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.

you've lost me now


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

You're making that up.

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.

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.

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

Ah. A Situationist.

Vive Luther Blisset, oui?

linky thing

R.

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.

Brad ?

Whoa, that's obscure!

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

I think they had a point.

Close.

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

Go figure.

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

more interesting obscurity

R.

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

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.

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.