Kovacs. Thorn.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
I pride myself on having a fairly good sense of humor, but this thread has gone completey over my head. Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Isn't that Radio 2 TV advert with Elvis introducing his band good? Fantastic editing. Sent a chill down my spine.
Though I'm not quite sure how Noel Gallagher and Sheryl Crowe got in the line-up.
Doesn't seem to be on YouTube yet. Give it ten minutes or so.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by dang65:
Though I'm not quite sure how Noel Gallagher and Sheryl Crowe got in the line-up.
Yeah.
Ron Wood and James Jamerson, perhaps?
Posted by squeegy (Member # 136) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: I pride myself on having a fairly good sense of humor, but this thread has gone completey over my head.
Just keeping you in your place. Making you aware that you could never truly understand the complex in-jokes and references to obscure posts 5 years back that make up TMO.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Ron Wood and James Jamerson, perhaps?
Ah, now this debate could run and run. Thought they might have gone for McCartney on bass and John Fogerty on rhythm guitar? Or maybe Neil Young. In fact, there is footage of Neil Young and Jimmy Page playing together here. Ragged glory and tight but loose.
ETA: And here's some John Fogerty, though he seems to have made his trousers from parts of the sofa?
Right, the decider. John Fogerty it is. Travellin' Band. Blown away.
[ 22.09.2006, 05:08: Message edited by: dang65 ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Bootsy Collins on bass. Chuck Berry on rhythm.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Bootsy Collins on bass. Chuck Berry on rhythm.
We need YouTube Web 2.0 proof I'm afraid. You can't just name names these days you know.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Byron Stroud on bass.
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
Doesn't deserve its own thread but:
Can anyone who grew up in the 80s remember those lamps...they would have a sculpture of a lady in the style of a Greek statue, and then there would be all these tiny wires round the outside, and small beads of water would drip down the wires? Does anyone know what I mean? I didn't dream it I don't think. I used to be really fascinated by them when I was little. Anyway, what's the name of them? I want to find a picture of one but I don't even know what I'm supposed to be searching for.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by London: Doesn't deserve its own thread but:
Can anyone who grew up in the 80s remember those lamps...they would have a sculpture of a lady in the style of a Greek statue, and then there would be all these tiny wires round the outside, and small beads of water would drip down the wires? Does anyone know what I mean? I didn't dream it I don't think. I used to be really fascinated by them when I was little. Anyway, what's the name of them? I want to find a picture of one but I don't even know what I'm supposed to be searching for.
LOL
My Auntie Valerie had one. Even as a kid, I remember thinking, "Hmmm... tacky!"
It had a little lamp in the top caused the 'gilding' to flake off. And without looking too closely you could spot all sorts of moulding faults in the cheapo plastic Grecian figure. I seem to remember plastic foliage, lurid green, wrapped around the Greek ladies' feet. That stuff on the wires wasn't water, it was sort of gooey. Gelatine?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Here...
A 'Rain Lamp'.
This one has lost its rain, though.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: That stuff on the wires wasn't water, it was sort of gooey. Gelatine?
Were they called "Bukkake lamps"?
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
I don't think I had a concept of 'tacky' when I was really young. I don't think that kind of thinking kicked in for me till I was maybe 11 or something? Or older? I liked fur (used to stroke the coats of the posh rich Chislehurst ladies without them noticing) and gilt and rain lamps and unicorns and bone china horses. Ah, the 80s.
It was mineral oil in the lamps, apparently. I didn't know that, I always thought it was water. I was always too scared to touch it. I don't know, the lamps just seemed to signify some kind of adult world of naked ladies and magic and luxury that I didn't quite understand.
I don't think Black Mask and I would have got on as children at all.
[ 22.09.2006, 06:01: Message edited by: London ]
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by squeegy: Just keeping you in your place. Making you aware that you could never truly understand the complex in-jokes and references to obscure posts 5 years back that make up TMO.
I know I could truly never understand. No need to rub it in my face. Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: I pride myself on having a fairly good sense of humor, but this thread has gone completey over my head.
OK, this is going to be really fucking dull, but bear with me.
The title makes reference to Check Your Inbox (CYI) threads that have been a tradition of TMO since its inception. The threads act as a heads up to check your (email) inbox when someone's emailed you, and you're impatiently waiting on a reply. It's based on the slightly flawed logic that, upon jacking into the internet one might trawl through every bit of banter, drinks invitation, private in joke and argument on TMO without once going to their email to look for messages that are specifically adressed to them by people they already like enough to share their email address with.
So anyway, a CYI thread would be active for a long time, maybe 18 months. A side effect would be that if the thread was bumped up to top of the boards, then you'd click on it and see names of posters who might have last posted 10 months ago (in the instance of ben's joke, 69 Comeback Elvis). For a moment this causes a slight moment of disorientation as you assume they've suddenly rejoined the boards, until you notice that the post in 10 months old. The title of the thread here, makes reference to this phenomenon that most people will have experienced, but probably never explicitly acknowledged. This results in a wry smile and a nod of recognition for a shared experience.
See?
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: See?
Oh. Is that all. Then I did get the joke. It just wasn't funny.
ETA: But thanks for the explanation!
[ 22.09.2006, 07:19: Message edited by: ralph ]
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
I wanna know what Ben is emailing Kovacs and Thorn about. Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
There wasn't supposed to be a joke. It was just a thread title.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by London: I don't think I had a concept of 'tacky' when I was really young.
