I had the novelisation of ET, which told the story of how he was part of a botany expedition to Earth, to save the plants before they all die. That's why his flower bloomed when he touched it.

(I posted this in the previous post about the million monkeys, but it's worth repeating)

GI Joe was called Action Man in the UK. I had one with "real" flock hair and "eagle eyes" that looked left and right when you moved a lever in the back of his head. His hair was bleached blonde after a carsickness incident in the back of the Triumph 2000.

In Star Trek: The Search For Spock, when Bones goes to a bar to try to charter a ship from a guy with a plastic face, feathery ears and backwards diction, there's a couple playing a 3D wireframe biplane dogfighting game. I recall very large objects and very small turning circles.

Their usefulness is to carry their genes forward.

The Animals on the Farm exist from the start. It's not a story about animals becoming intelligent.

I love the speech at the end of 'Conquest' - "We who are not human can afford to be humane!"

Not perfect, but I'm with Mr Fillion. It makes me cry. Real gasping sobs.

You can actually get special "barrier cream" that helps to stop your hands getting too ingrained with dirt.

Glam rock band The Darkness did a great song about "Black Shuck", one of the many black dog cryptids throughout history. [en.wikipedia.org]

Boba Fett in the Human Centipede

"It is - it's round!"

GOAT CHAOS

I should have read further down before posting this!

Please don't call the Stallone thing "the original".

The problem with the Lawmaster is tyres that wide won't go round corners, which is why the Stallone one looked so crap. This looks a little better in that regard. The old Dodge Tomahawk concept could be another way to go: [www.google.com]

Call Peter Watts!

Call Peter Watts!