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Title: The Shadow
Post by: muppetman on March 02, 2008, 10:01:32 PM
the shadow has just started over on the sci-fi channel
Title: Re: The Shadow
Post by: twrchtrwyth on March 02, 2008, 11:54:05 PM
Quote from: "muppetman"
the shadow has just started over on the sci-fi channel

Damn you people and your satelite stations! :lol:
Title: The Shadow
Post by: Rhoderic on March 03, 2008, 11:52:27 AM
I don't want to be a whine, but: This is why I wish people would use the "Location" field to actually state their location! The Sci-Fi Channel in what country? I'm presuming US, but I don't really know what other parts of the world the channel is available in. I know there's some international version of the channel available here in Sweden and presumably most of the rest of Europe too.
Title: The Shadow
Post by: muppetman on March 03, 2008, 12:19:57 PM
Quote from: "Rhoderic"
I don't want to be a whine, but: This is why I wish people would use the "Location" field to actually state their location! The Sci-Fi Channel in what country? I'm presuming US, but I don't really know what other parts of the world the channel is available in. I know there's some international version of the channel available here in Sweden and presumably most of the rest of Europe too.



dude just check your tv listings, if its not on then its not on.. :roll:
Title: The Shadow
Post by: KeyanSark on March 03, 2008, 12:48:00 PM
Quote from: "muppetman"
dude just check your tv listings, if its not on then its not on.. :roll:


The Sci-Fi channel programming is not the same everywhere... In fact, I'd also be glad that these topics would be accompanied with data on the broadcast origin.
Title: The Shadow
Post by: muppetman on March 03, 2008, 01:06:24 PM
ok,ok.. i get the point... i'll just keep it to myself next time :?
Title: The Shadow
Post by: Rufus on March 03, 2008, 01:28:51 PM
Quote from: "muppetman"
ok,ok.. i get the point... i'll just keep it to myself next time :?


Err no ... just state, which sci-fi channel you mean.
Title: The Shadow
Post by: fastolfrus on March 03, 2008, 01:31:48 PM
Or even which planet your channel is broadcasting on.
Title: The Shadow
Post by: Rhoderic on March 03, 2008, 01:37:25 PM
Quote from: "muppetman"
ok,ok.. i get the point... i'll just keep it to myself next time :?


I don't think you did, because that wasn't the point :P

I'm certainly not asking you to keep it to yourself. I'm merely pointing out, and not so much to you specifically as to internet users generally, that there's a lot of information that can sound unintentionally cryptic when the reader doesn't know what country is being talked about.

Also, the fact that half the people on any forum use the "Location" field to post some joke, as opposed to actually stating their location, is a pet peeve of mine. Mainly because every joke has been done a million times already. The range of jocular uses for the "Location" field has been exhausted to the point where it's starting to feel like a joke itself. This goes for pretty much every forum I've ever seen, not just LAF.
Title: The Shadow
Post by: Plynkes on March 03, 2008, 01:47:52 PM
Well I ain't changing my 'location' field.  :)

But I do, on the other hand, always state what country and TV channel I'm talking about when posting a "Such-and-such is on TV tonight" kind of topic.


I like the funny little things people write instead of their actual location. They amuse me. I am a little childish in that perhaps, but that's not always a bad thing.
Title: The Shadow
Post by: Rhoderic on March 03, 2008, 02:08:22 PM
It just feels a bit forced to me, that's all. Sometimes I get the impression that people actually spend time staring at the empty "Location" field and trying to think of something funny to write, when they could simply jot down their actual location and get on with things.

Remember how, a few years ago (perhaps not on this forum, but on the internet in general), everyone Photoshopped their own elaborate, oversized images to put in their forum signatures, typically involving corny imagery and turgid quotes? Then everyone stopped doing it because they realized how over-the-top it got? I think of this as a similar thing.

But now it's starting to sound like I'm having a big, serious problem with this, which I'm not. This is just a pet peeve, and isn't the thing about pet peeves, after all, that they're small and ultimately insignificant?
Title: The Shadow
Post by: Plynkes on March 03, 2008, 02:28:19 PM
Yes, personally with me it is siggys.

I find even text signatures a little annoying (if there is a lot of text, rather than just a website link). Picture ones more so, and animated ones are totally beyond the pale. It's just the thing of having to read the same lines of text over and over in a discussion, or look at the same stupid flashing image twenty times.


That's not to say I haven't dabbled in them myself a little in other places. But I never claimed not to be a hypocrite.  :) And I'm not going to start any wars over it, so let's not fall out. It's only the animated ones I really hate, I like looking down my nose and sneering at the other ones.
Title: The Shadow
Post by: muppetman on March 03, 2008, 03:06:09 PM
Quote from: "Rufus"
Quote from: "muppetman"
ok,ok.. i get the point... i'll just keep it to myself next time :?


Err no ... just state, which sci-fi channel you mean.

