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Title: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 28 October 2013, 08:07:14 PM
Now that Leon has actually acknowledged the existence of clones (despite many verified sightings):

http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,8566.msg95650.html#new

I thought it would be interesting to actually catalogue official sighting in order that we can conduct some sort of census.  To this end, please list occasions when you have interacted with a specific clone.  Not having been in the Pendraken clan for long, I don't have many but here they are:

1)  Casting clone (must exist as it makes my stuff);
2)  Obvious existence of postage clone (it sends me said stuff);
3)  There's a Leon clone at Minibits (it sends stuff too);
4)  Despatch clone (interacts with postage clone (usually 5 minutes before stuff arrives) to say stuff is on way);
5)  Met a Leon sales clone at Derby World Wargames (sold me a pre-order);
6)  Met another at Derby, sold me some Minibits stuff (claimed to be the same one...);
7)  Forum clone (never sleeps).

Please add your own official sightings / interactions so we can keep a tally.

Try not to repeat the sightings of others as this will skew the official data.

Current count: 7
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 28 October 2013, 08:09:34 PM
X-box clone
World traveling clone (not allowed out that often)

All fueled by coke buying clone.
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 28 October 2013, 08:09:54 PM
That's 10
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: fsn on 28 October 2013, 09:09:30 PM
Ah, but isn't the forum Clone just an intelligence in a box, like HAL in 2001? Does that count?

"Leon, Leon, sell me a tank or two,
I'm half crazy,
trying to get orders through,
It won't be a stylist paint job,
and the foot look like a right mob
but they'll be grand
upon a stand
but I don't really have a clue ..."



Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Ithoriel on 28 October 2013, 09:11:32 PM
 ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Fenton on 28 October 2013, 09:13:18 PM
Quote from: fsn on 28 October 2013, 09:09:30 PM
Ah, but isn't the forum Clone just an intelligence in a box, like HAL in 2001? Does that count?

"Leon, Leon, sell me a tank or two,
I'm half crazy,
trying to get orders through,
It won't be a stylist paint job,
and the foot look like a right mob
but they'll be grand
upon a stand
but I don't really have a clue ..."





I think thats  the end FSN, I think they will be coming to take you away

Leon....Send in the Clones!
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 28 October 2013, 09:20:29 PM
Quote from: fsn on 28 October 2013, 09:09:30 PM
Ah, but isn't the forum Clone just an intelligence in a box, like HAL in 2001? Does that count?

"Leon, Leon, sell me a tank or two,
I'm half crazy,
trying to get orders through,
It won't be a stylist paint job,
and the foot look like a right mob
but they'll be grand
upon a stand
but I don't really have a clue ..."


GET THE PILLS NOW
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: sebigboss79 on 28 October 2013, 09:55:25 PM
The clone that said: "No way you gonna have a Centurion" #11
The clone that had the mould made despite what above clone said. #12
The clone that showed said Centurion off, teasing fsn. #13
The clone that told fsn he cannot have a Centurion before general release (probably identical with #11 )
The clone that deliberately violated above ruling. #14
The clone that keeps on his Missus side. #15
The clone dealing with Dave, pretending everything is alright @ Pendraken. #16
The clone monitoring the Totty thread. #17
The messenger clone #18 to report any worthwhile Totty on said thread.


There should be some more of them me thinks... :-\
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Leon on 29 October 2013, 01:20:22 AM
There's one currently printing catalogues, lasering bases, casting show orders, and doing some contract casting work as well...  :-\
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 29 October 2013, 09:03:59 AM
22 so far :D
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Hertsblue on 29 October 2013, 09:07:17 AM
There must be one that goes home every night and stops the kids wondering where dad is?  ;)
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Orcs on 29 October 2013, 11:31:25 AM
Quote from: Hertsblue on 29 October 2013, 09:07:17 AM
There must be one that goes home every night and stops the kids wondering where dad is?  ;)

HMMMM!  so does Adele know which clone is in her bed at night, and does it actually matter which one she sleeps with ? :-\ :-\
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: sebigboss79 on 29 October 2013, 12:23:38 PM
What if she has clones as well  :o
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Fenton on 29 October 2013, 12:27:10 PM
 both being Clones are we trying to say in a very roundabout fashion that Leon and Dolly the sheep would get on well together
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: sebigboss79 on 29 October 2013, 12:27:57 PM
Well she was Scottish so maybe the accents would make communication difficult...
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 29 October 2013, 02:53:11 PM
Quote from: Fenton on 29 October 2013, 12:27:10 PM
both being Clones are we trying to say in a very roundabout fashion that Leon and Dolly the sheep would get on well together

;D ;D ;D

Well an interesting day here at Clonewatch UK :-bd

Lots of confirmed sightings around the North East.

