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T H E R E D D W A R F R E F E R E N C E S L I S T
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A Who's Who, Where's Where, When was When and What's from What of
RED DWARF.

Version 1.00, January 1996.

Edited by Annette (mcin...@wehi.edu.au), just to prove that I really
*don't* have enough to do to occupy my time. :-)

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NOTICE: This document, its format, and all material contained herein are
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copyright of Grant Naylor. This document *may* be distributed freely in
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SO WHAT IS IT?
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The Red Dwarf References List (RDRL) is a list of explanations for
those references made in Red Dwarf to things *outside* of Red Dwarf; eg.
people, movies, books, historical events, places of peculiar reputation,
whatever. It *is not* an A-Z of Red Dwarf...well, that's what the
Programme Guide is for.

HEY, LET'S SEE WHAT WE GOT IN THE MAGIC BAG HERE...
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The RDRL attempts to identify/explain references to movies, books,
songs, famous people, certain places, historical events, etc. The
reference can be direct, ie. named (eg. Mary, Queen of Scots); or indirect
or alluded to (eg. the singing of "See You Later Alligator").
Things which *generally* will not be counted (though there *will*
be a few exceptions) are: furnishings, decorations and possessions (unless
referring to one of the above listings); food (unless a proper name or
certain brand names); sayings or expressions (unless containing proper
names); *broad* religious parallels; scientific terminology (unless
containing proper names). As well, there are a very few things which are
self-explanatory in the context of the show/book; these are not included
as there is nothing left to add. Lastly, a few things must be so well-
known there's no need for explanation -- we all know who Jesus was, right?
;-)

PASS ME A 14-B.
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The RDRL at the moment is incomplete and may also contain some
information which is downright wrong (eg. for a couple of things I've just
put two and two together, and *may* have ended up with five!). Anyone who
has a correction to existing information (though let's not split hairs),
I'd love to hear from you. Please EMAIL me with the substantiated
modification (something I can cross-check ideally, and definitely not a
"My friend heard on the radio that..."). Thanks.
Nearly all of the references are essentially complete as they are
now -- mostly I'll only have one to four sentences about each reference.
Any reference not containing a "[?]" will not be modified unless it is out
and out *wrong*, or there is an additional *definite* allusion that I have
missed. Not all things I've marked in this way will necessarily be true
external references; and I may not even have the spelling right in some
places.

*New* references will be gratefully accepted in the following
categories *ONLY* -- all forms of the entertainment media; famous people;
historical events; places of character.

SPACE CORPS DIRECTIVE 280360/MM CLEARLY STATES...
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That the references contained within this document be true
references and *not* COINCIDENCES. For example, I haven't included
anything about the "Roadrunner act" mention in MAROONED, because it is not
specific enough to say for absolute (or very nearly) sure that it's a
reference to the Warner Brothers cartoon character. I will not include
something unless a definite (or *HIGHLY* likely) connection can be
established.

YOU CAN WORK OUT THE REST OF THE CONTROLS FOR YOURSELF.
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The actual references are divided into three sections.

1) MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES.
a) Space.
b) Earth.
c) Common References. Direct references (not
already covered above) which are mentioned more than once, be it in the
TV show and/or books. Listed alphabetically.

2) THE TV SHOW.
Listed by episode for Series I to Series VI. Smeg Ups and
Smeg Outs are included, but only references from the actual out-takes
instances, and which have not previously been mentioned.

3) THE BOOKS.
Includes the novels Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers,
Better Than Life, and Last Human. Also includes the Red Dwarf Log No.
1996 (*only* those references not previously mentioned).

Any reference which contains "[?]" means that I would like more
information pretty pretty please. The position of the "[?]" often gives a
good indication of the type of information I want, eg. (1926-[?]) means I
would like to know the year of death.

Anything new/modified from the previous version will be marked
with a "%" in the left margin.

HOPE THEY'VE GOT SOME SPARE ODDS 'N' SODS ON BOARD...
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The references are listed per episode and book as:

PARALLEL (where appropriate). 'Ideas/inspiration' for the episode/
story.
Direct references. Listed in the order they appear in the episode/book.
Indirect references (**). Listed in the order they appear in the
episode/book.

* If a reference is not listed for a particular episode or book,
check the COMMON REFERENCES section. *

Biographies may be given for direct people references.
Birth/death year given for actors playing a character directly
mentioned.
The words 'recorded by' as applied to songs do not necessarily
indicate the original artist, just a well-known one.
Movie dates may be the year of production or year of release.
The term 'football' means the game of soccer unless otherwise
stated.

220 SYCAMORE AVENUE.
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To get a copy of the RDRL:

a) Wait for it on the n/g alt.tv.red-dwarf (where it will be posted
on the last Monday of every odd-numbered month),

b) For a start on the Web, visit Michael Nagy's Queeg pages at
http://www.queeg.dsc.t8000.com/
where the RDRL will be happily living just as soon as Michael can get
the conversion done (*big* thanks Michael!),

If you can get the RDRL by neither of the above means, email me
and I'll send you a text copy.

SMELLS LIKE YOUR MOON BOOTS, MAN.
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The nature of this document means that it is basically ONE BIG
SPOILER. For LOTS OF THINGS (in particular, for the movies "Casablanca"
and "It's A Wonderful Life"). Consider this a spoiler warning -- read the
RDRL at your own risk.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
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Many many thanks to Grant Naylor, for all things Red Dwarf!
*Big* sloppy thanks to Tom Marwede (who really, really cares about
this sort of thing!), and also to Raz (my 'foreign' correspondent,
constructive critic, and Provider of the Logo!). ;-)
Thanks to Michael Nagy, for giving the RDRL a home.
Thanks to Ang Rosin, for answering my mini-mini Scouse
questionnaire.
Thank you: Damone, Cma, Elliedra, Bette Llewellyn, FroggyGrem,
Andrew Hetherington, Jim Wraith, Phaedrus, John Coleman, Nadine SFWBWWWW,
Fraser, Kerry Galgano, Friday, Pat Berry, Paul Barnes, Laurence Jason
Koehn, George Rudy, Tracie Webster, Alsion Campbell and Todd Pinarchick.

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MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES
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A) SPACE.

RED DWARF -- A red dwarf is a type of star. Red dwarf stars
are very long-lived and are probably the most abundant stars in the
universe. The closest star to Earth (besides its own Sun) is the red
dwarf star Proxima Centauri (magnitude 11, 4.3 light years away), a
companion to the binary star Alpha Centauri. The RED DWARF's shuttle
crafts' names (excepting Starbug) are also types of stars.

Mercury: The closest planet to your actual sun. Named after the
messenger to the Roman gods.

Venus: Second planet from the sun. Named after the Roman goddess of
love.

Mars: Fourth planet from the sun. Named after the Roman god of war.

Jupiter: Fifth from the sun and largest planet. Named after Jupiter,
chief of the Roman gods.
Satellites: Ganymede (named after the cupbearer of Zeus, Greek
equivalent of Jupiter), Io (named after a lover of Zeus), Europa
(named after another lover of Zeus), Callisto (surprise surprise,
yet another of Zeus's conquests).

Saturn: Ringed planet, sixth from the sun. Named after a Roman god of
agriculture.
Satellites: Titan (named for a race of primeval Greek gods),
Mimas, Tethys (named after a Titan sea-goddess), Dione (named
after a Greek earth-goddess), Rhea (named after a Titan mother-
goddess), Hyperion (named after a Titan sun-god), Phoebe (named
after a Titan moon-goddess).

Uranus: Seventh planet from the sun. Named after a Greek sky god,
father of the Titans.
Satellite: Miranda.

Neptune: Eighth or ninth planet from the sun. Named after the Roman
god of water.
Satellite: Triton (named after the merman son of Poseidon, the
Greek equivalent of Neptune).

Pluto: Eighth or ninth planet from the sun. Named after the Roman god
of the underworld.

B) EARTH.

Countries and regions of the world: Fiji, Denmark, Bermuda, Portugal,
Uruguay, India, Spain, The Vatican, Burma, Bulgaria, Bosnia,
France, Poland, Austria, England, Italy, USA, Macedonia, Turkey,
Bahamas, Czechoslovakia, Bolivia, Iran, Taiwan, Belgium, Estonia,
Egypt, Cuba, Japan, Greece, Great Britain, Mexico, Norway, Wales,
Albania, The Netherlands, China, Vietnam, Persia, South Africa,
Germany, Russia, Luxembourg, Scotland, Mongolia, Armenia,
Australia, Syria, Korea, Sweden, Tunisia, Tanzania, Morocco,
Ireland, Canada, Cornwall, Prussia, Alsace, Bali, Java, Malagasy
Republic, Zanzibar, West Indies, Flanders, Burgundy, Corsica,
Texas, Oregon, Indiana, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Alaska, New
Mexico, Hawaii, Kentucky, Yorkshire.

World cities/towns: Washington, Chicago, Salzburg, Hilo, London, Paris,
Liverpool, Copenhagen, Helsinki, New York (Manhattan), Moscow, San
Francisco, Houston, Madras, Rome, Berlin, Turin, Florence,
Bangalore, Havana, Warsaw, Casablanca, Bonn, Tokyo, Oslo,
Newcastle, Acapulco, Boston, Birmingham, Laredo, Dallas, Gouda,
Venice, Marbella, Kiev, Lagos, Beverly Hills.

C) COMMON REFERENCES.

Action Man: Boys' toy, a doll in the style of G.I. Joe.

Ascension (Sunday?): Ascension Thursday is the feast day commemorating
Christ's ascension into Heaven.

Bacon, Sir Francis: (1561-1626) English politician, philosopher and
essayist.

Bates, Norman: Character in Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Psycho" (1960).
Played by Anthony Perkins (1932-1992), Bates had killed his mother
and absorbed her persona into himself; in his insanity he kept his
mother's skeletal remains as part of his delusion that she was
still with him.

Beethoven, Ludwig van: (1770-1827) German composer, conductor and
pianist; continued composing even after being afflicted with
deafness in 1801.

Bennett, Gordon: (1841-1918) James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American
newspaper magnate (whose father, James Gordon Bennett, founded the
New York Herald in 1835). Bennett was known for his extravagant
and capricious behaviour, and his name has become synonymous with
a feeling of exasperation such as he frequently caused in people.
See the FAQ for more details.

Blu-Tack: Sticky substance used for attaching posters to walls (for
those for whom chewing-gum doesn't quite do the trick).

Bootle: Town near Liverpool, England.

Brando, Marlon: (1924- ) American actor. Best known roles in "A
Streetcar Named Desire" (1947), "The Wild One" (1954) and "On The
Waterfront" (1954), this last for which he won an Oscar. Recently
seen in "Don Juan De Marco" (1995) with Johnny Depp.

Buddha: (c.563-483 BC) 'The Enlightened One', title of Nepalese Prince
Gautama Siddhartha. Went from a life of luxury to one of
asceticism before turning to meditation, after which he achieved
enlightenment while sitting under a bo tree in India. His
teaching founded the religion of Buddhism.

Buddhism: Religion originating in India around 500 BC from the
teachings of Prince Gautama Siddhartha (Buddha, 'The Enlightened
One'). No deity worship, but a doctrine of karma and
reincarnation, and a philosophy of good/evil being rewarded/
punished in future incarnations.

Caligula: (12-41) Gaius Caesar. Mentally unstable, cruel and depraved
Emperor of Rome (37-41). Besides the 'excesses' mentioned by
Lister in MELTDOWN, Caligula ('Little Boots') also made a consul
of his favourite horse Incitatus. Finally an officer of the guard
could stand this sort of rot no longer, and so Caligula was
assassinated.

Camus, Albert: (1913-1960) French existentialist novelist; won the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

Capra, Frank: (1897-1991) Italian-born American writer, producer and
director. Triple Oscar winner for directing, his films include
"It Happened One Night" (1934), "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington"
(1939), "Arsenic And Old Lace" (1944) and "It's A Wonderful Life"
(1946).

Carmichael, Hoagy: (1899-1981) American singer, songwriter, pianist
and bandleader. Wrote many songs for film and TV and often
appeared on celluloid as himself to perform the songs.

Casablanca: (1942) Classic film starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid
Bergman; love versus political principles in World War II Morocco.
Waiting to be definitively remade starring Peter Beardsley and
Myra Binglebat. ;-)

Cat: Danny John-Jules has modelled the Cat in part on the American
singer James Brown (1928- ; for his 'screech'), the American
singer Little Richard (1935- ; for his bouffant hair) and the
American actor Richard Pryor (1940- ; for his facial mannerisms).

Champion The Wonder Horse: An American children's TV series, about the
adventures of a wonderful white horse called Champion. [?]

Citizen Kane: (1941) Movie written and directed by, and starring in
the title role, Orson Welles (1915-1985). A psychological study
of the life of a newspaper magnate (Charles Foster Kane), the
movie is much studied and is lauded as a cinematic masterpiece.

Clive of India: Robert, Baron Clive of Passey (1725-1774). British
soldier/administrator who established British rule in India.
Governor of Bengal.

Come Jiving: Perhaps a later version of the dance competition "Come
Dancing". [?]

Como, Perry: (1912- ) American singer, and sometime actor and TV
variety show host. Hits included many songs from movies, such as
"Blue Moon" (from "Words And Music", 1958) and the No. 1 "Some
Enchanted Evening" (from "South Pacific", 1949). Although, my
hopelessly inadequate book fails utterly to mention what was
stashed in his slacks during the singing of "Memories Are Made Of
This".

Copacabana: Song about love, murder and regrets at the hottest spot
north of Havana (where music and passion were always the fashion).
Recorded by Barry Manilow.

Coward, Noel: (1899-1973) British playwright, director, actor,
composer and producer. Well-known play -- "Private Lives" (1930).

Crunchie bars: Scrumdiddlyumptious chocolate-covered honeycomb bars,
made by Cadbury.

Da Vinci, Leonardo: (1542-1519) Italian artist, scientist and
inventor. Works include the paintings "The Last Supper" (1495)
and the "Mona Lisa" (1503-1506). Sketches of his inventions show
plans for 'tanks', 'aeroplanes', 'submarines', a 'helicopter'
and even the first 'bicycle'.

Dirty Dozen, The: (1967) American/Spanish movie set during World War
II, about a commando suicide squad recruited from lifer convicts
(starring Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson). Novel by E.M.
Nathanson.

Eastbourne: Town on the south coast of England with a popular
reputation as a retirement haven for older/elderly people.

Eiffel Tower: Famous Parisian landmark named after and constructed by
the French engineer Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), for the Paris
Exhibition of 1889.

Einstein, Albert: (1879-1955) Pretty famous physicist actually, and
the theory goes that Einstein = Mister Clever (too).

Elephant Man, The: (1862-1890) Joseph (commonly erroneously referred
to as John) Merrick, a man with hideous deformities in the form of
huge masses of bulbous flesh, thought to be the result of a rare
disease called Proteus syndrome.

Esperanto: The second language of Red Dwarf, and one that Rimmer has
been trying unsuccessfully to learn for eight years. Esperanto is
an artificial, logical language incorporating principles/words
derived from major European languages. It was devised in 1887 by
Polish philologist Ludwig Zamenhof (1859-1917).

Flintstones, The: Indisputably-classic cartoon from Hanna-Barbera,
about two Bedrock suburban couples (Fred and Wilma Flintstone, and
Barney and Betty Rubble).

Frankenstein: Book by Mary Shelley, published 1818. A scientist
(Frankenstein) creates a monster by reanimating corpse tissue, and
then suffers the consequences. Apparently, truly stupid people
(and Cats) erroneously believe that it was the monster, not its
creator, who was called Frankenstein.

G & E drawing: [?].

Goering, Hermann: (1893-1946) The 'bit dodgy, drug-crazed Nazi
transvestite' associate of Hitler. Established the Gestapo and
concentration camps. Committed suicide before he could be
executed for war crimes.

Gone With The Wind: (1939) American movie about love during the
American Civil War. Starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. A
run-time of three hours and forty minutes.

Hammond organ: Electric organ invented in America in 1934 by Laurens
Hammond (1895-1973).

Hardy, Oliver: (1892-1957) Rotund partner in the American comedy duo
Laurel and Hardy (Stan Laurel was thin), who had great popular
success in over 200 films during the late 1920s to mid-1940s.
Hilarity came from how they set one another off -- Stan was the
worrier and bumbler, Ollie the fastidious one with the slow-
burning temper.

Hendrix, Jimi: (1942-1970) American singer and master guitar wizard.
Songs include "Hey Joe", "All Along The Watchtower" and "The
Star-Spangled Banner" (at Woodstock, 1969).

Hitler, Adolf: (1889-1945) Leader of the runners-up (the nasty Nazis)
in World War II, and generally not a very nice person.

I'm A Yankee Doodle Dandy: Song by vaudevillian George M. Cohan.

It's A Wonderful Life: It's a wonderful film (1946) by Frank Capra,
starring James Stewart and Donna Reed. George Bailey (Stewart)
is a selfless man who has lived a good life in Bedford Falls,
where he frequently gave up his own opportunities for the good of
others. One Christmas Eve when things have gone so wrong that
George believes everyone would be better off if he were dead, he
first attempts suicide, but (after being saved by the angel
Clarence) then laments instead that he had ever been born at all.
Clarence then takes George on a visit to the town and people of a
Bedford Falls where George Bailey had never existed... (Watch
this film only with a *big* box of tissues to cry into!)
Several characters, buildings, etc. from the film crop up in
Lister's fantasy world in the game Better Than Life...
Old Man Gower (played by H.B. Warner; 1876-1958) and his
drugstore.
Bert the cop (played by Ward Bond; 1903-1960).
Ernie the cab-driver (played by Frank Faylen; 1907-1985).
Martini (played by Bill Edmunds; 1885-1981) and his bar.
Potter (played by Lionel Barrymore; 1878-1954).
Ma Bailey (played by Beulah Bondi; 1892-1981) and her
boarding house.
Billy Bailey (played by Thomas Mitchell; 1892-1962).
Even though Billy Bailey does not play the tuba in the film, both
Billys are a couple of lettuces short of an allotment and are
bound to be the same person.
There is an Emporium in the film's Bedford Falls, though
I doubt it sells shami kebabs!
Lister lives at 220 Sycamore Avenue; James Stewart's
George Bailey lives at 320 Sycamore.
Both Baileys have a clapped-out old piano on which their
children play Christmas carols, although Lister's sons Jim and
Bexley are playing "Silent Night" while George Bailey's (James
Stewart) daughter Janie is playing "Hark The Herald Angels Sing".

Joan Of Arc: (c.1412-1431) French girl who (after inspiration from
holy 'voices') led the French army in battles against the English,
to free France from English domination. Eventually captured by
the English, she was interrogated and tricked into admissions of
witchcraft; soon afterwards she was burned at the stake in Rouen.
She was canonised in 1920.

Judas (Iscariot): The disciple of Jesus who betrayed Him to the
authorities for a reward of 30 pieces of silver. He later
renounced his reward and suicided in his remorse.

Julius Caesar: (c.100-44 BC) Roman statesman, general and dictator.

Juno: Roman goddess of women and childbirth and wife of Jupiter, chief
of the gods.

Kama-Sutra: Textbook on erotics and other forms of human pleasure.
Named after Indian god of love (Kama).

Keegan, Kevin: ([?]- ) British (former) footballer; now manager of
the team Newcastle United.

Kennedy, John F(itzgerald): (1917-1963) 35th President of the USA,
1961-1963 (Democrat). The youngest president elected, and also
a Roman Catholic (though despite this, *quite* a womaniser).
Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas, November 1963.

Kryten: Kryten's name comes from the play "The Admirable Crichton"
(1902), by J.M. Barrie.

Lamb, Charles: (1775-1834) British essayist and critic.

Last, James: (1929- ) German-born cabaret/dance band leader and
musician. Big success in Europe. Albums such as "Polka Party"
and "Violins In Love" indicate both why Rimmer likes him so much
and why he's in with the cream of evil on Waxworld! ;-)

Laurel, Stan: (1890-1965) Born in England as Arthur Stanley Jefferson.
Thin partner in the American comedy duo Laurel and Hardy (Oliver
Hardy was 'rotund'), who had great popular success in over 200
films during the late 1920s to mid-1940s. Hilarity came from how
they set one another off -- Stan was the worrier and bumbler,
Ollie the fastidious one with the slow-burning temper.

Lennon, John: (1940-1980) Singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist
with The Beatles.

Lewis': Department store. So we know Michelle Fisher was *beautiful*
enough to get a job behind the perfume counter, but was she also
vicious enough? I mean, that killer ability to leap out and
spray customers with perfume as they pass the counter...that can
only come from *instinct*, not training.

Lincoln, Abraham: (1809-1865) 'Honest Abe', 16th President of the USA
(1861-5, Republican). President during the time of the American
Civil War, he was concerned with preserving the Union and freeing
the slaves. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while
attending a play.

Lolita: (1955) Best-known novel of the Russian writer Vladimir
Nabokov, it tells the story of a middle-aged man's obsession with
a 12 year old girl.

Louis XVI: (1754-1793) King of France 1774-1793. After the French
Revolution in 1789, Louis and his family lost power, but not
until 1792 were the Royal Family taken prisoner by the French
government. After being tried for treason, Louis was guillotined
in 1793.

Lustbader, Eric (Van): ([?]- ) American novelist, and music
industry influence (eg. introduced Elton John to the American
music scene).

Marie Antoinette: (1755-1793) Queen of Louis XVI of France. Her
alleged extravagance helped to provoke the French Revolution in
1789. In 1793 she was tried for treason, and then guillotined
along with her husband.

Mary Celeste: American sailing ship found abandoned in the Atlantic
Ocean in 1872. Only some navigation instruments, the cargo
charts, and the human crew were missing (never found), with no
indication of why they might have left the otherwise-intact ship.

McCartney, Paul: (1942- ) Singer, songwriter and rhythm/bass
guitarist with The Beatles.

McClure, Doug: (1935-1995) American actor. Leading man in over 20 B-
grade films, including "The King's Pirate" (1967), "The Land That
Time Forgot" (1975) and "The People That Time Forgot" (1977);
recently seen in "Maverick" (1994) with Mel Gibson. Also made
several TV series including "Checkmate", "The Virginian" and "Out
Of This World". He died of lung cancer aged 59.

Monroe, Marilyn: (1926-1962) American actress and sex symbol. Best-
known films include "How To Marry A Millionaire" (1953),
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953), "The Seven Year Itch" (1955)
and "Some Like It Hot" (1959).

Moss Bro(ther)s: Clothing/suit hire establishment.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: (1756-1791) Austrian genius composer, and
virtuoso piano and violin player.

Munchkin: One of the little people in the American film "The Wizard
Of Oz" (1939) starring Judy Garland. From the novels by L. Frank
Baum.

Napoleon (Bonaparte): (1769-1821) Born at Ajaccio on the island of
Corsica. General, dictator and Emperor of the French (as
Napoleon I; 1804-1814).

Nelson, Horatio: (1758-1805) British (naval) admiral. During the
French Revolutionary Wars he lost the sight of his right eye
(1794), and lost his right arm in 1797.

Newton, Isaac: (1642-1727) British physicist and mathematician. Laid
the foundations of modern physics, including developing calculus,
discovering the law of gravity and developing the laws of motion.
Apparently had a penchant for sitting under apple trees.

Niagara Falls: Two waterfalls on the Niagara River on the Canadian
(Ontario) and USA (New York state) border.

Nixon, Richard Milhous: (1913-1994) 37th President (1969-74) of the
USA, a Republican. He resigned over scandals including his
involvement in the Watergate cover-up.

Patton, George Smith: (1885-1945) American general during World War
II.

Paul, Les: (1915-1995) American guitarist and inventor.

Pentecost (Christian): The day the Apostles experienced inspiration
by the Holy Spirit. Commemorated on Whit Sunday.

Pinter, Harold: (1930- ) British dramatist and former actor. Author
of "The Caretaker" (1960).

Pompadour: Brushed-up hairstyle named for the Marquise de Pompadour
(Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, 1721-1764), mistress of King Louis
XV of France.

Presley, Elvis: (1935-1977) The King is (officially!) dead. Long live
the King!

Pythagoras: (c.580-500 BC) Greek philosopher and mathematician.

Ringo (Starr): (1940- ) Drummer with the Beatles.

Robeson, Paul: (1898-1976) Bass (called baritone) singer, and sometime
actor.

Saint Francis of Assisi: (1182-1226) Founder of the Franciscan Friars.
All-round animal lover (healing the sick ones and taming the wild
ones) and patron saint of ecologists.

Samaritans: Telephone suicide counsellors (group established in Great
Britain in 1953). The name derives from the sect Samaritans,
inhabitants of the area of northern Israel called Samaria. See
also from the Bible, the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke
10:25-37).

Sancerre: Dry white wine derived from Sauvignon Blanc.

Sartre, Jean-Paul: (1905-1980) French writer/philosopher, apparently
with a penchant for poncing around in black polo-neck sweaters...

Shake 'N' Vac: A carpet-cleaning powder which is shaken onto a carpet
stain (perhaps caused by leaving a glass of wine on the floor
where the cat can knock it over) and then vacuumed up.

Shakespeare, William: (1564-1616) English dramatist (actor and
playwright) and poet.

Shrove Tuesday (Christian): The day before the beginning of Lent.

Sinclair ZX81: Computer named for Clive Sinclair (1940- ), inventive
British electronics engineer. Both the Sinclair ZX81 and ZX80
became available in 1980, and were the first sub-UKP100 computers.

Sistine Chapel: Chapel in The Vatican, most famously decorated with
frescoes (by Michelangelo, done between 1508-1512) of scenes from
the Book of Genesis.

Taj Mahal: White marble mausoleum in Agra, India. Built in the mid-
1600s by Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife.

Third Reich: Nazi Germany under Hitler's dictatorship.

Turin, Shroud of: The Italian city of Turin is home to a Christian
relic in the form of a piece of cloth with an 'imprint' of a man
upon it; it is believed by many to be the burial shroud of Jesus
Christ, but scientific testing has shown the cloth to date only
from the 13th or 14th century.

Ulysses: Roman name for the Greek mythological hero Odysseus. Hero of
the Trojan War, subject of Homer's "Odyssey" and also appearing in
his "Iliad".

Valkyrie: One of the nine virgin (well until they met the Cat)
semidivine priestesses of Freya (goddess of love and beauty) in
Norse mythology.

Van Gogh, Vincent: (1853-1890) Dutch Postimpressionist painter.
Given to bouts of insanity, after one of which he cut off his own
ear. He shot himself at the age of 37 during another spell of
madness. Paintings include "Still Life With Sunflowers" (1888),
"Cornfield With Cypresses" (1889) and "Self-Portrait" (1890).

Versailles, Palace Of: Enormous palace outside of Paris, residence of
the Kings of France from 1682 to 1790. The 'palace' also contains
several subsidiary palaces, as well as enormous and intricate
sculpted gardens.

Victoria: (1819-1901) Queen of Great Britain 1837-1901. Longest-
reigning British monarch, and called 'Grandmother of Europe' by
virtue of the marriages of her nine children and their descendants
into the royal houses of Europe.

Wayne, John: (1907-1979) The Duke. American actor most popularly
known for his roles in Western films (winning an Oscar for "True
Grit", 1969).

Wouk, Herman: (1915- ) American novelist, and winner of the Pulitzer
Prize (1952) for "The Caine Mutiny" (1951); more recent novels
include "The Winds Of War" (1971) and "War And Remembrance"
(1978).

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THE END
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Mary, Queen of Scots: (1542-1587) Queen of Scotland 1542-1567.
Executed on the orders of Elizabeth I of England. Her son James
VI of Scotland later became James I of Great Britain.

Pythagoras Theorem: The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angle
triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of its other two
sides. You will be tested.

** The song Lister is humming at the beginning: "If I Only Had A
Brain" from the movie "The Wizard Of Oz" (1939), starring Judy
Garland.

** The flag on McIntyre's funeral canister: The flag of Wales -- the
Red Dragon of Cadwallader over a green and white background.

** The song played at McIntyre's funeral: "See You Later Alligator",
an early rock 'n' roll song (1956). Recorded by Bill Haley And
The Comets.

** The song the Cat is singing: "Me And My Shadow"; has been
performed by several artists over the years, including Frank
Sinatra and Judy Garland. [? movie(s) ?]

FUTURE ECHOES
-------------

Teasy-Weasy: A hairdresser, of course. Here's hoping they're better
at it than Holly is.

Filofax: Personal organiser. For those not important enough to warrant
having a secretary.

Green Beret: Crack military group, a special branch of the US marines.

Shapiro, Helen: (1946- ) British singer and actress. Famous for
having a hit single at the age of 14, and for wearing bouffant
hair. ;-)

Ladybird Books: Information books on a level for children.

Starlight Ballroom: Club in Las Vegas.

** The song Lister is singing at the beginning: A spaced-up version of
"My Darling Clementine".

** The song Talkie Toaster is singing: "Fly Me To The Moon", recorded
by Frank Sinatra.

** The tune Rimmer is humming as he contemplates Lister's demise: The
"Death March Of Saul" (1738) by the German composer George
Frideric Handel.

** Rimmer's second hairstyle: Holly has made him into a Beatles
wannabe.

BALANCE OF POWER
----------------

Mendelssohn, Felix: (1809-1847) German composer, pianist and
conductor.

Motorhead: British heavy metal band.

Boyle, Robert: (1627-1691). British chemist who made quantitative
studies of gases, enabling him to formulate Boyle's Law of Gases.
Of course, he may also have made study of the dangers of eating
greasy food...

WAITING FOR GOD
---------------

PARALLEL -- The play "Waiting For Godot" (1952) by Samuel
Beckett, about two tramps trapped by delusion, ignorance and hope in
the form of waiting for a mysterious someone called Godot.

Hugo, Victor: (1802-1885) French novelist. Best-known books include
"Notre-Dame De Paris" (The Hunchback Of Notre Dame -- 1831) and
"Les Miserables" (1862).

