, DO NOT ANSWER.
"Get the F*ck off my TARDIS ya punk ass bitch!!"
It should have been Paul McGann. He did such a great job in the 1996 movie.
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M
I was holding out to see Richard E. Grant in the role, as he did an excellent job during the recent BBC/Cosgrove Hall co-produced web animation, "Scream of the Shalka".
That said, I'm more interested than disappointed, because I've seen some of Ecclestone's other work and I think he could bring a new perspective to the role.
(And I'm also very grateful that the role didn't go to Joanna Lumley. That joke's been done to death since the mid-1980s, and the Comic Relief episode a few years back is as close to that prediction as I want to get!!)
All we need to know now is, who are his new companions?
"It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue." -- Zork
Mod up!! Was I the only one who got this joke?
Christopher who?
MOD DOWN OR UP OR UPSIDE DOWN!! damn it's the lameness filter encountered situation so i need to type this shit with lowercase.
"Here's a quarter. Why don't you go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face!"
This is a travesty. Ricky Gervais had my vote for the next Dr. Who
Paul McGann was a fabulous Doctor in the 1996 movie, but the writing was terrible. That's why it flopped.
I only hope the BBC holds back on budget just like the old days so the storytelling has to bear the weight, not the effects.
David Thewlis, playing it in the style of 'Johnny' from Mike Leigh's 'Naked'. Now *that* would be fun to watch :)
But Tom Baker was the best though. His autobiog is a fun read.
Holy shit, you have failed it hard-fucking-core. I bet you feel like a loser now, eh? FOAD
You mean the Bill Nighy the Science Guihy?
Parent was posted by Ralph Wiggum, so a little resect for a real celebrity, please.
It should have been Simon from American Idol.
28 days later was a really good movie, I enjoyed it a lot.
Not the best scientific plot, but a good movie non the less...
Was about these monkeys infected with rage, and it was the end of the world, but they found out it was isolated to england, watch it, it's neat
Isn't that a triangular rubber coin several thousand miles long?
Mix the failings of Usenet with the shortcomings of the World Wide Web and the result is slashdot.
Best. Doctor. EVAR.
The only place that I have ever seen the name Dr. who has been on slashdot.
Are any of these posters from America?
When is the last time any of these shows aired?
Or, if they are any good, is there a Dr. who bittorrent site, since the BBC open-sourced their content.
I guess they figured if a hooked-nosed Jew like Tom Baker worked, why not try it again?
PLEEEEEEEZ?
You don't scare me GNAA.
-StarManta
Who gives a shit what actor they pick, just as long as the doctor gets laid and they lose K9.
If I remember my Dr. Who rules (though since when have the rules been a problem for the Dr.) This will be the ninth and there for last Dr. Who.
Of course they could go back and fill in the early life of the first Dr. or something like that.
I think Eddie Izzard was also widely tipped as the new doctor, though I can't see it not turning into a comedy had he played the doctor. Incidentally for those of you who have no idea who Dr Who is, the BBC is probably a good place to start:
www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/
Windows in 6 Bytes (IA-32) : 90 90 90 90 CD 19
I'm one.
Tonight, and I hope it won't be the last!
I love the picture. The caption says "The Previous Time Lords" and the picture is of three Daleks.
********* sig: If you don't like the law, get filthy stinking rich, and buy a better one.
What about Peter Cushing in "Day of the Daleks"?
I suspect the can(n)on has to boom in a different direction for the movies, though I did like the touch of including Sylvester McCoy in the McGann movie, even if the movie itself wasn't generally well received. For all of the running through the Tardis in "Invasion of Time", we never saw such an essential and powerful piece of the Tardis as the Eye until 1996?
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
http://images.google.com/images?q=%22Christopher+E ccleston%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en
He just 'looks' like a Doctor Who to me.... maybe it's the nose?
Agile Artisans
Arch villans. The Dr must be pitted against a worthy advisory, the Master. He really was very evil, in fact the Master invented evil. The chaps in the shiny suits and trash cans on wheels never really scared me at all, the Master on the other hand was equipped with a TARDIS that actually worked and all the knowledge of a time lord. The Master was Moriarty to The Doctors Sherlock Holmes, and or course he wanted to rule the known universe.
