Hello all! Glad to hear everyone had a good summer.

I couldn't believe the Revolution controllers when I saw them, it's very odd. I trust Nintendo but it's going to take a lot of getting used to. I'm usually quite animated when I'm playing on games anyway, so I'll have to make sure I have a firm grip on these new controllers. I can't imagine what it's going to be like playing a scary game such as Resident Evil, there's no chance I'll stay in control. It should be an amusing sight for onlookers nonetheless!

I'm slowly working my way back through series one again and it's strange to watch after seeing them all develop over the next eleven years. I always forget how quirky Daphne used to be and how fractured Frasier and Martin's relationship was, it's quite extraordinary to think how much they evolved. That's my thought for the day.

Anyone been watching 'It's Grim Up North'? It's quite amusing but I do feel sorry for Londoners being represented by the likes of Michael Winner. Eurgh. Oh, and good news, QI returns with a new series next Friday. Hurray!

I'll be off now. Hope you're all well!
Jess.

I don't mean to neglect the thread, honest! Hope everyone is well. Yeah Jess, It is a shame quirky Daphne vanished. The writers did recover some elements in S11, but I think it was too little too late.

I was flicking through the tv guide earlier and This Fridays Will and Grace has something to do with Frasier. The description was along the lines of 'Jack and Karen miss Frasier and (cough) Friends'. Bebe N. is also guest staring. Think I might have a look, solely for information of course.


That new nintendo console does sound interesting, I'd feel like a right fool playing with it though.

Nope haven't seen 'It's Grim Up North' Jess, Michael Winner? Jeez. I actually saw him driving down the road in a convertable with a blond half (or should that be quarter?) his age once. Lol.
Ana
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I noticed that about W&G too. I remember someone (Valor?) mentioning that episode here months ago, and thought, oh well, I suppose I'll never see it...

... perhaps I'll remember though.

Nothing especially newsworthy here - had a thing I wrote published last week, in a paper - that's about all, apart from being rather insanely busy at work.

Sat chilling out watching S4 dvd last night. Bliss.

Hello!

I think it was Valor who mentioned that episode of W&G, it does sound intriguing. Mind you, I don't think even my love for Frasier could get me to watch an episode of W&G! Speaking of W&G, they were nominated for 15 Emmys at last week's ceremony and came home empty handed. Ha!

That's quite a sighting of Mr Winner, Ana! How is he famous??

Congrats on getting published CL!

I saw Michael Palin give a talk in Sheffield last night. It was very interesting and entertaining, he's well worth seeing if you ever get the chance.

I've got my first lecture today, I think. If so, it's 4-6pm. Wonderful.

Take care!
Jess.

Hope the start of term went well Jess, I went back today. It was nice seeing people but I'm ready for another 3 months of holiday now. Re Will and Grace - That'll teach them. Didn't one of the actors prevent DHP from getting 6 emmys in a row or something?

Ditto CL, congrats - getting published seems very nilesian, lol.

watched darker side of the moon the other day and just as I stopped the tape 'Without a trace' was on, I can't take Mr. LaPaglia's (sp?) character seriously now.
Ana
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Hello all!

This is just a very quick post to say that John Mahoney is going to be on 'This Morning' sometime today. It should be interesting, I hope you manage to catch it.

I know what you mean Ana, now I'm back I want another holiday. They give you the whole year from the moment you walk back through the door, it's daunting to say the least! All the best with the new term!

I can't remember who stopped DHP from winning his Emmy, it was probably someone from W&G, I wouldn't put it past them.

Take care!
Jess.

I missed out on the JM thing! Dammit, what did he say?

Hello all!