When i made the thead it was ment to be a promt, to promt you to walk over to your tv remote and CHECK if the program is on. I know we all dont get the same tv shows, so it dont matter if i said the uk or usa of frick'in china! you have still got to CHECK your tv to see if the bloody film is on or not....
        thank you
ps if you dont know how to work your tv remote, pass it to your mum and she will do it for you :lol:
Title: The Shadow
Post by: archangel1 on March 03, 2008, 05:04:06 PM
Quote from: "muppetman"
Quote from: "Rufus"
Quote from: "muppetman"
ok,ok.. i get the point... i'll just keep it to myself next time :?


Err no ... just state, which sci-fi channel you mean.

When i made the thead it was ment to be a promt, to promt you to walk over to your tv remote and CHECK if the program is on. I know we all dont get the same tv shows, so it dont matter if i said the uk or usa of frick'in china! you have still got to CHECK your tv to see if the bloody film is on or not....
        thank you
ps if you dont know how to work your tv remote, pass it to your mum and she will do it for you :lol:


Not funny! There is no call to be rude when someone is simply asking for clarification of a situation.
Title: The Shadow
Post by: revford on March 03, 2008, 05:25:11 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
Yes, personally with me it is siggys.


I use a cunning ad blocking thingamy to block all sig images.

It's not ads I worry about, its flashing or animated things.


Quote from: "muppetman"
ps if you dont know how to work your tv remote, pass it to your mum and she will do it for you :lol:


Aw, that's going to take ages, she lives in Devon.  (a fair few miles away)
Title: The Shadow
Post by: muppetman on March 03, 2008, 05:37:39 PM
Quote from: "revford"
Quote from: "Plynkes"
Yes, personally with me it is siggys.


I use a cunning ad blocking thingamy to block all sig images.

It's not ads I worry about, its flashing or animated things.


Quote from: "muppetman"
ps if you dont know how to work your tv remote, pass it to your mum and she will do it for you :lol:


Aw, that's going to take ages, she lives in Devon.  (a fair few miles away)

My mum lives in OZ, (a few thousand miles away) so i just get my 3yr old to do for me. he's good like that, better trained than the chimp was..
Title: The Shadow
Post by: twrchtrwyth on March 03, 2008, 06:30:31 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
Yes, personally with me it is siggys.

So reading this is annoying you then? :lol:  :D
Title: The Shadow
Post by: twrchtrwyth on March 03, 2008, 06:31:35 PM
Quote from: "Rhoderic"
Quote from: "muppetman"
ok,ok.. i get the point... i'll just keep it to myself next time :?


I don't think you did, because that wasn't the point :P

I'm certainly not asking you to keep it to yourself. I'm merely pointing out, and not so much to you specifically as to internet users generally, that there's a lot of information that can sound unintentionally cryptic when the reader doesn't know what country is being talked about.

Also, the fact that half the people on any forum use the "Location" field to post some joke, as opposed to actually stating their location, is a pet peeve of mine. Mainly because every joke has been done a million times already. The range of jocular uses for the "Location" field has been exhausted to the point where it's starting to feel like a joke itself. This goes for pretty much every forum I've ever seen, not just LAF.

Or they could do both like me! :twisted:
Title: Re: The Shadow
Post by: Army Strong on January 30, 2013, 12:51:47 AM
Does anyone make a 28mm figure of the shadow?
Title: Re: The Shadow
Post by: odd duck on January 30, 2013, 01:19:35 PM
Pulp figures makes one and i believe reaperhas one in their chronoscpe line.
So are they broadcasting the baldwin movie or is this something new?
Title: Re: The Shadow
Post by: former user on January 30, 2013, 01:54:50 PM
intended or not, it appears to be a bit cryptical

Maybe "the Phantom" is meant?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1438437/

because the only attempt at serialising "the Shadow" on TV is from the 50ies, if I am not mistaken....
Title: Re: The Shadow
Post by: workerBee on January 30, 2013, 07:06:12 PM
I don't want to be a whine, but: This is why I wish people would use the "Location" field to actually state their location! The Sci-Fi Channel in what country? I'm presuming US, but I don't really know what other parts of the world the channel is available in. I know there's some international version of the channel available here in Sweden and presumably most of the rest of Europe too.

Well, the first two posters reflect 1) UK; 2) Wales.  Seemed clear to me... Unless some time warp secession is involved those are not in the USA.

Gracias,

Glenn

Title: Re: The Shadow
Post by: twrchtrwyth on January 30, 2013, 10:22:49 PM
Well, the first two posters reflect 1) UK; 2) Wales.  Seemed clear to me... Unless some time warp secession is involved those are not in the USA.

Gracias,

Glenn


You waited 4 years to have a go!  lol
Title: Re: The Shadow
Post by: pinny on February 03, 2013, 01:30:01 AM

Maybe "the Phantom" is meant?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1438437/

because the only attempt at serialising "the Shadow" on TV is from the 50ies, if I am not mistaken....

The Shadow 1994
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111143/
Title: Re: The Shadow
Post by: former user on February 03, 2013, 07:11:38 AM
I thought some serial was meant....