RONAN AND MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN

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YOU BET YOUR BIPPY

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit, it's Father Dougal. (j/k Ronan!)

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

SOCK IT TO ME

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

haha I knew I should have used a different photo.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

That is SO not what I thought Ronan looked like!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The sad part is, I've been waiting for weeks for Ronan to put up a new photo just so I could make this joke.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Ronan had long hair. I'm crushed.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v371/Jon_Averill/PICT4593.jpg

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll need to remember to be careful which one I insult in an argument, otherwise I might get tracked down and crushed like an egg.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan looks like he's in the throes of a werewolf transformation in that picture.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i imagined Ronan to look exactly like he does!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

it was worse than that.

I think overall most ilxors imagined me to look exactly as I do.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan is not wearing enough Pringle or plus-fours in those pictures.

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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It's popular kids TV cretin Richard "Dick" McCourt.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

It's popular internet everyman stevem!

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a pretty good lookalike, Dom.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan is my leader

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I remain rather proud of the high probability that I am the only ILxor who has never posted a picture of himself on ILx.

("note for overseas readers: you're missing nothing" - london/oxford ilx "massive")

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Nicole has never posted a picture of herself.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

gear! has been somewhat elusive

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i've seen a pic of Nicole somehow, maybe Gear too

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yes, doomie's never posted a pic of himself either.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

TEH AMZAING RANDY NO HAD PIXXTUERZ

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Ken you've posted loads of pictures of yourself.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah i'm the amazing randy i forgot!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I remain rather proud of the high probability that I am the only ILxor who has never posted a picture of himself on ILx.

Well, Steve posted the pictures of me, so I'm still there somewhere ;-).

No, dammit, I'M the Amazing Randy!

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I remain somewhat enigmatic, if only because I'm new and I don't think any recent pictures of me have found their way onto the internet.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Has there been a pic of gygax!?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I forget what I look like.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

a case of misreading for me - I'd scanned my eye over this thread several times and taken it to be about the rubbish old US TV show. I note that there has not been a word about me since the start!

Kevin, you are safe: Ronan is sort of aggressive but not terribly muscly, and I have the muscle but I am all sweet and everything.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

ten years pass...

RIP Gary Owens

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/gary-owens-announcer-of-laugh-in-fame-dies-at-80-1201433731/

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 February 2015 21:48 (eleven years ago)

Oh damn, tricky thread title.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 February 2015 21:48 (eleven years ago)

four years pass...

RIP Arte Johnson! Just when Nazi helmets were coming back in style in the US! pic.twitter.com/KfTHsLcHxZ
— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) July 3, 2019

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 July 2019 14:26 (six years ago)

four years pass...

Okay this seems like the only appropriate thread for this but -- turns out the notorious Laugh-In wannabe knockoff that ABC created, Turn-On, is on YouTube, all one episode of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxs5ki5e8nE

Legendarily cancelled as it aired:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn-On

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 July 2023 04:02 (two years ago)

Knock-off? It was a George Schlatter Production!

Schlatter is still kicking at 90, having just published autobiography and made a return appearance on the newest WTF.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 30 July 2023 04:17 (two years ago)

(even more ot but) amused by Schlatter’s autobio review on Fresh Air getting ankled 54 seconds in by a six-minute rave for Ernie Kovacs and his new archive/celebration book

― serving bundt (sic), Sunday, 30 July 2023 05:58 (two years ago)

Turn-On is amazing, kind of like The Kenny Everett Video Show but ten years earlier, or one of those shows from the 80s or 90s where they were consciously trying to simulate the experience of flicking between endless cable tv stations

― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Sunday, 30 July 2023 10:00 (two years ago)

The two comparisons I’ve seen so far are Wonder Showzen and Tim and Eric. And both apply, but are also clearly better.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 July 2023 14:17 (two years ago)

Wow, that is -- something. I mean clearly has something of Python in it too, right?

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 30 July 2023 15:59 (two years ago)

More like parallel tracks. Turn-On appeared in February 1969, Python debuted in September 1969, and I doubt there was much in the way of mutual awareness.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 July 2023 16:04 (two years ago)

it also reminded me a bit of Spike Milligan's Q5 which was also first broadcast in (March) 1969. There's a kind of Mad magazine vibe to it as well (I think Terry Gilliam's first work appeared in Help!, a magazine edited by Mad founder Harvey Kurtzman)

― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Sunday, 30 July 2023 16:18 (two years ago)

and Ernie Kovacs, of course

― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Sunday, 30 July 2023 16:19 (two years ago)

Oh wow I really had the order wrong!

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 30 July 2023 16:50 (two years ago)

Whoa, so the SECOND episode is out there too. Unaired but it exists!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjE6mxY_02Q

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 July 2023 22:41 (two years ago)