Stuff, Arguably Elitist Long Island Beach Club *BANS* universally-beloved, watershed album by British pop masters, XTC

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, that should've read "Stuffy".

And yes, this is a visual joke, albeit an entirely weak one.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.catalogue.emirecords.co.uk/packShotsEMIRecords/0724359804927-LF.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

No Smoking or Skylarking but apparently they don't specify whether you can't Destroy All Human Life or Burn The Maps or Kill Uncle...

― donut e- (donut), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

no rambunctious child will ever understand that sign
fuck a WASP in the ear

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Argh! Those quotes!

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d722/d72283masss.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd000/d077/d07798lk16p.jpg

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

What the sweet crunchy hell is "skylarking" in the context of that sign?

Suddenly reminded, BTW, of how MTV listed the album title when they showed the vid for "Dear God": Skylar King.

― Nackles (Nackles), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

What the sweet crunchy hell is "skylarking" in the context of that sign?

Apparently it means something along the lines of "frolicking" or "galivanting" (basically having fun).

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

As above, but it carries with it the connotation of hanging around and being up to no good.

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

Nonsuch!

― donut e- (donut), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

What the sweet crunchy hell is "skylarking" in the context of that sign?

I think it meands what sleep said, but it also involves nudity, I believe.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Does the fact that the quote marks include the "NO" mean they're just being wink-wink, nudge-nudge about it, and in fact don't mind if you skylark at all?

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Does the fact that the quote marks include the "NO" mean they're just being wink-wink, nudge-nudge about it, and in fact don't mind if you skylark at all?

Good question, actually. I noticed the "No Skylarking" clause in their annual book of club terms and guidelines a number of years ago and laughed about it. This sign just appeard this year, and the quotes suggest to me a sort've knowing, self-reflexive joke. I dunno. I predict that the likeliest individuals inclined to skylark wouldn't know the definition of skylarking if their very lives depended on it, so the sign on a surface level is sort've moot.

Here's a shot of the club:

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-07-06%2010.48.22%20-0700/Image-D142B43CEE4411D9.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

that looks like a really good place to skylark

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Gosh, that's a beautiful picture! And it reminds me if we don't get more sun up here in Seattle very soon I'm probably going to start banging my head on walls.

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Thursday, 7 July 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

"See the sign?"
"'No Sky-larking!' Denied!"

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 7 July 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Barry "Sky" Larkin

― PB, Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

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