'Ullo Ulu! Is that you changing that innocent fruit into hallucinogenic Lotus Fruit? Nice one mate!
Hey, Here's Brin! 'Ullo Brin! Listen mate, Kraftwerk's over! Time to knock your friends electric on the 'ead me old mucker and try a bit of this. Don't worry, we can spare it.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
Brin: Nah, nah, nah, nah Ayla. You're not getting me. It's like I could leave here, and you know...fly. Ayla: Yes, they're called Flight Rings, Brin. Brin: Nah, nah, nah, nah. I mean.. I mean that I could leave me here and still travel... as me...but joining others... Ayla: You're not from Cargg Brin. Honestly. If you keep this up I'm trading you in for Karth Arn. I swear I will. Brin: But...but you don't swear, 'cause you're sooo.... nice >giggle< >collapse< Ayla: I didn't realise he was a lone wolf because none of the others could stand him...
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
Nah mate. It's that Alexei Bloke. You hang around calling yourself surreal long enough and suddenly you're the "godfather of alternative comedy." Or a you're eaten by a swarm of bicycle clips. But 50/50 is worth going for in this day and age, mate.
Good luck on listening to this outside the UK, but it's Alexei's Imaginary Sandwich shop. He spends the first part of the show talking about the lengths he'd go to in order to pretend that his spare room was really occupied.
In one of the shows Alexei was talking about the 1980s and he got started on benefit gigs he did at the end of the decade. He tells his audience that he got to meet Nelson Mandela once at one of them. Nerves got the better of Alexei, and he was stuck for something to say. Nelson, being such a diplomat, said "I can't believe it's been eight years since you released "Ullo John Gotta A New Motor.*"
*This may not have happened. Hopefully not me listening to it. That would be a bit of a worry, having pretend comedy routines of alternative comedians going through my head.
But I definitely didn't imagine remembering this thread and smiling. I think.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
Watch carefully as thoth lad, without net or sleeves or having met any of the audience previously attempts to combine the Alexei Sayle posts, the 1980's advertising campaign posts *and*, yes *and* the Ian Dury & the Blockheads posts from above.... drums please.... that's it...nice one...
I thank you.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
There was the follow up where Marie's head on a giant robot body started the second French Revolution. Ironically, it all started from a growing resentment over Jacques Foccart's accent, and he isn't even French! It was arguably one of Ulu's great moments, when he changed all of the revolutionaries flags to white, and they all gave up.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
Oh, yes, I recall that Marie Antoinette robot story. Mark Millar wrote it, which was at least the second time he ripped off something from Walter Simonson's Fantastic Four run -- Walter had had Stalin's head on a robot's body. (FTR, Millar really did rip off Walter's FF -- in the first few pages of Millar's FF run, they steer a runaway locomotive through space and time. Just like Walter had them doing back in 1991. Oh, Millar, Millar, how short on fresh ideas you truly are.)