# AbeBabe! In here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 3, 2001, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139 "2001-10-03T05:47:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/1 "2001-10-03T05:47:02Z")
Let’s start a Young Ones thread! “Awright, the pubs just closed, so the rest of the pahty should be here any moment now!” [BASH] [TRAMPLE] ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/2 "2001-10-03T07:28:00Z")
“What is that little white dot anyway?” “It’s a little white dot. It’s a sign! It means ‘there’s no more telly… it’s time to go to bed…’” “I wish we had a video, then I could watch it in the morning.” ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/3 "2001-10-03T07:40:00Z")
You guys don’t mind if I crash this, do you? “That’s just typical! Five minutes before the most important party of my life and the house is destroyed by a giant sandwich.” Mike: Neil, it is very rare you interest me, but today you have. Why do you keep coming in here, carrying a cake, and saying surprise? Neil: It’s my birthday. Mike: Now you knew that anyway, and we don’t care, so where’s the surprise? ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/4 "2001-10-03T11:57:06Z")
“Neil, Are those _South African_ lentils?” Garden Gnome: “Oooh, you killed a hippie!” ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/5 "2001-10-03T12:00:18Z")
Instrumental break? Great, what instruments do we break??? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/6 "2001-10-03T18:47:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GuanoLad \* > \*\*“What is that little white dot anyway?” > > “It’s a little white dot. It’s a sign! It means ‘there’s no more telly… it’s time to go to bed…’”\*\* “I’m going upstairs now to finish painting my astrological star chart.” “Do you really think that anyone has ever been in the slightest bit interested in anything you say or do ever Neil?!” ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/7 "2001-10-03T23:08:10Z")
“Hi, Mike.” “I’m not yet, but I soon will be.” * * * _knock_knock_knock_ “Open up. It’s the pigs.” ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/8 "2001-10-03T23:29:47Z")
I _love_ this show! Ric: Neil, Neil, Orange Peel! Neil: Hi, Ric! Ric: AAAAAAHHHHHHH! Ric: What witty reparte! Talk about Oscar Wilde! Neil: Alright, Oscar Wilde was one of the greatest writers of the 19th century. Persecuted for his homosexuality… Vyvyan: Shut up! ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/9 "2001-10-03T23:39:39Z")
Is that true, Bambi? Did you do a Disney nasty?? ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/10 "2001-10-04T12:47:49Z")
Sorry, but I couldn’t think of anywhere more appropriate than a thread dedicated to AbeBabe. Do you get your nick from Abe, Babes, and Rollerblades, from Knights of the Dinner Table, or is it just an extremely odd concidence? ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/11 "2001-10-04T16:59:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by E-Sabbath \* > Do you get your nick from Abe, Babes, and Rollerblades, from Knights of the Dinner Table, or is it just an extremely odd concidence? \*\* Actually, in the summer before I went to college (but back then it was an open field, with a guy named Socrates telling us stuff) I went on a 10 day backpacking trip to Philmont in New Mexico. (Boys Scouts anyone?) I obviously didn’t shave during that time, and am pretty hirsuit (sp?), so I had a 2 week start on a beard and 'stache When I got home, I decided to not shave it off, and try to grow a beard for the first time. However, the mustache was not coming in so well, so (Bad Idea Alert) I decided to just have the beard and no mustache. As if coming from a small town in mid-Missouri didn’t make me enough of a rube already. I was told frequently that I looked like Abe Lincoln, and one odd friend of mine picked the nickname Abe Babe and it stuck. Nobody calls me that now, but I still like to use it as a login name. This “odd friend’s” senior thesis was to design a handgun that, in his own words “could fit in a chick’s bra, but still drop a cow.” Neil: Thanks, Doc. (for curing his hiccups) Brian Damage: Thanks, Doc??? Are you being sarcastic? That happens to be one of my least favorite things, sarcasm. Just the other day, a fellow walks up to me and says ‘Nice day, Innit?’ Well it wasn’t a nice day. It was a little bit cloudy. So I went up to him, right? I put my mouth around his neck, dead casual like, and BIT HIS 'ED OFF. 'cause that’s one of my least favorite things, that is. Rick, leaving bathroom: Bathroom’s free, unlike Britain under the Thatcher junta. ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/12 "2001-10-04T18:15:01Z")
WHACK!! Rick: Ha! You missed both my legs. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/13 "2001-10-05T01:48:37Z")