It was only a short interview with JM but he came across as genuine and lovely as ever. He talked a bit about the play he's currently in (which ends in October) and then a little about how he still keeps in touch with all the cast. The examples he gave were quite sweet: PG had just sent him a postcard that day to thank him for helping out with a breast cancer charity event she had organised; he saw DHP in 'Spamalot' and praised him highly; and he also said that he's the godfather to JL's son. JM then talked a bit about Moose and how they never really got along, which was quite sad to hear. JM explained that Moose was a stray who'd been taken in by the trainer and become infactuated with her but couldn't care less for anyone else. He also talked about being born in Blackpool and raised in Manchester until he was 19, and then moving to America where he edited a medical journal while living with his sister and her husband. It was only until his late 30s that he decided to go into acting because he was unhappy in the job he was doing. Apparently it took him years to lose his accent, but he can still do a rather good, "Ee by gum", which he then demonstrated. That was about all really, because then they had to move on to do a vasectomy live on television. Only on 'This Morning.'

Hope you're all well!
Jess.

Thanks Jess - you mean to say I accidently caught a glimpse of that live vasectomy but missed JM? Only could I have that sort of luck.

I caught the last 10mins of that Will and Grace tonight. Bebe N. featured at then end in a scene where she walked in to a coffee shop suprising Jack and the actress from S4's four for the seeaw, Karen? who were upset about Frasier and Friends finishing. They kept calling her Lilith, refused to believe she was in anything else and managed to steal her purse at the end.

Anyway, It wass a fleeting guest appearance with a few digs at Frasier from Bebe along the lines of 'They fly me first class to LA and I deliver some lines in a robotic monotone voice' and the W&G characters 'We didn't care for season 8'. Bebe also had a little catty comment directed towards Karen about not speaking in her proper voice too.

Also, Just after one of the characters said something about there being 10 seasons, I immediately corrected them, before Bebe did. Oh dear
Ana
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I've seen that Will and Grace episode before (by complete accident)and watched it again because I knew it was on. I have to say I enjoyed it (only for the Frasier references of course) and especially loved Bebe's monotone Lilith voice and 'her pins' and they 'we didn't care for season 8'. They certainly know how to pay tribute to a great show

Oh dear oh dear, our poor thread on the second page.

Bump!

I hope you're all well. Uni is treating me ok at the moment, except for 9am starts on Thrusdays. Nasty. Otherwise, the second year hasn't been all too daunting, but it's still early days.

There doesn't seem to be any Frasier-related news knocking about. Never mind.

Anyway, I'll be off now. Take care!
Jess.

P.S. RIP Ronnie Barker.

"Very nilesian"...

Speaking of which... I have this student. He has always reminded me quite a lot of Niles (slightly in looks, greatly in mannerisms) but now that this young man is in sixth form - as I said to him in class a few days ago: these days, he IS Niles.

So amusing...

Gah! I posted something on Friday. Never mind, hope everyone is well. Glad university is going alright Jess. I've got quite a few essays due in pretty soon and most of the books (4 week loan, grr) have gone already. Yeah, It is sad about Ronnie Barker, irreplacable talent.

Thats funny about your student CL, one of my Lecturers last year had some Nilesian mannerisms which used to make me laugh.
Ana
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Happy Sunday all!

Hmm, it seems like it's just us Frasier lasses which are still about, no sign of John, ENH, Valor or Mickey. Hope you're all doing well if you're still out there.

Heehee, it's really quite frightening to think there are people out there who are very Nilesian. Continuing with my viewing of the first series, I love it when Niles is trying to sit on the kitchen worktop when he's talking to Daphne, but he hits his head on the extractor hood, then the fridge, and then collapses to the floor. Very silly, but a classic moment nonetheless!

Have a good week!
Jess.

Sorry. I've been avoiding this forum a bit lately. It all got a bit silly. Every time anybody started an interesting thread, it got filled up with people being silly, and calling each other Jerald. Nobody seemed able to have any proper discussions anymore, and this thread kept getting deleted.

Anyways, just in case John wanders past, and hasn't noticed the news at Outpost Gallifrey, or in the DW thread, or in any of the other nine hundred and sixty nine places it's being posted in tonight:

http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article320110.ece

Huzzah!

