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Hookbill the Goomba · 03-19-2006, 07:01 AM

Having trouble telling the time? I know I did, that was until someone came up with this little beauty!

Only £4.99! (Plus packing and postage of £100,000.01)

Big Ben sold separately.*

*The structure itself is called (as far as I know) St Stephen's Tower. The Bell that chimes the hours is called Big Ben.

Lalwendë · 03-19-2006, 12:04 PM

"Now All The Time Is Downs Time"

But how would all the civil servants get to their meetings on time? The Downs will bring the country to its very knees! ....meh!.....

Legolas in spandex · 03-25-2006, 09:56 AM

I present SamWiser beer

All the taste, twice the carbs.

Hookbill the Goomba · 05-05-2006, 11:31 AM

I think someone suggested Barrow Downs Chess earlier. So I took it upon myself to design the pieces and board...
Well, it may not be perfect, but its a start.

Estelyn Telcontar · 05-05-2006, 01:03 PM

Hmmm, Hookbill, I can only comment on that with Tolkien's words, spoken by a certain ruling Elf:

Quote:

In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!

I didn't realize that my sinister side was showing!

Well done, and funny!

(psst - one of the Fordim figures is obviously meant to be Formendacil...)

the guy who be short · 05-05-2006, 02:47 PM

Does this mean one Hookbill is exchangable for a Lalwende?

Lalwendë · 05-06-2006, 02:44 AM

Can you play it like Wizard Chess in Harry Potter?

I like how Fordim is the Black Knight, I'll have Deep Purple riffs going through my head now when I think of him.

Hookbill the Goomba · 05-06-2006, 11:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the guy who be short

Does this mean one Hookbill is exchangable for a Lalwende?

I never thought of it like that.
My main thought was "Well, I should be the least important piece."

I was thinking of adding Hills and Barrows to the board itself, but it was getting late and I... well... couldn't be bothered.

Oh, and the White Team should probably be the Wight Team.

Bêthberry · 05-06-2006, 11:46 AM

Sauce as the bishop though? Hmmm. I've never really envisioned him in Bishop's vestments but I guess it is true that loyers tend to cut angles rather than move in straight directions.

Great call on Lal and Esty though! I might have been tempted to name a few other Downers as the Queens but the gentlemen in question might not have approved.

Hookbill the Goomba · 05-06-2006, 12:54 PM

Quote:

Sauce as the bishop though? Hmmm. I've never really envisioned him in Bishop's vestments but I guess it is true that loyers tend to cut angles rather than move in straight directions

He'd probably be like this:

Note: Saucepan also available as part of the Barrow Downs' hat collection.

Lalwendë · 05-06-2006, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

He'd probably be like this:

Note: Saucepan also available as part of the Barrow Downs' hat collection.

That 'plot' he's holding? Is he about to lose it?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bethberry

I might have been tempted to name a few other Downers as the Queens but the gentlemen in question might not have approved.

*hopes Bethberry will spill the beans*

Hookbill the Goomba · 05-06-2006, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

That 'plot' he's holding? Is he about to lose it?

I was originally going to put "Werewolf plot" but I didn't think that was funny enough, so I left it as simply "Plot" so you can fill in the gaps yourself.

Anyway, this Barrow Downs Chess may be subject for a thread in itself!

Oh, and...

For all your DEATH metal and grave music and... well, I ran out of puns... but here is a format to play all your Barrow Music on .

Bêthberry · 05-07-2006, 06:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

*hopes Bethberry will spill the beans*

Oh now Lal. All the fun's in how you imagine it.

Fordim Hedgethistle · 05-17-2006, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

I think someone suggested Barrow Downs Chess earlier. So I took it upon myself to design the pieces and board...
Well, it may not be perfect, but its a start.

How could you have possibly known how badly I've always wanted to be a black knight?

"Come back here! I'll bite both your legs off!"

Feanor of the Peredhil · 05-17-2006, 01:59 PM

I'm a chess piece!

Hookbill the Goomba · 06-18-2006, 07:32 AM

It was inevitable.

Now all we need is the rest of the Mount Zoom Challengers and you can race them!

Celuien · 06-18-2006, 07:50 AM

Ever wonder what your dreams had to say about your personality? Look no further than
Doctor Dream's Guide to the Subconscious, by littlemanpoet. As a special bonus, a chapter on Barrow-Downs dreams, complete with dreams and interpretations from this thread is included in an appendix to the text.

Available for $19.95 at your local Barrrow Bookshop.

Lalwendë · 06-18-2006, 08:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

It was inevitable.

Now all we need is the rest of the Mount Zoom Challengers and you can race them!

Mums across the world will soon be hopping mad and saying "Put that thing away! I don't want to have to clean up all that lava off my nice clean floor!"

Hookbill the Goomba · 06-18-2006, 08:48 AM

Well, it's better than it being powered by... erm... nuclear waste. Or something.