Galileo (Galilei): (1564-1642) Italian physicist, mathematician,
astronomer and developer of the astronomical telescope.

Edison, Thomas Alva: (1847-1931) American scientist and prolific
inventor (inventions included the phonograph and the lightbulb).

Columbo: Scruffy detective played by Peter Falk (1927- ) in the
American TV series/movies of the same name. Not to be confused
with Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), the Italian explorer who
discovered America (1492), and generally was believed to dress
quite nicely (except when portrayed in the movies by Gerard
Depardieu).

Bermuda Triangle: Area of the Atlantic Ocean (roughly bounded by the
southern USA coast, Bermuda, and the Greater Antilles) in which
more than 70 ships and aeroplanes have allegedly disappeared.
Alien abductions constitute a favourite 'explanation' for these
supposed disappearances.

** "I toast, therefore I am.": Variation on the "I think, therefore
I am" principle by Rene Descartes.

** "You might get some squiggly, slimy thing stuck to your face!": In
the movie "Alien" (1979) starring Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt,
this is precisely what happened to Hurt's character Kane when he
went off investigating alien 'eggs'.

** The music that plays as Lister enters the Cat 'cathedral': Toccata
and Fugue in g minor, by the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

CONFIDENCE AND PARANOIA
-----------------------

Christie, Agatha: (1890-1976) British writer, author of more than 70
detective novels.

Poirot, Hercule: Belgian detective character in several Agatha Christie
novels.

** Jim in the movie Lister is watching: Perhaps not surprisingly,
sounds very like the American actor James Stewart (1908- ), star
of the movie "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946).

** "Hercule Poirot's just stepped off the steaming train. And if you
want my opinion, I think they all did it.": Holly is reading
Agatha Christie's "Murder On The Orient Express" (1934). The
Orient Express is the train in question. And Holly is on the case
and kicking bottom -- they *did* all do it.

** "In space, no one can hear you cha-cha-cha...": The movie "Alien"
(1979), starring Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt, had as its cinema
publicity tag "In space, no one can hear you scream."

ME^2
----

NorWEB: North West Electricity Board.

Welles, Orson: (1915-1985) American actor, director, writer and
producer. Notable works include the 1938 "War Of The Worlds"
radio broadcast, and the movie "Citizen Kane" (1941) which won
him an Oscar for Original Screenplay.

Pluto's moon: Charon. Named after the ferryman on the River Styx in
the underworld (Hades) in Greek mythology.

** Close-up of Rimmer's mouth as he utters his dying words "Gazpacho
soup!", his outstretched hand, and the breaking of the globe
containing Red Dwarf: Reminiscent of the opening scene of
"Citizen Kane" (1941) starring Orson Welles, in which Kane
(Welles) in close-up utters his dying words "Rose bud", then drops
from his outstretched hand a snow-globe which shatters on the
stairs.

** The gag glasses Holly is wearing: Patterned after Groucho Marx
(1890-1977), American comedy actor.

** The salute that Lister performs at the end: A Boy Scout salute.

KRYTEN
------

PARALLEL -- The play "The Admirable Crichton" (1902) by J.M.
Barrie. Made into a film (1957) starring Kenneth More. A nobleman and
his family are shipwrecked, and the manservant (Crichton) proves his
mettle.

Gwenlyn, Kylie: Producer and director of "Androids", whose surname is
also used by Lister as an insult. Named after a producer, and
former head of comedy at the BBC, Gareth Gwenlan. (See also
below.)

The Wild One: (1954) American film about hoodlum motorcyclists who
terrorise a small town. Starring Marlon Brando and Lee Marvin.

Easy Rider: (1969) American film about two drop-out motorcyclists.
Starring Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson.

Rebel Without A Cause: (1955) American film about a troubled/
troublesome poor little rich boy. Starring James Dean and
Natalie Wood.

** Androids: Parody of the Australian soap opera "Neighbours", which
starred for a time the Australian actress/singer *Kylie* Minogue
(recently seen in the movie "Streetfighter", 1995, with Jean-
Claude Van Damme). The lines "Androids, everybody needs good
androids" and "Androids have feelings too" of the "Androids" theme
song mimic the lines "Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours"
and "That's when good neighbours become good friends" of the
"Neighbours" theme song. One thing though -- if the androids are
supposed to have Australian accents, Ms. Gwenlyn went too far east
because they sound more like New Zealanders than Australians.

** The song the Cat sings when going off to prepare to meet the Nova 5
crew: Only two words "Twenty-four hours!" but definitely the
tune of "Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa". Recorded by Gene Pitney.

** The book Lister is reading in the Blue Midget cockpit: A
children's book from the "Spot" (a dog) series, by Eric Hill.

** "I serve, therefore I am.": Variation on "I think, therefore I am"
by Rene Descartes.

** Rimmer: "What are you rebelling against?"
Kryten: "Whaddya got?"
Lines from the movie "The Wild One" (1954) starring Marlon Brando
as Johnny, leader of the Black Rebels Motorcycle Club, and wearer
of leather (a la Kryten as he prepares to leave Red Dwarf on
Lister's space-bike).
Girl: "Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?"
Johnny: "Whaddya got?"

BETTER THAN LIFE
----------------

Berni Inn: A type of restaurant.

Pinky and Perky: Two falsetto-voiced singing puppet piglets on the
1950s-1960s BBC (later ITV) children's show "Pinky And Perky"
(created by Jan and Vlasta Dalibor).

Blind Pew: Blind villain in the novel "Treasure Island" (1883) by
Robert Louis Stevenson.

Friday The Thirteenth: Nine movies to date, about this deathly date.
Horror movies in which teenagers meet their deaths in a variety of
ways at the hands of the unkillable Jason. It's just surprising
that in Lister's time they're only up to Part 1649.

Beardsley, Peter: (1961- ) British footballer, captain of Newcastle
United.

Philistines: A 12th century non-Semitic race of people. The name has
become synonymous with one who is uncivilised in artistic and
intellectual terms.

Venus: Armless statue of the Roman goddess of love. Currently in the
Louvre, Paris.

Shields, Brooke: (1965- ) American actress and former child model.
Best-known roles in "Pretty Baby" (1978), "The Blue Lagoon" (1980)
and "Endless Love" (1981).

Fitzgerald, (Francis) Scott: (1896-1940) American writer, author of
the novel "The Great Gatsby" (1925).

Outland Revenue: Presumably what the Inland Revenue Service will become
once humankind moves off into space.

Mount Sinai: Where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God.

Mary Magdalene: Allegedly sinful woman, and follower of Jesus after she
was cured by Him of possession by evil spirits. The first person
to meet Jesus after the Resurrection.

Hefner, Hugh: (1926- ) American publisher, and founder of "Playboy"
magazine (1953).

** Holly: "Of all the space-bars in all the worlds, you had
to rematerialise in mine."
Line from the definitive version of Casablanca (starring Myra
Binglebat and Peter Beardsley) which mimics a line in the original
version (1942) starring Humphrey Bogart as Rick.
Rick: "Of all the gin-joints in all the towns in all the
world, she walks into mine."

** The motorcycle Lister wishes for in the game Better Than Life: A
Harley Davidson.

** Rimmer's cars in the game Better Than Life: In order of appearance,
a Reliant Robin, an E-Type Jaguar and a Morris Minor.

THANKS FOR THE MEMORY
---------------------

Odour Eaters: Shoe inserts which will absorb/eliminate foot odour or
your money back.

Osmond, (Little) Jimmy: (1963- ) Youngest of the singing Osmond
family from Utah, having a successful solo career at age nine.
Best-known song "Long-Haired Lover From Liverpool".

From Here To Eternity: (1953) American film about love and frustration
set in the time of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Starring Burt
Lancaster and Deborah Kerr. Contains the famous scene of
Lancaster and Kerr kissing on the beach (yes they are wearing
swimsuits) while the waves break over them.

Mantovani: (1905-1980) Italian-born violinist, composer and conductor.

Godzilla: Japanese movie monster, star of several "Godzilla Versus..."
movies.

Johnson's Baby Bud: A wad of cotton on a stick, the most romantic thing
that Rimmer has ever had in his ear.

** The song Rimmer is singing: "Someone To Watch Over Me", recorded by
Linda Ronstadt.

** The music Rimmer is humming while exercising: "Peter And The Wolf"
(1936) by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev.

** Lister: "Well play it, Sam."
In the movie Casablanca (1942), Sam (Dooley Wilson; 1894-1953) is
the piano player in Rick's (Humphrey Bogart) Cafe Americain. Rick
wants Sam to play the tune "As Time Goes By", and is often
erroneously 'quoted' as having said "Play it again, Sam."
Rick: "Play it!"
Alternatively (but less often mimicked), it may be Ingrid Bergman
(as Ilsa) that Lister is imitating. When Ilsa first comes to
Rick's cafe, she asks Sam to play the tune...
Ilsa: "Play it once Sam. <...> Play it Sam."

STASIS LEAK
-----------

Kendall, Felicity: ([?]- ) British actress (seen in the sit-com
"The Good Life") having a much-admired derriere -- once voted Rear
Of The Year.

Planet Of The Apes: (1968) American movie about a futuristic Earth
society composed of highly-evolved apes. Starring Charlton Heston
and Roddy McDowall.

Agoraphobia: Fear of open spaces.

Box of Daz: Heavy-duty clothes-washing powder.

Cartland, Barbara: (1904- ) British romantic novelist.

Topic Bar: Chocolate bar with 'a hazelnut in every bite'. See the FAQ
for more details.

Purley: Part of London.

Captain Paxo: Paxo is a British brand of chicken stuffing.

Attack Of The Killer Gooseberries: Perhaps a future film to be made in
the style of "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" (1978).

Newton-John, Olivia: (1948- ) British-born Australian singer and
actress. Best-known movie role as Sandy in "Grease" (1978) with
John Travolta. Songs include "Banks Of The Ohio", "You're The
One That I Want" (duet with John Travolta), "Magic" and
"Physical".

Run For Your Wife: 1980s play, written by Ray Cooney. Stars included
Jack Smethurst and David McCallum.

QUEEG
-----

PARALLEL -- From the novel "The Caine Mutiny" (1951) by Herman
Wouk. The book tells the story of the incompetent sea-captain, William
Queeg, whose crew eventually mutinies and takes command from him. Made
into a film in 1954, starring Humphrey Bogart in the Oscar-nominated
role of Queeg.

Tess Of The D'Urbervilles: (1891) Novel about the seduction (and its
consequences) of a peasant girl. Written by Thomas Hardy.

Hardy, Robert: (1925- ) British actor, well-known for his portrayal
of Siegfried in the TV series "All Creatures Great And Small".

Deganwy: Region of Wales.

Tottenham Hotspur: English football club.

Butlins: A family holiday-camp establishment with a bit of a reputation
for being 'inadequate'.

Subbuteo: Mini table-football game.

** Rimmer cheering himself on during the draughts game: Imitative of
the style of English football supporters.

** Holly: "This is mutiny Mr. Queeg. I'll see you swing
from the highest yardarm in Titan Docking Port for this
day's work."
Parallel of lines attributed to Captain William Bligh of the HMS
Bounty; said to the master's mate Fletcher Christian, when
Christian led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789. Several versions
of the lines exist. From the book "Mutiny On The Bounty" (1932)
by Charles Nordhoff and James Hall...
Bligh (to Christian): "You mutinous dog! I'll see you
hung <..> I'll see you swinging from a yardarm before
two years have passed!"
From the film "Mutiny On The Bounty" (1935) starring Charles
Laughton as Bligh and Clark Gable as Christian...
Bligh (to Christian): "I'll live to see you -- all of
you -- hanging from the highest yardarm in the British
Fleet..."

** The song Holly sings as he goes to challenge Queeg: "High Noon (Do
Not Forsake Me)" recorded by Frankie Laine. Oscar-winning song
(aka "Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin'") sung in the western "High
Noon" (1952; starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly) by Tex Ritter.

** The song Holly sings before he is 'erased': "Goodbye To Love",
recorded by The Carpenters.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE
-----------------

Mesmer, Friedrich Anton: (1734-1815) Austrian physician who
experimented with hypnosis (formerly called mesmerism).

Sandwich, (4th) Earl of (John Montagu): (1718-1792) British politician
who, in order not to interrupt his card-playing, developed the
habit of eating beef between two slices of toast, and thus
invented the sandwich.

Morse, Samuel: (1791-1872) American inventor who greatly improved the
electric telegraph and (with assistant Alexander Bain) invented
Morse code.

Plato: (c.428-347 BC) Ancient Greek philosopher.

Miranda, Carmen: (1909-1955) Portuguese singer and dancer with a
penchant for extravagant costumes, most notably a headdress made
of fruit.

** Armstrong, Nellie: Female universe equivalent of Neil Armstrong
(1930- ), the first man on the moon (July 20, 1969).

** The Male Eunuch, by Jeremy Greer: The female universe equivalent
of "The Female Eunuch" (1970) by Germaine Greer (1939- ).

** Rachel III; The Taming Of The Shrimp: Female universe equivalents
of William Shakespeare's plays "Richard III" and "The Taming Of
The Shrew".

** "I'm off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz!": Line
from the title song of the movie "The Wizard Of Oz" (1939)
starring Judy Garland.

BACKWARDS
---------

PARALLEL -- The opening scroll and its musical accompaniment,
akin to those in the movie "Star Wars" (1977) starring Mark Hamill,
Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.

Muggins: Slang meaning 'simpleton'.

Genghis Khan: (c.1167-1227) Mongol conqueror and great military
leader. Ruler of all Mongol peoples, across a vast empire ranging
from the Yellow Sea (China/Korea) to the Black Sea (south-east
Europe), from 1206.

ICI: Imperial Chemical Industries, one of the largest companies of
Britain.

** "Or a herd of flesh-eating dinosaurs feeding off the bones of Doug
McClure?": McClure made several 'dinosaur' movies, including
"The Land That Time Forgot" (1975) and its sequel, "The People
That Time Forgot" (1977).

** The mask Kryten is wearing: Ronald Reagan (1911- ) Former
Hollywood actor, and 40th President (Republican) of the USA
(1981-1989).

MAROONED
--------

Sindy: Girls' doll, more middle-class than Barbie.

Birdseye: Frozen food company, products include frozen fish-fingers
and packets of small garden peas.

Newcastle Brown: Beer -- Newcastle Brown Ale.

Alexander The Great: (356-323 BC) King of Macedonia and conqueror of
the Persian Empire.

Richard, (Sir) Cliff: (1940- ) Enduring British pop singer and
sometime actor. And I still can't believe that "Wired For Sound"
only made it to No. 132 on the US charts. Philistines! ;-)

Ryder Cup: Golf tournament for professional men's teams from the USA
and Europe; played biennially.

Biggles: Flying ace character in the books by Captain W.E. Johns.

West Side Story: American musical. Film (1961) starring Natalie Wood
and Richard Beymer. Based on William Shakespeare's play "Romeo
And Juliet" but transferred to the contemporary setting of gang
feuding in the New York docklands.

Islington: Area of London.