Do keep your information coming in and, remember, that with plenty of coke and wine gums, these clones aren't dangerous.
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Maenoferren on 30 October 2013, 12:51:11 AM
somewhere there is photogrpahic proof of cloneville on shetland
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 30 October 2013, 08:24:22 AM
Quote from: Maenoferren on 30 October 2013, 12:51:11 AM
somewhere there is photogrpahic proof of cloneville on shetland


Thought that was the same as Norfolk - inbreeding

IanS  :d :-*
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Techno on 30 October 2013, 09:12:45 AM
Have you included the clones that deal with the designers ?
I think we've each got one....So that must be another few ? ;)
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Hertsblue on 30 October 2013, 09:41:12 AM
Quote from: Techno on 30 October 2013, 09:12:45 AM
Have you included the clones that deal with the designers ?
I think we've each got one....So that must be another few ? ;)
Cheers - Phil

When you say "deal with", Phil, are we talking about the old whip and chair here?  :D
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 30 October 2013, 11:44:07 AM
Na - he'd enjoy that......

IanS  ;)
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Techno on 30 October 2013, 11:53:18 AM
 :P ;)

Why do you think I only ever contact Leon by phone or email ?
Cheers - Phil

Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Fenton on 30 October 2013, 12:05:45 PM
I always imagined Leon and Phil's working relationship to be more.....


(http://i625.photobucket.com/albums/tt334/SteveW_04/DavisDRTshirt.jpg) (http://s625.photobucket.com/user/SteveW_04/media/DavisDRTshirt.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 30 October 2013, 01:15:01 PM
Wow...D.R. and Quinch...now there's a blast from the past ;)
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 30 October 2013, 01:20:45 PM
Excellent!

Nuke your parents!
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 30 October 2013, 01:26:27 PM
My psychiatrist says I'm a psychotic deviant...but that doesn't mean I'm a bad person, right?
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Fenton on 30 October 2013, 03:12:34 PM
Quote from: get2grips on 30 October 2013, 01:26:27 PM
My psychiatrist says I'm a psychotic deviant...but that doesn't mean I'm a bad person, right?

No just means you can spell really difficult words
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 30 October 2013, 03:14:57 PM
Lets not forget their warcry " Eat hot plutonium death you disgusting alien weirdo!"  :D
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 30 October 2013, 03:19:33 PM
Quote from: get2grips on 30 October 2013, 01:26:27 PM
My psychiatrist says I'm a psychotic deviant...but that doesn't mean I'm a bad person, right?

Quote from: Fenton on 30 October 2013, 03:12:34 PM
No just means you can spell really difficult words

I'm???  :-\ :-\ :-\
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 30 October 2013, 03:32:46 PM
Quote from: mad lemmey on 30 October 2013, 03:14:57 PM
Lets not forget their warcry " Eat hot plutonium death you disgusting alien weirdo!"  :D

D.R. and Quinch go to Hollywood:

"Mind the oranges Marlon......UUHSHUHFUHH"

Arguably, Brando's finest lines...


I coulda been a somebody...I coulda been a UUHSHUHFUHH;

Every man's a king...and I'm the king around here, and UUHSHUHFUHH;

What're you rebelling against, Johnny?
Whaddya UUHSHUHFUHH;

And the ultimate quote:

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't UUHSHUHFUHH.



Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Techno on 30 October 2013, 03:41:31 PM
Quote from: Fenton on 30 October 2013, 12:05:45 PM
I always imagined Leon and Phil's working relationship to be more.....

