From: John Robinson Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [uk.people.sf-fans] Re: Invasion:Earth or bad sci-fi BBC is thy name. Date: 2 Jun 1998 10:42:17 +0200 Subject: Re: Invasion:Earth or bad sci-fi BBC is thy name. From: Terry Pratchett Newsgroups: uk.people.sf-fans [Submitter's note: in a discussion of the shortcomings of the BBC's latest attempt at an SF series, someone suggested that the writer should have set the story in Jane Austen's era, as costume dramas are the only genre the BBC take care to do properly.] Mistress of Stuff" writes > >This is an unfortunate mental image which I suspect will now haunt me >for the rest of my life...or until someone actually does the deed. At >the moment I see Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle and a bunch of mutant >warriors all doing one of those appaulingly stupid Ball-type >Dance-type things... > >Yeuch. It's a Winner. Working on it, working on it...let's see now..."It is a truth self evident that a man in possesion of a good fortune and a large glowing hemisphere on his front lawn must be in want on a six-megwatt pulse laser with tachyon modulation." My god, it might work:-)