** The song Lister plays on his guitar: "She's Out Of My Life",
recorded by Michael Jackson.

** The tune Rimmer trumpets as his soldiers burn: The military send-
off "The Last Post".

** "Au revoir mes amis, a bientot.": Farewell my friends, see you
soon (French).

POLYMORPH
---------

The Three Musketeers: (1844) Novel by French writer Alexandre Dumas
(pere). The musketeers were Athos, Porthos and Aramis, with
D'Artagnan as a fourth.

Osmond family: Family of singing Mormons; the seven children all had
(have) successful singing careers for a time, especially Donny,
Marie and (Little) Jimmy. The Osmonds were recognised as much
for their big cheesy grins (with perfect teeth) as for their
music.

** The eight-foot tall, armour-plated killing machine: Bears an
*uncanny* resemblance to the creature from the movie "Alien"
(1979) starring Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt.

BODYSWAP
--------

Hitchcock, Alfred: (1899-1980) Producer/director lauded for his style
of movie-making, combining suspense, humour and romance. Films
include "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1935), "Dial M For Murder" (1954)
and "The Birds" (1963). A portly man, Hitchcock also hosted an
anthology TV series called "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"; his
'trademark' was his body silhouette in profile.

Atlas, Charles: (1893-1972) American bodybuilder and founder of the
mail-order bodybuilding course. The original weakling who turned
to bodybuilding after a lifeguard kicked sand on him at the beach
and stole his girlfriend.

Goodyear: Tyre company known for floating advertising blimps over major
sporting events.

Super Bowl: Post-season championship game for American football.

Grimsby: Aptly-named, northern industrialised 'seaside' town by the
River Humber on the east coast of England.

** "I look like Captain Emerald!": Perhaps a descendant of Captain
Scarlet, title character from the British (Supermarionation) TV
series "Captain Scarlet", done by Gerry Anderson (of
"Thunderbirds" and "Terrahawks" fame) in 1967-1968. Rimmer's
uniform (in particular, his hat) is strongly modelled on the
uniform of Captain Scarlet.

** The song Rimmer (in Lister's body) is humming as he prepares to go
to the toilet: "The Grand Old Duke Of York."

** The music playing as Rimmer (in Lister's body) leaves Red Dwarf in
Starbug: The Light Cavalry Overture (1866) by Franz von Suppe.

** Lister: "Go ahead punks! Make my day!"
Parallel of lines spoken and terms used by Clint Eastwood as
Dirty Harry Callahan in eg. "Sudden Impact" (1983)...
Dirty Harry: "Go ahead. Make my day."

TIMESLIDES
----------

Nuremberg: German city, site of (1933-1938) the German Nazi Party
rallies, and of Nazi war criminal trials (1945-1946).

Stauffenberg, Claus von: (1907-1944) German colonel who attempted to
assassinate Hitler via a bomb planted in Hitler's headquarters'
conference room at Rastenburg in East Prussia, July 1944 (see
also the PIP). Hitler had von Stauffenberg executed for his
trouble.

Hoffman, Dustin: (1937- ) American stage and screen actor. Films
include "The Graduate" (1967), "Kramer Vs. Kramer" (1979),
"Tootsie" (1982) and "Rainman" (1988, for which he won his second
Best Actor Oscar). Stage/TV work includes "Death Of A Salesman".

Ishtar: (1987) Absolute bomb of a movie about two hapless singer/
songwriters, starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty.

Freemasons: Free and Accepted Masons. The largest worldwide secret
society, evolved from stonemasons and cathedral builders guilds
of the Middle Ages.

Buckingham Palace: The Queen's place.

Xanadu: Charles Foster Kane's mega-mansion in the movie "Citizen Kane"
(1941), starring Orson Welles as Kane.

Swiftian: Descriptive of the type of satire in which outrageous
statements are offered in a straight-faced manner. Named after
the Irish-born British satirist Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), author
of "Gulliver's Travels" (1726).

** "We could go to Dallas, in November 1963, stand on the grassy knoll
and shout 'Duck!'.": Reference to the assassination of John
F(itzgerald) Kennedy, 35th President of the USA (1961-1963,
Democrat), who was shot and killed at this place and time, by
(officially accepted) Lee Harvey Oswald.

** Lifestyles Of The Disgustingly Rich And Famous: Obviously a TV show
for those who are just too well off to go on "Lifestyles Of The
Rich And Famous".

** The song playing as Lister arrives at Xanadu: "Cash" by Craig
Charles's band The Sons Of Gordon Gecko, named after Michael
Douglas's character in the movie "Wall Street" (1987).

** The music playing before Lister and Sabrina Mulholland-Jjones are
served their meals: From the concerto "Four Seasons (Spring)"
(c.1725) by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi.

** The song Rimmer sings after he leaves the photo of his boarding
school dormitory: "If I Were A Rich Man" from the stage musical
"Fiddler On The Roof" by Joseph Stein (movie, 1971, starring
Topol).

THE LAST DAY
------------

Brigitte Nielsen: (1963- ) Danish actress and singer more famous for
her breast implants, and for being the former wife of Sylvester
Stallone, than for her acting or singing. Movies include "Red
Sonja" (1985), "Cobra" (1986) and "Beverly Hills Cop 2" (1987).

Vimto: Brand of British soft drink (soda pop).

Montmartre: Area of Paris ville.

Pollock, Jackson: (1912-1956) American painter. Developer of the
painting style known as 'action painting' (1946). Also a pioneer
of Abstract Expressionism. (Or put more simply, paintings that
look like vomit.)

** "The iron shall lie down with the lamp.": Parallel of passages in
the Bible dealing with lions and lambs coexisting as friends and
not enemies. The wording of the passages varies depending on the
Bible version, but the relevant verses are Isaiah 11:6 and Isaiah
65:25.

** The music playing before 'the morning after': "Morning Mood" (from
"Peer Gynt", 1876) by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.

** The song Hudzen 10 is singing: "Goodbyee" (composed by Weston/Lee).
Blackadder fans can hear a nice rendition of this song by Bob
Parkhurst (Gabrielle Glaister) in the episode "Major Star" of
"Blackadder Goes Forth". And that's probably the most gratuitous
sentence in this document, but what's one more, eh?

CAMILLE
-------

PARALLEL -- The movie "Casablanca" (1942). Rick (Humphrey
Bogart) must choose between holding on to the woman he loves (Ilsa,
played by Ingrid Bergman) or sending her away with her husband (Victor
Laszlo, played by Paul Henreid) for the ultimate good of both Ilsa and
Laszlo.

Tales Of The Riverbank: Children's show about the adventures of a
community of animals living by a riverbank. The show put real
animals in highly anthropomorphised settings and situations. The
star of the original show was Hammy Hamster. Presumably the show
Lister was watching was a followup to the original "Tales", in
the style of "The Next Generation" (a la "Star Trek").

St. Elsewhere: American hospital drama series of the mid-to-late 1980s,
starring Denzel Washington and Ed Begley, Jr. Emphasis on realism
and not always a 'happy ever after' ending.

Spiderman: Comic and cartoon superhero, born when reporter Peter Parker
was bitten by a radioactive spider. Created by Stan Lee in the
early 1960s.

Malden, Karl: (1914- ) American actor with a distinctive bulbous
nose. Most famous roles include the movie "A Streetcar Named
Desire" (1951; for which he won an Oscar), the TV series "Streets
Of San Francisco" (mid-1970s, with Michael Douglas), and the
commercials for American Express ("Don't leave home without it").

The Blob: (1958) American movie starring Steve McQueen, in which the
people of a small town are terrorised by an invading blob from
space.

McQueen, Steve: (1930-1980) American actor. Best known movie roles
in "The Blob" (1958), "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), "The Great
Escape" (1963), "Papillon" (1973) and "The Towering Inferno"
(1974).

** (Nelson) "I see no ships.": At the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801,
Nelson put a telescope up to his blind eye in order to avoid
seeing a signal from his commander (Sir Hyde Parker) telling him
to withdraw, which would have prevented Nelson from crippling
the Danish fleet.

** At the end of "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart lies to Victor Laszlo
to protect Laszlo's feelings: Rick (Bogart) lies to Laszlo,
saying that Ilsa does not love him (Rick) any more, in order to
save Laszlo jealousy and heartache if he were to believe that his
wife did not love him.

** Parrot's Bar on G-Deck: Appears to have been modelled after the
Blue Parrot bar from "Casablanca", which had as decorations
parrot statuettes and live parrots on perches.

** The music playing as Kryten and Camille head out in Starbug: "The
Blue Danube" (1867), a waltz by Austrian composer Johann Strauss.

** The song playing when Kryten and Camille are in the cinema: They
are watching "Casablanca" and this song from it is called "As
Time Goes By".

** Hector, Camille's husband: The something-that-dropped-out-of-the-
Sphinx's-nose equivalent of Victor, Ilsa's husband, in
"Casablanca".

** Camille: "Why my bag, Kryten?"
Kryten: "Because you're getting on that craft with
Hector, where you belong."
Camille: "No, Kryten."
Kryten: "Now you've got to listen to me. Do you have
any idea what you've got to look forward to if you stay
here?"
Camille: "You're saying this only to make me go."
Kryten: "We both know you belong to Hector -- you're
part of his work, you're what keeps him going. If
you're not on that craft when it leaves the hangar,
you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow,
but soon, for the rest of your life."
Camille: "What about us?"
Kryten: "We'll always have Parrot's. <...> I'm no good
at being noble, kid, but it's pretty obvious the
problems of two blobs and a droid don't amount to a hill
of beans in this crazy cosmos."
Hector: "Are you ready, Camille?"
Camille: "I'm ready. Goodbye, Kryten. And bless you."
Lines from the airport scene in "Casablanca" where Rick is
convincing Ilsa to leave on the aeroplane with Victor.
Ilsa: "But, why my name Richard?"
Rick: "Because <...> you're getting on that plane with
Victor where you belong. <...>"
Ilsa: "But Richard no, I, I... <...>"
Rick: "Now you've got to listen to me. Do you have any
idea what you've got to look forward to if you stay
here? <...>"
Ilsa: "You're saying this only to make me go."
Rick: "<...> we both know you belong with Victor, you're
part of his work -- the thing that keeps him going. If
that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him,
you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow,
but soon and for the rest of your life."
Ilsa: "But what about us?"
Rick: "We'll always have Paris. <...> I'm no good at
being noble but it doesn't take much to see that the
problems of three little people don't amount to a hill
of beans in this crazy world. <...>"
Victor: "Are you ready, Ilsa?"
Ilsa: "Yes I'm ready. Goodbye Rick. God bless you."

** Lister: "Kryten, this could be the start of a beautiful
friendship."
This line, as Lister and Kryten walk away together at the end, is
from the final shot of "Casablanca", where Rick and the Prefect
of Police, Louis (Claude Rains), walk away together across the
airport ground.
Rick: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a
beautiful friendship."

D.N.A.
------

The Bride Of Frankenstein: (1935) American movie starring Elsa
Lanchester (1902-1986) as the Bride created for Frankenstein's
monster. Her hair was swept straight up stiffly a la the Cat's
here, though the Bride's also had a white wavy stripe up each
side.

Miller, Glenn: (1904-1944) American trombonist, and big band leader
and melody arranger. Hits included "Little Brown Jug",
"Pennsylvania 6-5000", "Moonlight Serenade", "Chattanooga Choo
Choo" and "In The Mood". On his way from England to France to
entertain troops during World War II, Miller's plane disappeared
without trace (probably ditched into the English Channel);
although a popular notion is that he was abducted by aliens with
a taste for swing music.

Quantel: Video effect whereby a sequence of footage is split into a
series of discrete single-image frames.

Descartes, Rene: (1596-1650) French philosopher and mathematician.
Famous for "I think, therefore I am" which the Red Dwarf posse
like to adapt to *any* given situation.

Popeye: Created by E.C. Segar. Cartoon sailor who gets a strength
boost from the goodness of spinach. Also a bit of a philosopher
for his Popeye Principle "I am what I am." Frequently confused
with Descartes.

The Louvre: Objets d'art museum (former palace) in Paris, home to such
works as the "Mona Lisa" and the "Venus De Milo".

Nutkin: Character created by British author Beatrix Potter. Appearing
in her children's book "The Tale Of Squirrel Nutkin" (1903).

Lake Michigan: A poppadom the size of this American lake would be 58020
square kilometres in area (22395 square miles).

** Lister: "How can the same smeg happen to the same guy
twice?"
From the 1990 American movie "Die Hard 2: Die Harder", which had
as its cinema publicity tag "How can the same thing happen to the
same guy twice?!" Starring Bruce Willis as John McClane, who
muses aloud as he finds himself in another basement, another
elevator...
McClane: "How can the same shit happen to the same guy
twice?"

** "The Chomp Thing.": Not half man, half extra-hot Indian curry; but
half man, half plant -- this is the title character of the "Swamp
Thing" (1981), an American film starring Louis Jourdan and
Adrienne Barbeau.

** The 'Man-Plus' Lister gets turned into: Looks *very* much like
the title character of the cyborg-policeman in the 1987 American
film "Robocop", starring Peter Weller (1947- ), as Robocop, and
Nancy Allen.

JUSTICE
-------

Ripley's Believe It Or Not: TV show in which fantastic and
'unbelievable' things and/or events are presented to the eager
public.

The Bengals: American-football team -- the Cincinnati Bengals -- whose
players wear orange-and-black striped helmets.

Iranian jird: A small cute member of the rodent family, more properly
called the Persian jird (Meriones persicus), this animal
nonetheless has more discretion than Cats because if Cat's
statement about its sex life is true, then the jird itself
certainly isn't telling.

Pussycat Willum: [?].

Hess, Rudolf: (1894-1987) German Nazi leader -- former private
secretary, and later deputy Fuhrer, to Adolf Hitler. Captured in
England in 1941, and sentenced to life imprisonment after the
Nuremberg Trials, he died in Spandau Prison, Berlin.

Long John Silver: One-legged, parrot-carrying, cook-wannabe pirate
character in Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure story "Treasure
Island" (1883).

** Florence Nightingdroid: Presumably the mechanoid equivalent of
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the British nurse who (during
the Crimean War) established nursing practices that led (along
with her later founding of a nursing school/home in London) to
the revolutionising of nursing as a profession.

** "Take the Fifth!": Meaning the broad interpretation of the Fifth
Amendment of the United States Constitution, which (among other
things) protects an individual against self-incrimination during
legal process. Commonly and simplistically put "I refuse to
answer, on the grounds that I may incriminate myself."

** Make my day: Written on the simulant's gun, this line is used by
Dirty Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), eg. in "Sudden Impact"
(1983).

WHITE HOLE
----------

Raison d'etre: Reason for being (French).

Ramses (or Rameses): Name shared by 11 kings of ancient Egypt.

Oates, Captain Laurence Edward Grace: (1880-1912) British Antarctic
explorer, one of the party accompanying Robert Falcon Scott on
the second expedition to the South Pole. After reaching the Pole
in January 1912, the party was trapped by extreme blizzards on
their return journey to their supply depot. Oates, suffering
from severe frostbite and believing that the others would have a
better chance of surviving if not held back by him, went out into
the storms for his 'legendary walk'. His last words were recorded
in Scott's diary (see below).

