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Our local graffiti said "Nicholas Parsons is the neo-opiate of the people". I expect that slogan will appear here one day, with reference to Alex Trebek.

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you've lost me now


I was on the front page of the Socialist Worker once .....

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You're making that up.

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Were you? Oh, a celeb!! Do tell the story.

PS. I chatted with Paul Foot once or twice at the printers where SW was produced.

Edit; -chatted +analysed dialectic.

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Not an exciting story. I was picketing. The radiographers were on strike at the hospital I trained at and we were stopping non essential supplies going into the hospital.

They took our photo. I only found out when I went home and the local toff ( General and Knight of the Realm) said wasnt that you I saw on the front page of the socialist worker?

A patient, the daughter of an MP, called us Harold Wilson's henchmen. I rather liked that.

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I like it too. Silly Tory bint (the patient not you).

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Ah. A Situationist.

Vive Luther Blisset, oui?

linky thing

R.

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My entree to the SWP HQ was down to a friend of the OH's. Believe it or not a direct descendant of the William Pitts (both of them). Name of Pitt.

I even met Tony Cliff. Phwoaar.

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Brad ?

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Whoa, that's obscure!

Myself, I always had a soft spot for the Dutch Spectacularists.

I think they had a point.

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Close.

Last I heard of this fella, he was the boxing correspondent for the Times.

Go figure.

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Nah, come on, even an uneducated fella like me has heard of Luther Blisset and the Italian Situationists.:cool:

more interesting obscurity

R.

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I just tried to find a link to the Dutch spectacularists. But they have been so well buried that google denies their existence.

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These are a well known Dutch circus troope who juggle flaming Edam cheeses while using an aged Gouda round as a unicyle. The spectacle is when they try to add cubed pineapples.

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No, no, no no! A perfectly serious ludicrously anarchistic group, who (quite correctly) figured out that all the mainstream stuff is a complete sham, a "Spectacle". Their response was simply to promulgate this obvious fact, not to be nasty about it at all.