I am sure that dashing astronaut fella on the image - he of the pointing mitten and the other hand either camply on hip or worryingly on the small girl's shoulder - is not one for understanding the technical details, but a man of action. I am of the same stripe, so let's cut to the chase: where can I order my own 42-L well-fitting spacesuit and a Casimir-propelled rocket? Quickly, now - there are worlds to claim and despoil.
@FireFlyFarm: mine is invisible but has some uncannily similar side-effects; namely I am missing my youth and my ambition. D'you think aliens trade in such rare commodities? I'd buy, that's for sure. Oh, they left my hair but their alien chemicals turned it white, the fiends
sadly, in my day, Halloween costumes were mostly sack-cloth and bedsheets with holes cut in. I oppose all of these on the basis that I missed out and don't want anyone young to have fun.
The Ace of Cakes would have done this much better, using only fondant....
I always had a soft spot for Status Quo .... oh, right, THE status quo. Well, I like that too. And am smart enough (barely) to realise there are subtexts in literature....
no, no, it's a face, and some canals, and a statue left by the founders of Atlantis, and, and ........
I WILL have my jetpack at last! And for a few short seconds, after liftoff and before I attempt a minor direction change and spread myself very thinly over a large area, people will respect and love me! Now, whether to have the shoulder straps red velvet or black leather? Posterity demands attention to detail...
@hamshank: sparkling, I meant ... I have no idea what a spakle is....
spakling dust, you say? That Pullman fella was right all along....
clearly this will sell well when the robots take over, and have hurriedly cleared apartments to furnish
@Geo666: excuse me, but Jackie is STILL invincible ... and in the posters for his latest comedy-action caper, has the smooth face of a 12-yr-old ...
I feel uneasy about this... I mean, I feel bad enough if I start the day saying something dumb like "what a great morning..what can possibly go wrong?" Now there's a bunch of eggheads daring to say "well, this world feels a LOT safer... let's tempt fate...."
an invisible triangular spaceship with a cloaking device - I hate when people always go for the most boring, obvious mundane explanation ....
@enderwiggin13: maybe small thin people could live there? A tiny step towards evolution for space habitats etc
@Scotland: I like them both equally - and have a box of the older annuals from WAY back, salvaged from church hall sales and carboot sales. What kills me now is i worked beside a graphics guy from DC Thomson, a lot of years ago, and he reported that there were drawers and drawers of loose original page art going begging in the offices...
@LittleDragon: you mean you haven't BEEN to the moonbase yet? Where have you been? It's great fun, or was until that nuclear explosion pushed the moon away from earth, and ...oh hold on... damn you, TV!
that's a lot of glass roof, to be thinking of floating slowly down some of Europe's polluted rivers, through some of the most deprived areas ...
@Nantonos: ah, The Broons... happy days. Old folks in Dundee (where it was set) really did speak like that. Less so now, mind you...
And the skin tone is perfect too - as the great Billy Connolly says, Scots go on holiday blue and come back white...
@ManchuCandidate: Worst. Scottish accent. Ever. Very funny, though..... [sound of tartan mittens clapping appreciatively]
