TT: Senior race stopped

Guy Martin airlifted to hospital with chest injuries but conscious
throughout. Race stopped to allow fire engine to attend as his bike
was burning in the hedge.

Had everyone a bit worried there for a while.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ogden

Not one to do things by halves then...

Where was it?

 

Barregarrow. He's got bruised lungs and minor spinal fractures but
otherwise ok.

Bearing in mind what happened in the second 600 race yesterday he was
fucking lucky.

Props to Hutchy, five in a week is quite an achievement!

 

FFS, for the second time this week. Spoiler Alert!

 

I'd better not tell you that Lorenzo won the parade lap then.

 

I realise you're excited, but this won't do.

 

snigger....

 

So did Jesus?

 

Major difference, Paul Dobbs actually existed.

 

That too.

 

Pics of the remains of the bike on Guy Martin group page on Facebook.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, DaveBenj

So you thought reading a thread that is clearly about it was a good
idea?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

Oh god, he's back from the TT, all full of testosterone, and uppity.

It'll die down in a few days lads, let's just try to ignore it until it
does, OK?

 

I opened my email thing on Tuesday and MCN's usual advert was sitting there
with the results of the 3rd race where Hutchy won. I didn't know he'd won
and was preparing to watch it on ITV4 later. I was pissed off that MCN
didn't have the gumption to say "Story on page 3" or something similar, but
no, they had it splashed on the front page.

I wrote to them and that knobber wrote back telling me that the result of
that race had been known for 2 days. What a fucking plonker.

 

Heh [1]

[1] Oh dear, I know have a mental image of Champ as Baron Vladimir
Harkonnen in that scene from the David Lynch's Dune where he cheats
death and floats into the air shouting "I'm alive ha ha !".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jan/05/dune-pierre-morel

 

Wasnt there another 4hr for tv version done?

 

There was. I thought it was crap.

 

I've got both versions. I prefer the David Lynch one but I still enjoyed
the Sci Fi channel's interpretation even though they really scimped on
the CGI side. Besides Lynch's Kenneth McMillan as Baron Vladimir
Harkonnen is pure brilliance. Played well enough that every time I'm
reminded of a triumph over death I'm reminded of the scene where Dr.
Wellington Yueh tries to assassinate the Baron with a poison gas tooth.

I'm pretty sure Champ still being alive certainly counts as a triumph
over certain death, except I can't visualise Champ shouting out "I'm
alive" then laughing hysterically. Might try and get him to do it next
time we meet.

 

You don't know him very well, then.

Shit, I've seen Champ roll out of his pit after a heavy night on the
piss(ahem), unstick his eyelids, stuff his teef back in his gob,
straighten his toupee and shout "I'm alive!" ... just before he
collapses again and has to be revived by three cheerleaders, a strong
mug of coffee and a bacon butty.

 

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:15:22 +0100, dozynsleepy

I thought the Lynch version was very atmospheric and looked nice in
many scenes but they buggered the story around dreadfully. Trying to
explain the plot with voice-overs was messy.

The costume designer seemed to have a rubber fetish and as for the
ornithopters, FFS: an ornithopter that never seemed to flap its Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang wings.

I felt the four-part (or however many it was) was truer to the book.

Oddly, I found his character to be way OTT in the Lynch version.