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I love the Comedy Pub. It has three spacious floors. The first floor is a very spacious room with a bar. The ground floor which is the main floor has a very large bar and lots of seating. They do, do food though I haven't eaten here. Now the reason I love this pub is because of the basement floor. On Thursday nights it is karaoke night, which is lots of fun. Then on Saturday nights it is cheesy music night. They have a DJ who is great and plays all kinds of music though be warned a lot of theatre people go to this pub and are quite camp and will ask for the cheesy music so as long as you like dancing to good old pop songs you will have a great night.
The Big Night Out is a comedy night held in the Comedy Pub at the weekends, made up of 3 comedians and the MC. The comedians were on the whole good, but you could tell they were relieved that there were a few 'boisterous' South Africans down the back that could help them with the 'oooh, tough crowd' moments.
One thing to note is that drinks are dearer upstairs (a pint is £1 more) so just walk downstairs, where the bar is usually soulless and half-empty, no probs gettin a drink.
The 'disco' downstairs isn't up to much; you're tempted downstairs with promises of free shotstequila rosé anyone? Yeah I thought so. The DJ must have got himself 'Now thats what I call 90s music' in the Woolies clearout, it was shockin!
Good comedy gig, but even in these recessionary times even a bad disco included is still a bad disco.
Pub with comedy club downstairs. Middle floor is bar area which serves food. Prices are reasonable for central London and the food menu is fine, pretty cheap and cheerful and they coped when 10 of us arrived together without booking. Comedy is downstairs (and I think they also have a comedy club upstairs, but I have not visited it). Acts are pretty good and can be viewed in advance on the Chortle website. Bar prices downstairs are also reasonable. Staff are very good as it gets very busy during interval and they remain friendly. Downside is the womens toilets which are a bit ropey and the floors are always sticky. Also we visited one evening and two very drunk guys heckled throughout the show. It took the staff about an hour to chuck them out.
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With a new comedy line-up in store every Friday & Saturday night, SCC has been voted London's friendliest comedy club, & named a top 10 club by Time Out for its consistently high quality and innovative shows.
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By inserting relevant offers into operation emails, a retailer generated $750,000 annually. Last of a three-part series.
Since writing the last two columns on lifecycle marketing, Gartner has come out with its annual "Hype Cycle for CRM Marketing Applications" report, and low and behold, it extols the virtues of automating programs to deliver more ROI and accountability. Specifically, it states: "In 2010, marketing automation moved from a 'nice to have' to a 'must have.'"
The focus on automating marketing programs makes a lot of sense. Done properly, you can trigger relevant messages at exactly the right time in the customer lifecycle. Not only is this more effective for generating sales, hitting an in-market customer is going to lead to higher customer satisfaction. Of course, once you start to jump on the lifecycle gravy train, the next question is where to start. In my last column, I covered one of the most obvious places, the welcome email. This time around, I am going to demonstrate how multiple, high-value lifecycle messages can be generated off of one customer activity - the purchase.
A look at how Benchmark Brands automates post-purchase emails for its FootSmart brand provides some valuable insight into how you can drive incremental revenue by serving up a series of lifecycle messages that can be triggered off a multitude of post-purchase scenarios.
The most common email to automate after a purchase is the purchase confirmation email. FootSmart understands that consumers are likely to have a positive impression of a brand right after a purchase, so it incorporates cross-sell and special offers into these valuable emails. But it doesn't stop there. FootSmart has recognized that there are other opportunities to provide consumers with relevant information after a purchase.
FootSmart has more than two dozen different messages that it has set up to trigger off of different scenarios that can occur throughout the purchase process, from the purchase confirmation mentioned above to various incarnations of shipping notifications, out-of-stock notifications, in-stock notifications, exchanges, cancellations, review requests, and more. And the effort it has put into these emails is paying off. By inserting relevant offers into these operation emails, FootSmart has generated $750,000 annually, as was reported in a published email marketing case study by my company.
What's really interesting here is how FootSmart has parsed the various types of purchase-related emails that can be triggered off of a transaction. For example, it has several different "shipping status" emails based on whether the customer has bought the product before or whether it's their first time. Additionally, through testing, FootSmart has found out that different offers resonate with different types of customers; for example, first-time buyers vs. repeat buyers. As a result, it can dynamically serve up the best offer based on this attribute within its database.
FootSmart also understands that it's especially important to send the right message at the right time when it's in relation to "bad news," such as the product being out of stock or confirming the cancellation of an order. FootSmart automatically triggers an email when an item is identified by its system to be out-of-stock. By providing detailed information on when the item will be available, as well as details on credit card processing, FootSmart is developing a level of trust that is instrumental in motivating consumers to maintain their order. FootSmart also takes advantage of the opportunity to serve a banner to promote follow-up purchases on its website, which may include a discount based on the amount of delay or other customer attributes.
The point is that there are multiple opportunities to provide helpful information around a purchase, and they can all be automated based on integration with e-commerce, inventory, web analytics, and other systems. When it comes to purchase-related emails, it makes sense to start optimizing the most common type, which is usually a purchase confirmation email. But once you've got that set up, you should look at inserting relevant messages and offers into all the different permutations that exist based on all the variables that are associated with your purchase and fulfillment process.
If you aren't currently leveraging lifecycle marketing at the critical moment of a first or follow-up purchase, you are clearly leaving money on the table. Done right, you can offer real value that nurtures the customer relationship while also benefiting your bottom line.
Do you have an innovative lifecycle marketing program that drives incremental value from the customer purchase process? I'd love to hear about them in the comments.
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The British comedy team of Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball star in this funfest as a pair of policemen who man the police station in the small town of Little Botham. Crime is rare in Little Botham, and authorities plan to close the station as an economy measure. Not wanting to lose their jobs, Ball and Cannon fabricate a phony crime wave to make it look as if they're needed after all. But when they attempt to steal a valuable painting from Lloyd (Roy Kinnear), one of the richest men in town, they find that a gang of real art thieves have been at work, and now they have a serious case to crack. Boys in Blue is a remake of Ask a Policeman, a 1938 vehicle for British comedy star Will Hay. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi


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Yesterday at 6pm EST The Miami Dolphins announced the hiring of assistant offensive line coach John Benton. This may not sound like the biggest hire and has caused little attention from the beat writers, other than as a factor to assume Jim Turner's departure pending the Wells report. Although that is very foreseeable as Benton was linked with Oline coaching positions across the league and choose to be an assistant. I shan't dwell on that, nor his connections with Mike Sherman. Instead I will let you know what we shall see on the field.
Benton is coming from the Texans where he was the Oline coach from 2006, In his 3rd year at the Texans he had a new assistant Head and Oline coach named Alex Gibbs this working relationship was short (2 years) but left a lasting impression in the shape of the Texans Outside Zone or as Gibbs likes to say Wide Zone, with Smart Football's Chris B. Brown calling it "the greatest run play in modern football"
This short video below by Smart Football simply explains the concept of the Wide Zone, This play alone accounted for around half of the Texans ground game, it was the staple of their running game and that of new Offensive Co-coordinator Lazor, when he was calling the plays at Virginia.
I won't bore you with year upon year of statistics, instead I can bore you with over 7 hours of Gibbs talking about his running game in a coaching session with college programs, who were at the time running spread offenses and wanted a versatile run formation to accompany it. This below series off videos are during his spell with the Atlanta Falcons between 2004 and 2006 before he joined the Texans and Benton. Due to these video's being around 10 years old there are some elements still in work that are now common sight. However the fundamentals are still valid and practiced. (Some of the film will show illegal blocks in today game, but by getting across the defender would be legal by current rules)
Now that's a lot to soak in, but its a long off-season and you can't look at mock drafts everyday until May, Now you may want to know what Lazor's year with Chip may add to this. Well fear not the same principles remain, albeit with the QB in shotgun apposed to under-center as was prominently so with the Texans and Virginia.
Below is a video breaking down the outside zone read, which could adds another wrinkle to the offense but the blocking scheme and running backs reads remain the same. The addition of the "Read" element enables the offense to take out another defender as he has to respect Tannehill's ability to run, as well as the obvious advantage of your Quarterback being able to see the field the entire play.(Not turning his back to hand off or fake)
I know this is a lot to take in, but it will be the fundamentals of our running game and will also determine personnel decisions across the Oline and in the back field during the offseason. No matter what capacity Benton is in, he is sure to bring with him this vast wealth of knowledge of how to run this successfully. During his long tenure with the Texans Benton designed and installed the run game, I think it is safe to say he will most likely do the same here. Which can only be good for Lazor to focus on Tannehill's development and the overall offensive philosophy
I truly believe this is the a critical important and could be the biggest move this off season. One for which Philbin should be heralded for making. After all the turmoil we have suffered this season with the offensive line, what a joy it will be to see it functioning.


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2 is more of a recommendation to invest than 1 IMO. -)
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Thank you very much for your reply.
Do you mean 2 is a better sentence? And the meanings of the two are the same?
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It sounds stronger to me. If I were encouraging you to invest, I'd use it, but the first might be a basic assessment.
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Portland Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard can literally do it all, and he'll be the first in NBA history to prove it during All-Star Weekend as he is set to compete in the Slam Dunk contest, Skills Challenge and 3-point contest.
With the dunk contest being the marquee event, it figures to be even more exciting this time around considering that for the first time in 26 years, three All-Stars will participate as John Wall and Paul George will join Lillard.
Somehow, however, it figures to be the cheapest All-Star Saturday Night in four years, according to Forbes.
The 2013 Rookie of the Year will make his first All-Star Game appearance for the Western Conference and play behind fellow first-timer Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors, who will make the West squad as a starter. The star power of the Saturday evening festivities is as big as its been in recent history, and should make for an exciting slate of events.
Lillard has been all substance this season, despite the flash he'll have the opportunity to display during All-Star Weekend. The Oakland, Calif. native is averaging a career-high 20.6 points per game to go along with 5.7 assists and is posting an 18.8 player efficiency rating (via Basketball-Refernce.com's metric).
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On Dec. 27, 2007, the outcome of elections in Kenya was deemed to have been rigged, resulting in the beginning of violence and
chaos throughout the country. Having spent much time in Kenya during the last seven years, I was anxious for my parents (Joel and Robin Hasslen) to finally journey over to experience my "other world". However, on the day (Dec. 31) of their departure, I was forced to phone them and suggest that they reschedule their trip due to the rising insecurity.
At no time did I feel that I was in danger; however, travel in the country was limited due to sporadic roadblocks. When my parents finally did arrive two weeks later, violence had subsided and Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general, had begun talks with the government and the opposition. I had arrived in Kenya Nov. 20 to spend a month and a half with Judie Makandi, the 18-year-old woman I sponsor. Judie is an orphan who was unable to attend school until she was 11 years old and is in grade seven now at a boarding school in Chogoria, Kenya. In order to afford this time in Kenya, I worked for a Kenyan non-profit, Ripples International (an organization that works with children and people living with HIV/AIDS) which in turn, provided me with room and board. For Christmas, Judie and I traveled to Ngong, a city south of Nairobi to stay with a Kenyan couple who cares for 16 orphans. We stayed there during the elections, which by and large were peaceful. Results trickled in, and Kenyans became more and more concerned as no winner was declared. We went back to Nairobi for New Years, when it was broadcast that Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner. Almost immediately, violence erupted in the country. Then the government banned all live broadcasts and for two days the only way we knew what was happening in the country was to call friends who lived in other areas. When we could determine that it was safe to travel, Judie and I went back to Meru which was a Kibaki stronghold and a safe haven at this time. Judie returned to school and I went back to work for Ripples while I waited for my parents to arrive. Once my parents arrived, our biggest obstacle was not the violence but the rain, which was unseasonable. I wanted my parents to get to know the people who had become like family to me. So I took them into the Rift Valley to meet a group of Masaai. We stayed in a tin-sided house with a dirt floor and giraffes just outside the compound. From there, we traveled to Nyaoga, a village in western Kenya on the shores of Lake Victoria. We had to time our trip to avoid violence in the region. Nyaoga is a village on the edge. The water in Lake Victoria is polluted, the ground water is not potable, and diseases such as malaria, typhoid and cholera are rampant and often result in death. HIV is also endemic to this area. One of the most moving experiences here was to visit the house of a woman who had recently died of complications to AIDS. When we arrived, we found that her husband had left three children and his second wife's son in the care of a 16-year-old nephew. The children had only the clothes on their backs, no shoes and no food. This is not an atypical occurrence. We immediately bought food and medicine and left money for clothes but know that it was only a band-aid for a larger problem - that of poverty. What left the biggest impression on my parents was the sheer number of orphans, the poor conditions of the schools, and the lack of nutrition. Despite the sense of desperation experienced by foreigners like my parents, hope is not dead. You can see it in the churches, in the smiles on faces of children, and in the voices of this generation who believes in their ability to create change in their country. My parents' experience in Kenya was that of a person-to-
person connection which brings hope because the Kenyans they met now know that someone cares for and understands them. Going to Kenya changed my parents' lives. They now feel a responsibility to help create positive change and hope in Kenya. While the issues surrounding the elections are not yet resolved, talks are in process and Kenyans continue to hope and pray that peace will be restored. In two weeks I will
return to Kenya to finish the work that was interrupted by the
insecurity in the country. For more information about my work in Kenya, see Give Us Wings Web site at www.giveuswings.org. If you are interested in reading more about my personal experience in Kenya, go to 360.yahoo.com/jjhasslen.
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. Thursday, June 5: Opening receptions for the Conference Juried Show, Subliminal, juried by Dan Addington, and a Conference Curatorial Project, Material Consequences, curated by Susan Lasch Krevitt and Nancy Natale, will take place at Castle Hill, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
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. Tuesday, June 10: A talk by Material Consequences curators, who will be joined by exhibiting artists Jeff Hirst and Lisa Zukowski and perhaps others, 5:00 sharp to 6:00.
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A Florida State fan does an awesome thing: he takes game and cuts out all the commercials. I would be willing to pay someone $$$ to do this for Mizzou games.
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Missouri Defensive Coordinator Dave Steckel took the #IceBucketChallenge earlier today, and gave us some real nice GIF material.
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Oh yeah, that really hits the spot. I think this is the beginning of a long, beautiful friendship.
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Looks like Evan Boehm didn't get the "full pads" memo. Gotta keep your head on a swivel, Evan.
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New service for loading CD collection into iPod launches
LoadPod has launched as a new service that takes an iPod user's entire CD collection and rips it into their iPod for them…so that they don't have to. LoadPod currently offers local service in several areas including Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Houston, Indianapolis, South Carolina, and Minneapolis, and is bringing local service to new markets daily. LoadPod will pick up a customer's iPod or iPod mini, along with their CD collection, from their home or place of work, and then return it to them within five days, fully ripped and loaded…allowing customers to use their time for more valuable things.
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Jimmy Bones…
hehe..good one
"They took my thumb Charley..they took my friggin thumb!"
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Posted by lucky714x on May 20, 2004 at 4:22 PM (CDT)
it's like free money. if anyone in NYC wants this service, i'll do it for 20% less.
Posted by murph on May 20, 2004 at 7:23 PM (CDT)
dumb stupid service..
Posted by bonjon on May 20, 2004 at 8:21 PM (CDT)
can someone give me jimme bones' email address? sounds like a good idea.
Posted by ron on May 20, 2004 at 9:51 PM (CDT)
What if a new iPod owner doesn't have a computer? Would be a great service then.
Posted by Soi on May 21, 2004 at 4:32 AM (CDT)
I can't imagine someone being so motivated to get an ipod without having a pc. doesn't make sense….
if the glove doesn't fit you must aquit…
Posted by bababooey on May 21, 2004 at 4:39 AM (CDT)
Then you have a very poor imagination.
Why should only those with a pc be interested in the benefits of a hard drive based music player? You don't need a pc to like music, and certainly don't need a pc to want the convenience of having all your music with you when you leave the house.
Posted by Soi on May 21, 2004 at 5:08 AM (CDT)
Let's see… If I were a doctor/laywer, or some other profession and made over $200,000 a year would I want an iPod. Maybe. Would my time be more valuable than spending time ripping cd's. YES !!!! Would I use a service that someone identified a need for and had enough initiative to go for it. Probably. It's really pretty simple. Not stupid, not lazy, just better time management based on their needs.
Posted by retro on May 21, 2004 at 8:12 AM (CDT)
Many many a good idea and invention over the centuries have been scoffed at, ridiculed and called folly. And when an idea does work, the same people who scoffed without imagination, then want to copy it for themselves.
What one person calls folly, another makes millions with.
Posted by no folly on May 21, 2004 at 10:34 AM (CDT)
Would I pay $600 to rip my 400 cds to my iPod? No.
Posted by rip off on May 21, 2004 at 10:39 AM (CDT)
Would I pay $600 to rip my 400 cds to my iPod? No.
By rip off on May 21, 04 9:39 am
"rip off" If you were a millionaire and the price was reasonably would you make the same decision ?
Posted by retro on May 21, 2004 at 11:02 AM (CDT)
I live in Houston and earn more than I'm probably really worth as the CFO of a petrochemical firm. Last week I purchased three new iPods—one for each of my teenage daughters—and 250 CDs from Amazon.com that the girls had compiled on their Amazon "wish lists." I had all of the CDs (and the three iPods) delivered directly to the local LoadPod folks. The goodies will be sent to the girls in just a couple of days.
