But you guys, when are you going to make the images big enough so I can use them as my desktop background?

I could have a new El Reg Playmobil desktop for my computer each Friday, please please please please please please please please please please please please please...

That is the type of high level journalism I expect from such a trusted news source as Reg.

were was the sniffer dog in all this ?

That's a cute police lady arresting the pigeon smuggler. Have you got her number?

That is all.

i doth my cap to you folks! amusing and touching rip hans

Simon wrote:

"But you guys, when are you going to make the images big enough so I can use them as my desktop background?"

Seconded.

Can you also group them as a sub-category in Odds&Sods please.

I was in a dire need for a GOOD laugh this Friday. Thanks a lot! :) EPIC EPIC EPIC WIN!

PS.: I'm with Simon. "But you guys, when are you going to make the images big enough so I can use them as my desktop background?"

that is all.

...and still smiling.

Excellent

And yes - Desktop-sized images PLEASE!!

Gordon Ramsay is a restaurateur, not restauraNteur.

http://www.bartleby.com/68/30/5130.html

"Restauranteur can still raise conservative eyebrows, however, even in some Semiformal and Conversational contexts, so know your audience and readers and their expectations."

My eyebrows are currently stratospheric, in case you're wondering.

...shopped!

Well I think that says it all really, good tribute.

Thats a great looking checkpoint.

Interesting to note in the section below (Customers who bought this item also bought)

Is a book entitled:

Understanding Shutter Speed: Creative Action and Low-Light Photography Beyond 1/125 Second (Paperback) by Bryan Peterson

Do you think thats where the El Reg photographer shops for all his kit?

And it's nice to see you got ol' Optimus in there too at the end.

I just love the idea of you lot claiming for the Playmobil as a business expense in the annual accounts, getting audited and forwarding the relevant links to the Revenue men. Top work.

Why, in the last shot, are they dong the actions to YMCA????

Surely el reg could've provided some better music than that?

Well done guys, well done indeed. It's perhaps the most fitting tribute to the man that gave so many kids so much joy over the years.

Among the gang in the last photo?

Thanks for the exclusive photos, I'm glad you beat Hello and OK to them yet again.

A fitting tribute to our sadly deceased, glorious, plastic molding overlord.

I was always a Lego-boy, but when I heard on Radio 4's Last Word how on Hans Beck was inspired to design the toys, I was greatly impressed by his genius. He noted how children draw people, with big heads, big facial features and simple bodies and crafted the Playmobil system in that image. That's the genius, designing for children, not at children.

Apparently he also opposed guns from the Playmobil system until he got letters from children saying the police needed them.

I think the aussie pigeon smuggler just shops in the same place as Windy Miller

http://www.martinwildig.com/pictures/trmptn.jpg

"everywhere Obama graces with his presence immediately becomes immeasurably more lovely, and in this case positively Edenesque"

Christ you people are giving me the dry heaves. Politicians are slime wrapped in grease with a liberal sprinkling of lumpy dock scrapings. Pass the antacids.

Yep - the food-gathering, the smiling people, the grizzly bear... if that background artwork wasn't scanned directly from one of the Watchtower Society publications, well it's a pretty darn good imitation. Imagine the Reg giving them free publicity... hmmm, is there something we don't know about the Reg? ;)

BTW, here's a little secret (not secret after I post it, I guess) - the way to make those people leave you alone: you act really friendly and supportive, tell them you're *already* "studying" (insert a friend's or relative's "name"), use JW jargon as much as possible ("paradise earth", "when armageddon comes", "the new system of things", "the ransom sacrifice", etc), and when the JW ask which congregation it is, you've temporarily 'forgot' - it's some distance away and you study on weekends when you visit there) and tell them you already read their literature (in fact, you subscribe to it) and you don't want them to waste their Watchtower money on duplicates ("after all, it must cost a lot of money to print those magazines nowadays") since you already have it, and make sure they know how enthusiastic you are *BUT* that you need to take things slowly, at your own pace, and that you don't want to feel pressured by their "return visits" because that would be a "stumbling block" (they'll know what you mean - you just have to speak their language - it helps to read up on them a little bit, so that you know enough of their beliefs to be able to <del>combat</del> er I mean communicate with them). It also helps if you tell them (whether true or not, is up to you) that as a youth you went to their meetings, so you already have a pretty good idea of what it's all about, but you're refreshing your knowledge with the relative/friend/whoever that you're "studying" with out-of-town as mentioned above. It worked for me - they keep a list of such residences that *don't* want to be disturbed, and they haven't rang my doorbell for many years.

Just a variant of the old "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" thing :)

*However*, if you're *hostile* to those people, they take that as a sort of supreme *challenge* (not unlike cats who gravitate to the one person in the room who absolutely hates cats), and you'll *never* be rid of them.

-- Just a little insider-knowledge. (EX-insider)

______

P.S. : On the *other* hand, I still have NOT figured out how to make the pesky *Mormons* leave me alone :(

(Alien icon because parts of the Old Testament, or as the JW say the "Hebrew Scriptures" remind me of UFO's with all that nonsense about the Ark of the Covenant, Ezekiel's Wheel, and so forth, but *DON'T* say that to the JW or they'll want to argue with you!)

...but Paris Hilton sure seems a lot more stacked than most other photos of her.

That is all. Thank you and much plastic-arm-waving-respect to all concerned.

quality nothing less than the man deserved. next time do this without being asked.

Another tour de force from the Playmobil branch of El Reg! Sad to hear of Herr Beck's demise, but a fitting send-off (pixelated fellatio aside) for a man of such vision. If he knew what you'd been up to with his precious figurines, I'm sure he'd be... Er... Over the moon. Or something.

I agree with the above - we need these in desktop dimensions please Reg :) 1600 x 1200 etc please.

"He was later found to have a brace of songbirds stuffed in his lunchbox, although there is no suggestion that Carli [sic] Bruni had a hand in it."

Carla Bruni had a hand in placing the brace within his lunchbox (a la M Sarkozy)?

Or

Carla Bruni had one of her hands in his lunchbox (also, no doubt, a la Sarkozy)?

You could always just tell the truth and the next time Witnesses come to your door, tell them you're not interested and preferred not to be called on again. If you don't want to do it face to face you could even look up the phone number for a local Kingdom Hall and tell them your address and that you don't want to be called on again. It's that simple. Running and hiding while they're at your door never solves anything. Neither does being mean.

"next time do this without being asked."

OK, I'm sure next time he dies El Reg will do better.