Maybe I was just exposed to too much tacky? I remember ranks of gaudily-painted plaster religious figurines, 3D moving pictures of the crucifixion and the Sacred Heart, ornately framed photographs of various popes, saints and Elvis. There was the trend for porcelain shire horses pulling creaky wooden haywains, leather staps covered in horse-brasses, wicker peacock chairs, fake fur throw cushions and shagpile. Fluffy candlewick toilet seat covers and horseshoe-shaped mats to go around the front of the toilet. Vast ugly blown-crystal fish with neon colours shot through their insides, sadclowns, weeping monster-eyed orphans, green orientals and pool-playing dogs printed onto chipboard and mounted in golden plastic rococo frames hung over black-on-black bamboo flock wallpaper. Music centres the size of transit vans clad in flaking vinyl veneer pumping out Sacha Distel, Val Doonican and Sweet, overstuffed corduriy sofas with wood-effect armrests and plastic ball-and-claw feet. Nylon bedclothes and polyester pyjamas that, when combined, could give you near-fatal electric shocks, lava lamps, trimphones, suedette, velour, draylon...
It was a nightmare.
A fucking nightmare.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
my mum went through a gnome phase
*shudder* Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by vikram: my mum went through a gnome phase
*shudder*
Was that shortly after you were born?
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
That's no way to talk about your father, vikram.
ETA: Damn. Beaten by Black Mask. Again.
[ 22.09.2006, 07:39: Message edited by: ralph ]
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Really?
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
Maybe.
And lava lamps aren't tacky.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: fake fur throw cushions and shagpile. Fluffy candlewick toilet seat covers and horseshoe-shaped mats to go around the front of the toilet.....sadclowns....weeping monster-eyed orphans, green orientals and pool-playing dogs printed onto chipboard and mounted in golden plastic rococo frames hung over black-on-black bamboo flock wallpaper......corduriy sofas with wood-effect armrests.....Nylon bedclothes
lolol, that raised a few memories
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask:
quote:Originally posted by London: I don't think I had a concept of 'tacky' when I was really young.
Maybe I was just exposed to too much tacky? I remember ranks of gaudily-painted plaster religious figurines, 3D moving pictures of the crucifixion and the Sacred Heart, ornately framed photographs of various popes, saints and Elvis. There was the trend for porcelain shire horses pulling creaky wooden haywains, leather staps covered in horse-brasses, wicker peacock chairs, fake fur throw cushions and shagpile. Fluffy candlewick toilet seat covers and horseshoe-shaped mats to go around the front of the toilet. Vast ugly blown-crystal fish with neon colours shot through their insides, sadclowns, weeping monster-eyed orphans, green orientals and pool-playing dogs printed onto chipboard and mounted in golden plastic rococo frames hung over black-on-black bamboo flock wallpaper. Music centres the size of transit vans clad in flaking vinyl veneer pumping out Sacha Distel, Val Doonican and Sweet, overstuffed corduriy sofas with wood-effect armrests and plastic ball-and-claw feet. Nylon bedclothes and polyester pyjamas that, when combined, could give you near-fatal electric shocks, lava lamps, trimphones, suedette, velour, draylon...
It was a nightmare.
A fucking nightmare.
This should be a song... a boy or a girl with a regional accent should recite this list over some... some backing track, I dunno what. Can I nick this and give you a credit? Imagine Jarvis Cocker reciting this... gosh it would be lovely.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I'm just exposed to too much tacky, I want to do whatever tacky people do, Lava, heat and rain lamps ampy, Courdroy cushions ....the colour of poo
and what else could I do? Shove a horshoe carpet under the loo-a-woo-aoh oh, woah awoah a oh-oh oh Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by London: Can I nick this and give you a credit?
Knock yourself out.
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
That was a really wanky thing to write, wasn't it, about the song. WANKY. Somebody kill me.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
lol
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by London: I wanna know what Ben is emailing Kovacs and Thorn about.
quote:Hi Kovacs, Thorn:
Just a quick mail to ask you both to take a look at this thread on TMO please.
Thanks guys! Ben
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
It wasn't anything important: just one of those "Fucking hell, is it me or is XXX being really irritating on the boards recently?" emails.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Don't worry though Dang, kovacs stuck up for you.
[ 22.09.2006, 08:25: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Here's the Elvis/Radio 2 advert for those with sound who give a fuck.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I don't understand why they chose Keith Moon on drums. What about Ringo Starr, ffs?
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
I don't think Ringo would be cheeky enough to interrupt The King in mid-sentence like that.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Ringo out of The Beatles I mean, not the Ringo.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
If you put all these musicians onto one stage, they'd probably sound like shit together. It'd be like the beginning of Later... with Jools Holland only with even bigger ego clashes than usual.
Posted by Travelling Canadian (Member # 491) on :
Squeegee. We really have to do a Botswana meet before I leave here for good. SMS me some time (Mascom)79-2557. Not putting up my E-mail address, but you should get the Mascom thing.
Posted by squeegy (Member # 136) on :
quote:Originally posted by Travelling Canadian: Squeegee. We really have to do a Botswana meet before I leave here for good. SMS me some time
Hey! We totally should. I am going to a festival in SA this weekend but yeah, after that lets do BotswanaMeat II
Posted by Travelling Canadian (Member # 491) on :
Excellent! 'Twill be my 4th meet-up, in a third country.
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