The Electric Watercooler Acid Test: Never Trust Anyone Under 30

Ed, we clearly need to get one of these:

http://www.echolog.de/img/pranksters.jpg

Also, Ed, I have your jacket to give back to you. It STINKS. Thank god I did not need to use it. ;-)

"Age and Guile beats Youth and a bad haircut!"

You know it's a bad sign when you are discussing DDBs with yr girlfriends and going "he's actually a reasonable age, he's like, 30!"

(This was the hottie from Mainline we were talking about, not the foetus S got off with... and may have accidentally split up with his girlfriend. oops!)

Oh god, that jacket is hanging across the room, and I can still smell it.

OK, my posters just arrived. They are *GORGEOUS*. But they are now totally useless. Sigh.

New thread new name

I wish you would sell'em, Kate. I want one in our studygaming room.

How strange. I'm still signed into ILM as Herman.

ilx.wh3rd on ILE and ilx.p3r on ILM solves that little mystery.

I think i'll have 2 different identities until next time I get signed out then

Happy b-day to your gran, Kerr!

I am selling my posters, Nath! I've got to figure out how to get a paypal or else use Sonic Cathedral's account or something. I'm gonna sell them for £5 mail order.

two people have just emailed me off MySpace wanting to know how to get one - and I just noticed that the Asteroid No.4 just cheekily stuck it up on their page, too, ha! So I guess there is some demand for them. I gave the proof I had to Rob Campanella last night, as he asked for it.

Hi guys,

I always find it easier to post at the start of these threads, cos one missed day and I'm completely lost. How is everyone? I am off to the theatre tonight to see a play with SHANE RITCHIE in it, which will be fun. The things I do for my job.

Sorry to go all The Lex, but who is Shane Ritchie?

Blimey, lots of people off the interweb want posters, I've had several orders already. How do I shot paypal?

Does this title mean I can't post any more?

who is Shane Ritchie?

http://www.hootie16.freeserve.co.uk/shanebio.htm

He's a terrible terrible comic, who then went on to act in Eastenders, now thinks he's a proper actor, and is appearing in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Which is THE most inappropriate casting I've ever heard.

don't forget his version of I'm Your Man. Or the Daz Doorstep Challenge.

You can post, Emil.y we just can't trust you, ha ha.

OK, that's more than I ever wanted to know about this Ritchie character.

I've been looking through all the Dream Machine photos on MySpace. What a load of drunken and drugged up fules! Ha ha.

don't forget his version of I'm Your Man. Or the Daz Doorstep Challenge.

I really really really want to see his film "Shoreditch"

When I watches Eastenders I quite liked his character. Hated him before that though. Don't watch it anymore. I gave up on the soaps a few years ago. Even aussie ones.

Did anyone d/l the SAHB stuff? Tom D will rep for it i'm sure!

OK, I've just had a seven steps madness moment. Dean knows this woman Flower, in LA, who is best mates with Rachel, the former keyboardist of ver Lollies. I KNEW BJM WORLD IS TOO SMALL AND YOU ALWAYS RUN INTO THE SAME PEOPLE, EVEN TEN YEARS LATER.

I have never heard the lollies.

you have missed out.

Neither have I. How does one go about hearing them?

You don't. I have destroyed all copies of all songs on a giant pyre in the middle of Stonehenge at midnight of the last solstice.

I will send you some Shimura Curves, though, Kerr. Maybe. BUT ONLY IF YOU PEOPLE ACTUALLY GIVE ME CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK.

Oh well, I'd have read answers to that question with mild scepticism anyway -- the last time I asked it was of Dr C, asking how to obtain that single they released. Was pointed to an webshop, duly ordered and after some days received a 3 CD set entitled THE GREAT INDIE COMEBACK VOL. 2! :o

Eh, what? I don't understand. I have a load of Lollies 7"s in my cupboard if anyone wants to buy one. But you really don't need to. The mini-album is still the best but I've no idea where that is.

Argh, I signed up for the Plan B messageboard under my krautrock name, and very clearly freaking Bumlove doesn't know it's me, and so is retreading the old boring indie = good, mainstream = bad crap and blaming it on "marketing" again.