Do not belittle Dr. Who, those that know not!!! We had K9 long before Sony made that calculater that passes for a mutt. One day the human race will reach the stars and will evolve to look like this:m en/6b_4.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/gallery/cyber
Susie Plukit.
*duck*
I wonder if the Beeb will just pretend the movie never happened? They certainly can't afford to reproduce Hollywood's version of the Tardis.
the writing was terrible. That's why it flopped
So how do you explain every other season of Doctor Who that got renewed?
Chalmers: Doctor who?
Skinner: Not the pronoun, but rather a doctor with the unlikely name of "Who".
Chalmers: Well that's just great, Seymour. We've been out here six seconds and you've already managed to blow the routine.Sexless freak.
...would have been teriffic as a doctor!
"time will tell", oh...and no pun intended.
They blew it big-time.
Anthony Stewart Head (the watcher from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) was the perfect choice.
Bummer!
He was in Gone In Sixty Seconds
Doctor Neidhart?
I remember hiding behind the sofa like thousands of other kids in the 70s but Dr. Who is no longer for children and the effects which in those days inflamed childhood imaginations will no longer cut the mustard.
The production values now have to be good enough to compete with Babylon 5, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, Farscape for the attention of the now thirtysomethings who want Who back. I'm not convinced the Beeb will give the show the budget it's going to need and disappointment is a powerful emotion.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
If the 13 part series does well enough, will they make it into a regular TV show again?
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
...that for all of the quotes, none are from Mr. Eccleston himself.
Honestly, he was creepy in "28 Days Later," creepy in "The Others," and he seems like a very strange choice for the Doctor.
Has he ever been funny or even light-hearted in anything? I mean, there's a reason this guy specializes in movies involving murder and the undead...
"Many men would sooner die than think; most do"
Which doctor was Richard E. Grant? (ninth? tenth? ???) And this new guy... does he come before or after Richard E. Grant? Or... is Richard E. Grant's doctor from an alternate universe? Can Quinn Mallory (Sliders reference) explain? Which brings me to another point... how can you be a Doctor Who fan and NOT like Sliders?
Un-news
Last time this discussion rolled around here on /., the article mentioned that Alan Davies of Johnathan Creek fame was the fan favorite. What happened?
For those unlucky Americans who have never been exposed to Johnathan Creek, the show is a mystery series of sorts. Each mystery is, however, completely impossible. A wealthy author is impaled from behind by a samurai sword, whilst alone in his locked study. A musician is accused of kidnapping a girl who was seen entering his house, but all he saw entering his house was a small frog. An elderly woman dreams the death of a weathly businessman, who then dies exactly as she described.
In the end, each of these has a reasonably plausable, or at the very least, possible explaination. It's a nice little chess game with the audience.
Happiness is relative, Based upon the way we live.
The BBC disagrees with you, insanely enough. The line of New Adventures books was headed in a more adult direction, where "adult" usually meant the way !America means in, in the sense of sophisticated and not childish, but occasionally got into "adult" territory, in the American sense of "adult," meaning pr0n.
I read a smattering of the NA books before their quality nosedived. When I read, for example, a scene in which one of the incidental extra characters, a part-time prostitute, was chewing pistachios "because they helped to take the semen taste out of her mouth," I was surprised, but not offended.
Others were, and complained to the BBC, who pointed out to the series editors that after all this time, the show -- and its spinoff books -- was still technically categorized as a children's series, and there aren't any plans to change that, so kindly stop having Ace telling people to fuck off, and leave the more "adult" scenes on the drafting table, thanks.
(By the way, the special effects weren't cheesy deliberately, "because the show was for children". The Beeb knew very well that grownups were a far larger percentage of its audience, even before Hartnell left the series. The effects were cheesy because that's all they had money for.)
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
> Basically a big blue phone box so police officers
> could contact their station before the advent of
> portable radios, they also had a phone on the
> outside for the use of the public in emergencies
>(behind the panel with text on it.)
I made a discovery recently... I always thought that the real Police Boxes were rather like normal telephone boxes: simple, light, wooden.
But most of them were actually serious concrete affairs, weighing over two tons (which became somewhat of a problem when they were decommissioned). They worked as miniature police stations, where an officer could imprison a suspect until help arrived. Here's a short history, and more details (PDF, sorry).
Was I the only person not to know this? Oh, ok.