Time is money, folks. I don't have much of the former, but I've got plenty of the latter.
Posted by Oil Forever on May 21, 2004 at 10:02 PM (CDT)
I'm sure all of us at one time or another have paid to have something done more quickly or efficiciently than we could've done ourselves and in that regard this service is fine. I think that there are a lot of people who have had a negative reaction to it based on their feelings about their music collection. Personally ripping their collection offers them another opportunity to visit with old friends some of whom may have originally showed up on vinyl.
I guess to these people it would be akin to shipping off all your family photos to a scrapbooking service. Sure its quick and convenient but you miss out on the experience.
Posted by Trix606 on May 22, 2004 at 9:39 AM (CDT)
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Miriam and Laureli sat gingerly on the edge of an old sofa which creaked and shifted every time either of them moved. The rest of the small room was taken up by an old fridge, an older microwave, and a couple of grad students in dingy white lab coats. One had hair that stuck out in every direction as if it were trying to escape from his head, while the other kept adjusting glasses that were clearly the wrong prescription. Neither had introduced themselves to the two women, and both were trying as hard as possible not to look like they were staring.
For their parts, Mimi and Laur were starting to second guess their choice of attire. They'd been out of University for a while and forgot that the Engineering building was not the most appropriate place for business casual.
Miriam wore a slate grey ensemble with A-line skirt and tasteful jacket, while Laureli had tight-fitting black trousers, white blouse and slim tie.
"Maybe we should have changed after work?" Miriam giggled nervously and whispered to her girlfriend, unable to hide the blush that was creeping its way up her cheeks. She didn't know how Laureli was managing to keep her cool.
"Hey you two!"
Everyone looked up as a smiling woman in a rumpled grey T-shirt and faded jeans came through the tiny Grad Lounge's door. The two grad students nodded in greeting, then went back to pretending they weren't paying attention. Mimi and Laur leapt off the sofa and tackled the new woman together, both yelling at the same time.
After a few minutes of happy laughing and back slapping, they all regained their breath and stepped back.
"What are you two doing here? I haven't seen you in years!" Alexa was still beaming happily, but there was a faintly confused look on her face.
"We, uhh, you know, just wanted to see you?" Miriam was terrible at lying; it occurred to her after that she should have waited for Laur.
"Liar." Alexa smiled while saying it, though.
"Look, we don't want to talk about it... well, around those two." Miriam lowered her voice, but the room was small enough that the two grad students could still definitely hear. "What's their problem, anyway?"
"You look like business students." Alexa paused, then noticed that both Mimi and Laur still looked confused and continued. "The natural enemies of engineering students?"
"Oh! Right!" Mimi was surprised how a few years out of University changed your perspective.
"I was a business student." Laureli winked.
"Right! Now I remember why I don't like you." Alexa winked too. "Anyway, you want to go to my office?"
"Who would give you an office?"
"Har har. Come on." Alexa was happy to see the two of them, and fell into the good-natured ribbing easily. In University, she'd been good friends with the two women, although they hadn't kept up so much since Mimi and Laur moved on to the professional world while she pursued Graduate studies.
"So, how's academic life treating you Lex?" Mimi made casual conversation as they headed down linoleumed hallways, past bulletin boards covered in amusing cartoons and announcements about robotics contests. She absently touched the various board and model robots as they walked.
"Good! I've been working on some really great projects involving complex hydraulics and artificial intelligence to... ya, you don't care."
"We're happy for you! Right, Meems?" Laur grinned and gave Alexa an encouraging squeeze on the shoulder.
"Right!" Mimi was busy making a model airplane's propellers spin and jumped in surprise when Laur singled her out. "Plus, robots are awesome!"
"And, hey, I heard from Jen that the two of you are seeing each other?" After several twists and turns through similar-looking hallways, they came to a door covered in Dilbert cartoons and ribbons from engineering contests.
"Wow, looks like you're doing pretty well." Mimi ran her fingers down a few of the ribbons, nodding. "Also, yes."
"When did that happen? How did that happen?" Alexa opened the door and showed them into a small room with a small desk and surfaces crowded with award statues. "I thought you two were, you know... straight?"
"It happened about a year ago..." Laureli found herself a seat in one of the plastic bucket chairs in front of the desk.
"It... is complicated how it happened." Mimi laughed, then blushed. Even Laureli, who managed to keep her cool through the whole encounter with the two grumpy grad students, blushed. "You still talk to Jen?" Mimi blushed even more at that... for a while after school she'd lost track of most of her friends, even Laureli, but lately she, Laur and Jen had been spending a lot of time together. Naked. With Jen's boyfriend Thor, who also spent a lot of time naked.
"Ya, weird huh? Of the four of us, she's the only one who didn't graduate and she's the only I keep up with?" Alexa shrugged. "Anyway, you two want something to drink?" She pulled open the mini fridge near her desk and indicated the beers inside.
"Uhh, I drove." Laureli waved off the offer.
"Sure!" Mimi grabbed a beer and popped the top, taking a few swigs before she finally came up for air. It helped take some of the blush off, although when she noticed the other two women staring at her the blush came right back and she hung her head. "Thanks..."
"So, what are you two really here for?" Alexa leaned back in her chair, staring across the desk with a suddenly professor-y air.
"We... umm... look, Laur, I can't do this. Why don't we all just go out for dinner and drinks?" Mimi finished the rest of her beer after the breathless sentence.
"Come on Meems, we came all the way here."
Laureli frowned and made a grab at Mimi's purse. Mimi was too slow to get it out of the way, but put up a grumpy fight before finally letting it go. Laur gave her a raspberry, then rummaged in the purse for a bit.
"You know, you two are acting a little funny..." Alexa looked back and forth between then two of them. "I feel like we're in a movie or something, and you're about to pull an alien out of your purse... and it's a can?"