Morai · 06-18-2006, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Mums across the world will soon be hopping mad and saying "Put that thing away! I don't want to have to clean up all that lava off my nice clean floor!"

I dunno, lava might clean the floor pretty well, except the poor Mum would have to replace several sections of the floor.

Hookbill the Goomba · 07-14-2006, 12:56 PM

I was just wondering how we're suposed to pay for this stuff without a Barrow Card... then, it struck me! Monies!

Oh, and I'm sure the Saucepan man (or someone) posted about keeping your clothes as Wight as they can be. Well, now you can do the same for your teeth!

Formendacil · 07-14-2006, 01:18 PM

Those are some sweet looking coins- and I don't say that just because I'm on one of them.

But I must ask... what's the other side look like? Do we get the professor's profile in all it's crownéd glory?

Hookbill the Goomba · 08-31-2006, 10:29 AM

I know Barrow Downs T-Shirts already exist... But I've not seen them for a while. Also, I wanted to try my hand at designing one or two...

Soon to be available from all good clothes shops and some rubbish ones as well.

Lalwendë · 08-31-2006, 01:29 PM

Cool t-shirts! And t-shirts are quite cheap to have printed up, you know, if you wanted to get yourself a unique design.

Esty turned her Barrow Downs t-shirt into a bag and brought it to Birmingham last year, making sure lots of people saw it! I wonder if she has a picture???

Hookbill the Goomba · 09-08-2006, 06:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

Cool t-shirts! And t-shirts are quite cheap to have printed up, you know, if you wanted to get yourself a unique design.

I may just do that.

Also: have you ever been reading a book and suddenly lost your place? Terrible times! Fed up with using bits of paper and third-rate bookmarks? Look no further than:

Kath · 09-08-2006, 10:33 AM

One should not cross read threads. I caught Rune's post about bookmarks on the addicted thread and this one here, put them together, and thought Rune had made such bookmarks for all his friends! I was going to be so impressed.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 09-08-2006, 12:34 PM

Maybe I should start doing that . . .I would hate to disapoint Kath.

I once was a bookmark you know

Kath · 09-08-2006, 02:18 PM

Ooh yes please Rune! You can make me one as a christmas present.

Morai · 09-08-2006, 05:05 PM

Quote:

Also: have you ever been reading a book and suddenly lost your place? Terrible times! Fed up with using bits of paper and third-rate bookmarks? Look no further than:

A nice upgrade, for those who are peculiar enough to have things in common with me: tassely-thingies made out of mithril. They'll come in handy when readers are so entranced by what they're reading that they'll unravel the tassel with their fingers. Then again, perhaps extra tassels with instructions are better. (Lawsuits for mithril-tassel related injuries could result in those annoying warning labels. "WARNING: Will cause more than bruises when in the hands of a content Downer."

Hookbill the Goomba · 11-27-2006, 06:04 AM

Just thought I'd resurect this topic a tad.

With the increasing lack of interest in The Phantom and Alien serise, the producers thought that, in order to stur up interest again, that some Phantom and Alien costumes were in order. So, here they are:

the phantom · 11-27-2006, 11:40 PM

HB, I just woke up when you took that pic. I told you not to use it.

And as far as Alien- the least you could've done is edit out the face of that half-digested child Alien had swallowed.

Hookbill the Goomba · 09-26-2007, 07:37 AM

It's Mandos approved.

Lalwendë · 09-26-2007, 08:10 AM

That has a sinister linguistic closeness to Quietil, the euthanasia/suicide drug as seen in Children Of Men...

Rune Son of Bjarne · 09-28-2007, 12:48 PM

This is probably one of the few BD-Products I don't feel needs to be produced, but it sertainly does have intertainment value.

THE Ka · 10-02-2007, 08:04 PM

Ugh, I'm in the market for some of that now. My head's inflated with a cold and I'm afraid I'll float up past the pelóri...

~ Ka Again...

Hookbill the Goomba · 10-10-2007, 03:43 PM

Buy it now at all good shops and some rubbish ones as well.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 11-04-2007, 08:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Buy it now at all good shops and some rubbish ones as well.

What do you consider a rubbish shop?

I was telling my mom about the Remote control operated Mt. Zoom the other day, and my brother pipes up and says "Oooh I want one!!!!!!!"

I think we should have a Barrowdown food court... what would they serve I wonder?

Hookbill the Goomba · 12-24-2007, 09:43 AM

We can't be at the computer all the time. So, in order to make sure you never stop thinking about, interacting with and generally being a slave to the Barrow downs, here is the BarrowPhone 5790X9...

It really is as portable as it looks.

Lalwendë · 12-24-2007, 02:04 PM

Is it made by Amstrad?

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 12-24-2007, 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

It really is as portable as it looks.

Really? Because that is almost bigger than my backpack! I would love that, but my lap top is smaller than that, well it's not exactly my lap top, it's really the family computer.

