It is said in The Mighty Boosh that Hamilton Cork can spot a book's potential from the first line alone...
According to The Mighty Book of Boosh, examples include:
"I was seven years old when I realised I had the ability to eat other people's shadows."
And:
"The pirates all looked at the plate of freshly-cut sandwiches in front of them and immediately burst into tears."
In this vein, I've come up with an ending to a novel of the descent into anarchic horror from the regularity of office work.
"None of them could look each other in the eye. There was nothing to speak of any more, and yet they were united through the brutality, the horror, the insanity. As the sun sank below the horizon, the three of them walked out of the silent building into the gloaming..."
The officemates insist I write it, but I actually have no idea of what I'd put before that conclusion.
*stares off into the distance*
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A girl I dated earlier in the year had sex with the long-haired guy from Boosh.
Just thought you should know.
So you've potentially had sex with Noel Fielding by proxy?
Not sure whether to be awed or disturbed...
She had a string of famous exes, but I made the mistake of not being acquainted with any of them. The conversation was like this:
Her: ...and anyway, then I had a brief fling with Noel Fielding.
Me: Have I met him?
Her: I don't know. Have you?
Me: Is he Wes's mate?
Her: No, he's from Boosh.
Me: Where's that?
Her: The Mighty Boosh!
Me: Oh. I see. My friend Maybe is into that. She made me watched two episodes. They were okay.
Her: Sigh.
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By the way, put headings on your blogs will you, and make them clickable (I don't know the technical term). TSFKA were calling for a post about the NRL / 4 Corners scandal and I was going to link to your post, but it can't be done. You can only link to your blog itself, not the individual posts. Unless I'm missing something in Swahili or whatever language it is you have it set on.
I don't know whether to thank god for miercoles or not.
(Word verification: gonation, which is what the Cronulla rioters were yelling)
Perseus: If you click on the date at the bottom of a post it goes to that posts page.
Della: I also insist you write the book :)
Perseus - You have to love that awkward thing of not realising who "celebrities" are. I sat next to one of the guys from Macleod's Daughters on a flight years ago and nattered away with him cheerily without even having a clue who he was until the friend I met at the airport was like, "That's the guy from TV! That show filmed in Gawler!" I was like, "Oh. That explains the air hostess asking him how filming was going..."
As for blog linking, just do as Clare says. The date at the bottom of each post tends to lead just to the entry when it's clicked on. I think I'll have to update the whole blog template thing to get the titles into a clickable format. Which I should do.
Redgem as a word verification. Hmm.
Clare - I should. Or at least a short story or something. Was kind of tempted to set myself a project of writing short stories using each of the "first lines" in the Mighty Book of Boosh. Just for more writing practice.
Perseus - direct link to that entry is here. Should I brace myself for snarkiness?
Well, no, because I thought you said it well, and I had nothing to add.
But the moment has gone now.
It's good to see Clare back. I worry that I scare your Christian friends away from your blog.
I make you an atheist by association.
Ahh, okay. Thanks :)
I've been tempted to write a bit more on it - the media "morality" trial thing. But then time, effort, how to say it.
I don't think you scare them away. Annoy and puzzle, yes, but you're not really that scary.
Even if you are clutching Medusa's head... ;)
I wasn't scared away.. i was lured away.. by vampires and space-ship captains...... it happens sometimes.
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