Laureli put a tin can on Alexa's desk. It had a plain label, beat up and torn in several places, which read "Sex in a Can" on it. There was no brand or other indication about who made it, and both Miriam and Laureli had looked into the address printed under the nutritional information. It was fake.
"Of dessert?" Alexa picked up the can and turned it around a few times, then looked at the calorie information on it. "Sounds like chocolate? The weird factor's going up again."
"Look, it's not what it seems..." Laur reached out gingerly and grabbed the can from Alexa before putting it very carefully down on the desk again. "And we... need to have it tested."
"You know... with science?"
"Right..." Alexa raised an incredulous eyebrow. "This is the point where people with candid cameras jump out and yell surprise?"
"No!" Mimi was treating herself to a second beer, which was turning her volume up. "Totally real... just... not very believable."
"Not believable at all, in fact." Laureli sighed. "Can we just, you know... run some tests on it? Tell us what's in it?"
"Sure, let me just reach over here and..." Alexa reached over to pop the top off the can.
"No!" Laureli and Mimi both shouted at the same time and grabbed at the can. Mimi was faster but missed. Laur managed to get it before Alexa, and pulled it out of the grad student's reach.
"Okay, seriously you two? What's going on?"
"Look, fine... has Jen told you much about... things?"
"Things..." Laur put a salacious tone into the word, and Mimi winked.
"Oh... oh! Ya, she said you two had some really cool sex toy or something. She always got really flustered and wouldn't say much else." Lex paused, then her eyes opened wide. "Oh! Is that it? That's... very different than I imagined. How does it work?"
"You open it, then... pow!"
"Ya! Pow! It's all very sudden! I couldn't believe it the first time." Mimi grinned and tried to find a good spot to put her third empty beer can.
"Okay... okay... so what do you mean by you want to run tests on it?" Lex was shaking her head and standing now, not entirely sure what to think about what was happening.
"It's not... you know, normal. Plus, Mimi picked it up at the grocery store... we looked, but we couldn't find anyone that sells it anymore."
"Yesh... and we looked online. No google results, no tweets, no anything like that... you have nice hair." Mimi reached over, about to touch Lex's hair, then blushed and backed up a step.
"Okay, so, alright... is it dangerous?"
"Dangerously awesome." Mimi giggled.
"I think I'm going to need to see it... you know, before I know how to test it..." Lex licked her lips, staring at the can with a new intensity. "For science."
Mimi and Laureli both looked at each, then at Lex, then followed her gaze. They grinned. Mimi did reach forward this time and run her hand along Lex's lustrous brown hair. Then she leaned across the desk and kissed Lex. Tentatively at first, on the lips.
Lex's eyes went wide and she backed up out of the kiss, looking from Mimi to Laur.
"Wait, isn't Laur gonna... get jealous?"
"Go ahead, hun. It works better if you're... warmed up first anyway."
"Warmed up?" Lex's eyes were still wide.
To demonstrate the concept, Mimi swooped in for another kiss. Despite the small office, Lex was backed up far enough that Mimi actually had to crawl up onto the desk with hands and knees so she could reach the engineering grad's mouth. There was more fire this time, and her tongue flicked out to run a tantalizing line across Lex's lips. Lex gasped, happily, and greedily opened her mouth in response. She lunged forward and wrapped a hand around Mimi's neck so she could pull the other woman closer while her moist pink tongue rose up to dance with Mimi's.
Alexa didn't know how long the kiss went on, but it felt like forever and an instant all at once. Reluctantly she let Mimi's mouth drift away, then raised a hand to her cheek to feel the flush there.
"Gawd, Meems... that was great. Hey... where'd Laur go?" Lex looked around the room in confusion, not seeing Laureli anywhere. Then she heard the sound of the zipper on her jeans being pulled down, and she made an understanding 'O' with her mouth as she looked down and saw Laureli under the desk.
"You know, Lex, I always wondered if you secretly fancied me." Laureli's voice was low and smoky, and she talked while she worked the button free and dragged the jeans down around Lex's ankles.
"Mmm... you two are so hot, how could I not?" Lex made a happy moan as Laur's fingers started to gently rub the outside of her panties. "Oooh, ya, do that... Laur, you're like a model, you know? Legs that go all the way up to your arse... and when I saw you standing in the grad lounge, with those trousers? With all Jen told me? Damn, it was all I could do not to jump you in front of Bill and Ted."
"Who?" Mimi wasn't slacking while Laur worked on Lex's pants. She teased the T shirt off and threw it in the corner, and now had herself entirely splayed across the desk while she suckled on Lex's neck. Lex had one hand on the back of Mimi's head, fingers digging into a luxurious mass of hair while she bit her lip from pleasure and anticipation.
"Oh, you know, those two in the lounge... mmm, ya, Laur, right there." Lex bucked her hips forward as Laureli started to run her thumbs in circles along Lex's panties where she thought Lex's clit was. Clearly she was close, because she could already smell the musk of Lex's arousal.
"Is that... are those their real names?" Mimi raised her head from Lex's neck for a moment to look incredulous.
"No... I don't know their real... mmm, ya, pinch that nipple." Lex lost her train of thought when Mimi's warm hands snuck under her bra and started to play with her breasts. Her nipples instantly stood at attention as fingers caressed them.
"Then why?"
"Oh, they're just... gawd, do we really have to discuss this right now? Laureli, if you don't eat me soon I'm gonna explode!" Lex thrust her hips forward again. Laur giggled from under the desk and expertly removed Lex's panties.
"Come on, Lex, you've got me all interested... and wet." Mimi grinned and pulled Lex's bra off as well. Then she scooted forward and started to run her tongue in circles along Alexa's pert breasts.
"Okay... they... they... they're theoreticalphysicistsinvestigatingtimetravelandusingourlabsandtheysaydudeallthetime OH SHIT LAUR RIGHT THERE!" Alexa finished her sentence all in one breath as a warm tongue made a bee line for her clit and two manicured fingers slid themselves into her pussy. She was already soaking wet from the activities of her two friends, so Laureli's finger slid in easily and began sending ripples of sensation through her body. She felt her legs jerking involuntarily as her orgasm began to mount.