It is so hard not to just answer him with YOU ARE AN IDIOT in 24 point purple letters. I refuse to get into a battle of the wits with an unarmed man.

Kate, where can I see the ones you are selling? Could I just send you some money???

Wait, what do you want to buy? Posters? 7"s? I'm confused! Email me. Yes, you can always just send me some money, people just keep telling me that it's easier to use paypal.

I have one Lollies 7", but it is mine and I am keeping it. You can all come round to my house and listen to it if you like.

I would like to have mp3s of some Shimuras stuff, I've listened a couple of times on myspace but their player is quite annoying.

Paypal is quite easy, but they charge. It's comparable to how much shops have to pay credcard companies for the facility. Naturally, Cheques/PO's are less costly, but Paypal has the benefit of being easy for buyers to 'impulse' buy stuff.

Oh, and don't forget about "sticky and brown" on the ILXVol3!

yeah, myspace sucks
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Alright, alright, I'll wrap up the rough mixes of the Shimuras album and cookie it. Maybe. I still have to figure out if I'm ready to let go of it yet or not.

I tried setting up a paypal account before, but it would never let me do it. I suppose I could try with a different email address, but I'm just suspicious of the whole thing now.

Oh, I need lunch.

Everyone should listen to SAHB instead!

Would've loved to see Alex Harvey. I don't fancy going to see the SAHB that tours now with an ex shamen guy on vocals.
hehe.

yay for shimura curves cookies!

Tom I don't suppose you would've been old enough to see the SAHB would you?

I keep thinking you are saying SHB, which is a very, very old crush indeed.

Discovery of last night: when there is no cigarette smoke to cover up the smell, some DDBs STINK. There comes a point where they stop smelling nice and just start smelling "FOR GODS SAKE TAKE A BATH!" like you might have to delouse them.

Not Dean, though, he had just washed his hair and was looking very fluffy, like a little chickadee. I kept hugging him because he was so soft and fluffy. I think he was too stoned to take it the wrong way. Some boys, you don't actually want to sleep with them, you just want to cuddle them like a stuffed animal. He's a bit too boney for that, really, but I like when his hair is soft and fluffy.

I downloaded SAHB! I won't get chance to listen to it til next week now though.

I have got to stop saying these kinds of things. No wonder people think I'm insane. Sigh. I've just had carrot cake, it's making my mind go funny.

I have just made some tea. Mmmmm, tea, this will help counteract the effects of the carrot cake. I'm so lucky, my send-me-off-into-the-stratosphear druX0rs are perfectly legal. tea and carrot cake, and i'm on the moon. Mmmm, the moon....

We haven't had a DDB for the day yet, have we? Here is today's DDTeapot.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1262/1257440014_b470497aaf_o.jpg

Yeah, the Asteroid No. 4, that's gonna make me feel less hyper and less drugged, YEAH. Bad choice. and by that I mean GOOD CHOICE. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah yeah yeah la la laa la.

BT can fuck right off.

BT as in phone BT?

This is why I don't have a landline.

Yep. Fuckers.

I don't have a landline either.

Yeah, neither do I. EVEN THOUGH I SORTED IT OUT LAST FCKING WEEK. IT WAS DONE. AND NOW, NO FCKING PHONE WORKY.

(Sorry.)

'SOK. I'm bouncing around to the Asteroid No.4 so nothing can bring me down. Oh yeah. (They are the campfire DDBs from the other thread.)

OK, it's nap time. I have got to keep going or I won't make it out tonight. More tea, or a nap under my desk? Forgot about the bad, bad carrot cake comedown.

You know I am!

maybe last fm should get some kind of thing going on w/youtube, then. I have it playing all the time when I'm here at work.

As Kerr posted for me, I'll post for Mitya:

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http://s217122409.online.de/musickum/omi/graphics/taste/m/tmitya.png

They do link to youtube videos on artist pages so I don't see why not.
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Nath's is
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Emsk is
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Ed whups all our asses

damn what happened there
(norman can you edit that post?)

Emsk is

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Ed kicking butt is

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Emil.y is
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Leigh is
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http://s217122409.online.de/musickum/omi/graphics/taste/m/tmuddlinleigh.png

Hey FP you're the least open-minded of us all!

