What's with topper?
 

Why is topper/[email protected] sending messages up when they haven't fallen very far to begin with? I could see doing it for messages that get buried over a weekend, but I find this indiscriminate topping annoying.

Martha, I've been pondering the same question. I have a couple of theories, having to do with control issues. And I have to admit, it's a powerful feeling to push "submit" and have the results visible for all the world to see -- just like I'm about to do right now... Whee!

Martha, I've been pondering the same question. I have a couple of theories, having to do with control issues. I imagine someone who wants to participate, but has nothing to add at the moment. It's harmless, I reckon. And I have to admit, it's a powerful feeling to push "submit" and have the results visible for all the world to see -- just like I'm about to do right now... Whee!

I like it so much, I did it twice!

Well no, it's not me for a start. <BR> <BR>It's classic attention grabbing by someone, I would wager, who has been ignored on this forum in the past. <BR> <BR>There's always someone sad enough to try this minor disruption.

Tony, I would never have thought it was you. Not nearly clever enough :-) <BR> <BR>The thing is, how can you get attention, if no one know's who you are? I think topper is not necessarily trying to move things up, but may be trying to bury something. On at least one occasion I'm pretty sure the idea was to push a specific entry out of the top 50.

Beth you may have a point but surely placing a posting in the 'hot 50' up to the top wouldn't push anything out? <BR> <BR>Just a thought.

Nope, it wouldn't. But if there was something in the middle or at the bottom, that you wanted to bury for whatever reason, if you posted "To the top" in 50 other messages, then the one you wanted out of eyesight goes into the "next 50 messages area. <BR>I can't figure out what someone would want to bury though.

Hmmm. I always thought all those Toppers and Uppitys were rather jolly, like bubbles rising to the surface. <BR>

Remember, only the best bottoms get to the top!

At first, I thought that Topper just was shy, or had a limited vocabulary. Then I realized that she must be exhausted for having to constantly coach and prompt her wooded husband, Vice President Gore. After all, she does have to be careful in public lest her past career as a militant pro-censorship activist be brought to the surface. <BR> <BR>Oh wait.. that's TIPPER. Never Mind.

wooded=wooden

That clever Ted Turner, colorizing Topper! The first colorized movie, wasn't it? Personally, I prefer balck & white.

<BR>Since some of the topics (s)he is doin this to are ones I am interested in I find it very irritating. It keeps me on-line longer than I should be (Aha! Maybe it's the phone company!) and I wait with bated breath to see what words of wisdom have been added ....only to find an exclamation mark. And that's nothing to the exclamation that follows!!

Does anyone remember the ghost-friend of Cosmo Topper?

No, but thank you for giving me something to obsess about all day.

I think they were George & Marian Kirby.

Ghost friends were Mary and George I think. But what was the name of the Saint Bernard?

Cary Grant and Constance Bennett played George and Marion Kerby.

Was the dog Oscar? Was Scallops the cat?

Paranoia strikes deep. I think topper is trying to bury new postings under old so that questions won't get answered, discouraging new posters, and those who can answer (as Sheila pointed out) will just give up because they have to wade through old posts. Nice try, A*****e, but your scum-sucking, weasel plot has been uncovered. No way am I going to quit this forum; I have gotten lots of info for current and future trips, been delighted to find new travelers who are excited about going overseas, and felt good about sharing info. You gotta do better than that, pally, to put me off. You're a penny-ante amateur, and a swine. You think you're a big dog in the yard, but you're just a puppy on the porch. Go chew on your squeaky toy.

It was Cosmo Topper (Leo G.Carroll) and fun-loving ghosts George and Marian Kirby, who were lost on a skiing trip in the Alps. A St. Bernard that had a taste for the brandy in the keg strapped to its neck came to their rescue, but all three perished in an avalanche. <BR> <BR>The dog's name was Neal. I know this because, until the age of 10, I sincerely believed I had been named after an alcoholic St. Bernard. <BR>

How does a ghost persih?