"Oh." Mimi nodded, then went back to worshipping Lex's breasts. She cupped them in her hands as she moved back and forth, kissing one, licking the other, running her teeth across both nipples...
"After... all... that?" Lex had her head thrown back and her hips working rhythmically against Laureli's expert tongue. She let out a happy whimper when a third finger first wet itself with her pussy juices, then probed gently at her ass. The new sensation sent shockwaves through her body, and her first climax came all at once.
Mimi put a friendly hand over Alexa's lips while Alexa was busy moaning in pleasure, which probably didn't help much. If there was anyone in the building besides Bill and Ted, they would have heard something by now for sure.
After the waves of pleasure died down, Lex found herself lying limply against the chair and panting breathlessly. It was the best orgasm she'd had in a long time, and the two women weren't done yet. Mimi was still doing amazing things to her breasts, Laureli was slowly pumping her fingers in and out of Lex's now dripping pussy, and Alexa could feel her next orgasm starting as a quiver in her belly.
"Okay." That was Mimi, in between nipples.
"Pop the top, silly. You're ready, right Laur?"
Lex then noticed that both Laureli and Miriam had, somewhere along the way, remove their clothes and thrown those haphazardly in the corner. Lex was now treated to a view of Miriam's glorious back, and the curve of her perfect ass, while she could look down and see Laureli's breasts bobbing up and down while she worked her magic tongue.
She couldn't think of anything else she wanted more than this, but there was Jen's reaction at the mere mention of what was apparently just a can... Lex couldn't help her curiousity. She gingerly reached forward around Miriam's naked body and grabbed the pop top on the can. Only able to bring one hand to bear on the task, she took longer than normal, but then the top of the can peeled back and a hiss of air released from it.
"Empty?" Lex looked unbelievably at the empty interior of the can. "Guys, if this was some ruse to get in my pants, you didn't need to be so coy. Next time just say 'Lex, a couple of goddesses want to fuck your brains out' and I'll be right there."
"Just put it down." Mimi laughed, her voice bright and eager, then moved forward to start kissing Lex's neck again. Her mouth worked its way up until she was sucking on Alexa's earlobe, though her hands were still massaging the engineer's breasts.
"Hey... it's spinning?"
Sure enough, the empty can was now spinning on the table. Weird, but not earth shaking... what Laureli was doing to her, on the other hand? That was earthshaking.
She leaned her head back and closed her eyes, letting the two girls continue their excellent activities. Alexa moaned in excitement as Mimi went back to sucking on both of her breasts.
Both of them?
Alexa's eyes flew open, and her room suddenly looked entirely different. The air was filled with thick green tentacles, all glistening with some sort of liquid, all rushing forward to touch one of the three women. Two of the tentacles, with openings that seemed like mouths, were attached to Lex's breasts and... and... it felt really good.
"Shit, what the hell?"
"Just go with it..." Mimi laughed, and Lex noticed that Miriam was now on her back. Two of the tentacles, with ends shaped very much like penises, were probing at the naked flesh between Miriam's legs.
While Alexa watched, one of the tentacles pressed against Mimi's pussy, while the other slid up against her ass. Then with an almost shocking suddenness, they both penetrated Mimi. Mimi cried out in pleasure and arched her back while the tentacles began pistoning in her, moving in and out with a rising intensity. Alexa felt incredibly turned on watching the things... essentially have sex with Miriam.
Then it was her turn. Several of the tentacles wrapped around her arms and legs and before she knew it, she was hoisted off the chair and into the air. Two more tentacles, each with phallic ends, probed between her legs. While she wasn't normally into men, the moist warmth of the tentacles felt really good... and it felt even better when they filled her up!
"Damn that's good!" Lex shouted in pleasure as the two tentacles took turns filling her with their incredible bulk. Her shouts turned to screams as a mouth-shaped one started to suck on her clit and turned her world into a starburst of ecstacy.
She barely noticed as another tentacle slid itself between her lips and started to work in and out of her mouth... yet, somehow that felt good too. It tasted sweet and a little like vanilla, and the feeling of three of the thick green members inside her was heaven.
She rolled her head around and saw that bow Mimi and Laur were also hoisted into the air by the tentacles, and were having the same treatment.
All three women shuddered in time to the motions of the tentacle things, all three of them moaning in ecstacy as they were filled up again and again.
"Hey! What's going on in there?!" Male voices shouted from outside the door, followed by banging. Lex couldn't open her mouth to say anything, but the situation worked out as the tentacles found some way to open the door and frightened male shouts turned to happy male cries of pleasure.
Alexa didn't know how long she was suspended there, or how many orgasms she had, but then, suddenly, the tentacles increased their tempo. It was wonderful and frightening at the same time... and then she felt them all thicken at once, and then a sticky, warm liquid filled her up everywhere a tentacle was busy fucking her. Some of the stuff splashed across her naked body as well, and she thought she saw it get on the statues and desk, but she didn't care.
It was over faster than it started. Five panting people, all naked and covered in tentacle cum, crawled towards each other and collapsed into a heap together.
"Dude... you chicks are crazy." Bill, or possibly Ted, shook his shaggy head in dazed wonder.
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Movie News
Banzai Institute activity' Is W.D.'s BB trying to get active with his genius again'
Hey folks, Harry here... Surely the world isn't cool enough to let Buckaroo Banzai loose again. For those charter members of the Banzai Institute - this story goes out to all of you. Is this a portent of future more cinematic developments - let us all put on lab coats and work the numbers... the answer is there somewhere...
Hi guys,
Big Shoulders here. Not sure if you heard about this yet.
It appears that Moonstone will be releasing an illustrated Buckaroo Banzai trade paperback sometime in 2005! The novel promises to be a brand new adventure, chronicling the further exploits of the celebrated multidisciplinary science guru/rock music god and his associates, the incomparable Hong Kong Cavaliers.