Scott, Robert Falcon: (1868-1912) British naval officer and explorer
who led the second expedition to reach the South Pole (success in
January, 1912). On the return journey all five members of the
party perished. Their bodies and records were found in November
of that year. Scott's diary, one of the surviving records,
contains the last words of Captain Oates, spoken as Oates left
the shelter for the last time. As noted by Scott in the diary,
entry 16-17 March 1912, Oates said "I am just going outside and
may be some time."

Stan and Ollie: The American comedy acting duo Stan Laurel and Oliver
Hardy.

** "I toast, therefore I am.": Variation on the "I think, therefore
I am" principle by Rene Descartes.

DIMENSION JUMP
--------------

PARALLEL -- Music and 'heroic fighter pilot' type akin to the
music and theme of the movie "Top Gun" (1986), starring Tom Cruise and
Kelly McGillis. The music parallels the movie's love song "Take My
Breath Away", by Berlin.

Jaws: (1975) American movie about a man-eating shark which terrorises
a small Long Island community. Starring Roy Scheider, Robert
Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss.

Morris dancing: English folk dancing involving dressing up in belled
costumes and being subjected to the clonk of wood on wood; the
dancers' faces may also sometimes be blacked. Possibly derived
from the Moresca/Morisco (meaning 'Moorish'; a 15th century
Spanish dance) or from other Moorish (morys) dances.

Delius, Frederick: (1862-1934) British composer. Works range from
opera and orchestral music, to chamber music and songs.

Wagner, Richard: (1813-1883) German opera composer. Works include
"Tristan Und Isolde" (1865) and "Parsifal" (1882).

** Condom fishing in the canal: Most likely Lister is talking about
the Leeds Liverpool Canal, which has recently been subjected to
a program of urban regeneration; including the reintroduction of
fish. Apparently they didn't take...

** "We could try and hire a dance band and get them to play 'Abide
With Me'.": Seeing as how Starbug is sinking, this is very
possibly a reference to the sinking of the RMS Titanic in the
North Atlantic Ocean on April 14-15, 1912, with the loss of over
1500 lives. The dance band played as the Titanic sank (and
perished along with the ship), although the hymn they are alleged
to have played at the last was actually "Nearer My God To Thee".

** "Kids' TV series about a boy and his bush kangaroo.": This would
be "Skippy" (1970s, starring Ed Devereux and Tony Bonner) an
Australian kids' TV series about, amazingly enough, a boy and his
bush kangaroo. Skippy was 'our friend ever true' of the boy,
whose name was in fact Sonny (played by Garry Pankhurst) and
not Ace.

** Masonic handshake: Apparent secret handshake of the Freemasons (or
Free and Accepted Masons), the largest worldwide secret society
(evolved from stonemasons and cathedral-builders' guilds of the
Middle Ages).

MELTDOWN
--------

PARALLEL -- The movie "Westworld" (1973) starring Yul Brynner
and Richard Benjamin. The androids of a futuristic robot theme park
(with sections such as the Wild West and Ancient Rome) go against their
programming, running amok and killing the human guests.

Irkutsk: Province and city of east-central Russia.

Goebbels, Paul Josef: (1897-1945) German Nazi leader and minister of
propaganda from 1933. Poisoned himself when Berlin fell to the
Allies.

Pope Gregory: [? that is, which *one* ?].

Tweety Pie: Cartoon canary character created by Warner Brothers
Studios for their Loony Tunes series of cartoons.

Capone, Al: (1898-1947) American (Chicago) gangster/mafia man, head
of a large criminal organisation which he had built up during the
time of Prohibition. Capone spent 1931-1939 in prison for tax
evasion. He eventually died of syphilis.

Mussolini, Benito: (1883-1945) Italian dictator and founder of the
Fascist Movement; ally of Hitler during World War II.

Richard III: (1452-1485) King of England 1483-1485. Last Plantagenet
king and last English king to die on the battlefield (defeated by
Henry Tudor at Bosworth Field). Most famous for allegedly
instigating the murder of his nephews (Edward V and his brother,
Richard of York -- 'The Princes in the Tower'), although
personally *I* believe that the villain was more likely to have
been, say, the Duke of Buckingham (but don't get me started on
this...).

Winnie-the-Pooh: A bear of very little brain. Teddy bear character
created (1926) by the British writer A.A. Milne; Pooh and his
cohorts being based on the toys of Milne's son Christopher Robin.

Sir Lancelot: Best fighting knight of the Round Table fellowship, in
the legend of King Arthur.

Day, Doris: (1924- ) American actress, singer and animal rights
activist. Movies include "Lullaby Of Broadway" (1951), "Calamity
Jane" (1953) and "The Pajama Game" (1957). Best-known song
probably "Que Sera Sera"; oh well, what will be will be!

Messalina: (c.22-48) Wife of Roman emperor Claudius I. Promiscuous
and conniving, Messalina manipulated Claudius into executing poor
unfortunates who had displeased her in some way. She eventually
received her come-uppance when she made a secret second marriage
while still married to Claudius (who naturally was not going to
stand for this and so executed Messalina).

Boston Strangler: (c.1931-1973) Mutilating rapist who murdered 13
women (aged 19-85) in Boston, Massachusetts, from June 1962 to
January 1964. His name came from his leaving of bows tied
around his victims' necks or legs. In 1965 Albert de Salvo
was arrested for lesser sexual offences; he later confessed to
being the Boston Strangler but due to a legal technicality was
never tried for these murders. He was sentenced to life
imprisonment for his lesser crimes, but died in jail of stab
wounds at the age of 42.

Boone, Pat: (1934- ) American singer. Songs include "Love Letters
In The Sand" and "Speedy Gonzales".

Rasputin, Grigory: (1871-1916) 'Holy' man whose rather-too-well-heeded
counsel to Tsarina Alexandra of Russia certainly did nothing to
hinder the inevitability of the Russian Revolution. His
debauchery and incredible political power could not be tolerated
by the Russian nobles, a group of whom murdered Rasputin by
poisoning him, shooting him, clubbing him on the head and then
throwing him into the river where he finally drowned.

Battle of Neasden: [?].

Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma): (1869-1948) Pacifist Indian nationalist
leader, pushing for Indian independence from Britain, in a non-
violent way. He was assassinated by a Hindu nationalist after
the partition of the country into India and Pakistan.

Mother Teresa: (1910- ) Albanian-born Catholic nun, founder of a
Charity order dedicated to helping the poor and destitute of
India. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

Dalai Lama: (1935- ) Self-exiled (as a protest against Chinese
oppression) spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet.

** Rimmer's abuse of his troops, and the training of 'Arnie's Army':
Are military ploys and training to get the most out of the troops
and weed out the incompetent individuals, as demonstrated in such
movies as "An Officer And A Gentleman" (1981) and "Full Metal
Jacket" (1987).
Rimmer: "There's only two kinds from Assisi -- steers
and queers. Which are you boy?"
Mimics for example lines from "An Officer And A Gentleman",
starring Richard Gere and Louis Gossett, Jr. (as Sergeant Foley).
Foley: "Only two things come out of Oklahoma (/Arizona)
-- steers and queers. Which one are you, boy?"

** The white-hooded waxdroid in the Third Reich building: A member of
the Ku Klux Klan, an American secret society (founded after the
American Civil War) dedicated to white supremacy.

** The motorbike Rimmer is 'riding': [?].

HOLOSHIP
--------

King Of Kings: It is likely that Lister, given his taste in films, is
talking about the Cecil B. de Mille version of the story of Jesus
(1927, silent; starring H.B. Warner) rather than the less
critically-accepted 1961 remake.

Pilate, Pontius: Roman governor of Judea (26-36) who condemned Jesus
to death. Gospels portray Pilate as reluctant to condemn Christ,
but succumbing to mass pressure and releasing the thief Barabbas
instead of Jesus.

Geronimo: (1829-1909) Chief and war leader of Chiricahua Apache
Indians, who fought against US federal troops and settlers
encroaching onto the Indian lands. Also the name popularly
shouted when parachuting or performing some other exciting
leap...

Euclid: (c.330-c.260 BC) Greek mathematician specialising in plane
and solid geometry, and in number theory.

Haiku: Form of Japanese verse, usually consisting of three lines, the
first and third having five syllables, the second line having
seven syllables.

Satsuma: A form of Japanese pottery, or a Japanese orange of the
tangerine family. Either way, Lister does not speak it.

** Crane, Nirvanah: In Buddhism, nirvana is the attainment of serenity
and enlightenment through the eradication of all desires.

THE INQUISITOR
--------------

PARALLEL -- The 1984 American movie "The Terminator" (starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn) about a cyborg
from the future, on a mission of termination. Sequel (1991) "Terminator
2: Judgment Day".

Virgil: (70-19 BC) Roman poet who wrote the "Aeneid", the epic poem
about the adventures of the hero Aeneas after the fall of Troy --
from his wandering the Mediterranean to his eventual settling/
founding of Rome. See also the PIP.

Agamemnon: Hero of Greek mythology (son of the King of Mycenae) who led
the capture of Troy. After receiving the prophetess Cassandra as
his prize, he was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover
during his return home.

Helen of Troy: Most beautiful woman in Greek mythology, the daughter of
Leda and Zeus. Married to King Menelaus of Sparta, her abduction
by Prince Paris of Troy precipitated the Trojan War (after which
she returned to Sparta with her husband).

Taylor, A(lan) J(ohn) P(ercivale): (1906-1990) British historian and
TV lecturer, specialising in modern British and European history.

Archangel Gabriel: Angel close to God, and variously a trumpeter,
revealer, and foreteller of the births of John the Baptist (to
Zacharias) and Jesus (to the Virgin Mary).

Poitier, Sidney: (1924- ) American actor and director. Films include
"Lilies Of The Field" (1963, for which he won an Oscar), "Guess
Who's Coming To Dinner" (1967) and "To Sir, With Love" (1967).

Curtis, Tony: (1925- ) American actor. Films include "Some Like It
Hot" (1959), "Spartacus" (1960) and "The Great Race" (1965).

** Who's Nobody: Presumably the version of the book "Who's Who" that
deals with Nobodies rather than Somebodies.

** "They're chained together like Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis.": A
reference to the movie "The Defiant Ones" (1958) starring Poitier
and Curtis as respectively one black and one white convict chained
together, who escape custody and must deal not only with being on
the run but also with the issues of racism and their mutual
animosity towards one other.

TERRORFORM
----------

Gandalf, Master Wizard: Character created by British writer J.R.R.
Tolkien in the book "The Hobbit" (1937) and its following "The
Lord Of The Rings" (1954-1955). An adventure game of "The
Hobbit" was written for early 8-bit computers; however it appears
that the 'buying a potion from Gandalf' option doesn't exist...
well, no one said that the Cat was good at these games, and maybe
this is why...

** The muzak playing as Kryten off-lines after his accident: The song
"Copacabana" by American singer/songwriter Barry Manilow.

** Rimmer's journey to the dungeon of the Unspeakable One: The crown
-of-thorns headpiece and the attachment to the cross is akin to
Christ's last journey to His crucifixion.

** The Hooded Legions (with 'rather unconvincing red eyes'): Must be
related to the Sand People of Tatooine in the movie "Star Wars"
(1977), starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.

** Rimmer's Self-Respect and Self-Confidence: Are musketeer-wannabes
-- all for one and one for all!

QUARANTINE
----------

Algarve: Historical coastal region of southern Portugal, with a
booming tourist trade.

Betty Boop: Early cartoon character created by Grim Natwick (who later
went on to animate for the Disney Studios). Recently seen in the
movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988), helping Eddie Valentine
(Bob Hoskins) to mind his manners.

Schopenhauer, Arthur: (1788-1860) German philosopher who saw the world
as a conflict of wills resulting in frustration and pain -- the
only purpose in life must be to escape 'will' and its accompanying
painful strivings.

Turner, Joseph Mallord William: (1775-1851) Prolific British artist
famed for his landscapes (and apparently seascapes which look like
the contents of Lister's nasal passages).

DEMONS AND ANGELS
-----------------

Nobel Prize: Prize awarded annually (began 1901) as recognition for
great achievements in several areas, including Peace, Literature
and Medicine. Named after their instigator, Alfred Nobel (1833-
1896), a Swedish engineer and chemist who invented dynamite
(1867).

BACK TO REALITY
---------------

The Wailing Wall: Aka Western Wall -- a Temple ruin in Jerusalem,
sacred site of pilgrimage, mourning and prayer for Jews. One way
to offer up prayer is to speak, or 'wail', the prayer aloud.

Salvation Army: An international Christian evangelical organisation
founded in Great Britain in 1865 by Methodist minister William
Booth.

PSIRENS
-------

PARALLEL -- The Greek legend (told by Homer) of the Sirens.
The Sirens were sisters, half bird and half woman, who lived on an
island near the Straits of Messina. The Sirens sang, and any sailor
hearing the song could not help but go to the island and be compelled
to listen to the singing until his dying day.

Yukon: Territory of Canada, settled during the gold rush of 1896-1910.

King Kong: Giant ape character from the 1933 American movie of the same
name, starring Robert Armstrong and Fay Wray (also, a 1976 remake
with Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange). King Kong is taken from his
island home to New York, where he causes much havoc before falling
to his death off the Empire State Building.

Eiger: Mountain in the Swiss Alps, 3970 metres (about 13025 feet) high.
And that is one *big* pile of laundry.

** Cat: "There's an old Cat proverb -- 'It's better to live
one hour as a tiger, than a whole lifetime as a worm."
Rimmer: "There's an old human proverb -- 'Whoever heard
of a worm-skin rug?'."
Lines from the second pilot of Red Dwarf USA.
Cat (Terry Farrell): "There's an old Cat proverb that
says it's better to live an hour as a tiger, than a
lifetime as a worm."
Rimmer (Anthony Fuscle): "There's an old human saying --
'Whoever heard of a worm-skin rug?'."

** The spaceship graveyard: One of the asteroids is home to a derelict
Eagle ship, from the 1970s TV series "Space: 1999", starring
Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. Elsewhere there is also a ship
from the 1986 movie "Aliens" (starring Sigourney Weaver and
Michael Biehn), as well as a Klingon ship from "Star Trek".

** "Like with Ulysses in that ancient Turkish legend.": Lister is
twice confused. Firstly, as Kryten points out, the legend was
Greek. Secondly, the Greek legend speaks of the hero as Odysseus
(Ulysses is the Roman variation). Odysseus was a hero of the
Trojan War (the Trojan Horse strategy was his idea), mentioned by
Homer in both the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey". After the Trojan
War Odysseus journeys home to Ithaca; on the way he must pass the
Sirens' island. He fills the ears of his crew with wax, and
binds himself to the mast of his ship, in order that none can
hear or act upon the temptation of the Sirens' song.

** "This is Captain Tau of the SCS Pioneer.": Captain Tau was the
captain of the Red Dwarf in the first pilot of Red Dwarf USA
(and played by Lorraine Toussaint).

LEGION
------

PARALLEL -- The Bible, Mark 5:9 and Luke 8:30. Around these
verses tells of the healing of a man possessed by demons. In both
stories the man gives his name as 'Legion', because many demons have
possessed him. See below.

