Doodlebugs

[PeteProdge]

Based on my first proper visit yesterday to this city...

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[MatGubbins]

Ian Botham Tests Matches.... (sponsored by Swan Vesta)
Yep, that one works...
Yep, that one works...
Yep, that one works...
Yep, that one works...
Yep, that one works...
Hang on, I'll try it again.. Yep, that one works...
Yep, that one works...
Yep, that one works...
Yep, that one works...
Yep, that one works...
Yep, that one works...
Yep, that one works...
Yep, that one works...

Please draw that one... Ta!

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Please draw that one... Ta!

Okay - I need the practise! (Especially as this one looks more like Steven Lewis with a mullet).

[MatGubbins]

Thanks Dave, you've done it proud (as the kids of today say) with those matches and the steely hard stare of a box-ticking testing QA person.

[PeteProdge]

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I'm going for the 'get with it Grandad' bursary... I don't get this one (sorry Prodge)

[PeteProdge]

I'm going for the 'get with it Grandad' bursary... I don't get this one (sorry Prodge)

I knew this would baffle a few people (especially those outside of the UK).

It's a direct reference to Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner. Nerdy neighbour Jim (played by Mark Heap) constantly interrupts the Goodman family and he's very well meaning, always greeting them with excessive cries of "Shalom!"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZOuMLyXtJ4

The phrase "Shalom, Jackie" is regarded as one of the show's many catchphrases, even though it was only said once in the programme!

Even though it's a suburban sitcom and I'm making it sound very Terry-and-June-esque, almost like the fictional 'Oh Crikey!' that crops up in The Young Ones, Friday Night Dinner is astonishingly good and genuinely subversive. I think all of it is on All4. Or Netflix. Or maybe a bit of both.

[flatduckrecords]

Well, for a year I tried to search out arcades to find this "Green Berry". Yep.
I pictured it as some cutesy early 80s post-Pac-Man game - cartoon berries wandering round a maze or something. I still like this idea.

h/t @Daveysloan and @XTM in the memes thread of course!

[PeteProdge]

This is awesome.

But more tangents are needed.

Come on, Raspberry Beret. It could feature Prince walking through a thrift store ogling at women.

[flatduckrecords]

Come on, Raspberry Beret.

HOW did I not think of that. Hahaha.

[clebin]

Sorry, I've already done that one!

[flatduckrecords]

Sorry, I've already done that one!

Hahaha, that's ace!

What do we owe you for recycling, err, trading in your idea?

[clebin]

Sorry, I've already done that one!

Hahaha, that's ace!

What do we owe you for recycling, err, trading in your idea?

A Little Red Corvette would be nice.

Or even a 'Little Brown Chevette' as the title of a Darren Hayman song goes. I'm not fussy.

[flatduckrecords]

A Little Red Corvette would be nice.

I guess I should've known by the way you parked your car
sidewize

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Hehe. This thread definitely misses the like button!

[XTM]

Here's the full page of the ad featuring the Green Bert one I posted a while ago.



The Prodigy one is by MatGubbins. Ankaranoid was inspired by a class mate from school, he had a pirated Arkanoid on C64 disk and I think he had written either Ankaranoid or Arankanoid on the label ... and the Combat Skool Daze you've seen on this thread before, I just figured I could reuse it for the ad.

Translation of the blurbs:
- 4 new stars in the software sky
- The wait is over!
- The smash hits from England now on your micro!
- Fun guaranteed - or your money back!
- In shops soon - of course only from "DocSockshotSoft" (the name is a translation of a german nick I use on another site. When you say someone has a "sockshot" it menas he's "lost a few marbles").

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[flatduckrecords]

In my head canon he lives next door to Ianna but with much less well kempt grass. ’specially if that’s what he’s using to cut it!

[flatduckrecords]

[embiggen]

…don't try…becuase it won't do anything!

h/t @MatGubbins & @Jbizzel et. al. on the memes thread!

[MatGubbins]

[TMD2003]

That might just as easily have been Ninja Hipster...

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[flatduckrecords]

guys really live in apartments like this and don’t see any issue

[XTM]

A cave seems like a good place to live in during hot summers ...