This is an extraordinary development. As recently as last month, Simon & Schuster were pondering Earl Mac Rauch's latest draft of a new Buckaroo Banzai novel. I have e-mailed WD Richter and Earl Mac Rauch to confirm what is already posted at the Moonstone website (Click Here) and in this press release (Click Here), but it sure looks like Buckaroo will soon be saddling-up and back on the clock once again.
Fellow BBIs, rejoice!
Big Shoulders
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Jan. 3, 2005, 9:29 a.m. CST
by ejcarter9
Very spiffy indeed.
Jan. 3, 2005, 9:35 a.m. CST
John THIRD!
by Squashua
Jan. 3, 2005, 9:37 a.m. CST
by Mr Brownstone
I just finished rereading the Banzai novelization (original printing). I wonder if this new one deals with the diabolical Xan and his World Crime League as promised more than 20 years ago! I sure fucking hope so.
Jan. 3, 2005, 9:47 a.m. CST
by rkhalloran
The movie was *supposed* to have a funky retro feel to it. A new BB movie would have to be utterly recast though, it's sadly been much too long since the original and the principals are way too older to reprise their roles.
Jan. 3, 2005, 9:55 a.m. CST
The B.B. movie was ok, but I never understood the "cult classic"
by Doom II
I TRIED to like the movie in high school, but found it a bit boring. I saw it in the theater upon release and just didn't get it. Repo Man I get. And another thing about Revenge Of The Sith....It won't be that good because George Lucas is directly involved. All great Star Wars projects now are made by people who have no desire to profit on the toys and kiddie characters. EXAMPLES: The Clone Wars cartoon is excellent and dark with nothing "cute" or funny about it. Heir To The Empire novels are the same. The Knights Of The Old Republic video games are wicked cool. Ahh, what's the point?
Jan. 3, 2005, 10:25 a.m. CST
by Gislef_crow
Well Moonstone has always been a class act - check out their Kolchak stuff sometime, particularly the Prestige format issues (which I think the first four were being released in a compilation). Good work, with support from Kolchak creator Jeff Rice and chronicler Mark Dawidziak. So if they can bring that kind of talent in to a BB comic, it could certainly work.
Jan. 3, 2005, 10:33 a.m. CST
Saddle Up!
by RenoNevada2000
Hot diggity damn! I've been a Buckaroo Banzai fan since I first saw the movie back during its initial release. With news that EMR is also working on a quartet of BB novels, its looking like 2005 is shaping up to be a banner year for us Blue Blaze Irregulars!
Jan. 3, 2005, 11:40 a.m. CST
BB is a funny movie
by jawaburger
but it's time has past. New material just seems silly and without merit. just go buy, or rent the original, and enjoy, becuase you just can't repeat something that wacky successfully
Jan. 3, 2005, 11:55 a.m. CST
BB is still alive!
by Mel Torme
Just look at the shot for shot tribute to Buckaroo Banzai at the end credits of The Life Aquatic.
Jan. 3, 2005, 12:15 p.m. CST
by Archduke_Chocula
......Another movie would be cool.....wasn't Big Trouble in Little China a heavily reworked script?
Jan. 3, 2005, 1:04 p.m. CST
by ejcarter9
There. Was that so hard?
Jan. 3, 2005, 1:10 p.m. CST
clancy brown is the messiah.
by joe brady
and one day all will kneel before him.
Jan. 3, 2005, 1:38 p.m. CST
I found a recap of what happened with the 1999 Fox pilot script.
by Declan_Swartz
Jan. 3, 2005, 1:41 p.m. CST
I would hope Richter and Rauch would realize they should take th
by Declan_Swartz
Jan. 3, 2005, 1:55 p.m. CST
Clancy Brown
by Johnny Smith
Is most assuredly the Messiah. I agree wholeheartedly.
Jan. 3, 2005, 2:47 p.m. CST
Anything that revives Weller's career has my full support.
by Mel Garga
Anyone out there whose parents were divorced in the eighties AND saw the film Firstborn was scared shitless that their mom would bring home some coked-up, crazed-ass, Bronco driving Sam clone. Only recently have I come to appreciate what a good psycho this guy can play. Where's my copy of Naked Lunch? Ms. Garga responds, "It's up your ass where this here fist is 'bout to be."
Jan. 3, 2005, 3:11 p.m. CST
No matter where you go...There you are.
by SpyGuy
Sure, the original movie is pretty dated, but that doesn't mean the characters have to stay that way. I mean, Clark Kent isn't wearing a white fedora on SMALLVILLE and boys in Peter Parker's high school weren't wearing ties in the SPIDER-MAN movie. I do, however, wish that Dark Horse had picked up the BB rights instead of Moonstone, but at least someone did. And yes, any film that had Peter Weller, Clancy Brown, Christopher Lloyd, Carl Lumbly (years before he was Dixon on ALIAS or the Martian Manhunter on the JUSTICE LEAGUE animated series), and John Lithgow as an insane criminal genius who talked a lot like Chico Marx is definitely worthy of cult-legend status. Bring on the World Crime League!
Jan. 3, 2005, 3:32 p.m. CST
Why can't a sequel get off the ground?
by Crimson Dynamo
Look at all of the other cinematic turds the studios throw money at
Jan. 3, 2005, 4:47 p.m. CST
by RenoNevada2000
I thought the same thing too, (And hey there's New Jersey! I mean, Jeff Goldblum!) but my girlfriend thought I was nuts. (Nothing new there...)
Jan. 3, 2005, 4:53 p.m. CST
Crimson Dynamo-
by RenoNevada2000
Sequel rights were up in the air for a LONG time with noone exactly sure who owned what rights...(There was some "creative accounting" going on at the time.) Now a days, I would expect studio suits would pressure Rauch and Richter into watering down any script (like Fox tried with the TV series pilot) for the lowbrow summer blockbuster season similar to how JMS is being pressured by Warners to recast the B5 series actors with more "Marguee Value" names for the in-development B5 movie.