Herman Munster: Character created by Fred Gwynne (1926-1993) for the
TV series "The Munsters" (also two spin-off films). Herman
Munster was a caricature of the Frankenstein's monster a la Boris
Karloff.

Jovian: Descriptive of the planet Jupiter.

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi Da: (1573-1610) Italian baroque
painter. Of course it's one of his paintings that Rimmer is
contemplating, not the painter himself...

** "Like General George S. Patton, I believe in reincarnation.":
Patton believed that in a previous incarnation he was a foot-
soldier in Alexander The Great's army during the seige of Tyre
(in modern Lebanon) in 332 BC.

** "Some of the physicists involved -- Heidegger, Davro, Holder,
Quayle.": My one concession to pure speculation! Possibly these
physicists are descended from some famous people of these names.
Perhaps even Martin Heidegger (1889-1976; German philosopher),
Bobby Davro ([?]- ; British comedian/entertainer), Alfred
Theophil Holder (1840-1916; Austrian language scholar) and Dan
Quayle (1947- ; former American vice president -- here's hoping
that his descendant, with all his brilliance, knew how to spell
'potato').

** Legion: "My name is Legion, for we are many."
Line from the Bible (Mark 5:9, new King James Version)...
When Jesus asked the demon-possessed man his name, the
man replied: "My name is Legion; for we are many."

GUNMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE
------------------------

PARALLEL -- From the Bible (Revelation 6), the Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse: War (on a red horse), Famine (on a black horse), Death
(on a pale horse) and Pestilence (on a white horse). These four were
given power "over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger,
with death, and by the beasts of the earth".

PARALLEL -- For the detective AR game Lister is playing, the
British movie "Gumshoe" (1971); starring Albert Finney as a Liverpudlian
who dreams himself as a private eye involved in a murder case.

Sing Sing: American prison having a well-used electric chair.

Tarka Dall: Chick-pea-based Indian dish.

Bhindi Bhaji: Potato-based Indian dish.

Armageddon: The site of the final battle of nations that will lead to
the end of the world (the Bible, Revelation 16:16).

** The car in Gumshoe: A 1938 Bentley.

** "No, the last thing they'll be expecting is for us to turn into
ice-skating mongooses and dance the Bolero.": British ice-dancers
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won Winter Olympic gold medals
(eg. Sarajevo, 1984) with programmes that included their popular
routine danced to Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" (1928).

** Butch Accountant And The Yuppie Kid: Parody of the American movie
"Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid" (1969) starring Paul Newman
and Robert Redford.

** "Senorita, tre tequilas por favore.": Miss, three tequilas please
(Spanish).

EMOHAWK: POLYMORPH II
---------------------

Cavaliers: During the English Civil War (1642-1651), supporter of
Charles I. The Cavaliers generally wore courtly dress and had
long hair. See below.

Roundheads: During the English Civil War (1642-1651), supporter of
Oliver Cromwell and the Parliamentarian cause. The Roundheads
wore their hair short as was typical of men of the lower classes.
See below.

** "One-nil to the pudding basins.": The conflict between Charles I
(1600-1649; King of Great Britain 1625-1649) and Parliament (led
by Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1658) resulted in the beheading of the
King in 1649, and the establishment of the Commonwealth (1649-
1660) with Cromwell as Protector (1653-1658). Monarchy was
restored in 1660 with Charles I's son Charles II (1630-1685; King
of Great Britain 1660-1685).

** The man behind the grassy knoll: 'Gunman' (besides Lee Harvey
Oswald) allegedly involved in the assassination of American
president John F. Kennedy in Dallas, November 1963.

** Victory for the home eleven: A reference to the marvellous game
of cricket, in which there are eleven standard playing members
per team.

RIMMERWORLD
-----------

Aneurysm: Often-congenital weakening of the wall of an artery, making
the blood vessel prone to rupture (which may prove fatal) at
any time.

Thirty Years' War: (1618-1648) Major European war beginning as a
religious conflict in Germany and shifting to a struggle for
power by the Hapsburgs.

Hundred Years' War: (1337-1453) Conflicts between England and France
over political alliances and English claims on the French throne.

Crusoe, Robinson: Shipwrecked title character of the novel (1719) by
Daniel Defoe. See below.

Jane: Companion of Tarzan of the Apes (character created by Edgar Rice
Burroughs, 1912).

** A two-storey home with running water and a balcony-stroke-sun patio:
The type of house built by victims of another shipwreck, "The
Swiss Family Robinson" (novel by Johann Wyss, 1812-1813; a
deliberate adaptation of Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe").

OUT OF TIME
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Mogadon Cluster: Not in any of *my* astronomy books, but sure is a
handy group of tablets to have in an emergency!! ;-) The
sedative Nitrazepam, popularly taken by drug users to 'come down'.

Hapsburgs: European royals, imperial family of Austria-Hungary.
Dating from the 10th century, the family members then came to
rule as kings of Germany and as Holy Roman Emperors. At the
height of their power the Hapsburg families ruled a large portion
of Europe. Several Hapsburg divisions occurred, the last line of
which ended rule early this century.

Borgias: 15th/16th century Italian (originally Spanish) noble family
who had great political power in Renaissance Italy, and whose
lifestyles were anything but sedate. The better-known members
were the corrupt Pope, Alexander VI, and his two illegitimate
children -- Cesare (cardinal and general) and Lucrezia (Duchess
of Ferrara and political intriguer, and alleged to have had
incestuous relationships with both her brother and father).

** "Don't Nixon me, man!": Accusation of a cover-up, a la former
American President Richard Nixon's (1913-1994) cover-up relating
to the political scandal of Watergate.

** "His wife's an absolute cutie!": The wife of Louis XVI was Marie
Antoinette (1755-1793).

SMEG UPS
--------

Noel Edmonds (BACK TO REALITY): ([?]- ) British 'personality' and
practical joker. Star of his own show called "Noel's House
Party".

The Oakland (HOLOSHIP): A town in northern California which is home to
a sports stadium called the Oakland-Almeda County Coliseum.

"Eeeextraordinary!" (BACK TO REALITY etc): One of Chris Barrie's
impressions is of David Coleman (a British sportscaster), in
which he uses the word 'extraordinary' a lot. The Red Dwarf cast
have now taken to doing an impression of Chris Barrie doing an
impression of David Coleman.

Billy The Kid (JUSTICE): Nickname of American outlaw William Bonney
(1859-1881) who had allegedly killed over 20 men (the first at
age 12) by the time he died.

Kenneth Williams (MELTDOWN etc): (1926-1988) British actor best known
for his roles in the "Carry On" series of movies (also starring
for the most part Sid James and Joan Sims), eg. "Carry On Henry"
(1971), "Carry On Matron" (1972).

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (Unidentified): (1961) American
movie about a futuristic undersea odyssey in an atomic submarine.
Starred Walter Pidgeon and Joan Fontaine, and spawned a TV series.

Fiennes, Sir Ranulph (RIMMERWORLD): (1944- ) British explorer who
made the first surface journey around the world's polar
circumference.

Wembley (MELTDOWN): Sports stadium in London at which the FA Cup Final
is held every year (since 1923).

Piggott, Lester (MELTDOWN): (1935- ) Champion British jockey;
imprisoned in 1987 for tax evasion (returned to racing 1990).

Vat '69 (MELTDOWN): VAT is value added tax, Vat '69 is a type of
champagne.

** One of the model shots of Starbug leaving the Red Dwarf: Shows
the blue police box TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In
Space) that is the transport vehicle for Doctor Who (in the
British time-travel science-fiction show of the same name). All
right yes I know we all know that, but it's just included for
completeness' sake, okay?

SMEG OUTS
---------

"Just pretend it's scrumpy." (MAROONED): Scrumpy is an alcoholic apple
cider, most particularly from the West Country of England.

"Who's the most unpopular man at a Borussia Munchengladbach match?"
(Unidentified): A German football team.

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THE BOOKS
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INFINITY WELCOMES CAREFUL DRIVERS
---------------------------------

PARALLEL -- For the game Better Than Life, Frank Capra's movie
"It's A Wonderful Life" (1946).

Salvador Dali: (1904-1989) Spanish (surrealist) painter with an
eccentric style and an eccentric moustache. Painted such things
as burning giraffes and 'melting clocks' (eg. "Persistence Of
Memory", 1931).

Broadway: Avenue in New York; the heart of the theatre district.

Guinness: A type of dark creamy stout. From the Guinness brewery,
founded in the 18th century by the Irish family of that name.

Marie Lloyd: (1870-1922) British music hall artiste.

Sea of Tranquillity: Landmark on the Moon which was the site of the
first manned (or womanned, depending on which reality you're
from) lunar landing.

Smith and Wesson: Type of gun. Favoured by such people as Dirty Harry
Callahan -- it really helps to make his day.

Cartesian Principle: "I think, therefore I am" by philosopher Rene
Descartes. This pops up a lot in the world of Red Dwarf, in one
strange form after another.

GCSE: General Certificate of Secondary Education -- qualifications
received at completion of comprehensive school (age 15-16).

Burt Lancaster: (1913-1994) American actor, producer, writer and
director. Films include "From Here To Eternity" (1953), "Separate
Tables" (1958), "Birdman Of Alcatraz" (1962) and "Field Of Dreams"
(1989).

Arthur C. Clarke: (1917- ) British scientific speculator and science-
fiction writer. Best-known works "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968;
made into a film by Stanley Kubrick) and its sequels.

Heisenberg, Werner Carl: (1901-1976) German physicist, and Nobel Prize
winner 1932. Developed quantum theory and the uncertainty (or
indeterminacy) principle (where the implication is that it is
impossible to predict the moment-to-moment behaviour of an atomic
system) for quantum mechanics. I freely admit that "Heisenberg's
Uncertainty Principle For Beginners" would come in extremely handy
for me too, as the most I get out of reading the principle is that
Heisenberg must have been one very clever chap indeed to have
thought of it.

Mark Twain: (1835-1910) American writer. Best-known works include
"The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer" (1876), "The Adventures Of
Huckleberry Finn" (1885) and "A Connecticut Yankee At King
Arthur's Court" (1889).
McIntyre: "Rumours of my death have been greatly
understated."
In 1897 Mark Twain sent a cable from London to the Associated
Press, in order to confirm his continued state of life...
Twain: "The report of my death is exaggerated."
This cable is often 'quoted' as "Rumours of my death have been
greatly exaggerated."

Captain Kirk: The captain of the Red Dwarf was saddled with this name,
made famous by Canadian-born American actor William Shatner
(1931- ) in the "Star Trek" series and movies via his portrayal
of Captain James Tiberius Kirk.

Scala: A cinema. [?]

Peter Greenaway: (1942- ) British writer and director, known for his
films which appear to be engendered to stir up controversy, or
failing that, to stir up at least the contents of the viewers'
stomachs. Films include "The Draughtsman's Contract" (1983), "The
Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" (1989), "Prospero's Books"
(1991) and "The Baby Of Macon" (1993).

42nd Street: (1933) American musical film about putting on a Broadway
musical. Starring Werner Baxter and Ginger Rogers. From the
novel by Bradford Ropes.

James Stewart: (1908- ) Most excellent American actor. Star of many
films, one for which he received an Oscar ("The Philadelphia
Story", 1940) and four others which garnered him Oscar nominations
("Mr. Smith Goes To Washington", 1939; "It's A Wonderful Life",
1946; "Harvey", 1950; and "Anatomy Of A Murder", 1959). Other
films include "Broken Arrow" (1950), "Rear Window" (1954),
"Vertigo" (1958) and recently "An American Tail: Fievel Goes
West" (1991) as the voice of Wylie Burp.

Doctor Who: British science-fiction TV series (debuted 1963) about the
adventures of a time-traveller called the Doctor -- played by
seven actors; including originally by William Hartnell ([?])
from 1963-1966, with the longest run by Tom Baker ([?]- ) from
1974-1981.

Well, who *did* knock Swansea City out of the FA (Football Association)
Cup in 1967? Hmm? [?]

Luxembourg, capital of: That's really a poor IQ for a glass of water.
The capital of Luxembourg is...Luxembourg.

Vladimir Nabokov: (1899-1977) *Russian*-born American writer.

Flaubert, Gustave: (1821-1880) French novelist. Well-known work --
"Madame Bovary" (1857).

Sacha Distel: (1933- ) French guitarist and singer; best-known hit
"Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" from the movie "Butch Cassidy
And The Sundance Kid" (1969).

La Bamba: Traditional Latino party song, originally adapted into a hit
(1958) by Ritchie Valens. Covered by Los Lobos in 1987 for the
film of the same name, which starred Lou Diamond Phillips. And,
it actually makes about as much sense whether done in Spanish,
English or belching.

Chelsea Brown: ([?]- ) American actress. Appeared on the American
comedy show "Laugh In" in the late 1960s; more recently seen in
the Australian soap opera "E Street".

St. Peter's Square: Large public square and entry to The Vatican.
Named for St. Peter (former disciple of Jesus) who was martyred
on the Vatican Hill in approximately 64.

Islam: Religion of Muslims; founded in the 7th century. The holy book
is the Koran, the word of the Prophet (Messenger of Allah/God)
Mohammed.

Zoroastrianism: Religion founded by the Persian prophet Zoroaster (aka
*Zarathustra*) in the 6th century BC. Worship is of the good God
(Ahura *Mazda*), who is in conflict with the evil God (Ahriman).

Dharma: In Hinduism, dharma is the moral law (ethical and religious
duties) of an individual, which governs the path of that
individual's rebirths. In Buddhism, dharma is the truth taught
by Buddha.

Brahmanism: An early developmental stage of Hinduism.

Hinduism: Major religion of India, founded about 4000 years ago.
Concept of Brahman (supreme spirit) and other lesser divine
manifestations including the triad of chief gods -- Brahman,
Vishnu and Siva. Beliefs include reincarnation and karma
('fate'), and there is a caste system.

Vedanta: In Hinduism, certain philosophical systems derived from the
sacred Hindu treatise called Upanishad.

Jainism: Ancient Indian religion. No deity worship but a principle of
compassion, non-violence, and respect for all living things.

Hinayana: One of the two major forms of Buddhism (more conservative).

Mahayana: The other (later, more liberal) of the two major forms of
Buddhism.

Sikhism: Indian religion founded by Nanak in the 15th/16th centuries.
Sikhs believe in a single God, and in equality of all human
beings.

Shintoism: Indigenous religion of Japan. Principles include a belief
in the oneness of nature, and reverence for the reigning dynasty
(descendants of the Sun goddess).

Taoism: Chinese philosophical system founded in the 6th century BC by
Lao Zi, in which emphasis is placed on harmonious interaction with
the environment, leading to a following of the hidden 'way', or
tao, of the universe.

Confucianism: Beliefs and practices followed on the support of the
Chinese sage Confucius (551-479 BC). A political and
philosophical doctrine incorporating the idea of the union of the
yin (passive) and yang (active) natural principles.

Marx, Karl: (1818-1883) German philosopher, economist and social
theorist.

Engels, Friedrich: (1820-1895) German political and social
philosopher. Also worked with Marx.

