PTW DemoGame II - An Izzard team? ;)

[Shiber]

Such a great team building up here... I just can't pass this up!
Where do I sign up?

[Randolph]

"Emergency, emergency, we have an emergency going on" Not enough Dwarfers!

[Arrian]

Well, we could pick Red as our team colour (English spelling, in deference to Eddie) and then if our empire ends up small, explain that it's all roleplay.

-Arrian

[Arrian]

A horrible thought just occurred to me: do we have to play as the English, then?

I know this game isn't gonna be very competative, but playing the English is just painful.

"Steve gets all the way to Switzerland, gets over the first line of wire, can't quite make it over the second, gets caught, but lives to tell the tale. Meanwhile, the Brits are caught, lined up, and SHOT IN THE HEAD! Now what does this say to kids of the two nationalities? American children are going 'Right on, Steve, lived to tell the tale, good on ya!' The English are going 'we're f*cked!'"

[FrustratedPoet]

Such a great team building up here... I just can't pass this up!
Where do I sign up?

I think you just have.
I'll add you to the list.

"Emergency, emergency, we have an emergency going on....

.... it's still going on ...... it's still an emergency ... would Arnold Rimmer please come to White Corridor 159."

(yes I remember the number of the corridor. )

[Velociryx]

D'oh! yes, that's right....I *do* seem to remember something about Civ3 not shipping with MP....

Still blaming my blonde day on the slow (far behind schedule) intake of tea this morning...UGH!

This stands to be....interesting, to say the least!

"What about you....death or cake?"

"Cake please."

"Sorry, we're all out of cake."

"Alright, I'll have the chicken then."

(or something like that)

-=Vel=-

[FrustratedPoet]

I'd like us to either play as the English or the French so we can keep in flavour, but I'm open to any other suggestions.

"Où est le singe? Le singe est sur la branche."

[Arrian]

Random ideas:

Our chief/leader/whatever has GOT to have the title "Executive Transvestite." Close enough to "Chief Executive," but with an Eddie twist.

We MUST have a court monkey (cheeky monkey) who is supposed to be up a tree, but never is.

Our official language could be British, not English. "Talk British to my kids! Or I'll... get out my arsenal of weapons!" "No, dad, we wanna go over there and see the man emasculating a donkey."

We MUST name a city Swindon (and, if such a crazy thing occurs, build at least one SS part in it).

...

More to come.

-Arrian

[Arrian]

Hmm, actually, I think we really should be the English. Eddie's humour will help us survive that cruel fate.

-Arrian

[FrustratedPoet]

Great thinking Arrian.

The leader could be "Action Transvestite" too, but they're both good.

All units should be renamed as his sketch characters, i.e. God, Sean Connery, James Mason, Mrs. Badcrumble, The Emperor Fabulous, The Skiiing Elephant, Noah, A Queue of Murderers, Evil Pilot-Fish, Speed Archaeologist, Welsh Pavlov, The Grim Reaper, Mr.Dog - Emperor of Rome, The Drilling Cat, The Punch-Drunk Baboon, etc etc etc..

[Velociryx]

Oh sure....let us be English.....since it's not a competitive game anyway, it'll add to the spice....

-=Vel=-

[Arrian]

FP,

Somehow, The Emperor Fabulous slipped my mind! Clearly that should be the title for our top position. Action Transvestite should be our version of Minister of War (me, perhaps?).

Hmm... don't recognize some of those unit names. Probably since "Dress to Kill" is really the only act I've seen. I watched part of another, older one, but didn't find it nearly as funny. DtK kicked arse.

If only Stonehenge was in the game...

-Arrian

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Arrian
Hmm... don't recognize some of those unit names. Probably since "Dress to Kill" is really the only act I've seen. I watched part of another, older one, but didn't find it nearly as funny. DtK kicked arse.

A little something to ask Santa for this year? ....

Show #1 - Unrepeatable - prolly the least-good, but still hilarious and contains my favourite ever Izzard sketch - the drilling cat!
Show #2 - Definite Article - IMHO the best of his shows, and I should know - I've seen them all 10+ times!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000050BAR/qid=1051549732/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-8814555-8972860

Available on a double-pack Audio CD from Amazon.com. Price $28

Show #3 - Glorious - IMHO the second best show, lots of funny biblical stuff and finishes off with the superb "cannot access printer" sketch.*
Show #4 - Dress to Kill - you know this one off by heart already.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000050BAS/qid=1051549732/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/002-8814555-8972860

Available on a double-pack Audio CD from Amazon.com. Price $28


You miss out on Eddie's mimes in the Audio CD versions, but they're still good. I looked around for the videos, but they seem hugely expensive if you buy them in the US, even on Amazon.


* "Cannot Access Printer"?!?!? ... Why not? .... It's here! .... I can access the printer! *Eddie mimes turning the monitor screen towards the printer so the PC can get a better look*

[FrustratedPoet]

Big Crunch has just signed up. I PM'd him about it because, apart from being a nice guy, he's a big Izzard fan too.
(He's also a Dwarfer, but that's still very much a secondary theme).

[Shiber]

May I suggest that you post an information and sign-up thread about this team on the public PTW forum. Otherwise, if you just present yourselves as a team, people will think of it as another strat-forum team.