about this web site

This website seems to have upset some people. I admit that it is dark humour. If you like the comedy of The League of Gentlemen, Little Britain or Ricky Gervais' stand-up, then you might enjoy my little site. If I have a sick mind, then I think that many others do too. Especially when you consider that nearly all the jokes on my site are other peoples'. I have recycled them.

Or perhaps my humour is more like Are you being served? because it is all innuendo and double entendres. I have deliberately written this site so that if children come upon it they will not understand it. There are no rude pictures or rude words. One must also remember that in the series Julia was not a child. In the first episode as she gets off the train she is described as a lady, and she drives a car. Several times references to equine sexual behaviour are mentioned.

I think that if Helga Anders (the actress who played Julia/Julka) was alive today this website would make her laugh.

I would also like to say something about copyright. Somebody seems to think that he is the only one who has VHS copies from the series. They are available to anyone from Germany. If someone makes jpeg pictures from frames from a VHS copy, they do not have copyright. If anyone has copyright, it would be the German owners. Similarly, if someone translates from the dialogue into English, they do not have copyright. That would remain with the writers of the series.

The point of copyright is that someone who has done something creative should be able to make it available to the public for a price without someone else cashing in. It is not about ego. If someone translates someone else's work, and puts it on a web site but not in an easily readable form, it does not make any sense to talk about 'rights'. All this talk about copyright makes me think that someone is trying to cash in somewhere.

What I have tried to do in my web site is to make people smile. I just wish that other people would have the same attitude. Anyone can take anything that they want from my site and use it in any way they like. I would not dream of accusing anyone of infringing my 'rights', or of insisting that someone remove hypertext links to my site.

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