The TV show starred Ann Jeffreys as Marian, Leo G Carroll as Topper, and Richard _______ as George. Who is old enough to remember THAT?

This is a European forum and, as such, no American only tv shows should be discussed - principally because I am not able to make a comment on them. <BR> <BR>Such things as Hanna-Barbera cartoons should, of course, be permitted as should any other tv shows I like. <BR> <BR>Batfink, Hong Kong Phuey, Inch high private eye, undercover elephant, Scooby doo (pre Scrappy doo) and any Dick Dasterdly related cartoons. These are all acceptable. <BR> <BR>regards

What about Johnny Quest???

Tony, "Topper" ran on television in the early 1950s (and yes, Elvira, I am old enough to remember -- and to have been traumatized by my apparent namesake). As such, it has had more than enough time to make the rounds of the Euro channels and so is fair game. Or would you prefer that we start a thread with the doings on "Coronation Street"? <BR>

Tony: Hong Kong Phooey!!! ohmigod I didn't think anybody remembered that one. And you're right, no more American TV shows on this website. Got any really cool Scottish shows to share, the same quality as Married with Children or Baywatch?

Neal, <BR> <BR>Sign me up for that "Coronation Street" thread. For some strange reason I'm fascinated by BBC shows that I'd never watch if they were made in the US. I actually stay up late on Saturday nights because my PBS channel shows "Eastenders"!

What? Do yuo mean you don't get "High Road"? or "Machair"? Poor, poor souls!

Topper began in 1937 with a movie starring Roland Young and Cary Grant. Two other movies followed, then the 1953 TV series starring Leo G. Carroll, then a TV remake for God's sake in 1979 starring Kate Jackson (Charlie's Angels). The movies and early TV series are classics. Tony, you'd love them 'cause they are politically incorrect. (Neal, I'm still laughing about your youthful conclusions.)

Topper must certainly be enjoying his/her 15 minutes of fame now..... <BR>(to the top once again!)

Elvira...bonus points if you can remember the book Hong Kong Phuey consulted before executing one of his chops or kicks? <BR> <BR>Neal ...I will leave coronation street for another time.. <BR> <BR>Re old American tv shows ...I vaguely remember some show about helicopters in black and white..Sky King? with fake backdrops etc... and I suppose the other one from my youth (it was a rerun obviously) was Champion the Wonder Horse, a highly improbably tale (tail? hehe) of a cleancut young man who had an intelligent horse as his best friend. Or maybe I am getting confused with Mr Ed. <BR> <BR>regards

Just for the sake of accuracy, Anne Jeffreys' first name has an "e" and it was Richard Denning who played her husband. And if my memory is still in tact, I believe that Jeffreys and Denning were married in real life!

There once was a poster named topper <BR>And there was no way to stop her <BR>(Or him) from sending messages to number one <BR>For no reason, maybe just to have fun <BR>Should we send for the Forum copper? <BR>

Just no Tintin, please! I don't get those cartoons.

Tony, what's wrong with Scrappy? I think he's a cutie.

Richard Denning was in Mr and Mrs North, but you're right, the man in Topper WAS married to Ann(e) in real life. <BR>Sky King was set in Arizona, I think, and he had a nephew (Chipper, Skipper?) and a "niece", Penny (yeah right you old perv). <BR>As for Hong Kong Phooey's book...hmm... that's going to require a six-pack and pack of Marlboros for me to remember that. I do my best thinking with a full load of nicotine and blood alcohol level at "should be dead"....

Does anyone know if there's a connection between Thorne Smith (the author of the Topper books, and I believe dead by the time the first movie came out) is related to Courtney Thorne-Smith? An if so, is he spinning in his grave a teh decline in popular culture? <BR>BTW, I wonder if the child (I assume) behind the dumbass "!" posts is totally baffled about what we old folks are going on about.

Tony- wasn't that the "Whirlybirds"? <BR> <BR>And how did it go?