Freud, Sigmund: (1865-1839) Austrian physician who pioneered the study
of the unconscious mind, and laid foundations for the principle of
psychoanalysis.

Jung, Carl Gustav: (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist and sometime
collaborative-colleague of Freud.

Copernicus, Nicolaus: (1473-1543) Polish astronomer who went against
Christian doctrine by maintaining that the Sun, not the Earth, was
the centre of the solar system.

Catherine wheel: Type of spinning firework, also called a pinwheel.
Named for the 4th century Christian martyr (Saint) Catherine of
Alexandria, who protested against the worship of idols and was
tortured on a wheel before being beheaded at the behest of the
Emperor Maxentius. Her feast day is Gazpacho Soup Day.

World Trade Center: In New York City, the second-tallest building in
the world at 411 metres (1350 feet) high. And just because I
can't cope with documents which say things like 'the second-
biggest/tallest/ugliest' etc., and always leave me wondering what
the hell the *first* is, the tallest building in the world is the
Sears Tower in Chicago, at 443 metres (1454 feet) high. :-)

Rennies: Anti-indigestion tablets.

Dixieland: A jazz style originating in New Orleans after 1917; emphasis
on trumpet, trombone and clarinet.

Death March in Saul: Funeral music from the "Saul" opera (1738) by the
German composer George Frideric Handel.

Yankee Stadium: American-football stadium in New York. [? size ?]

Mauna Kea: Dormant volcano and highest peak (4200 metres; 13784 feet)
on Hawaii in the Hawaiian Islands. Also the site of an
astronomical observatory, but I guess that's not needed in this
particular case.

Barbican Centre: Large arts and conferences centre in London (14.2
hectares; 35 acres), opened in 1982. Components include a
theatre, cinemas, library, art gallery, restaurants, offices and
apartments.

Pandora: Greek mythology 'Eve' equivalent, whose curiosity compelled
her to open a box given by the Titan Prometheus as a wedding
present. Pandora released the contents of the box -- troubles
and diseases -- into the world, along with the one solace (Hope)
that was also in the box.

Rod Serling: (1924-1975) American TV show producer. Most famous for
creating and hosting the TV series "Twilight Zone".

Twilight Zone: American TV series of fantasy and imagination (1959-
1964), created and hosted by Rod Serling. Briefly revived in the
1980s (the TV show, not Rod Serling -- ick) as a series, and
movie (1983).

Kensington: Part of London.

The Student Prince: (1954) American operetta film starring Edmund
Purdom and the voice of Mario Lanza; about a prince who goes to
Heidelberg to study, but falls in love with a barmaid. From
the play "Old Heidelberg" by Wilhelm Meyer-Foerster.

King Of The Rocket Men: (1949) American serial starring Tristram
Coffin -- a mad scientist's diabolical schemes are foiled by the
aforementioned Royal Rocketness.

Rumpelstiltskin: Fairy tale adapted by the Brothers Grimm. A miller's
daughter strikes a bargain with a dwarf in which he saves her
life and helps her become Queen, in exchange for the possession of
her firstborn child. The Queen can only avoid giving up her child
if she can guess the dwarf's name -- Rumpelstiltskin.

Billy Benton: (1900-1973) American government official, advertising
executive and US publisher of Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Aubusson rug: Rug (usually flat-piled) which is handwoven at the
villages of Aubusson and Felletin in central France.

Battle of Borodino: French troops under Napoleon defeated the Russians
under Kutusov, at Borodino in Russia on September 7th 1812.

George The Third: (1738-1820) King of Great Britain 1760-1820. After
1765, George suffered increasingly from periodic bouts of madness;
after 1811 it was necessary for his son George to become Prince
Regent. George III's madness was apparently caused by the
incurable (and in those days, absolutely untreatable) genetic
disease porphyria.

Brian Kidd: [?].

Planck, Max: (1858-1947) German physicist.

Planck's Constant: A constant which measures the size of quantum
effects in a system; h = 6.626196 x 10^-34. And I'm sure we all
know what that means.

John Merrick: The Elephant Man. And his name was actually 'Joseph'.

Shangri-La: A utopia in the mountains of Tibet, as described in the
novel "Lost Horizon" (1933), by James Hilton. The term has now
become synonymous with any idyllic refuge.

Champs Elysees: Major avenue in Paris ville. The name means Elysian
Fields, which in Greek mythology is the happy dwelling place of
virtuous souls after death.

Sorbonne: Major university of Paris.

Louis XIV: (1638-1715) King of France 1643-1715. Also known as the
Sun King.

Picasso, Pablo: (1881-1973) Spanish artist, working in several styles
including Cubism and Surrealism.

Ming (vase): Blue and white porcelain produced during the reign of the
Ming dynasty in China, 1368-1644.

Michelangelo (Buonarroti): (1475-1564) Italian painter and sculptor.
Famous works include the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel (1500s),
and the statue "David" (1501-1504).

Matisse, Henri: (1869-1954) French painter, sculptor, designer and
illustrator.

Cezanne, Paul: (1839-1906) French Postimpressionist painter.

Koh-i-noor: Large diamond originally part of the Indian royal jewels,
now in the British collection. The name is Persian for 'mountain
of light'.

Marks And Spencer's: British chain of stores, developed from 'penny
bazaar' origins. Named for their developers, Simon Marks
(1888-1964; 1st Baron Broughton) and Tom Spencer ([?]).

Burton group: [?].

James Clavell: (1924- ) Australian born novelist, whose books
frequently top the 800-1200 page mark. Works include "Tai-Pan"
(1966), "Shogun" (1975; in excess of 1200 pages) and "Whirlwind"
(1986; in excess of 1300 pages).

Dom Perignon: Champagne. [? inventor/creator ?]

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich: (1870-1924) Russian revolutionary communist
leader, came to power with the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and
became the first leader of the USSR under a communist doctrine he
adapted from the principles of Marx.

Archimedes: (c.287-212 BC) Greek mathematician. Made major
discoveries in geometry, mechanics and hydrostatics.

Norman Wisdom: (1920- ) British comedian and actor.

Clark Gable: (1901-1960) American actor. Films include "It Happened
One Night" (1934; and for which he won an Oscar), "Mutiny On The
Bounty" (1935), "Gone With The Wind" (1939), "Mogambo" (1953) and
"The Misfits" (1961; with Marilyn Monroe -- the last film for both
of them).

The GPO Tower: [? size ?].

Ida Lupino: (1914-1995) British-born American actress and director.
Films include "The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes" (1939) and "The
Trouble With Angels" (1966); also directed several TV shows
including "The Donna Reed Show" and "Dr. Kildare".

Benny Hill: (1925-1992) British comedian. Actually he was quite
clever and witty, but is mostly remembered for toilet and sex-
allusion jokes, particularly sketches which consisted largely of
the 'humour' of having women in various states of undress being
chased around by men of lascivious intent.

Dancer and Prancer: Obviously named after two of Santa Claus's eight
reindeer; the others being Comet, Cupid, Donner, Vixen, Dasher
and Blitzen (Rudolf only being used in real pea-soupers).

Stephane Grappelli: (1908- ) French-born jazz violinist.

Charlie Parker: (1920-1955) American saxophone player, composer and
bandleader.

Yehudi Menuhin: (1916- ) American violinist.

Buddy Rich: (1917-1987) American drummer and bandleader.

Jellybean: ([?]- ) John Benitez. American producer, remixer and
general dance music expert. Has released his own albums but is
probably best-known for the artists he has worked with; eg.
Blondie, Whitney Houston, Billy Joel, The Pointer Sisters and
Madonna.

** Bloody Mary: This drink was named after Mary I (1516-1558), Queen
of England 1553-1558. A Catholic, Mary earned the nickname
'Bloody Mary' for the zeal she showed in trying to destroy
Protestant 'heretics'; in particular for the period 1555-1558
during which she had 283 Protestant martyrs burned.

** "Would you like to be turned into a pillar of salt?": In the Bible
(Genesis 19), God causes the depraved cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
to be destroyed. He permits the man Lot and his family to escape,
but they are warned not to look back on the cities' destruction.
Lot's wife disobeys this order, and upon looking back, she is
turned immediately into a pillar of salt.

** "I want to visit strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new
civilisations. To boldly go where no person has gone before.":
Okay, we all know this one. Obviously Lister is a fan of "Star
Trek" -- good to see him using a non-sexist version of the
opening spiel, a la "The Next Generation" (and beyond?).

** Perry N'Kwomo: An African balladeer with not only a similar name
to that of the 20th century American singer Perry Como (1912- ),
but apparently a similar nice 'n' nauseating style...

** Exorcist sick: This is really being sick in a *major* way. In the
American movie "The Exorcist" (1973), starring Ellen Burstyn and
Linda Blair, a young girl (Blair) is possessed by demons, and one
of the messier side effects of this is the tendency to projectile-
vomit all sorts of unspeakable green goo.

** It wasn't a face that could launch a thousand ships: A reference
to Helen of Troy, said to be the most beautiful woman ever, and
who *did* have a face that could launch a thousand ships. From
this we get the unit of measurement for beauty in a woman: the
milli-Helen -- defined as the beauty needed to launch one ship
(no I'm not making this up, some *other* idiot thought of this
one).

** "I serve, therefore I am.": Variation on "I think, therefore I am"
by Rene Descartes.

** And a certain canned food company beginning with 'H'...: Beanz
Meanz Heinz.

** "Thank you, Sigmund.": Rimmer thinks that Lister fancies himself
a bit of a psychoanalyst, a la Sigmund Freud. See above.

** The Fab Five: Of course, without Lister, the Beatles -- Paul
McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison
(1943- ) -- were only the Fab Four.

BETTER THAN LIFE
----------------

PARALLEL -- For the game Better Than Life, Frank Capra's movie
"It's A Wonderful Life" (1946).

Alka-Seltzer: An anti-indigestion mixture.

Frank 'The Enforcer' Nitti: (c.1896-1943) Chicago gangster. Al
Capone's chief enforcer and head of Capone's empire after Capone
went to prison (1931). Nitti was indicted for extortion but shot
himself before the indictment was handed down.

The Sphinx: In Egyptian mythology, a sphinx was a creature with the
body of a lion and the head of a man. What Rimmer has love-
bitten is the statue of the Great Sphinx at Giza in Egypt. The
Sphinx's face is believed to be that of King Khafre (c.2500 BC),
whose nearby pyramid the Sphinx was originally set to guard.

The Raj: Name for the period of British rule in India before Indian
independence in 1947.

Jesse James: (1847-1882) American outlaw (bank, stagecoach and train
robber). His gang included his brother Frank (who was tried and
acquitted twice, before becoming a farmer); and later the outlaw
Bob Ford, who finally shot and killed Jesse James in order to
collect on his reward money.

Harley Davidson: Type of motorbike. The first Harley Davidson was
produced in 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by the team of William
Harley and Arthur Davidson (later joined by his brothers Walter
and William Davidson).

Louis Quinze: Descriptive of the styles of art and interior design
prominent during the reign of Louis XV (1710-1774), King of France
(1715-1774). Two major styles -- Regency and rococo -- flourished
during this period.

Morning Has Broken: Song recorded by Cat Stevens.

Nantucket: Island which constitutes the southeasternmost point of
Massachusetts.

Irma La Douce: (1963) American film starring Shirley MacLaine and Jack
Lemmon. A Paris prostitute (Irma) and a policeman fall in love,
and he becomes her pimp.

Elizabeth I: (1533-1603) Queen of England (1558-1603). Elizabeth
never married and was nicknamed 'The Virgin Queen' (reflected in
the naming of the US state of Virginia).

Saint Bernard: Breed of dog famed for rescuing lost mountaineers. The
breed was developed at the Swiss monasteries of the Hospice of
Saint Bernard (founded by Saint Bernard of Menthon -- 923-1008 --
who is the patron saint of mountaineers).

Haydn, Franz Joseph: (1732-1809) Austrian composer and master of the
string quartet. Also a teacher of both Mozart and Beethoven.

Josephine Bonaparte: (1763-1814) Wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, and
Empress of France (1804-1810).

Imelda Marcos: (1930- ) Filipino politician, and wife of ex-
President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos. Perhaps most
famous for her *extensive* collection of shoes...

Elizabeth Taylor: (1932- ) British-born American actress, eight
times married and counting. Films include "National Velvet"
(1944), "Giant" (1956), "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" (1958),
"Butterfield 8" (1960; Oscar-winning) and "Who's Afraid Of
Virginia Woolf?" (1968; Oscar-winning). Recently seen in "The
Flintstones" (1994) as the mother of Wilma Flintstone (the sexiest
woman who ever lived -- in all probability).

Gary Cooper: (1901-1961) American actor, the archetypal 'Hollywood
hero'. Films include "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town" (1936; Oscar-
nominated), "For Whom The Bell Tolls" (1943; Oscar-nominated)
and "High Noon" (1952; for which he won his second Oscar).

Cagney, James: (1899-1986) Intense American actor. Films include
"Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942; for which he won an Oscar), "Love Me
Or Leave Me" (1955) and "Man Of A Thousand Faces" (1957).

Saran-wrap: Wrap for keeping food fresh; aka cling-wrap, aka Glad-wrap,
aka bastard-plastic-from-hell-that-I-can-never-get-to-work-in-a-
million-years-wrap.

The Great Gatsby: Title character of a retired gangster in the novel
"The Great Gatsby" (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Groucho Marx: (1890-1977) One of the Marx Brothers (others were Chico,
Zeppo and Harpo), a team of American comedy actors very successful
during the 1930s. Groucho was characterised by big glasses, big
eyebrows, a big moustache and a big cigar. Films include "Duck
Soup" (1933), "A Night At The Opera" (1935) and "A Day At The
Races" (1937).

Margaret Dumont: (1889-1965) American Broadway and screen actress,
best-known for her work with the Marx Brothers, with whom she
co-starred in seven films (popularly as the target of Groucho's
affections/insults); including "Duck Soup" (1933), "A Night At The
Opera" (1935) and "A Day At The Races" (1937).

Cubism: Art movement founded by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in the
early 20th century, pioneering the concepts of abstract art in
that art need not reflect reality.

George Washington: (1732-1799) First President of the USA (1789-1797),
after the American War Of Independence (1775-1783). Secretary of
State Thomas Jefferson resigned in 1793, creating the two-party
system.

Thomas Jefferson: (1743-1826) Founder of the Democratic Republican
Party, and 3rd President of the USA (1801-1809). Also largely
responsible for drafting up the American Declaration Of
Independence.

Theodore Roosevelt: (1858-1919) 26th President of the USA (1901-1909),
a Republican.

Mount Rushmore: American National Memorial at Black Hills, South
Dakota. The heads of Washington (representing the nation's
founding), Jefferson (philosophy), Lincoln (unity) and T.
Roosevelt (expansion) are carved from the granite of the mountain.
The construction was created and supervised (1927-1941) by Gutzon
Borglum, and each head is approximately 18 metres (60 feet) high.

Oppenheimer, J(ulius) Robert: (1904-1967) American physicist; in
charge of the development of the atomic bomb (the Manhattan
Project).

