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well, I don't get complimented for my voice nearly enough thank you, kind sir and kind madam.

as a means of providing you with some cheap entertainment, I am emailing you a gilks-line and a narrator-bit.

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Batman: Nobody wants war.

Robin: Gee, Batman. Belgravia's such a small country. We'd beat them in a few hours.

Batman: Yes, and then we'd have to support them for years.

First thing i said was narrator :) He might be able to do the gruff gilks, he could do Reg.... but Michael, thats a fantastic idea! I realise we have a Reg, Gilks and Narrator pencilled in but its only fair Choccster gets his chance.

I think he should audition for any he wants to play and we'll see whats good

haha. deary me! I could just start with something small and work myself up. I'll start with the waiter, and if there are more small parts I can try and change my voice so as to suit those too and not be instantly recognised as the voice of the waiter. then, if I want to do more, I will audition for what is available at that time.

does this sound reasonable to you?

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Batman: Nobody wants war.

Robin: Gee, Batman. Belgravia's such a small country. We'd beat them in a few hours.

Batman: Yes, and then we'd have to support them for years.

A few issues with your actual recording there, gotta sit further from your mic. Im not so happy about the Gilks recording im afraid but your Narrator voice definately has something. I hate to lecture but you should speak it slower & clearer, not like unnaturally slow or anything but taking your time to say it. Dont take offence, i realise its just a quick reading you've done there. I still feel you have a good sounding voice that we should use for more than waiter....

Michael could be a part for you when it gets written later on.

well fair enough. I'm not very used to doing recordings. and I have always been told that I speak too fast. so no offence taken well let me do another narrator bit, talk more slowly, sit further away from the mic, and then demand the waiter-part haha. deal?

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Batman: Nobody wants war.

Robin: Gee, Batman. Belgravia's such a small country. We'd beat them in a few hours.

Batman: Yes, and then we'd have to support them for years.

I think you nailed the waiter, you wont even have to re-record it, its in the show as it is imo.

http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0IRW ... B157RJP65U

http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2LFY ... J7YCT0XXQV

Yes, on your Narrator, I would go slower, clearer, and warmer. I would think something along the lines of a friendly college professor would be appropriate.

Unno

I know very well how offensive people find this, as my girlfriend is from Germany, but your accent when speaking english will probably stop you being the narrator. Im sorry My scottish accent stops me playing any part so dont feel bad.

Its a shame because i still think you have a good voice. Fleppo said a while ago he thought a foreign accent might add something to Reg..... and you could play a professor (Cawley or Watkin) because they would sound sophisticated with an accent and those parts are still open i think!

haha no worries. too big a job for me anyway. I'll stick with the waiter for the time being (suits me fine! haha). now I must go to pick up my parents somewhere. eek.

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Batman: Nobody wants war.

Robin: Gee, Batman. Belgravia's such a small country. We'd beat them in a few hours.

Batman: Yes, and then we'd have to support them for years.

Yea, who is our Reg? I always pictured him with an accent (given his origins and age and all.)

Unno

He's played by ChrisB, his audition is on here somewhere but i couldnt find it just now, sorry. He plays him english proffessory and it works well enough

Oh, I found the link, but it's down. Still, I'll take your word for it.

Unno

Ok, ok. So I lied about being done with auditions. Anyway, someone said that we didn't have an announcer. So I threw this together.

http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=28LQ ... 1UI05DTOKC

What do you think?
Unno

Hey, looks like skutterz has competition.

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

So is skutterz our announcer then? I don't mean to compete with anyone, I just want to make sure that all the parts get cast and recorded (although the announcer will probably have to be the last part recorded,) so we can get into post-production and get an episode of this finished.

Unno

I tried your announcement with Journey. Sounded quite nice.

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Well what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today!

Share and Enjoy?

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

Here's me and Unno doing the first scene.

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Still keeping the moon.

Hey, it's great, but am I the only one, or is there a slight technical problem with the stuff? I mean Fleppo sounds like a robot...

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

Actually, it's Unno who sounds like a robot.

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Still keeping the moon.

But Unno is Gilks and You are Dirk, no? Well, the Dirk-lines sound somehow mechanic...

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

I'm the one reading Gilks's lines.
I'm also the one playing the drums in the background.

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Still keeping the moon.

But yes, we will re-record it with better sound. I think the problem was with Unno's mic.

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Still keeping the moon.

Sounds good. I like the music in the background, but it gets quite hecktick at some points.

Yikes, I didn't realize my recording was that bad. (How I missed the horrible cut-outs, I'll never know.) Anyway, this was actually sort of a joke (Fleppo's idea .) We switched roles and recorded each other's parts. My mic was messing up, but for a joke I didn't feel like fighting with it. At any rate, this has you preparing for the worst, so when Fleppo posts the real version, you can all be pleasantly surprised.

Unno

P.S. Fleppo, if there was some kind of punch-line or something to this, I apologize for ruining it. You just said you wanted to confuse people, and it seemed to me that we accomplished that.

Other than the technical glitches, it sounded quite good, actually. You two have very good voices.

I'd recommend speaking a little slower, though.

Well, I sort of had an end planned for the joke, but yeah, you 'ruined' it but it's no biggy. I was just going to post the real version without saying anything, and let people be even more confused about the re-switch of roles. But, as I said, it's no biggy. They're probably confused enough as it is.

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Still keeping the moon.

Oh, a joke! Sorry, I'm sleep-deprived. I wouldn't recognize a joke if it painted itself purple and danced in front of me naked, singing "Jokes Are Here Again".

Sorry, Blackadder-disease.

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

Yay blackadder!

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Batman: Nobody wants war.

Robin: Gee, Batman. Belgravia's such a small country. We'd beat them in a few hours.

Batman: Yes, and then we'd have to support them for years.

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Well what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today!

I have a cunning plan.
Is it as cunning as a fox that used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on and now works for the UN in the High Commission of International Cunning Planning?

Yes, it is.

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Well what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today!

It's more like "has been appointed something of Cunning Planning"...

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

Okay, according to Wikipedia, it's "As cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University", but Wikipedia is not always accurate.

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

Yeah, thats in one of the episodes, but my quote was from back and forth (the millenium special).

I haven't seen Back and Forth. Sorry about that, then.

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

my quote is from the same thing. it's really good, that one. rik mayall is in it too

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Batman: Nobody wants war.

Robin: Gee, Batman. Belgravia's such a small country. We'd beat them in a few hours.

Batman: Yes, and then we'd have to support them for years.

Here is another version of the first scene.

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Still keeping the moon.

Rik Mayall is in all the seasons, isn't he? Wait, maybe he's not in the first.

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

Wait, You did it again! You're Gilks in that version as well, aren't You? Anyway, the Dirk-lines are now comprehensible! All hail the rain god!

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters