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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. -
(gak!) 13 years of online discussions
13 years? did they have electricity back then?
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Sue,
I'd like Deborah to stay
i think she rocketh -
verily, she art the Bishopette of Rocketh
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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.
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merc,
It was a Gestetner
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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'. -
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?
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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!
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The interesting part was the distribution of the product, in the early hours, to the unsuspecting letterboxes of Dunedin.....
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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
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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.
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yeah potatoe prints, i remember them, and the smell. i guess most of those potatoes are underground by now.
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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".
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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.
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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. -
It was about.......
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cycling.
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Mind you, cycling was a radical activity for 70s environmentalists.
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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... -
Hmm..."Cycling on the right (left) path". "The Zen of Bicycle Maintenance - 1001 uses for beer cans"...
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Bicycles - the only transport fuelled by cold pies, beer and chocolate.
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Bicycles - the only transport fuelled by cold pies, beer and chocolate.
and sundry banned substances.
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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... -
The Shining Bicycle Path
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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.
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