Gorgons: Three hideous sisters of Greek mythology, having live snakes
instead of hair. Two of the sisters (Stheno and Euryale) are
immortal; the third sister Medusa was mortal, but she alone had
the power to turn to stone anyone upon whom she gazed.

El Greco: (1541-1614) Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Greek Spanish-style
painter, sculptor and architect.

Mount Everest: In the Himalayas, the tallest mountain in the world at
8872 metres (29118 feet) high.

Queen Isabella of Spain: (1830-1904) Isabella II, Queen of Spain (as
opposed to Isabella I, Queen of Castile -- before the unification
of Castile and Aragon into Spain) 1833-1868.

Benny Goodman: (1909-1986) The 'King Of Swing'; American clarinet-
player and bandleader.

World Cup: Premier international football competition.

Romeo And Juliet: Play by William Shakespeare, about two star-crossed
lovers (Romeo of Montague and Juliet of Capulet) from feuding
families. Each one, believing the other to be dead, commits
suicide -- Romeo by poison and Juliet by stabbing herself.
Sigh...nothing like an old-fashioned love story...

Fosbury Flop: Method of clearing the bar for the high jump, pioneered
by American high jumper Dick Fosbury (1947- ) who won Olympic
gold using his technique in Mexico City, 1968. The Fosbury Flop
is now the standard high jump leap, totally replacing the less-
effective scissor-leaps and rolls.

Kookie Kola Bear: [?].

Jayne Mansfield: (1932-1967) American Blonde Bombshell actress, she
of the *very* curvaceous figure. Best-known films "The Girl
Can't Help It" (1956), "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" (1957)
and "The Sheriff Of Fractured Jaw" (1959). She died in a car
accident in which she was decapitated.

Deely-boppers: [?].

** Marie and the dauphin: Marie is Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI
of France. The dauphin is their son, prince of France and heir to
the throne -- in this case, Louis (1785-1795), who became heir to
the throne after the death of his older brother in 1789. Louis
was proclaimed Louis XVII after the execution of his father, but
this was a nominal title only and the boy remained a prisoner of
the Revolution until he died.

** A personal hat-trick: Originating from the game of cricket, a hat-
trick is when a bowler dismisses three consecutive batsmen off
three consecutive balls (this is a rare, nay freak, occurrence --
it has only been done 21 times in the history of test cricket).
From this then, one can only assume that the Cat has *pulverised*
three cute furry creatures in quick succession. Sounds like a job
for the RSPCCFC to me.

** This was the fridge that the Great Gatsby flung open when Daisy came
calling: Daisy was Gatsby's married lover. [? the relevance of
the fridgy reference ?]

** The Cat's smile entered the room, followed by the Cat himself: From
this I deduce that the Cat's early ancestors were from Chester, as
this is the kind of thing that the Cheshire Cat (from Lewis
Carroll's novel "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland", 1865) could
and would do.

** The format of the voting for Garbage World contest: Is the same as
that for the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual event where the
performances of contestants from several European countries are
broadcast to juries around Europe; the voting comes in in exactly
the format of the Garbage World competition, even down to
"Germany, two points. Allemagne, deux points."

** Lister's discovery of Mount Rushmore, telling him that Garbage World
is in fact Earth: Eerily reminiscent of the final moments of the
American movie "Planet Of The Apes" (1968, starring Charlton
Heston and Roddy McDowall), in which Taylor (Heston) discovers
the ruins of the Statue Of Liberty on the beach, and realises that
this horrific ape-dominated planet he is stranded on is in fact
Earth's fate.

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PARALLEL -- For Cyberia; the vast isolated northern area (much
'wasteland' and sparsely populated) of Russia called Siberia. From the
early 17th century, Siberia was used as a penal colony and general
'dumping ground' for criminals and political prisoners (not all of whom
would have shared the same degree of 'guilt').

Hush-puppies: Type of shoes.

George Formby: (1904-1961) British singing comedian, ukelele player,
and sometime actor in comedy/musical films of the 1930s and
1940s.

Grand Canyon: Enormous gorge in Arizona, USA, carved out of stratified
rock by the Colorado River. Famous for its beauty, grandeur, and
treasure hunts to find the remains of Thelma and Louise. If
Lister's smile is really this big though, then that's about 350
kilometres (217 miles) long, between six and 29 kilometres (4-18
miles) wide, and over 1.7 kilometres (1.1 miles) deep.

Lagos: Chief port and former capital of Nigeria (Abuja became capital
in 1991).

Hubble, Edwin Powell: (1889-1953) American astronomer who discovered
galaxies outside of the Milky Way, and proposed the 'expanding
universe' theory. The powerful Hubble Space Telescope in orbit
around the Earth (since 1990) is named for him, as are presumably
the smaller Hubbles on board the Starbugs. Here's hoping that
*their* mirrors were aligned properly...

Aztec: Mexican American Indian people who lived around the site of
modern-day Mexico City from about the 12th century to the 16th
century; the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in 1519 led to
the ultimate destruction of the Aztecs.

Jim Daniels bourbon: Either this is one I'm just not familiar with, or
else it's a merging of Jack Daniels and Jim Beam whiskies. Well,
how would I know? The stuff's revolting; *I'm* certainly not
going to be drinking it!

Neil Diamond: (1941- ) American singer/songwriter. Hits include
"Cracklin' Rosie", "Sweet Caroline", "Song Sung Blue" and "You
Don't Bring Me Flowers" (duet with Barbra Streisand).

Hamilton Academicals: [?].

Jacobean furniture: Style of furniture during the reign of James I
(1566-1625), King of Great Britain (1603-1625). In the
Elizabethan style which preceded it, but with broader classical
lines and adopting many Renaissance motifs.

Bactrian camel: Camel with two humps. Originated in the region of
Bactria, an area of Asia divided between modern Pakistan,
Afghanistan and Tajikstan.

Thurston J connector clip: [?].

Har Megiddo: Alternative spelling for Armageddon, the site of the
final battle of nations that will lead to the end of the world
(the Bible, Revelation 16:16).

General (George Armstrong) Custer: (1839-1876) American Civil War
general who later campaigned against the Sioux from 1874; he and
his entire troop detachment (save only one of the warhorses,
called Comanche) were destroyed by Sitting Bull's ambushing
forces at the Battle Of Little Bighorn (Montana, 25 June 1876).

Rorschach, Hermann: (1884-1922) Swiss psychiatrist who developed the
Rorschach Ink Test, a psychology diagnostic tool whereby the
personality types of patients may be identified by the person's
interpretation of what patterns he/she sees in the ink spots.

Bader, Sir Douglas: (1910-1982) British fighter pilot. Bader lost
both of his legs in an aviation accident in 1931, but went on to
successfully fly missions during World War II. For his work with
disabled people he was knighted in 1976.

The Frog Prince: Fairy tale adapted by the Brothers Grimm, in which a
prince under an evil spell (which has turned him into a frog)
breaks the spell, becomes human once more, wins the love of a
princess and they both live happily ever after. And they don't
write 'em like *that* any more.

Tutankhamun: (c.1360-1350 BC) Boy pharaoh of ancient Egypt, and one
of the few whose tomb survived to the present day largely
unplundered by thieves (discovered by Howard Carter, 1922). His
famous gold death mask is presently in a Cairo museum.

Cartesian coordinates: Components of a geometric system to show the
position of a point on a plane (x, y coordinates) or in space
(x, y, z coordinates). Named for their originator, Rene
Descartes. Yes, him again.

The Mayflower: Name of the ship on which the Pilgrims first sailed in
1620, from Plymouth in England to America (in present-day
Massachusetts) where they founded the Plymouth colony and
plantation.

Andromeda: The galaxy is named for Andromeda of Greek mythology, an
Ethiopian princess whose mother boasted of her daughter's beauty
to jealous ears. Andromeda was sentenced by the sea god Poseidon
to be devoured by a sea-monster, but was saved by the hero
Perseus in exchange for her hand in marriage.

Avogadro, Amadeo: (1776-1856) Italian physicist and chemist, and
inventor of the term 'molecule'. Avogadro's Law states that
equal volumes of all gases (which are at the same temperature
and pressure) will have the same numbers of molecules.

West Point: Former fort in New York state, and a military outpost
since 1778. Site of the US Military Academy (called West Point),
established 1802.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: (1968) British children's film about
adventures with an inventor's magical old car. Starring Dick Van
Dyke and Lionel Jeffries.

Dralon: [?].

The Real McCoy: Phrase meaning 'the real thing' or 'the genuine
article'. As to its origins, well take your pick. An 1896
welterweight-champion boxer (Charles 'Kid') McCoy distinguishing
himself from another boxing (Al) McCoy, or just simply proving
himself, seems popular. As is the idea that the phrase refers
to a Prohibition liquor smuggler -- maybe a McCoy who could be
trusted to bring in the Good Stuff. Then again, the phrase may
predate all American references and be a mutation of some
reference from British/Irish/Australian sources. Who knows? We
could just make something up ourselves...

Walt Disney: (1901-1966) American cartoonist, moviemaker, theme park
developer and general all-round genius. Inventor of Mickey Mouse,
Donald Duck, Goofy and others; developed quality animated
features, and created Disneyland, the Happiest Place on Earth.
(Yes, I am a fan!)

Darwin, Charles: (1809-1882) British scientist who proposed (1859) the
Theory Of Evolution, whereby species develop over time after
processes of mutation and adaptation for natural selection.
Darwin's Theory caused great controversy because it goes directly
against the Christian doctrine of Creation.

Ursa Major constellation: The Great Bear (or Big Dipper) -- the third
largest constellation in the sky, so that's one big scar.

Hallowe'en: October 31, immediately preceding the Christian feast of
All Saints' Day. Traditionally the time of children dressing in
ghoulish outfits and hunting in packs for suitable prey with
which to destroy their teeth.

Perth: Town of eastern Scotland, north of Edinburgh.

Henry VIII: (1491-1547) King of England 1509-1547. Created the
Church of England (1534) when Rome refused to annul his first
marriage to his brother's widow. He went on to marry five more
times; two of his wives were beheaded for adultery. He was
succeeded by Edward VI, his son by his third wife Jane Seymour.

Melba toast: Type of toast named after Australian opera singer Dame
Nellie Melba (1859-1931).

Edward II: (1284-1327) King of England 1307-1327. Incompetent king
and reputed homosexual, Edward was deposed by his wife Isabella
and her lover Roger Mortimer in 1327. Edward then conveniently
'died' soon afterwards -- allegedly he was disembowelled with a
red-hot poker inserted via his rectum (a favoured 'punishment'
death for homosexuals, and also a method not to leave obvious
evidence of murder).

Danny Boy: Song recorded by several people, including Jim Reeves and
Bing Crosby.

Apollo: American space program operating between 1968 and 1975 which
aimed for and achieved the objective of landing a man on the
Moon. The rockets which launched the Apollo spacecrafts were
the two- or three-stage Saturn rockets.

** Cat: "There's an old Cat proverb -- 'It's better to live
one hour as a tiger, than a whole lifetime as a worm."
Rimmer: "There's an old human saying -- 'Whoever heard
of a worm-skin rug?'."
Lines from the second pilot of Red Dwarf USA.
Cat (Terry Farrell): "There's an old Cat proverb that
says it's better to live an hour as a tiger, than a
lifetime as a worm."
Rimmer (Anthony Fuscle): "There's an old human saying --
'Whoever heard of a wormskin rug?'."

** The Deformed Dozen: Not so much 'unwashed' as incomplete... A
droid 'suicide' squad a la the suicide squad of the movie "The
Dirty Dozen" (1967).

** The Rimmerteer: Rimmer's version of The Rocketeer, the rocket-
pack-wearing character who foils Nazi world domination plans in
1938 (American film of the same name, 1991, starring Timothy
Dalton; adapted from the novel by Dave Stevens).

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Catherine The Great: (1729-1796) Empress of Russia (1762-1796).
Astute ruler, notorious for her sexual appetite and string of
lovers. Her husband Peter III was murdered in a coup in 1762
(allegedly by Aleksei Orlov, brother of Catherine's then-lover
Grigory Orlov), after which Catherine ruled alone.

Byron, George Gordon: (1788-1824) British Romantic poet.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe: (1792-1822) British lyric poet and pioneer of
the Romantic movement.

Lloyd Webber, Andrew: (1948- ) British composer and stage musical
producer. Hits include "Evita", "Cats" and "Phantom Of The
Opera".

Happy Eater: [?].

Bugs Bunny: A wascally wabbit character in Warner Brothers' Loony
Tunes cartoons.

Bridge at Remagen: Remagen is a city on the Rhine River in western
Germany. In March 1945 it was the site of a battle to allow the
Allied advance into Germany -- the taking of the railway bridge
into Remagen by Anglo-American forces enabled the establishment
of the first Allied bridgehead across the Rhine.

Eva Braun: (1910-1945) Adolf Hitler's mistress during the 1930s, they
married in the bunker in Berlin in 1945, then committed suicide
together the next day. Must have been *one* disappointing
wedding night (unlike Lister, I shall not be so crude as to
speculate upon the reason...).

Swindon: Town in County Wiltshire in England.

La Giaconda: Italian name for da Vinci's painting "Mona Lisa" (1503-
1506), the portrait of the lady with the enigmatic smile.

Trafalgar Square: Square in London. Named for the naval battle of
Trafalgar in 1805, at which Nelson's fleet won a decisive victory
over the Franco-Spanish fleet.

The Carpenters: Richard (1946- ) and Karen (1950-1983), American
brother and sister singer/songwriter duo of the 1970s. Hits
include "We've Only Just Begun", "Top Of The World" and "Please
Mr Postman". The Carpenters finished with Karen's death from a
heart attack brought on by anorexia.

Tommy Steele: (1936- ) British entertainer. Singer and actor,
origins in music hall.

Alien: (1979) British movie starring Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt.
It was followed by two American sequels, "Aliens" (1986) and
"Alien^3" (1992), also starring Sigourney Weaver.

Mary Poppins: (1964) American Walt Disney movie about the perfect
nanny, starring Julie Andrews (1935- )in the title role (for
which she won an Oscar).

** I Could Have Lanced All Night: Song obviously ripped off from
"I Could Have Danced All Night" from the 1964 American musical
film "My Fair Lady", starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn as
Eliza Doolittle (singing the song with Marni Nixon's voice).

** Four Funerals And Another One: Not as funny a movie as its
similarly-titled predecessor, the British film "Four Weddings And
A Funeral" (1994) starring Hugh Grant and Andie McDowell.

** Fame: Song from the 1980 American film of the same name. The
first line, as sung by one of the film's stars (Irene Cara), goes
"Baby, look at me; and tell me what you see."

** Rimmer's Column: Would presumably supersede Nelson's Column which
is currently in Trafalgar Square.

** I jog, therefore I am: Yet another variation on the "I think,
therefore I am" principle by Rene Descartes.

** TJ H00KER: Calculations inspired by the 1980s American police
'drama' series "T.J. Hooker", starring William Shatner (1931- )
in the title role.

** The Bitch Is Back: Cinema publicity tag for the 1992 American
movie "Alien^3" (starring Sigourney Weaver and Lance Henricksen).
Come on though, she's not so bad -- with a spoonful of sugar!

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TO BE CONTINUED...
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