Just noticed on Ed's it says Sugar Pop what is that? a new name for twee?

I'm shocked, Kerr, shocked!

Ned just kicked Ed's butt
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I bow to Ned!

FP you need to play more of those cookies I send you, broaden your horizons!

Doesn't he like Sugar Pop or what? (xp)

I guess Ned doesn't like sugar pop, whatever that is.

He has no interest in cerealist music

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:X8TKsFNViCZPBM:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C13V621BL._AA280_.jpg

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/3/a/f/3afb5501958bc19a168c598581d21ac5.jpg

I wonder why Basil appears to have a turban in that pic

Tribute to Monty Panesar?

Or Osama Bin-Laden... BOOM! BOOM!

I've never thought about it before but saying BOOM BOOM to something funny is a bit odd - even for a cloth fox (try saying that with your dentures out)

Wasn't there some old poem that a comedian(pre-war i think)used to add boom boom to at the end of every paragraph and it all came from that?

Wasn't that Baldrick in Blackadder?

The Green Eye of the Yellow God' was originally a poem by Victorian balladeer J Milton Hayes. This poem was so extremely popular in its day that it became a standard recitation on the bills of 19th-century English music halls, much as 'Casey at the Bat' and 'Gunga Din' later became staples in American vaudeville theatres. Hayes's poem was so familiar to British theatre-goers that comedian Billy Bennett gleefully parodied it as 'The Green Tie of the Little Yellow Dog'. (Bennett was the first comedian who tagged his jokes with the exclamation 'Boom, boom!', leading the way to Basil Brush and to Johnny Carson's 'Ba-dump-ump'.)

Anyone actually heard that poem before?

The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God

http://www.angelos.demon.co.uk/clare/literature/carew.html

I preferred Baldrick's.

'The German Guns'

Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom

Somehow sad that Basil didn't think it up himself :(

That's your childhood ruined

Again!

Now you just have your Jamie And The Magic Torch episodes to watch on those lonely dark winter nights.

^Best 70s kids tv prog ever btw

I'm not sure where to post this, but anyway - is there a between Xmas & New Year FAP in London this year?

Dunno. But there should be. As long as it's on Dec. 26th.

Carsmile Steve's probably your best bet for asking - him and/or Pete usually organise a pub crawl for around the 27th/28th.

i can prob get lost of cheaplist for a latenight gig on 28th if ppl want

in camden tho

(not club nme)

Have a Happy Christmas! all of you since some of you wont be online for a few weeks.

Oh and good luck for the boxing day rugby Dr C!

Oi! Stop taking my name in vain. Even in the past. Will Carruthers is the only person allowed to call me "Boom".

I need a new job. I want to go into GEOPHYS. How do I become a, err, what do you call a person who does GEOPHYS? A Geophysicist? A Geophysician?

Does anyone post here any more? Ever?

Come on. Stone Circles! Tall Ships! Free Jazz! (no, not really) Wibbly wubbly stoner metal. Where is everyone?

My life is weird. I've been made redundant. I'm writing for Terrorizer. I'm doing a comic book with... Hilton Betelgeuse of all people.

Whoa!

Welcome home kate!

Hello! Yeah, my bastard former employees blocked ILX for being too rude. In web cafes, I can look at WHATEVER I LIKE. Even full colour lugubrious glossy nekkid pictures of Neil Oliver's pointy nose if I like. Not that there are any of those.

How's things?

What have I missed?

Tempted to say: Nothing much.

very tempted.

Well maybe it's time to start a new thread and see who we can dig out of the woodwork.

If you start throwing out random words, she will lose interest fast.

Possibly the funniest thread recently.

Oh yeah, start a 31 by all means. People probably thinking this one's just Hermann's perennial revive.

Hey kate! Missed you! *hugs*

Yeh, I'm with mark on the whole "Not missed much" thing. At least, not much nice things.

Writing for terrorizer? *double take*

New thread time:

UK Watercooler 31: Tony Robinson And His Time Team Found The Holy Grail In Somerset

Now I've got to go and poke Hilton Betelgeuse with a stick to get him to write some storylines. Sigh.