Archive for March 2nd, 2006
Hulk Hogan vs Philip “Yaksplitter” Johnston in Warhammer Smackdown
Posted on March 2, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Entertainment, Family.
Get ready Grapple Fans for the bout of the century. Exclusive Sky Sports coverage of the Warhammer 40k Premier Competition & Invitational Only, Grand Tournament.
In the Green corner, Philip Johnston, fresh from battle success as far apart as Dublin, Cork and Birmingham. This week, Nottingham is bracing itself for the onslaught of 149 of Europe’s other top gaming nerd-meisters.
You’ve seen Superbowl, you’ve seen WWF, now get ready for Total Global Annihilation with the Dice of Doom!
In all seriousness, Philip the bruv-in-law is one of the best Warhammer players in Ireland and the UK. He started playing as a young pup and has had to put up with his family calling it “playing with your little men” for far too long. I think it’s about time he started referring to golf as “playing with your little balls”.
I’m not sure if he is spoofing the Sky Sports bit (they show stranger things on Extreme Sports) but there is a webcam shot here:
http://uk.games-workshop.com/warhammerworld/webcam/1/
And I hope he is serious about Hulk Hogan really doing some of the commentating.
You go kick some Ork butt Philly!
[tags]Warhammer 40K, Games Workshop, Philip Johnston[/tags]
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The best comedy on British TV?
Posted on March 2, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Entertainment, Humour.
“The IT Crowd”? Not a hope. “Shameless”? Better. But the hands down winner has got to be “The Apprentice”. Thank god for Sky+ so I could keep pausing to catch my breath after collapsing in gales of laughter.
Last week I called them a bag of spanners. This week it was “The Spannerettes”. A gaggle of gormless girls and only the crazy one was talking any sense. I was getting seriously worried as I found myself agreeing with everything Jo said. She clearly had taken her daily slammer of Ritalin and Lithium but had maybe forgotten the Prozac chaser. I’m convinced they are going to keep her in until the second last episode.
A calendar for Great Ormonde St Childrens hospital and they decide to do a chic modernist one with kittens, unreadable dates and only one mention of the charity. Next week they’ll be revealing their plan to sell Lego using challenging cartoons in Pakistan.
I think it was the first time I have seen a presentation to a customer where the presenter shusshed the customer when they tried to ask a question.
“Did you know that there are six million cat owners in the UK”? Did you know that when the first customer blanks you after such an opening, you don’t use exactly the same line on the next two?
The blokes won but only by default. Syed’s “mind games” so far consists of him telling everyone they are crap. Obviously he learned his tricks from the the Ladybird edition of “My First Mindgames with Peter and Jane”.
Many of the lads seem to think that the route to success involves being a testosterone charged loud-mouth braggart. The dimwits haven’t noticed that Amstrad already have one of those and he isn’t going to be hiring a clone.
[tags]The Apprentice, Alan Sugar[/tags]
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