Suddenly the reason I'd not seen any of the early series makes sense.

Women have the pain of childbirth. Men have... plucking nose hairs.

WOMAN: "Mi esporas ke kiam vi venos la vetero estos milda."
RIMMER: Wait a minute, I know this one, don't tell me, don't tell me,
don't tell me!
LISTER: I hope when you come the weather will be clement.
WOMAN: "I hope when you come the weather will be clement."
RIMMER: Lister, don't tell me. I could've got that.
WOMAN: "Bonvolu direkti min al kvinsela hotela?"
RIMMER: Ah... I remember this from last time...
LISTER: Please could you direct me to a five-star hotel?
RIMMER: Wrong, actually. Totally, utterly, and completely wrong.
WOMAN: "Please could you direct me to a five-star hotel?"
RIMMER: Lister, will you please shut up?
LISTER: I'm only helping ya!
RIMMER: Well I don't need any help.
WOMAN: "La mango estis bonega! Dlej korajin gratulonjn' al la kuristo."
RIMMER: (Snaps his fingers) I would like to purchase that orange
inflatable beach ball and that small bucket and spade.
WOMAN: "The meal was splendid! My heartiest congratulations to the
chef."
RIMMER: What? Pause!
LISTER: Rimmer, you've been doing Esperanto for eight years. How come
you're so utterly useless?
RIMMER: Oh, speaks! And how many books have you read in your entire
life? The same number as champion the wonder horse: zero!
LISTER: I've read books.
RIMMER: Uh, Lister, we're not talking about books where the main
character is a dog called "Ben."
LISTER: I went to Art College!
RIMMER: You?
LISTER: Yeah!
RIMMER: How did you get into Art College?
LISTER: The normal way you get into Art College. The same old, usual,
normal, boring you get in. Failed me exams and applied. The snatched
me up.
RIMMER: Ah, but you didn't get a degree, did you?
LISTER: No, I dropped out. I wasn't in long.
RIMMER: How long?
LISTER: 97 minutes. I thought it was going to be a good skive and all
that, you know? But I took one look at the time table and just checked
out, man. I mean, it was ridiculous. They had, they had lectures at,
like, first thing, in the afternoon. We're talking half-past twelve
everyday. Who's together by then? You can still taste the toothpaste.
RIMMER: Well, unlike you, Lister, I have ambitions. I'm not prepared to
sit around all day polishing my space-bike so I can go joyriding
through some asteroid belt. 'Cause I'm not a gimp! And one of my
ambitions is to learn another language so kindly let me get on with it.
(To the monitor) Play.
WOMAN: "La menuo aspektas bowege -- mi provos la kokidajon."
RIMMER: Ah, now this is one I do know.
HOLLY: (Appearing on the screen) The menu looks interesting -- I think
I'll try the chicken.
RIMMER: Holly, as the Esperantinos would say, "Bonvolu alsendi la
pordiston? Lausajne estas rano en mia bideo!" (Thumbs his chin at
HOLLY) And I think we all know what that means.
HOLLY: Yeah, it means, "Could you send for the hall porter? There
appears to be a frog in my bidet."

That's what happens. We get old.

Got in the car with kids this morning and Blue Monday by New Order was playing on the radio.

The kids were quite enjoying it and asked what it was. I told them and explained that it was an extremely popular tune ('88 remix) when I first met their Mum in 1989 by which time it was already 6 years old.

It was only when I had dropped the kids off and was musing about it on my way to work that I realised that  that tune was made 26 years before my youngest son was born.

That's like me listening to a tune from 1946.

New Order to him is like Vera Lynn or Bing Crosby to  me. I feel ancient.

Put the Esperanto quotes through Google Translate for a laugh:

"The handle was excellent! Give chorus congratulations to the runner."

I had similar in the lab a few weeks back - Love will tear us apart...... I opined about what a great tune it was and the 'kids' didn't have a clue what it was.

That's nearly 40 years old now.

Jekkyl’s post is a great example of how, without the context, most of this stuff is not remotely funny. Maybe it’s just because I got bored.

Always found Red Dwarf alright. Not hilarious, but ok.

Boys from the Dwarf!!

So, what is it?

Love Red Dwarf - obviously, some seasons more than others.

Oh and njee- you are wrong, so wrong!  The best ‘Dwarf scripts are up there with Porridge and Blackadder IMHO.

New Order to him is like Vera Lynn or Bing Crosby to me. I feel ancient.

Exactly the same thought process I had when was trying to figure out what kids of today would make of early trip-hop.

So, what is it?

Sombody punch him out.

Toast?

Toast?

Nah..... Cougar's a waffle man.

The best ‘Dwarf scripts are up there with Porridge and Blackadder IMHO.

I always like the early ones best, up to about 5, they had a bleakness to them, Dave the last human millions of years from Earth with no hope. The less said about the kochanski years the better. I thought the last series, on Dave was very good and *almost* a return to form,

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Rimmer: They've been very bad, Mr. Flibble. What we going to do with them?
Mr Flibble: < whisper whisper whisper >
Rimmer: We couldn't possibly do that. Who'd clean up the mess?

I always like the early ones best, up to about 5, they had a bleakness to them,

You can find a bootleg for the un-released US pilot on the net... talk about totally missing the point - they cast Lister as a tall, handsome, all-American hero type!

Overall a brilliant story, series 6 to 10 were not good though, last 2 for Dave have been close to a return...

Jekkyl’s post is a great example of how, without the context, most of this stuff is not remotely funny. Maybe it’s just because I got bored.

Like the "no sounds" skit.  You really had to be there, but I was in stitches.

<crew looking for ship invading alien>

Lister: Kryten, can you here anything?

Kryten: No sir, nothing.

Lister:  Smeg.  I wonder why.

Kryten:  Because there are noooooooo sounds

Nope, its not funny out of context.  But neither is:

Boom Boom Boom

Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom

BOOOM BOOOM BOOOM BOOM

<pause>

BOOM BOOM, BOOM BOOM...

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