From: daniel@csunb0.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow)
Subject: Re: Questions (No Vindaloo, please; I'm driving)
Organization: School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:14:41 GMT
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In article <1992Jul28.133212.9116@news.media.mit.edu>, tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte) writes:
> Ok, I won't ask where it's showing in Gorst, I won't ask what a
> vindaloo is, and I won't ask why that guy with the sharp teeth is
> around if Dave is the last human being alive.

Meow

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> 1)	In "Thanks for the Memory", Rimmer mentions that he was an
> 	orphan, even though his parents were alive. One might infer
> 	that Rimmer's parents lived long enough to see him "ship out"
> 	on the Red Dwarf. In "Better than life" Rimmer's mother writes
> 	to him to say that Rimmer's father died peacefully in his
> 	Jeep.
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> 	However, in season 1 (balance of power?) where Holly gives
> 	Rimmer the "really short haircut" (not!) Rimmer says something
> 	to the effect of "My father always used to say, 'with shiny
> 	boots and a spankin' short haircut, you can cope with
> 	anything'... until that suicide business"
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> 	I had interpreted this as Rimmer's father committed suicide,
> 	and I don't think that the joke is as funny if it's
> 	interpreted differently. 
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> 	Is this just one of the continuity errors that I have just
> 	begun to see, and everyone else knows all about this, and is
> 	bored with it? Or am I misinterpreting it?
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Nope, got me there, guv.

> 2)	What is a "bog roll"?
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Now here *is* a question I can answer. A "bog roll" is an Indian
speciality often served with a Vindaloo. It is a sort of spicey
meat filled pastry roll, rather similar to a Samosa. Next time you
are in the UK, drop into your local curry house and ask for a
Vindaloo and Bog Roll.
 
> 3)	Oh, another continuity question, I guess: Rimmer exits the Red
> 	Dwarf in Season 3. In "Thanks for the Memory" he was able to
> 	do this by means of a hologram projection cage. Is there any
> 	explanation to how he manages it in, oh, say "Backwards"?
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Holograms (a la RD, at least) are projected from a little projector
which hovers in the centre of the image. The projector is about the
size of a golf ball. It is used to rather humourous effect by Lister
on more than one occasion in series 4 & 5 (won't go in to details,
it would spoil the ahem, effect).
 
> 4)	What is this (Imagine me holding up a yellow fruit that you
> 	unzip and eat the white bits out.) :)
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Err... that'd be a cabbage squire.
 
> 5)	How cool was Talky Toaster? Easily one of my favorite
> 	characters.
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Slightly cooler than Fred Flintstone, but not quite up there with
the one and only Barny Rubble.
 
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> I think that there's one question that I'm missing, but that'll do for
> now. I'll end with a bit of my favorite dialog.
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> From "Confidence and Paranoia"
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> Cat:	I'm going to bed.
> Rimmer:	Oh, you're awake!
> C:	But soon I'll be asleep.
> R:	How are you feeling?
> C:	Fine. Just STOP ASKING ME QUESTIONS!
> R:	*SHUT UP!*
> C:	Well, if you want to be THAT way about it, I'm taking my
> 	gifts back.
> R:	How do you feel?
> C:	Hurt!
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> (I know I screwed up bits of that...)
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> 				-Dave
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> ObSig

Not at all Ob, me old mate. Shame it can't be warlorded. There you go.

-- 
Dan Crow
daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk
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