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# Help, kind B3tans! You're the only British people I know, kind of.
Um, how do I put this.
I wrote a screensaver because I am a hopeless fan of Dr. Who, quite beyond therapy.
Maybe that's not so bad.

But I wrote it for Linux.
And it got accepted into the XScreenSaver package, the default screen saver for most Linux distributions.
That can be viewed as iffy.

But the maintainer of XScreenSaver said I had to get permission to use Dr.Who logos and such lest legal hell descend upon us. So I asked.
They said 'no'.

Help!!
www.zettix.com/Graphics/timetunnel/index.html
(I helped save b3ta! I smash things in my sleep uruk-hai ...and I'll look low. Now where'd they go?, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:00, archived)
#
www.ehow.com/how_2295_boil-water.html
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:03, archived)
# 6 steps.
damnedly damn.
(USER No: 21515...FUCK YOU TO FUCK YOU FU see profile for limited time offer., Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:04, archived)
# well
you can cut out the last 3 steps. It doesn't get as hot though.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:06, archived)
# heheheh
 
To be fair, I have boiled pots dry before.

..but only by being passed out on the couch.
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:06, archived)
# Why must you compel me to post the lyrics to Jellyman Kelly?
Here’s a song about jellyman kelly,
He loves jelly the most.
Ah, but most of all,
Jellyman kelly loves jelly on toast.

And here’s the part about jenny mulhenny,
She’s a fireman’s daughter.
Yeah, but most of all,
Jenny mulhenny loves to boil hot water

Jenny put the kettle on, jellyman kelly,
Can he come home, jenny, can he come?
Jenny put the kettle on, jellyman kelly,
Can he come home, jenny, can he come?

Chorus:
Oh, can he come home, jenny,
Can he come home, jenny can he come?
Oh, can he come home, jenny
Can he come home, jenny, can he come?

Yada yada yada voo doo papa
Yodely doo
Da voody doo doo doo
Yaka yaka yaka yaka hum hon no
(repeat chorus)
That’s the story about jellyman kelly-he still loves jelly!
And yes and maybe someday you and me, friend,
We can have tea with him!
(repeat chorus)

The hottest songs from James Taylor
(I helped save b3ta! I smash things in my sleep uruk-hai ...and I'll look low. Now where'd they go?, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:10, archived)
# I guess
I asked for that.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:10, archived)
# There's something about hot water
One of the letters of the alphabet is T, and you can't make it without hot water.

That's more significant than an element of the periodic table.
(I helped save b3ta! I smash things in my sleep uruk-hai ...and I'll look low. Now where'd they go?, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:24, archived)
# I guess you're screwed.
 
Nicely done, though.
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:07, archived)
# Thanks, but meethinks you're a yank too.
Still, your hummus is quite grand, and I grovel at any reply you deign to submit.
(I helped save b3ta! I smash things in my sleep uruk-hai ...and I'll look low. Now where'd they go?, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:28, archived)
# Kaore no Amerika ahau!
 
: )
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:55, archived)
# Holy Skidmark, Buttman, your hoof is in your mouth!
Heh-heh... Sorry.

I had such a large brainfart that gas is still seeping from my eustachian tubes.

I looked up your user name ages ago, and you're from Easter Island.

I want to meet you like a drunken tse tse fly wants to meet J.Lo's butt.

No offense. I wast just trying to communicate awe.
(I helped save b3ta! I smash things in my sleep uruk-hai ...and I'll look low. Now where'd they go?, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 4:15, archived)
# *has to look up 'eustachian'*
 
..eww!

Actually I'm from here.

Indeed, I'm there right now.
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 4:33, archived)
# Auckland sounds absolutely cosmopolitan.
I had to look up 'eustachian' /and/ 'cosmopolitan'.
My spelling is atrotious.
(I helped save b3ta! I smash things in my sleep uruk-hai ...and I'll look low. Now where'd they go?, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 4:45, archived)
# Q.E.D.
 
; )
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 5:53, archived)
# Well
you wouldn't have much of a legal leg to stand on there unfortunately. I recommend just turning it into more of a
generic screensaver, if they'll accept that. The effect's still rather groovy
(I helped save b3ta! The Neville What what what, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:12, archived)
# Thank you Sir!
Your compliments did not go unnoticed. The official version only uses the XScreenSaver logo, nothing more.

But a legal leg is not what I want to stand on. I want some sage advice in the diplomatic section, and maybe someone who knows someone who works at the BBC.
(I helped save b3ta! I smash things in my sleep uruk-hai ...and I'll look low. Now where'd they go?, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:43, archived)
# Ahh
well if they're not using the Doctor Who logo, there shouldn't be a problem

the BBC can't claim copyright on "Wooshy colourful zoomy tunnel effect"

I refer you to the case of "The Neville vs. Don Hertzfeldt" in which El Hertzfeldt threatened me with legal action because I was drawing
stick figures and putting them on my website. He too, *gasp* draws stick figures and makes a fair amount of cash out of it, but doesn't like
other people drawing vaguely similar stick figures, apparently.

(I helped save b3ta! The Neville What what what, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:48, archived)
# I still say they weren't similar.
 
Yours are funny, for one thing.
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 3:46, archived)
# For that, I am sorry.
Herr Hertzfeld did a great short called "Rejected",
and I laughed so hard my tummy did hurt.

However, pillow bodied humaniods have prior art dating to over 3000 b.c.

It was the timing, the humor, and certainly _not_ the drawing style, that I found funny.
(I helped save b3ta! I smash things in my sleep uruk-hai ...and I'll look low. Now where'd they go?, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 4:10, archived)
# Easy, just change the logo
I can think of a few suggestions:

Doctor Who didn't give me permission
Doctor Why
Doctor How Much
Woctor Dho

You get the idea.
(I helped save b3ta! Matazone has new icons, but is keeping this one, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:13, archived)
# Pfft
That might work

Or a diamond shaped logo that says "Linux Ate My Hamster"

I'd buy it.
(I helped save b3ta! The Neville What what what, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:14, archived)
#
Doctor TUX?
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Tue 17 Jan 2006, 2:27, archived)