So....Which one am I then ? :-\
Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 30 October 2013, 03:46:16 PM
To quote Wikipedia:

"two alien teenage students Waldo "D.R." (for "Diminished Responsibility") Dobbs, a scheming criminal mastermind (who with his pointed ears, green flesh, and furrowed chin, resembled a Skrull from the Marvel Comics universe), and Ernest Errol Quinch, his muscular purple skinned companion in crime, have influenced Earth's history in various anarchic ways."

Now I've met a Leon clone and, there is no way you could call him "muscular" so...he has to be D.R. ...scheming for total Pendraken domination...and he's green :D

Making you...Quinch ;D
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Fenton on 30 October 2013, 04:08:55 PM
My favourite quote is

Y`know a kiss on the hand may be quite continental, man ... but tactical thermonuclear weaponry is a guy`s best friend!
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 30 October 2013, 04:13:22 PM
Quote from: Fenton on 30 October 2013, 04:08:55 PM
My favourite quote is

Y`know a kiss on the hand may be quite continental, man ... but tactical thermonuclear weaponry is a guy`s best friend!


Absolutely awesome characters 8)
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Fenton on 30 October 2013, 04:15:24 PM
Quote from: get2grips on 30 October 2013, 04:13:22 PM
Absolutely awesome characters 8)

I am going to dig out the graphic novel now..I think its in the attic

Not sure if these were my fave 2000AD characters, Torquemada from Nemesis the Warlock  would be close
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Techno on 30 October 2013, 06:00:58 PM
ME !! .....Muscular !!  =O =O =O

Come on chaps....You're talking about someone who could be a body double for Judge Death.  :-*
I can go out in a storm and not get wet by dodging in between the raindrops.

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 30 October 2013, 07:14:49 PM
Quote from: Techno on 30 October 2013, 06:00:58 PM
ME !! .....Muscular !!  =O =O =O

Come on chaps....You're talking about someone who could be a body double for Judge Death.  :-*
I can go out in a storm and not get wet by dodging in between the raindrops.

Cheers - Phil


At the risk of being banned...have you met  Leon...feel a new thread coming on... :-\

Leon, I'm really really sorry, please don't ban me from the shiny shiny goodness, please, sir, thank you.   B)

Actually...I missed something huge here...

The ONLY aspect you challenged was "muscular"; "purple skinned companion in crime" you accept???  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 30 October 2013, 07:25:47 PM
So, let's think...
There must be a Leon clone we have not considered.
A dark, insidious clone, twisted with fear and hate, lurking behind the caged door in the workshop, kept in perpetual gloom and fed cannibalistic remains of clones who miscast zulus or mispack League of Ratsberg as League of Augsburg.
His only source of light is the flickering green screen of his 486 computer as he reads every forum topic, and then hacks the thread to purposefully take it off topic...

Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 30 October 2013, 07:38:01 PM
23 :D
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Techno on 30 October 2013, 08:42:42 PM
Quote from: get2grips on 30 October 2013, 07:14:49 PM
At the risk of being banned...have you met  Leon...feel a new thread coming on... :-\
Leon, I'm really really sorry, please don't ban me from the shiny shiny goodness, please, sir, thank you.  B)

Actually...I missed something huge here...
The ONLY aspect you challenged was "muscular"; "purple skinned companion in crime" you accept???  ;D ;D ;D

No..never met Leon....He's just a disembodied voice at the end of the phone line.....
Me ?....Purple skinned ?....When the temperature starts dropping to below 20 degrees....Yeah... Definitely.
Companion in crime with Leon ?....He's the mastermind....I'm just one of the easily led, naughty little sidekicks who does what he's told.....So...."Guilty, M'lud" ;) ;D
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 30 October 2013, 08:48:01 PM
Quote from: Techno on 30 October 2013, 08:42:42 PM
He's just a disembodied voice at the end of the phone line.....