03-19-2006, 07:01 AM	#161
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	Not strictly a product, per sé... Having trouble telling the time? I know I did, that was until someone came up with this little beauty! Only £4.99! (Plus packing and postage of £100,000.01) Big Ben sold separately.* The structure itself is called (as far as I know) St Stephen's Tower. The Bell that chimes the hours is called Big Ben. __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket... Last edited by Hookbill the Goomba; 03-19-2006 at 07:16 AM.*

03-19-2006, 12:04 PM	#162
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	"Now All The Time Is Downs Time" But how would all the civil servants get to their meetings on time? The Downs will bring the country to its very knees! ....meh!..... __________________ Gordon's alive!

03-25-2006, 09:56 AM	#163
Legolas in spandex Wight Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 102	I present SamWiser beer All the taste, twice the carbs. __________________ "I want to die in my sleep, like my grandfather... not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car."

05-06-2006, 02:44 AM	#167
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	Can you play it like Wizard Chess in Harry Potter? I like how Fordim is the Black Knight, I'll have Deep Purple riffs going through my head now when I think of him. __________________ Gordon's alive!

05-06-2006, 11:46 AM	#169
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 5,997	Makin' a move Sauce as the bishop though? Hmmm. I've never really envisioned him in Bishop's vestments but I guess it is true that loyers tend to cut angles rather than move in straight directions. Great call on Lal and Esty though! I might have been tempted to name a few other Downers as the Queens but the gentlemen in question might not have approved. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

05-05-2006, 02:47 PM	#166
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	Does this mean one Hookbill is exchangable for a Lalwende?

05-17-2006, 01:59 PM	#175
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	I'm a chess piece! __________________ peace

06-18-2006, 07:50 AM	#177
Celuien Riveting Ribbiter Join Date: May 2005 Location: Assigned to Mordor Posts: 1,767	Ever wonder what your dreams had to say about your personality? Look no further than Doctor Dream's Guide to the Subconscious, by littlemanpoet. As a special bonus, a chapter on Barrow-Downs dreams, complete with dreams and interpretations from this thread is included in an appendix to the text. Available for $19.95 at your local Barrrow Bookshop. __________________ People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.

06-18-2006, 08:48 AM	#179
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	Well, it's better than it being powered by... erm... nuclear waste. Or something. __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...

07-14-2006, 01:18 PM	#182
Formendacil Dead Serious Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Perched on Thangorodrim's towers. Posts: 3,326	Those are some sweet looking coins- and I don't say that just because I'm on one of them. But I must ask... what's the other side look like? Do we get the professor's profile in all it's crownéd glory? __________________ I prefer history, true or feigned.

08-31-2006, 01:29 PM	#184
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	Cool t-shirts! And t-shirts are quite cheap to have printed up, you know, if you wanted to get yourself a unique design. Esty turned her Barrow Downs t-shirt into a bag and brought it to Birmingham last year, making sure lots of people saw it! I wonder if she has a picture??? __________________ Gordon's alive!

09-08-2006, 10:33 AM	#186
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	One should not cross read threads. I caught Rune's post about bookmarks on the addicted thread and this one here, put them together, and thought Rune had made such bookmarks for all his friends! I was going to be so impressed. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

09-08-2006, 02:18 PM	#188
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Ooh yes please Rune! You can make me one as a christmas present. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

11-27-2006, 11:40 PM	#191
the phantom Beloved Shadow Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: The Stadium Posts: 5,971	HB, I just woke up when you took that pic. I told you not to use it. And as far as Alien- the least you could've done is edit out the face of that half-digested child Alien had swallowed. __________________ the phantom has posted. This thread is now important.

09-26-2007, 07:37 AM	#192
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	Got a headache? It's Mandos approved. __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...

09-26-2007, 08:10 AM	#193
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	That has a sinister linguistic closeness to Quietil, the euthanasia/suicide drug as seen in Children Of Men... __________________ Gordon's alive!

10-02-2007, 08:04 PM	#195
THE Ka Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: As with the flygja Posts: 1,403	Ugh, I'm in the market for some of that now. My head's inflated with a cold and I'm afraid I'll float up past the pelóri... ~ Ka Again... __________________ Vinur, vinur skilur tú meg? Veitst tú ongan loyniveg? Hevur tú reikað líka sum eg, í endaleysu tokuni?

10-10-2007, 03:43 PM	#196
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	Celebrity endorsement is the only way to go these days... Buy it now at all good shops and some rubbish ones as well. __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...

12-24-2007, 09:43 AM	#198
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	Thought I'd bump this thread We can't be at the computer all the time. So, in order to make sure you never stop thinking about, interacting with and generally being a slave to the Barrow downs, here is the BarrowPhone 5790X9... It really is as portable as it looks. __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...

12-24-2007, 02:04 PM	#199
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	Is it made by Amstrad? __________________ Gordon's alive!