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[challenge entry] They're back..... with a new image.

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(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:45, archived)
# "Babalon 5's
a big pile of sh*t!"-Simon Pegg in Spaced S2 Ep 2
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:49, archived)
# of course!
how could i have forgotten that

still doesn't explain the police hats
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:50, archived)
# by some rude bwoys and ravers
the police are reffered to as " the babylon" or babs if yor steeeet enufff! word!
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:11, archived)
# Get off me
you bummer!


i loves spaced i does
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:54, archived)
# Just wait til April
when Shaun of the Dead comes out. It's going to be great!
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:59, archived)
# oooh ooooh
i know. i downloaded the trailer :)

*bounces*
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:59, archived)
# Ooo ooo tell me where you can get it!
please please pretty please!
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:02, archived)
# oooh ooooh there's a wee quicktime one
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:06, archived)
# Ta very much!
 
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:14, archived)
# it's not the TA mike...
it's the rough ramblers
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:01, archived)
# ...
anthrax?
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:06, archived)
# ...
"It's time to point the pink pistol down the porcelain firing range..."

Class quote....
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:23, archived)
# Was in a club in belgium....
And they played that techno A-team remix that was on Spaced.

Then I got it on Mp3...

(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:24, archived)
# I soooooooo don't get that
5ive - twunty boy band brom the late ninties/early 21st century
dressed as coppers (one with a WPC's hat no less)
Babylon 5 - Sci-fi show that got rather shit during it's last year

what am i missing?
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:49, archived)
# You don't know that the rozzers are called "babylon" then?
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:50, archived)
# no I did not
where's that then?
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:51, archived)
# I think you may have made that up.
"Shit, leg it! It's the babylonians!"? Some weird biblical connotation?
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:52, archived)
# Nonononono
It was originally a Rastafarian saying, as in "inna Babylon", but came to be used by hippies and other such human waste to mean the forces of law and order.
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:54, archived)
# does anybody know
why the cops are referred to as "the old bill"?
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:55, archived)
# No but
i do know that my great great great great great great grandfather, Sir Robert Peel, invented the police, hence the name "Bobbies"
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:56, archived)
# the full explanation is here
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:02, archived)
# explains why in ireland in the 19th century
we called em peelers
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:12, archived)
# you must die copper decendant!!!
:7
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:13, archived)
# Or why they are called "cops"?
Or "rozzers"?
Or anything other than "Members of Her Majesty's Constabulary"? Actually, nevermind, the government will probably do away with any references to the crown...

Hehe, "members"!
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:58, archived)
# cops short for coppers
from the latin "capper" (or is it "cappre") meaning "to capture"

Rozzer, from Robert (metropolitan police force founded by robert peel) in the same way that baz comes from barry or barney and whatnot
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:02, archived)
# go to quinion.com - every term is explained there
(see above)
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:03, archived)
# I'm rather impressed by all this.
Well done, all of you.
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:04, archived)
# *stroke chin*
Hmm, yes, do go on...

;)
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:56, archived)
# really ffs
i can't believe no-one else knows cops as babylon.
Everyone knew that back in my hippy days.
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:57, archived)
# Heh!
Fucking hippies!
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:59, archived)
# I thought hippes called them
The Fuzz
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:12, archived)
# It's hard to speak
with a DM between your teeth...
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:17, archived)
# Plus
anyone who played to the end of the first GTA would know.

Which should be more.
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:08, archived)
# Really?
I gave up at the point where I had to drive a limo into some gangsters mansion and then got rather excessively killed.
Still, can't see "babylon" catching on as a term for the fuzz (although, "picked up by the babylons" has an amusing ring to it...).
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:15, archived)
# I think it's more a general term
for the forces of an oppressive white society. There was a link to that online dictionary-wiki-thing, about rastafarianism, but I don't remember what it was. Also, it may have been on a different message board.

Edit: The trick is to reverse it hard the moment you hit the checkpoint.
Edit2: No, wait, that's the abortion clinic limo one. I think I just got out and ran like fuck for the other one, but I don't remember it too well. What city was it?
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:19, archived)
# Edit:
I've no idea which city. Nevermind, but thanks anyway!

I think I was still on my first ever game, my brother was quite annoyed as I was spoiling it for him (it was his copy). I had to stop as my eyeballs had dried out and, strangely, I haven't played it since (well, I have, but the maps have been lost, so I gave up again).
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:24, archived)
# They were our last, best hope
for shit music.
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:52, archived)