h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...for a quote from "Goldmember"...

"eeeeeeEEEEEEEEeeeeeee!!!"

*bow*

They stole that from one of my friends y'know...

Hmm. Stole it from your friend, you say?

My favorite scene from that movie was hearing Mini-me screaming that in the background while fighting Austin Powers, all of it happening behind The Mole's back without him noticing.

Not seen Goldmember yet. I'm bored with Austin Powers. Turned over in the middle of the second one...

Ah, well I watched Goldmember without seeing the second Austin Powers.

Interestingly enough, I didn't like the original Austin Powers when I first saw it. Then I got to university, and everyone there loved it and quoted it all the time. I think I eventually got brainwashed into thinking that I liked Austin Powers.

The quotes are great. Mike Myers is a comedy genius... But I got bored of it all. The first was enough for me. I only wish I had American TV. The characters he played on Saturday Night Live seem side-splittingly funny...I saw some of them on an *Inside the Actors Studio*...couldn't stop laughing...

Yeah, most of the characters from that time were really funny. It's a shame that SNL went downhill so much. I don't know if it's because the writers got lazy, or if they fired the good writers, or if the supply of funny actors is getting thinner and thinner. I doubt it's the actors themselves; there seems to be no shortage of people going into entertainment hoping to make it big.

Too much PC...and you have to wait for the BBC new comedy wave to hit your shores. Then you'll have a new lot of comedians influenced by our lot, and it'll pick up again...that's how it goes...

I saw an Irish comic on American TV the other day. He was reasonably funny, nothing earthshaking.

New Wave Of British Stand Up Comedy? NWOBSUC?

Well that and the TV stuff. I like American stand-up too...kinda goes in a circle...

I'm confused now.

Confused by the acronym?

In the last 70's/early 80's there were a bunch of British heavy metal bands making waves in America. The musical press dubbed it the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, and gave it the silly acronym NWOBHM. That stupid acronym still persists today, and stands as the most unwieldy acronym ever conceived in the popular media.

No. I'm on a coffee high. Have been for 3 hours. Only just realised why I am so highly strung tonight!

Which bands were they?

That's a pretty long coffee high. No wonder you're confused.

Bands like Soldier, Fist, Angel Witch, Battleaxe, Tank, Saxon, Grim Reaper, Blitzkrieg, Holocaust, Jaguar, Raven, and Diamond Head. I've never personally heard of any of their songs, I've just heard the band names in reference to what bridges the rock gap from what most call "Classic Rock" to what most call "Heavy Metal."

Never heard of them in my life. I think I know what sub-genre you are talking about though.

I have a real problem with caffeine...actually. I have a real problem with most stimulants... Which is good, because it's cheap...but the charring buzzing mess thing isn't fun when all you want to do is post messages about stuff...

Actually...Saxon...

Aaarararrrgh! Hair metal!! Thrash metal!! Big hair!!

Yes I know now.

Big hair and tight pants. But not quite to the point of Glam Metal; that came later.

Noooo. Hair metal (or, cock rock as it is also known) and Glam metal kinda coincided...Motley Crue was the bastard child of it all...

I always thought Poison was the culmination of it all. I've seen interviews with the band members, and I can tell they don't add anything productive to the gene pool.

Poison/Twisted Sister/Bon Jovi were at the end. Then a bit of a lull, and the end bits of British punk were ingraining themselves...and then grunge...

The best thing grunge ever did was make everyone realize just how silly glam rock was. When a bunch of guys wearing flannel showed everyone that you don't need to wear a can of hairspray and spandex to get women, glam sort of collapsed in on itself. Good riddance, I say.