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Trying to track down a 1980s comic story...

Katemonkey — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:24:46 -0800

Help my husband find this comic strip he remembers from his childhood (UK, 1980s, his words below)... "It's mostly likely to have been a back-up strip in Doctor Who Weekly, the Star Wars serialisations, or 2000 AD, because they were pretty much the comics I read.

"It starts with...I want to say mysterious threads falling from the sky. And these threads cause time on Earth to slow down.

"I remember it as being - oh, spoilers! - a downbeat ending where everything stops.

"This strip may have been original for the comics, or it may have been a reprint from earlier to just use as filler."

Any ideas for what it is?

Not that it's any of my business...

TooFewShoes — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:55:17 -0800

BritishRoyalMarriageFilter: I've seen the tabloid rumors about Prince William and his longtime girlfriend and it made me curious. Is he 'allowed' to marry her and still be in line for King? I've seen the tabloids but I haven't read the articles, so maybe I'm missing something. Not that I'd consider anything the tabloids have to say as any kind of fact.

I know that King Edward abdicated back in the 1930s so that he could marry Wallis Simpson, and I don't know if that was because she was a commoner, an American, or twice divorced. Was it a combination of all three?

I know other royals have married commoners, but I've never heard of one who was in line for the throne. (Other than Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly, but that was Monaco.)

So my question is: Can Prince William marry Kate and still eventually be King? If he can, has the law changed or is it just that Wallis Simpson was considered so wrong for the position?

I am just a curious American, and I hope I haven't been offensive. Please tell me if I have! It just seems like a big shift in just a few generations.

The Dean Dome is so very far away now

K.P. — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:40:03 -0800

Is there any way to watch UNC basketball in the UK? I'd like to be able to watch the rest of the season, the ACC tournament, and the NCAA tournament. But I'm going to be in England the whole time. I'll be somewhere with a very basic cable television service from Virgin (this one I think), so traditional TV doesn't seem to be an option. Is there any way to watch online?

I won't be in London, but might consider making the trip for the final tournament games if there is a pub showing them on a big screen.

Help me understand how to top up my PAYG account.

kalimac — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:11:55 -0800

Idiot-Cellphone-Filter: Oh God, oh God, I do not understand your UK cellphone-topping up technology. I just got a UK cellphone (with Orange) and I do not understand how to get money into it. (Waving 5 quid in front of it while shrieking "make my balance go up", strangely, does not work.) Okay. So. I have a credit-card looking thing, that's registered to my Orange account, and I've seen stuff everywhere about "top up your cellphone here!" How does this *work*? To break it down, I guess -- how do I get money into my PAYG account, using either the card, or these topping-up points? I tried putting the card in, but it got treated like a debit card, and I pretty much gave up there.

Thank you for your kindness as I wander my way through this strange new culture :)