Jan. 3, 2005, 4:55 p.m. CST
Archduke Chocula-
by RenoNevada2000
That's urban myth. Big Trouble was always a seperate project, totally unrelated to Buckaroo Banzai except for the fact that Buckaroo's director W.D. Richter wrote the final draft of Big Trouble. The original version of Big Trouble was set in the San Fransico of the old west.
Jan. 3, 2005, 6:14 p.m. CST
recasting is fine
by Subversive01057
until the studios decide that the title role should be filled by Keanu Reaves in black shades and overcoat.
Jan. 3, 2005, 6:25 p.m. CST
by SamBlackChvrch21
I am whistling the theme song already. I can't wait for this book and further more, hopefully a remake of the original or a sequel. Rawhide: Dr. Banzai is using a laser to vaporize a pineal tumor without damaging the parthogenital plate. A subcutaneous microphone will allow the patient to transmit verbal instructions to his own brain. Observer: Like, "raise my left arm"? Rawhide: Or "throw the harpoon." People are gonna come from all over. This boy's an Eskimo.
Jan. 3, 2005, 6:37 p.m. CST
by ultragoregrind
Woo hoo!!!!!!! this is great news.
Jan. 3, 2005, 11:34 p.m. CST
My Bad
by dberger
Dang, I was in way too much of a hurry to post this information yesterday. Moonstone will actually be publishing a graphic based story in serializeed form, NOT an illustrated novel. Need to read the press release more carefully next time. Oh well... That said, I'm still grooving on the idea of a new Banzai adventure, maybe even more so in this format. --Big Shoulders
Jan. 4, 2005, 1:37 a.m. CST
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That is so cool! My Tiburon could use a new overthruster!
Jan. 4, 2005, 6:51 p.m. CST
Are we having fun?
by dr.cornelius
I always got the feeling that the original Buckaroo adventure was engineered to be a cult flick. To me, the lopsided whimsy of it was meant to be complimented by the audience's commitment to the material. In the interviews I've read with members of the cast, they sensed they were involved in something other than a traditional comedy of sci-fi flick. I still get the sense that they were having more fun making the movie than we were in watching it. I dare you to try it again, guys.
Jan. 5, 2005, 5:10 p.m. CST
Sketches on Moonstone site!
by RenoNevada2000
http://www.moonstonebooks.com/banzai.asp Just Reno and New Jersey for right now but they look good! Just hoping that the art is ruined by a crappy ink job like with their JOHNNY DOLLAR book...
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Perry Williams
Mining and energy contractors may have endured a rocky start to the year after the floods in Queensland, but the massive backlog of work still to come from Australia's mining boom means analysts remain strongly upbeat on the medium-term outlook for the sector.
Service companies – which, as the name suggests, provide services to miners – often get overlooked in preference for direct exposure to the mining companies themselves.
But analysts argue there are strong benefits to be gained from investing in mining services and engineering companies as most are struggling to keep up with demand for their services in the current climate.
Service firms are poised to profit from a cyclical upturn in the resources sector and often represent a less volatile bet than mining companies, which are forced to fork out massive initial capital to initiate long-term projects while seeing their share price affected by commodity price movements in the interim.
Lower capital spending means the bulk of service companies have the earnings and reliability of a packed order book to pay a dividend while the sector also tends to be relatively well diversified across a host of commodities rather than being tied to a particular resource.
With a boom year expected for most commodities thanks to continued strong demand from China and India, service companies are ideally poised to benefit.
Merrill Lynch estimates more than $275 billion of work is still to be awarded over the next three years from the infrastructure, resources and oil and gas sectors.
Capital expenditure in liquefied natural gas, coal and iron ore is set to eclipse that of the 2003-08 boom years with annual sector growth of 20 per cent expected for the three commodities over the next five years.
Engineering and construction activity alone is tipped to grow to $76 billion over the next 12 months, marking an increase of nearly a third on the 2008 boom.
Landmark projects with billions of dollars of contracts still to be awarded to service firms include US oil major Chevron's $US43 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project, the largest resource investment in Australia to date; the further expansion of Pilbara iron ore output from global miner Rio Tinto and the Andrew Forrest-led Fortescue Metals Group and a string of work on LNG projects in Queensland.
"The outlook for the [mining services] sector is unequivocally strong," UBS resources analyst Martin Byers said.
"We expect growth to be buoyed by further ramping up of iron ore production, a recovery in coal production, particularly in the June quarter, and early stages of greenfield expansion activity."
The broker expects a 27 per cent lift in earnings per share in 2010 compared with the previous 12 months with earnings profiles over the six months to June 2011 also continuing to look strong.
Merrill analysts tout Downer and Transfield Services as their top sector picks due to the companies' significant exposure to the forthcoming capital expenditure cycle, although Downer's troubled Waratah rail project contract will remove some immediate upside. UBS prefers smaller service firms and says investors should look through any near-term valuation concerns.
Companies tipped to ride the recovery from the depths of the financial sector in the mining sector include NRW Holdings, which has strong exposure to uplift from the iron ore and coal sectors including lucrative rail work for Fortescue in the Pilbara and Rio Tinto in Africa.
Industrea, which derives strong revenues from the coal industry, and Bradken, in its role as provider of operational and capital-related equipment, are also expected to post strong growth in the coming year.
Although the headline numbers are impressive, not every service company will be an automatic winner from the return of the resources "super cycle".
With order books already bulging at record levels, cost inflation and the availability of skilled labour could lead to capacity constraints as early as this year.
But this is likely to have more of an impact on the timing of bidding for new projects rather than any hugely detrimental impact on profits.
Returns for the mining services sector in the last 12 months have been in line with the Small Ordinaries Index, according to UBS, up 14 per cent compared with the market's performance of 13 per cent.
Perry Williams
The Australian Financial Review
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