“Ullo Pussycat! What yer doin’ in a bucket?” “Vyvyan! Where did you get that howitzer?” “I found it.” “Mike…” “Sshh… don’t broadcast the handle, Vyv.” “Oh. Okay. Er. Andrea?” “Yes!?” “Do you think ants go to discos?” “Vyv, it has been shown that ants are part of a very sophisticated society. The last thing they’d go to are Discos.” “Then why is that one wearing a silver boob-tube then?” “Simple. You’re talking crap.” “Ahhh! You’d have to get up pretty early in the morning to put one over on you, Mikey boy.” “You’d have to stay up all night.” ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/14 "2001-10-05T02:17:10Z")
i just wanted to chime in that i effin loved that show but i was so high every time i watched it i cant remember one funny line from it. sniff… ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/15 "2001-10-05T10:07:09Z")
Does anybody know what the purpose of the single frame images in The Young Ones is? Every once in a while, there will be a still picture of something odd (a dog, bird, faucet, etc.) cut into the action. It is too fast to see properly without a VCR, which is weird because VCR’s weren’t common at the time (unless you frequented Harry the Bastard!) I know that there were other odd things in this show, so was this just one of those, or something more meaningful? * * * “I opened the door, and there was an elephant in a crash helmet, and behind him a seal banging a kipper on the table, saying ‘What is it now, Ralph?’” ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/16 "2001-10-05T14:55:06Z")
Vyv: First, we’re going to have sex with the headless corpse of the virgin astronaut. Rick: Won’t that get the carpet all messy? Vyv: It’s a video nasty. Rick: It’s a CARPET, farty! Neil: Have we got a video? All: YES, WE’VE GOT A VIDEO!! And the bands they had playing, ooh la la. Madness, The Damned, Bananarama. “I’ve just had a revolutionarey idea. Let’s raise a people’s army and seize control of the state.” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/17 "2001-10-05T19:51:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by meyer \* > **Does anybody know what the purpose of the single frame images in The Young Ones is? Every once in a while, there will be a still picture of something odd (a dog, bird, faucet, etc.) cut into the action. It is too fast to see properly without a VCR, which is weird because VCR’s weren’t common at the time (unless you frequented Harry the Bastard!) > I know that there were other odd things in this show, so was this just one of those, or something more meaningful?** I wish I could answer that, but I have no more of a clue than you. “Don’t look at me! I’m irrelevant!” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/18 "2001-10-06T06:24:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by meyer \* > > **Does anybody know what the purpose of the single frame images in The Young Ones is? Every once in a while, there will be a still picture of something odd (a dog, bird, faucet, etc.) cut into the action. It is too fast to see properly without a VCR, which is weird because VCR’s weren’t common at the time (unless you frequented Harry the Bastard!) > > I know that there were other odd things in this show, so was this just one of those, or something more meaningful?** > > I wish I could answer that, but I have no more of a clue than you. > > “Don’t look at me! I’m irrelevant!” \*\* They did it for fun. They did it for VCR’s that, though they were uncommon (this was 1983) they were not _that_ rare. The images themselves are meaningless, just silly bits of fun they threw in to a) see if anyone would notice, and b) because the editors were bored one night. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/19 "2001-10-06T07:40:23Z")
I see. Thank you. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nymysys \* > \*\*Mike: Neil, it is very rare you interest me, but today you have. Why do you keep coming in here, carrying a cake, and saying surprise? > Neil: It’s my birthday. > Mike: Now you knew that anyway, and we don’t care, so where’s the surprise? \*\* I don’t know Mike but it’s a cake and I’ve baked it and we’re having a party and you’re all invited because you’re my fr- well at least you pretend to be my fr- well you don’t even pretend to be my friends actually in fact you all hate me in fact if I were in hospital right now like dying you probably wouldn’t even bother to come and visit me would you because you all hate me so much just like my mother she got everybody against me well anyway we’re having a party and you’re all here anyway so you might as well enjoy yourselves! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139/20 "2001-10-06T12:05:44Z")
Uh oh, isn’t that when elephanthead appears? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abebabe-in-here/85139.md?page=2)