24 :D :D :D
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Fenton on 30 October 2013, 08:57:27 PM
Quote from: Techno on 30 October 2013, 08:42:42 PM
No..never met Leon....He's just a disembodied voice at the end of the phone line.....
Me ?....Purple skinned ?....When the temperature starts dropping to below 20 degrees....Yeah... Definitely.
Companion in crime with Leon ?....He's the mastermind....I'm just one of the easily led, naughty little sidekicks who does what he's told.....So...."Guilty, M'lud" ;) ;D
Cheers - Phil

why does  "I was only following orders" spring to mind
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 30 October 2013, 09:01:41 PM
Quote from: Fenton on 30 October 2013, 08:57:27 PM
why does  "I was only following orders" spring to mind

Harsh...very, very harsh...and funny ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Hertsblue on 31 October 2013, 08:41:15 AM
Why do I get the impression that the hobnails of imagination are beginning to slide on the shiny surface of reality?  ;)
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Techno on 31 October 2013, 10:41:25 AM
Sliding Ray ?
Isn't truth stranger than friction (sic)  :D :D :D
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Hertsblue on 01 November 2013, 08:17:51 AM
(Groan) You'll be getting an offer from the Sun to write their headlines next, Phil (if you're not careful).  :D
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Last Hussar on 10 November 2013, 12:01:23 PM
I've met Leon once.  I remember him as a helpful good looking chap, who doesn't look old enough to have kids.
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 12:17:10 PM
I think its old age in yourself makes you think Leon is very young..My youngest niece is 21 this year, I could have sworn she was still 11
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: sebigboss79 on 10 November 2013, 12:17:47 PM
Having seen the X-mas deadlines I am wondering if some of the clones could be put to work to extend that deadline... :-\
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 12:20:50 PM
Only if there sent to Royal Mail as work experience elves
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: sebigboss79 on 10 November 2013, 12:33:27 PM
I was more thinking of Special Delivery in person by the clones  :P
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Leon on 10 November 2013, 04:19:48 PM
Quote from: sebigboss79 on 10 November 2013, 12:17:47 PM
Having seen the X-mas deadlines I am wondering if some of the clones could be put to work to extend that deadline... :-\

We'll have 4 clones working full-time just to hit the current deadlines...!   :D
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 04:21:30 PM
Quote from: Leon on 10 November 2013, 04:19:48 PM
We'll have 4 clones working full-time just to hit the current deadlines...!   :D

Pictures or its not happening  :)
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Techno on 10 November 2013, 05:14:15 PM
Over to Leon, for some badly faked pictures. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 05:30:30 PM
I think a lot of our curiosity would be satisfied  if Pendraken set up a webcam in their unit
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: fsn on 10 November 2013, 05:53:10 PM
As long as it doesn't point at the Xbox.
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Techno on 10 November 2013, 06:41:05 PM
Quote from: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 05:30:30 PM
I think a lot of our curiosity would be satisfied  if Pendraken set up a webcam in their unit
Pretty sure there's one there already....But I think it's subscription only.  :D
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 06:48:59 PM
No your ok....Paying to watch Leon  banging your head off the table at the latest request  is something I can live without

though I did find this security camera picture of Leon showing the latest work experience elf round the Pendraken unit

(http://i625.photobucket.com/albums/tt334/SteveW_04/bad-santa-2003-03-g.jpg) (http://s625.photobucket.com/user/SteveW_04/media/bad-santa-2003-03-g.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: Hertsblue on 11 November 2013, 11:08:46 AM
That can't be Middlesborough, the sun's out!  :D

(I originally typed "the sin's out". Was that Freudian perhaps?)
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: sebigboss79 on 11 November 2013, 11:11:44 AM
Quote from: fsn on 10 November 2013, 05:53:10 PM
As long as it doesn't point at the Xbox.
Seconded and thirded! :o
Title: Re: Clone census 2013
Post by: get2grips on 11 November 2013, 12:06:48 PM
Quote from: Fenton on 10 November 2013, 06:48:59 PM
No your ok....Paying to watch Leon  banging your head off the table at the latest request  is something I can live without

though I did find this security camera picture of Leon showing the latest work experience elf round the Pendraken unit

(http://i625.photobucket.com/albums/tt334/SteveW_04/bad-santa-2003-03-g.jpg) (http://s625.photobucket.com/user/SteveW_04/media/bad-santa-2003-03-g.jpg.html)



Can't be...Leon's not that tall :D :D :D