what happened to the greenie vego post

[zedjack33]

Yummm Platapii [smiley=chef.gif]

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[gogecko]

Did any of the mods check the IP address against current members? Its suprising how dumb some stirrers are.

[saphire]

I deleted it

Some of the replies were funny but it started getting out of control, so it was sent off into the matmos.

Whats a matmos?
I must be too young to understand

[Morlers]

Whats a matmos?
I must be too young to understand

Saphire, this may help (taken from BBC.CO.UK web site)
The Movie Barbarella:
The Characters

An angel doesn't make love. An angel is love.
Barbarella, played by Jane Fonda, is presented as an ideal woman comfortable with both her career and her sexuality. Barbarella is competent and levelheaded. Yet, she comes from a non-violent society and remains intensely innocent. The free love hippie movement allowed Barbarella to engage in numerous sex acts without losing her credibility among the era's young intended audience.

There are two main villains in the movie. The first, Durand Durand, is a mad scientist who has invented a weapon capable of destroying entire planets. He has fled to Tau Ceti with his invention, and Barbarella is sent to find him and make sure the weapon isn't used. The other villain is the Great Tyrant, also known as the Black Queen. She rules the dark pleasure city of Sogo, where Barbarella must go in her quest to find Durand Durand.

An argument can also be made that there is a third villain, the Matmos. The Matmos is a semi-intelligent lake of 'pure evil' that sits beneath Sogo. It feeds on 'negative energy' ranging from despair to debauchery. Outsiders from the nearby labyrinth believe the Matmos is manipulating the minds of Sogo's residents to fulfil its appetites.



Morlers

[maztez]

I do hope it wasnt my remark re beanie wearing that upset the moderators and called for matmos action.
maztez

[Morlers]

Here's some more trivia for you.

Barbarella shares a strange relationship with another hippie cult phenomenon, the lava lamp. The lava lamp was first sold in 1963 by the Crestworth Company. Barbarella, released five years later, shamelessly imitated the lamp's psychedelic effects to represent various difficult concepts like faster-than-light space travel and a visual projection of the Queen's dreams.

The lava lamp effects were used most effectively to portray the Matmos. When Craven Walker, the lava lamp's inventor, saw Barbarella he decided to rename the Crestworth Company as Mathmos Corporation. The British lava lamp manufacturer remains so named to this day.




Morlers

[tshort]

See it must have been me.

[saphire]

Thanks for the information Morlers.
Not only do I lean about fishing and boating here but I also become culturaly aware.
There was the thread about the bommies and the trees and now lava lamp villians.
I am wondering who the real crystal grippers are (another term I learnt from here).
I have a lava lamp in my room.
This will be watched very closley from now on.
Peace Love and Mungbeans to you all. [smiley=angel.gif]
saphire

[gawby]

Dam and blast. Go away in my truck for a few days and look what happens. Gripper ronnie gets on makes a fool of himself again and i missed it.
Mods, for those who missed it give us a peeek at it so as we can have a laugh.

Graeme

[theoldlegend]

I'm with Saphire. It looks like I've missed something good, and have a crash course about Barbarella and crystal grippers (I wonder if they are what I suspect they are).

Couldn't it be put up again?

TOL

[Morlers]

Crystal Grippers ???

Musta missed that. I suppose it has nothing to do with electronics?



Morlers

[saphire]

Some people believe that Crystals have the power to heal and give people strength.Crystal grippers are those people who hold crystals because of their belief.
Its a religious spiritual thing.
Well that is what I thought crystal grippers are.
Anyone got another theory? [smiley=bulb2.gif]

[Big_Kev]

But maybe he has crystal balls Saphire.

[Zeeke]

Barbarella.. now theres a film i havent seen for a couple of years... Doug might be showing his age... im just showing how bloody boring my life is... sure did like the skimpy outfits tho

Tim

[NQCairns]

Will be looking into finding Barbarella, the short skirts sealed it
Blame science for the crystal thing back in the 70s a scientist for a joke wrote an article about the newfound healing powers of crystals.
Of coarse certain types missed the plot and ran with it. We didn't have the internet either, dedicated bunch of loonies those watermellons/crystal grippers, never letting reality stand in the way of a good fantasy >