Post of the day...post of the day
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(need I go on)
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Tue 16 Jul 2002, 17:01,
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post of the day
post of the day
(need I go on)
hahahahahahahaha!!that is damned funny...i've not checked the front page yet...but it had better get on there!! :-)
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Tue 16 Jul 2002, 16:40,
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meets with bongo approvalthat's probably not a good thing though
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mrbongo sweating like a formicophiliac on I'm a celebrity,
Tue 16 Jul 2002, 16:41,
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I'll give it a "Now Legendary" status.Coz I can.
Same to Robs fist. I now have damp pants.
(Same to Robs fist. I now have damp pants.
Hugo Rune,
Tue 16 Jul 2002, 16:44,
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sheep over Battersea Power Station?are you an ORB fan? that was their cover for ORB live 93...
sorry not my piccie...
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Tue 16 Jul 2002, 16:46,
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sorry not my piccie...
that's the onethat says "evil 39" on the back isn't it?
( beardman,
Tue 16 Jul 2002, 16:50,
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yep...bro evil 39 on the back...
i still got a t-shirt with that on - looking a bit old now...i'll wear it if i ever get to a b3ta party in london...
which reminds me, i'm on an all dayer on friday - Convent garden to camden...if anyones around?
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Tue 16 Jul 2002, 16:51,
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i still got a t-shirt with that on - looking a bit old now...i'll wear it if i ever get to a b3ta party in london...
which reminds me, i'm on an all dayer on friday - Convent garden to camden...if anyones around?
Wow...My inspiration was Pink Floyd's Animals and Morrissey's "You're the one for me fatty"...
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Kaiser,
Tue 16 Jul 2002, 16:51,
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Or a Pink Floyd fan?The cover of Animals
That little pink spot is a pig-shaped balloon. Many Pink Floyd albums look like they're photoshopped, but are in fact staged photographs.
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Tue 16 Jul 2002, 16:55,
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That little pink spot is a pig-shaped balloon. Many Pink Floyd albums look like they're photoshopped, but are in fact staged photographs.
Legendary band Pink Floyd used the image of Battersea Power Station for their album 'Animals' ... with a flying pig hovering above its chimneys.
The legendary inflatable Floyd pig was conceived by Roger Waters and originally designed by ERG of Amsterdam in December 1976 for the photo session at Battersea Power Station which spawned the "Animals" album cover.
Roger suggested flying a large inflatable pig from the towers of Battersea Power Station. He wanted to do it for real...no photo trickery. Although the image of a pig suspended between the huge chimneys possessed a great sense of mood it was the pig itself which caught the headlines.
The day of the shoot was fantastic with a dramatic sky. First, the 40 ft. pig was inflated, but this took so long that it was not actually launched all day. The group of 11 photographers and 3 film crews stood around all day. The manager, with clever foresight, had hired a marksman with telescopic rifle to shoot down the pig if it escaped its mooring ropes and sailed off into the sky, where it would become an insurance risk. On the second day, the manager, with not quite such clever foresight, had decided to not hire the marksman for the day, for economic reasons.
The pig ascended into the flight paths of incoming jets landing at Heathrow Airport. The first sighting came from a jet pilot who landed at Heathrow, a police helicopter was sent up and sighted the pig over London. It tracked it to a height of 5,000 feet before having to return to base.
The Civil Aviation Authorities then took over and a general alert was sent out to all pilots that a 40 foot long, pink flying pig was on the loose in the airspace over the capital! The CAA lost radar contact with it at a point east of Detling, near Chatham in Kent, flying at a height of 18,000 feet and heading east towards Germany.
The pig, with a mind of its own, floated along on into Kent and descended upon a rural farmers property. One can imagine the disbelief of his wife when the farmer said to her "guess what..."
The Pink Floyd office at first slapped an embargo on information concerning the pig and then admitted that they weren't even sure that they had enough pictures of it for the album.
The roadies rescued the pig from the farmer that night, returned it to London, mended the punctures and put the pig up again so that it could be photographed the next day.
The day was cloudless, with a bright blue sky, but it was not very striking...therefore the pig was layered into the final artwork from day three into the sky of day one, which is how it could have been done in the first place.