Morena Baccarin aka Inara from Firefly. Not sure the BBC could afford her, but she's currently out of a job I guess....
Interestingly, both Eccleston and Izzard starred in the recent Revengers Tragedy, a gory Elizabethan revenge drama transplanted to a sort of post-apocalyptic near-future northern England setting. It could almost have been a Dr Who practice run: low budget, silly costumes, slightly skewed English setting. Predictably, Eccleston got to be unhinged and menacing, and Izzard got to be camp and menacing.
Is is too much to ask that the submitter or perhaps an editor RTFA?
I am NOT eccentric! What you call eccentric is merely the results of having the viewpoint of several time streams to look at.
Also, look for John Titor in the upcoming series.
Christopher Ecclestone is the the best living British actor.
After seeing him as The Second Coming as an unwilling messiah and in the powerful adoption-drama Flesh And Blood, you can not deny that this is the best actor of our generation.
He's also had small parts in enjoyable crap like 24 Hour Party People and Existenz and was one of the main characters in Shallow Grave.
We should be honoured to accept him as Dr Who - his talent and choice of roles is way beyond such enjoyable (Sci-fi) fluff.
Bus error in your favour. Collect 200kB
Tom Baker was married to Romana IRL. And then she left him for a *rather famous* scientist. Leaving the actor for geek. ...Its so often the other way round 99% of the time.
I'm glad you mentioned that. It was on UK Gold this morning. Was it my imagination of was one of the reincarnations rather Jules Verne-esque?
Bring back RED DWARF! Now that was entertainment.
It's 1 million pounds sterling per episode. That's roughly $1.8 million, which should prove to be MORE than adequete.
Arch villans. The Dr must be pitted against a worthy advisory, the Master. He really was very evil, in fact the Master invented evil. The chaps in the shiny suits and trash cans on wheels never really scared me at all, the Master on the other hand was equipped with a TARDIS that actually worked and all the knowledge of a time lord. The Master was Moriarty to The Doctors Sherlock Holmes, and or course he wanted to rule the known universe.
In Scream of the Shalka, the Master was a robot and the Doctor's travelling companion. He couldn't leave the TARDIS. The Doctor apparently gave him new life in gratitude for helping him through a difficult time...
I remember tuning into PBS and getting duped into watching Dr. Who, thinking it was going to be a British version of Star Trek or something. I tried to like it. The theme song was excellent and the premise was neat, but I just couldn't get into the Sid and Marty Kroft looking sets. Today though, I would proably think it is great television.
/. have a Tardis icon they can use? They could swipe these guys' artwork for some Who game I've never played.
FWIW, why doesn't
Nog
He who questions training, only trains himself at asking questions. -- The Sphinx, Mystery Men
When I call my PC "My Tardis" so many might not look so puzzled...
If you did not see the originals, and you are puzzled, you might google the terms Dr Who My Tardis... enjoy! Looking forward to the new show.
~8^]
or me, the fabulous job by Paul McGann made up for it all.
Ahh well, least we got a Flash Movie with his voice that was pretty good.
I'm pretty sure that it was Richard E. Grant who did the voice in the 40th Anniversary Flash movie - there may well have been another animation I missed, of course.
Just a piece of trivia about Christopher Eccleston - he'll be the first actor to portray the Doctor born after the show commenced in November 1963.
SofaMan -- Occasionally Battling Evil With His Mighty Powers Of Indolence.
I think that Geoffrey Palmer (from "Butterflies" and "As Time Goes By") would make a great BLS.
Alternatively, Prince Charles.
And, of course, Rowan Atkinson (from "Black Adder"& "Mr. Bean") as The Master.
Ooo! Ooo! And John Inman (from "Are You Being Served?") as K-9. ("Walkies!")
They're all getting kind of old, though.
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
I'll have to agree with Geoffrey Palmer as the Brigadier. But Rowan Atkinson from Mr. Bean would make a very very very bad Master. Rowan Atkinson from Blackadder would make a very good Master, though. I haven't quite been able to convince myself that they are the same person.
* And remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced "Mozilla."
Well, actually, everything from Prince Charles on was meant to be a joke.
I don't think that Atkinson would be good as The Master because The Master is supposed to be "evil AH! AH!", not "evil HA! HA!", as Black Adder was.
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana