** TREASURY OF MIRTH - PART DEUX!!**

[Tactful Cactus]

[C]

So, if I've read this correctly...

You haven't.

Well, I didn't read it all, to be honest.

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[Count Machuki]

Maybe you should look up 'bipolar' next. Or 'psychotic'.

People have been hounded off this board for less.



Hilarious!

[beenieman]

Maybe you should look up 'bipolar' next. Or 'psychotic'.

People have been hounded off this board for less.



Hilarious!

What thread is that from?

[Count Machuki]

The rate these "Californian" bands one.

[Count Machuki]

I should probably get in the habit of checking facts before I spout them.

BCB will miss you, Guy.

One of the greats.

[Sambient]

Jet lag is a cunt.

Good at kung fu though

[Corporate whore]

I don't like act of love.

Perhaps you should try it with a man or a dog.

[Sea Of Tunes v2.0]

Thread: The Opposite Of What You Feel (take good note)

Atomic Loonybin wrote:

Black Cat Bone is as great - nay greater - than it has ever been. The collective is as strong and friendly as it ever was, with good natured banter and erudite and well thought opinion on as many subjects as is under the sun. Good humour and sunny dispositions, and a splendid eagerness for everyone to make up and be friendly permeate its walls. Tolerance and brotherhood are its watchwords. Many of this well rounded and intellectual crew you would be proud to have as friends, and delighted to spend many thoughtful days, months and decades debating the mysteries of the muse - in a friendly way naturally! - and listening to these youngsters - barely out of short trousers for the most part! - as they swap their stories while carefully and fully acknowledging those contra-opinions of their peers. In the end, backs would be slapped, ales would be quaffed, and everyone would return home in the rosy glow of shared bonds and friendship.

[Corporate whore]

We're all having a Doors singalong thanks to the chord book off Martyn's girlfriend.

The Doors on ukulele?

"There's a killer on the road, turned out nice again".

[The G Experience!]

Just found out that my Polish King Oliver poster is still in print, available at amazon, cheap too:



Technical Details
IDEAL FOR FRAMING
SIZE 16X12 INCHES
PRINTED ON THE HIGHEST QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER
POSTED IN A STURDY TUBE

KING OLIVER POLISH REPRODUCTION PHOTO POSTER 16X12"
Price: £4.49

My local poster supplier were waaay ahead of the game on this so I got a tipoff they were stocking Polish King Oliver prints only last week. After a few nights camping outside the shop they finally came in. Needless to say I bought the deluxe bundle -- x9 fridge magnets (for all my cousins), 2x wallet sized, 1x of King Oliver scratching his arse on a tennis court.

It was totally worth the wait

[the masked man]

You probably need to have been following Screenadelica lately to appreciate this, but this is quality stuff:

beenieman: cinematic iconoclast

Here's Geoff Andrew's review in Time Out.:

Directed by Alain Resnais in 1979, it is thought by many to be the auteur's late seventies masterpiece; a film that asks us to question the medium and our own voyeuristic spectatorship.
Klaus Kinkski stars as Beenieman, a New Zealander who turns to films when his love affair with Jamaican reggae is tarnished by a substandard U-Roy release. Confused he starts watching a series of action films to try and discover the essential aesthetics of art and its relationship to post-fordian production. This post-structuralist discourse on the ways meaning has broken down makes for disconcerting, troubling but finally redemptive viewing. Astonishing.

Here's my review: I tried to watch this so called classic, but it's just about a bloke sitting on his sofa watching tv. I turned it off after 13 minutes.

[you have to have a fly's eye to see it]

A top-quality pun from TopCat G:

Are people going to go nuts like this when Robert Dyson dies? Have you seen what he's done for hoovers?

I'm not looking forward to that. His death will leave such a vacuum.

[Arthur Crud]

Dances on the McArtney/ Billionaire/ just got hitched thread

It won't last. I hear he's already complaining that the new Mrs. Macca is spending twice as much on shoes as the last one.

[Magilla]

or the guardian

anyone else having these sorts of problems?

Alain de Rolland has banned you.

[king feeb]

A bizarre discussion of Nazis, Cold War politics, German breakfasts, interior decorating, Hitler and Henry Kissinger:

The nazis they 'helped' were people like Von Braun with something to barter - their skills and knowledge. Hitler was a painter, I'm sure the US had enough of them.

You say that, but it's not clearcut.

Recently released files show that The Oval Office was repainted in October 1946. Apparently the painter used for the job chose "Viennese Cream" for the paint. There is a quote from an unnamed aide who remembers this mysterious painter:
"He was a funny little man with a heavy accent and a curious little moustache. I remember he didn't like the breakfasts at all and demanded we serve him instead apfelstrudel and kleiner schwarzer. He took his time on the job and in fact wanted to paint the whole of The White House as he said we didn't have enough 'living space', but he had only been contracted to do The Oval Office. His assistant Him..something was a very good plasterer."

It's not conclusive proof, but it is interesting and the timeline fits.

I sit corrected... Did he have an aversion to Dr Kissinger at all?

Well he WAS Kissinger, after a little plastic surgery...

I wonder who's Kissinger now?

[Sea Of Tunes v2.0]

In the 'Pick A Random Wiki Article' thread (we're being asked to read what we found, and then give sort of a condensed version of it), there's this gem:

Echolalia wrote:

North Lampung Regency

The North Lampung Regency is a Regency in Indonesia. Included in its jurisdiction are 50 villages all called Ramalamadingdong. The North Lampung Regency has no tourist attractions.

North Lampung Regency is known throughout the region as "The Post Office of the Malay Archipelago".

The local spearfishing team, the North Lampung Regents, disbanded in 2011 after a corruption scandal involving its director Tommy "Snowball" Megalast and the captain of a rival team, the South Lampung Regents, from the neighbouring Regency of South Lampung Regency.

North Lampung Regency is twinned with Nueva Germania (Paraguay).

North Lampung Regency is great place to live nobody care about Tommy Megalast he belongs to the pasts He can go to the hell for everything we care

Finally, Samuel K.B. Ampong has met his superior...

[The G Experience!]

Entertainment is there as a diversion to make people laugh, cry, feel warm inside, smile, etc. I am talking about light entertainment here - the world of cosy chat shows and undemanding comedies that can be shared with all the family. If you introduce a convicted paedophile into that mix it jars, that is all. It is not a moral judgement, just an assessment on the way people want to be entertained.

With Michael Barrymore, it is even more clear-cut. His whole act was one of being a nice bloke, at ease with people, genuinely interested in them and occasionally funny. The death and everything that has happened since showed that this was a fake. The real Michael Barrymore seems a misanthropic and slightly scarey man who you just wouldn't want to see dancing with grannies and sending people out anymore. I can't see how he could expect a slot on mainstrean telly other than as a reality TV freak.

That makes sense. Thanks.

Although I think I will champion Barrymore now as a deconstructionist hero whose very personality challenges the bland status quo of light entertaiment.

I am going to put together a video installation artpiece of Barrymore in a pool at the centre of a mass synchonisation of swimming grannies.

If I can get an Arts Council grant, that is, They don't just hand them out these days, you know.

Brilliant.

[Nolamike]

On the Roger Dean thread, in which the artist's lawsuit against James Cameron (regarding Avatar's visuals) is discussed:

James Cameron's a Yes fan? Well, that explains why his movies are so fucking long and full of shite!!!

[Sea Of Tunes v2.0]

John Mc has his own biological/linguistic and also categorizational view on the issue of garlic and its belonging to a flower family (as presented by Thesiger in the Friday Quiz of Nov 4, 2011:

(Garlic has indeed been redesignated to the genus allhio).

Well, I propose that we should have a mature and democratic vote on what fancy 'genus' it should properly be assigned to, rather than meekly going along with your (I feel) frankly arbitrary choice.

Personally, I would suggest that we re-designate it as belonging to the 'Frogo-argentus antipathetique' sub-genus of the 'R2D2 tete de chou' family, on the grounds of its sweet cloying taste, its durable granite-like texture, its natural luminescent qualities, and its ability (rare amongst herbs and spices) to reproduce via parthenogenesis.