Um... and Frasier is very good too.

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Thanks Jess - you mean to say I accidently caught a glimpse of that live vasectomy but missed JM? Only could I have that sort of luck.

You probably don't want to know what I misread that sentence as...

LOL

It returns!

Hello buddies. Mates. Chums.

And perhaps my most extreme "sorry for not posting for x amount of time", as I've not for so very very long. Trust all is well.

I don't get internet that much these days (and when I do its at the library usually so I can never be buggrd writing long messages but couldn't allow myself to go any longer for fear you would shun me like a blistered hobo.

My summer's been generally, well, lackadaisical, having had the most ridiculous poverty coupled with rent payments and council tax and bills etc (life was so much easier at home or in uni accommodation where they handle all that for you). On top of which the flat I'm living in has not been a hotbed of excitment in that two of my flatmates who had been dating for over two years split up a couple months ago, so naturally tensions and uncomfortableness can pop up in group situations (and even worse the male of the couple, who is typically a miserable c**t at the best of times, has went into the most annoying fully-blown all-consuming miserable gitness). The lady of the couple is perfectly cheery though and my other flatmate is a great friend, but periodically you just can't be bothered with the atmosphere.

And, using my first class honours degree well, I'm ... working as a waiter! Media jobs are difficult to come by without contacts and I just need money just now. Place I'm at is a lovely wee cafe/bar thing though so its working out alright. I think my main plan now is work to live and get money together and be able to socialise (my absence of money most of the summer has meant a severe dip in being able to nights out of even the cinema), and come next year when the flat expires, look into travelling again.

And my occassional if-out-drinking social smoking has morphed into being an almost regular smoker. I am dutifully ashamed. Started last halloween so think I'm loosely planning on stopping then.

At a concert last Friday night (2 Many DJs) and lost my lovely, sexy phone. Grr. Will try again tonight to see if the location or police have hit, else will order a new SIM, to use in my old, broke phone. Grr again.

And to round this downer off nicely, my Grandad died on Sunday and his funeral is on Friday, which is my birthday. I've not been home yet so feel oddly detached from the death - I'm upset of course but its more my granny, dad and niece I'm upset for - my granny has been with him for 60-odd years, so it must be really tough. I've never experienced death before except when I was four, so the funeral will be odd, have no idea how I'll handle it. My grandad though was a dedicated drinker, and loved his whisky - he died sleeping in a chair, and still with his glass of whisky in his hand, so we're all amused by that - it's exactly how he would have wanted to go.

Well then, I'll try to post more often, but will finish up now. How are the students doing? Stunned at how things can change in a year huh?

Take care.

Greetings all, and especially to ENH who has been missed.

First of all, to ENH - I'm sorry to hear about your Grandad. I'd imagine that Friday will be difficult for all of you, but I suppose if you can manage the attitude you've mentioned, about celebrating a long life which ended just as he would have wanted, you'll get through it. Platitudes never work, in my opinion, but the "NH" clan sounds like a close, strong one from all I've read over the years.

Hard to believe isn't it? We've all virtually "Known" each other for so long now. I posted first on 6th January 2000... and here we all are, almost six years on. I have "real world" friends who haven't stayed my friends for that long. But perhaps I shouldn't pursue that, as it may say more about what I'm like offline than anything else. Hmm.

I thought of you lot today in class, in fact. My two sixth form English Language A level classes were working on putting a text from the C19th into modern English. We got slightly stuck on a phrase about a "girl who appeared to embody despair." Someone suggested "a really despairing girl" but I took exception to this. "How about 'despair personified'?" I suggested. Silence. I went on to tell the story of Death and the Dog. Silence again. "I can almost hear the tumbleweed blowing around the room..." I commented, "what is it about pupils and Frasier?"

The Boy Who Is Really Niles commented, with a rather Nilesian shrug, "Might I suggest that your comments fly above rather a lot of the heads of those present?"

"It's all right to be sad. Sometimes I'm sad, too..."

Meanwhile, two things on the note of university life. I was conversing, briefly, via MSN messenger, yesterday evening with a former pupil who has just started reading Law at my former university. In the course of the conversation, I discovered that, of all things, Neighbours is cult viewing there... just as it was in "my day". To my shock I also discovered recently that young David Cameron, possible future Conservative leader, was only a few years ahead of me there, and indeed our paths may have crossed. I certainly recognise that Shadow Chancellor chap from somewhere. Frightening to consider that some of these people could end up in power... I mean, it's all very well when some of the people I vaguely remember pop up on television (eg. Madame Kaplinsky, or that news reporter Mark Simpson, who was a few years ahead of me at school), but... running the country, or trying to? That's something different.

And now, before I enter my usual winter ramblings of ending up as a provincial school teacher while my contemporaries are infinitely more important, I shall stop.

ENH - please do keep in touch, and I shall try to ramble in here more often too...

Hello all!

Mickey and ENH, it's lovely to hear from you both again. I agree, Mickey, the forum has been very silly lately. Whenever I find my way over here this thread's nearly always on the second page because of all the trivial postings. Ah well, at least this thread is managing to survive, I still dread the thought of coming here and find it’s been deleted again. Tsk.

ENH, I too send my condolences for the loss of your Grandad. Birthday wishes for Friday as well.

Uni's going fine for me at the moment, thanks. Last week I made my first film and soon we'll be starting the work on the main project, which will be a ten minute piece. I've already bagsied not to be on camera, but we'll see how it goes! It's funny, because we had a lecture last week where the head of the course went on and on about getting contacts in media when it comes to getting a job, but it's so hard to know where to begin. I'm glad the waiter job's going well and I hope your dream job turns up soon!

Tut tut tut. I hope you manage to quit smoking on Halloween.

Wow, almost six years. I think I started posting in June 2000, and I haven't looked back since (groan)! I'm the same CL, there are very few "real world" people I've known for quite so long. Hurray for our love of Frasier!

Heehee, if The Boy Who Is Really Niles really speaks like that then he certainly lives up to his reputation. I wish I had a teacher who was a Frasier fan, those pupils should appreciate their teacher's taste in TV shows.

I often wonder if anyone from my old school or University will one day become famous. There was a boy at school in the year below who was a Tory and even got elected into the local youth parliament. His tactic for votes was by going up to people and forcing them to the ballot boxes. With that attitude he'll probably get quite far *shudder*

I've just got back from seeing The League of Gentlemen stage show. Brilliant. The name of the show is "...Are Behind You", which is quite a frightening prospect, but it wasn't all too scary. Disturbing, yes, but good fun and very amusing. I'm already itching to get my hands on the DVD.

Aside from that, I haven't been up to much else. Thanks to a huge sale at HMV (sadly gone now) I was able to buy the four-disc set of 'The Goodies', which is very funny and ever so cute. Oh, the excitement of life.

Take care everyone!
Jess.
P.S. It looks like the C4 smilies department have been busy lately: . Lovely!

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I wish I had a teacher who was a Frasier fan, those pupils should appreciate their teacher's taste in TV shows.

I used to have a history teacher who used to get us watching Blackadder in class, because of the remarkable amount of historical detail. Gosh, that was hard work.

Hiya!
Just wondering if anyone knows when s5 of frasier will be out on dvd in the uk. It's been out a while in america but i cant find a release date for here anywhere.
I'd be grateful if anyone has any idea.
Thanks a lot.
Sara

Hello! still haven't got regular internet access I'm afraid, hope you are all well.

Nice to hear from you ENH, I'm very sorry to hear about your Grandad, my sympathies are with you and your family.

Guess what... I'm going to see JM's play in London