Seriously wierd stuff

John Frum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum

and

Cargo Cults
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

Is it just me that finds all that deeply strange and amusing? The history
of Vanuatu I just read isn't far behind. Coconut War indeed!

 

That was weird, even

 

Quite amusing. This was covered in part by Ken Campbell's Macbeth in
Pidgin and quite a few of his one man shows. <googles>

Ah-ha. There's a poster here.

<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Makbed_poster.jpg>

Potted biography here

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Campbell>

 

Well if anyone was going to touch on it....

Good grief the old fox was married to Prunella Gee!

 

What makes that even funnier is the disdain with which Phil the Greek would
regard said natives and what he might call them.

I suppose Gods are meant to be haughty and aloof

 

is this stuff really new to you?

if you think this is weird, google something like Timecube or anything
by Alex Chiu.

 

Bloody Indians ..

Paul.

 

Immortality rings are so ten years ago.

 

yeah - I know - my point was the the concept of "Cargo Cults" is
hardly new, and made into mainstream cultural awareness a long time
ago - there was even a '90s episode of "The Simpsons" based on the
premise.

 

It's like a fucking episode of Red Dwarf, although the sausage hat wearing
head honcho wasn't nearly as barmy as PTG.

 

from that page:

"On September 27, 2007, British television station Channel 4 broadcast
Meet the Natives, a reality show about five Tanna natives of the
Prince Philip Movement on a visit to Britain; their visit culminated
in an off-screen audience with Philip, where gifts were exchanged,
including a new photograph of the Prince."

 

I'd never heard of this shit not anyone here, hence the surprise

 

Can we do a sweepstake? I first heard of cargo cults in 1980 (my gf at the
time was studying anthropology).

 

Likewise. I mean, not in 1980, i didn't have a gf and I was studying
nothing more advanced than the Sooty Show. But yeah, ages ago. It's not
exactly obscure stuff.

 

what I said in reply to your other post.

Anyway, the worst is Cargo Cult /Programming/ - work of the devil.

 

1960s some time, for me.

 

Here as in Office not NG FFS, you dirty pedant ;o)

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

The Ladybird Book of Funny Habits of Foreigners.

 

Prolly something like that, yes

 

Sometimes I think TOG still has that on his coffee table.

Or, at least, on the ledge in his khazi.