Cracker by Damian Christie

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Cracker: Flashback

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  • merc,

    Great quote on TV last night from a world wide French cyclist,
    Life is like riding a bicycle, if you stop you fall off, you've got to keep going.

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report Reply

  • Riddley Walker,

    (gak!) 13 years of online discussions

    13 years? did they have electricity back then?

    AKL • Since Feb 2007 • 890 posts Report Reply

  • Sue,

    I'd like Deborah to stay
    i think she rocketh

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 527 posts Report Reply

  • Riddley Walker,

    verily, she art the Bishopette of Rocketh

    AKL • Since Feb 2007 • 890 posts Report Reply

  • hamishm,

    13 years? did they have electricity back then?

    Well when he says online, it was one of those string and pulley things with clothes pegs on it and you can whisk notes from one end of the office quicker than walking.

    Since Nov 2006 • 357 posts Report Reply

  • merc,

    It was a Gestetner

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report Reply

  • Riddley Walker,

    ah, thanks for clearing that up. we used to have yoghurt containers joined with a long piece of string pulled taught that acted like a walkie talkie.
    you could always tell when the teachers had been using the gestetner, they'd come out of the resource room all blearly eyed and a bit wobbley. i think some of them rushed at the chance to do a bit of 'copying'.

    AKL • Since Feb 2007 • 890 posts Report Reply

  • merc,

    I am guilty of loitering round the Gestetner Room as a child, that's why I invented my poetry pretences, as an excuse, Jesus I loved that smell, is that wrong?

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report Reply

  • John Farrell,

    Myself and friends bought an ancient Gestener, many years ago. We ran a pamphlet production group, from my flat bedroom. Ah - mass communication, 1972 style!

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 499 posts Report Reply

  • John Farrell,

    The interesting part was the distribution of the product, in the early hours, to the unsuspecting letterboxes of Dunedin.....

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 499 posts Report Reply

  • Riddley Walker,

    i think you're allowed to like the smell of a gestener. i liked the smell of petrol.

    john, that sounds like a clandestine Printing lab, scourge of the censorial world

    AKL • Since Feb 2007 • 890 posts Report Reply

  • merc,

    John F. you are now one of my heroes, sight unseen. R. petrol, well that's not the stuff of clandestine printing now is it, the oily smell of potatoe prints, now that's underground.

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report Reply

  • Riddley Walker,

    yeah potatoe prints, i remember them, and the smell. i guess most of those potatoes are underground by now.

    AKL • Since Feb 2007 • 890 posts Report Reply

  • John Farrell,

    One of the friends enjoyed printing so much, he installed a printing press in his basement. Among other things, he used to print a magazine called "Southern Cyclist".

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 499 posts Report Reply

  • Riddley Walker,

    Southern Cyclist

    now you're really starting to wierd me out, sounds like one of those ultra-radical red brigade mags, the cycles of production heading south, revolution, etc.

    AKL • Since Feb 2007 • 890 posts Report Reply

  • merc,

    Jebus the potatoes came from The Underground! They are subversive roots!
    As for The Southern Cyclist underground loved it so much guy, I feel a movie outline coming on...
    Scene: Darkness, the smell of Gestetner, c/u old Gestetner, sfx old Gestetner operating...a bicylce wheel whirs slowly in semi-darkness.
    Someone grunts, sfx, sound of sack of potatoes falling to ground.

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report Reply

  • John Farrell,

    It was about.......
    .....

    .....



    .....

    cycling.

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 499 posts Report Reply

  • John Farrell,

    Mind you, cycling was a radical activity for 70s environmentalists.

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 499 posts Report Reply

  • Riddley Walker,

    an unshaven swarthy guy in a beret sidles in wheeling a black bicycle, he moves aside a bag on onions in his handle-bar basket to reveal... a copy of Southern Cyclist.
    the other two in the darkened clandestine printing lab take a sharp breath at the sight of the publication... the slowly spinning wheel in the background draws to a stop...

    AKL • Since Feb 2007 • 890 posts Report Reply

  • John Farrell,

    Hmm..."Cycling on the right (left) path". "The Zen of Bicycle Maintenance - 1001 uses for beer cans"...

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 499 posts Report Reply

  • John Farrell,

    Bicycles - the only transport fuelled by cold pies, beer and chocolate.

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 499 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    Bicycles - the only transport fuelled by cold pies, beer and chocolate.

    and sundry banned substances.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • merc,

    SFX; A storm rages outside, thunder lightening, rain.
    V/O; Protagonist 1; There'll be no more cycling tonight.
    P2: Stares at Gestetner.
    A small elfin boy enters with Wookie, damn, scrub that...
    P1 Stares at Gestetner; How long has that thing got to go anyway?
    C/U Gestetner operating.
    P 2; Smell that?
    P1; Anytime now and that cyclist is going return for them you know.
    P 2; God help us
    Fade to sound of Gestetner operating...

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report Reply

  • Riddley Walker,

    The Shining Bicycle Path

    AKL • Since Feb 2007 • 890 posts Report Reply

  • merc,

    Keeo your funny wee Guinea cults out of this, or we use a hairy Guinea OPig as a lens cleaner...back to the script.

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report Reply

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