Nigel

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Long time resident of Switzerland, fan of SF and Alternate History, and occasional purveyor of dad jokes.

Poster for the 1967 Casino Royale showing all the James Bonds
Marvin the Paranoid Android
Clippy offering help to smuggle rocket scientists
Poll results bar chart with typical LibDem “Can’t Win Here” note
Ken describing his job as “Just Beach”
Alasdair Beckett-King with cat’s ears
Pyramids being built by Aliens
Clippy offering help to install a CO2 filter
Reform political poster featuring Tower Bridge, a penguin, and for some reason Alpine mountains. Presumably Reform’s plan for London involves selling the bridge to Switzerland
Herald newspaper headline for 1945 UK Labour election victory
Star Trek Animated Series title screen with the title “Have you tried transporting them down and then transporting them back again?”
We don’t talk about Threshold, no, no, no
Voyager title screen with the title “The Doctor’s Daughter”
Star Trek title screen with the title “I’m a doctor not a plumber”
DS9 title screen with the title “Simple Tailor, Soldier, Spy”
Star Trek original series title screen with the title “Those Old Scientists”
Movie poster from the Sixties Casino Royale
Star Trek droid X2N8
Sea Lion fountain in Bellinzona, Ticino
Statue of St George on Basel Munster fighting a dragon the size of a labrador
Simpsons No Homers Club, relabeled as “No Kings”
Crocodile Dunedee - Now that’s a knife
Watership Dune movie poster
Peri the cat enjoying his favorite sunbeam
John Steed from The Avengers
Movie poster of The Sting
Worker holding the plug for the Chesterfield canal (1978)
A page from Heinlein’s The Rolling Stones where Hazel describes how she extricates the hero of her drama series from certain death
Lt Stiles from Star Trek Balance of Terror. Captioned with “How often do men think about the Romulan Empire?”
Perry the Cat, hard at work in the office
Carol Beer (Little Britain): ChatGpt says No
J Jonah Jameson shouting “I want votes for Cuomo!!”
The Doctor, River, Amy, and Rory
The Simpsons’ No Homers Club relabeled as “No Kings”
Dugga Doo
Cheesoid playing the part of Grok
The Chef from Star Trek: Enterprise
AI advice to a lost alien
There were a number of reasons for switching to Goldmann, but a deeply personal one for me was the way Heyne (in Sourcery, I think, although it may have been in other books) inserted a soup advert in the text … a few black lines and then something like ‘Around about now our heroes must be pretty hungry and what better than a nourishing bowl’… etc, etc. My editor was pretty sick about it, but the company wouldn’t promise not to do it again, so that made it very easy to leave them.
Cover of Big Finish Doctor Who story Bang-Bang-a-Boom
The Third Doctor disguised as a cleaning lady in The Green Death
Meme HP Sauce on food Vs Sourcing food on HP Note: HP = Hire Purchase (a form of credit)
Spock dealing with loud music on a bus
Statue of St George on Basel Munster
Morlocks from The Time Machine (1960)
Twelfth Doctor surrounded by Daleks
Meme: ✋HP Sauce on Food 👉 Sourcing Food on HP
Terry Pratchett - The Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner
Blake’s 7 - crew of the Liberator
A fish tank
Marvin the Paranoid Android
US flag with 51 stars
Love Death + Robots. Cats on Mars: “Who were you expecting, Elon Musk?”
Emmwood Dalek cartoon Dec 1964
A Superb Owl
Red Dwarf Newsreader : Good evening. Here is the news on Friday, the 27th of Geldof. Archaeologists near Mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is presently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read "To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental."
Big Finish - The Scorchies
Clive Dunn as Doctor Fotheringown, appearing on Michael Bentine’s It’s a Square World
Hugh Laurie in Avenue 5
Original illustrated Eric by Terry Pratchett