While a different technique could have been employed to save time, money and anxiety, it also would have prevented a great story unfolding and good laugh being had by all.
(The legendary inflatable Floyd pig was conceived by Roger Waters and originally designed by ERG of Amsterdam in December 1976 for the photo session at Battersea Power Station which spawned the "Animals" album cover.
Roger suggested flying a large inflatable pig from the towers of Battersea Power Station. He wanted to do it for real...no photo trickery. Although the image of a pig suspended between the huge chimneys possessed a great sense of mood it was the pig itself which caught the headlines.
The day of the shoot was fantastic with a dramatic sky. First, the 40 ft. pig was inflated, but this took so long that it was not actually launched all day. The group of 11 photographers and 3 film crews stood around all day. The manager, with clever foresight, had hired a marksman with telescopic rifle to shoot down the pig if it escaped its mooring ropes and sailed off into the sky, where it would become an insurance risk. On the second day, the manager, with not quite such clever foresight, had decided to not hire the marksman for the day, for economic reasons.
The pig ascended into the flight paths of incoming jets landing at Heathrow Airport. The first sighting came from a jet pilot who landed at Heathrow, a police helicopter was sent up and sighted the pig over London. It tracked it to a height of 5,000 feet before having to return to base.
The Civil Aviation Authorities then took over and a general alert was sent out to all pilots that a 40 foot long, pink flying pig was on the loose in the airspace over the capital! The CAA lost radar contact with it at a point east of Detling, near Chatham in Kent, flying at a height of 18,000 feet and heading east towards Germany.
The pig, with a mind of its own, floated along on into Kent and descended upon a rural farmers property. One can imagine the disbelief of his wife when the farmer said to her "guess what..."
The Pink Floyd office at first slapped an embargo on information concerning the pig and then admitted that they weren't even sure that they had enough pictures of it for the album.
The roadies rescued the pig from the farmer that night, returned it to London, mended the punctures and put the pig up again so that it could be photographed the next day.
The day was cloudless, with a bright blue sky, but it was not very striking...therefore the pig was layered into the final artwork from day three into the sky of day one, which is how it could have been done in the first place.
While a different technique could have been employed to save time, money and anxiety, it also would have prevented a great story unfolding and good laugh being had by all.
Kaiser,
Tue 16 Jul 2002, 17:11,
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Laughed like a maniac, I did"The Civil Aviation Authorities then took over and a general alert was sent out to all pilots that a 40 foot long, pink flying pig was on the loose in the airspace over the capital!"
The next sentence sounds lika an entry to this week's challenge:
"The CAA lost radar contact with it at a point east of Detling, near Chatham in Kent, flying at a height of 18,000 feet and heading east towards Germany."
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Tue 16 Jul 2002, 17:15,
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The next sentence sounds lika an entry to this week's challenge:
"The CAA lost radar contact with it at a point east of Detling, near Chatham in Kent, flying at a height of 18,000 feet and heading east towards Germany."
omggreat story mate, i was laughing out loud... this is hilarious :)
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Wed 17 Jul 2002, 12:25,
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isnt the orb covera piss take of the pink floyd cover.
or am i wrong?
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Tue 16 Jul 2002, 17:15,
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or am i wrong?
especiallybecause (apparentely) the orb had a big feud with some other muso type people over who were the biggest Floyd fans and ended up remixing the entire back catalogue to prove their point
Though this was told to me by someone with daft hair and an equally daft beard. There are a lot of Orb/Floys remix MP3s knocking about the interweb though...
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Tue 16 Jul 2002, 17:49,
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Though this was told to me by someone with daft hair and an equally daft beard. There are a lot of Orb/Floys remix MP3s knocking about the interweb though...
hahahaBrilliant, bit fat WOO and YAY cus u deserve it.
Wooooooooooooooooooooooo
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
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Tue 16 Jul 2002, 18:30,
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Wooooooooooooooooooooooo
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Brilliant!!That's the best pic I've seen here in ages.
( Craymen,
Tue 16 Jul 2002, 18:53,
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