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[ealgylden]

I had something piratical I wanted to post about, but it's sailed out of my brain.

But! Whilst catching up with the sudden explosion of posts from you bright people (LJ was mostly broken yesterday and I was only off the computer for, like, seven hours. How did ya'll manage to post so much so quickly?), I noticed derryderrydown say "I miss Peter Wingfield's nose." Mmm, Peter Wingfield. Which reminded me...

I first saw these a while ago, but I'd forgotten how cute and weird they were, and I thought there might be others in the same boat (ship). Once upon a time, Peter did a couple of commercials for Sega. Happily, the director of two of them has a website and has them available for Quicktime and Windows Media player (which are the slightly better quality versions, from what I could tell between computer crashes- QT's on the top left, WMP's on the top right, if the helpful pics don't work). There's the sweaty and shirtless in shades flavor and the floppy-haired grad student-y flavor (he looks just like he did in "Methos," which is a Very Good Thing). My video-gaming skills pretty much consist of the ability to transform my hunter-gatherers into a village in "Age of Empires" before the computer crashes and a wicked talent for "Frogger," but having Peter purring "You make all the right moves" in my ear nearly had me heading off to the nearest Future Shop. That is one godawful sexy man.

Okay, back to playing catch-up. If only this infernal machine would cooperate...

Edited to add a quiz result


Rohirrim


To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?
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Comments

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Well, my posts keep appearing and disappearing, so maybe other people's are doing that as well?

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that's part of it, yeah. Part of it is also probably the "I couldn't post yesterday and by now I have so much to say!" factor. And I don't know, maybe people are just feeling chatty today. I don't mind reading it, certainly.

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

Oh, I loved those adverts! I had pictures from them on my various school folders. I never understood why they replaced gorgeous-sexy-Peter-Wingfield-inna-white-vest with the weird bald guy.

Oh help. I'm just realised how long ago Soldier Soldier, etc, was. Because me and my sister had confirmation classes on a Monday, then would come home and watch Soldier Soldier while my mum was at nightclasses. And I was confirmed when I was eleven, so that would make it around fifteen years ago, which is just forever.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

I never understood why they replaced gorgeous-sexy-Peter-Wingfield-inna-white-vest with the weird bald guy.

Blind fools, the lot of 'em. No concept of what's going to put people into that zombie-like state that leads to them standing in a checkout line with a cart full of gaming equipment, muttering "Peter... with no shirt... Peter... with floppy hair..."

Yikes, was Soldier, Soldier really that long ago? Erg. I think I'll just keep ignoring that so as not to feel old. I have The Paddy & Tucker Story on tape, but none of the actual episodes. I'd sell my sister for good copies of Season One (or DVDs, those are always good). He was just so cute and young and pounceable back then.

[kathlaw.livejournal.com]

Rohirrim here, too. :-)

Yes! I remember being told of those SEGA commercials with Wingfield, and watching them on my dial-up connection. Worth the wait. :-)

Never did see "Soldier, Soldier" since it didn't air here. Did manage to see some of his Veterinarian series, though.

And declineandfall can testify to my sudden gasp when he appeared on-screen in X-Men 2, since I hadn't been told that he was in it.

Ah, that nose. That smile. Those eyes. :-)

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Somehow I'm completely unsurprised that you'd come out as Rohirrim too. We aren't really elfy types. :)

Never did see "Soldier, Soldier" since it didn't air here. Did manage to see some of his Veterinarian series, though.

I only saw what I did (the first season and part of the second) through the grace of a classmate whose mother was English and who couldn't give up her British TV after she got stuck in the North Country with the rest of us. Good show. I'm a little surprised it's never been run on A&E or BBC America, but then it's pretty old. I haven't seen the vet show though, unfortunately. Lucky you!

And declineandfall can testify to my sudden gasp when he appeared on-screen in X-Men 2, since I hadn't been told that he was in it.

Heh. I knew ahead of time, and I still gasped. He has that effect.