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X Kyle M Thompson

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Jun 21, 2004, 5:02:17 AM6/21/04
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I had a great idea last night, I thought I'd get a bedspread and
embroider on it all the names of people I've ever made a tent with...

Sadly no-one I was with got the joke!

kt.
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Phoenix Flying Low

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Jun 21, 2004, 1:09:39 PM6/21/04
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> I had a great idea last night, I thought I'd get a bedspread and
> embroider on it all the names of people I've ever made a tent with...
>
> Sadly no-one I was with got the joke!

neither do I. . .

Duke of URL

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Jun 21, 2004, 1:16:18 PM6/21/04
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"Phoenix Flying Low" <ak...@zsword.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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That was a joke?


Mad Hamish

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Jun 21, 2004, 1:35:05 PM6/21/04
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"Duke of URL" <MacB...@kdsi.net> wrote in message
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Just be careful it doesn't get burnt in a warehouse fire !


PussInSpooks

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Jun 21, 2004, 1:42:08 PM6/21/04
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>"Duke of URL"

>"Phoenix Flying Low"

>>X Kyle M Thompson>> > I had a great idea last night, I thought I'd get a


bedspread and
>> > embroider on it all the names of people I've ever made a tent with...
>> > Sadly no-one I was with got the joke!
>>
>> neither do I. . .
>
>That was a joke?

It was, and it caused me to LOL

Orjan Westin

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Jun 21, 2004, 3:17:36 PM6/21/04
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X Kyle M Thompson wrote:
> I had a great idea last night, I thought I'd get a bedspread and
> embroider on it all the names of people I've ever made a tent with...
>
> Sadly no-one I was with got the joke!

Strange that, it's a hot topic and there was a flaming midia frenzy about
it. Mostly to express ridicule, but still...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3752789.stm#ggviewer-offsite-nav-8992024 for those not in the know.

Orjan


Phil Davison

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Jun 21, 2004, 4:13:51 PM6/21/04
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The best reaction I saw to this was a Brookes cartoon in the Metro. It
showed one of Saatchi's employees phoning up Damien Hirst and asking if he
still had the other half of the cow!

X Kyle M Thompson

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Jun 21, 2004, 4:35:14 PM6/21/04
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Phil Davison wrote:

Some Saatchi gallery people were advertising outside the Shell
buildimgs on Wednesday as I walked from Waterloo to the South Bank.

"didn't eveything burn"

"No just some of it"

"Better luck next time"

kt.


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Eric Jarvis

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Jun 21, 2004, 5:02:51 PM6/21/04
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now that's actually funny

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Louise Mac Mahon

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Jun 21, 2004, 5:01:08 PM6/21/04
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"Duke of URL" <MacB...@kdsi.net> wrote in message
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This is afp being ultra cool and pretending not to get the Tracy Emin
reference, or just not getting the TER?
Enquiring minds etc
Louise


Duke of URL

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Jun 21, 2004, 5:37:14 PM6/21/04
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"Orjan Westin" <nos...@cunobaros.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> X Kyle M Thompson wrote:

> > I had a great idea last night, I thought I'd get a bedspread and
> > embroider on it all the names of people I've ever made a tent with...
> >
> > Sadly no-one I was with got the joke!
>
> Strange that, it's a hot topic and there was a flaming midia frenzy about
> it. Mostly to express ridicule, but still...


Well, you know those Midianites - they get all excited and fussy about
insignificant things all the time...
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Duke of URL

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Jun 21, 2004, 5:38:58 PM6/21/04
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"X Kyle M Thompson" <news.arghbug...@spamgourmet.com> wrote in
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> Some Saatchi gallery people were advertising outside the Shell
> buildimgs on Wednesday as I walked from Waterloo to the South Bank.
>
> "didn't eveything burn"
> "No just some of it"
> "Better luck next time"


Now THAT's funny.
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Duke of URL

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Jun 21, 2004, 5:40:56 PM6/21/04
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"Louise Mac Mahon" <lou...@happybabysling.com> wrote in message
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Never heard of Emin until the reference to the insurance-"accident" (wink,
wink, nudge, nudge) fire was posted - she must be Emin Em's sister, right?

Orjan Westin

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Jun 21, 2004, 6:06:07 PM6/21/04
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Duke of URL wrote:
> "Orjan Westin" <nos...@cunobaros.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:2joqjvF...@uni-berlin.de...

>> Strange that, it's a hot topic and there was a flaming midia frenzy


>> about it. Mostly to express ridicule, but still...
>
> Well, you know those Midianites - they get all excited and fussy about
> insignificant things all the time...

Yeah, that's what Palatine said too.

Orjan


Lesley Weston

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Jun 21, 2004, 7:47:09 PM6/21/04
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in article 2joqjvF...@uni-berlin.de, Orjan Westin at

In that case, it's a very nice joke.

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Robert Carnegie

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Jun 22, 2004, 2:22:36 AM6/22/04
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In article <2jp21eF...@uni-berlin.de>, Louise Mac Mahon
<lou...@happybabysling.com> writes

I can see why Tracy Emin is annoyed at media reactions, over and
above her being annoyed about most things all the time. She's a
sort of artistic Julie Burchill, using the modern definition of
"artistic" of course. But I did think, with the modern conceptual art,
if the art catches fire and is destroyed, you've still got the concept.

Precisely who owns the concept may be a bit trickier to establish,
and if the rule put in a few years ago that whenever a work of art is
sold for an eye-watering amount of money, the starving artist gets
a small slice of the pie, still applies, it probably doesn't apply to
incinerated art. So Ms Emin may have missed out on a possible
big payday when Mr Saatchi needed to liquidate, if he ever did.

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kilyth

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Jun 22, 2004, 4:46:12 AM6/22/04
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"Orjan Westin" <nos...@cunobaros.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<2joqjvF...@uni-berlin.de>...

The best I've heard on it (i dont' usually watch the news) was an art
critic or someone said that the fire was a judgement from God on art.

Kilyth
(got the joke too)

Eric Jarvis

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Jun 22, 2004, 9:20:35 AM6/22/04
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I rather doubt the problem for Tracey is that direct...once she's sold the
work that's it financially

OTOH it took her months of hand sewing to create the tent in the first
place, and probably months of digging through strongly emotional
memories...it then became known as her most famous work...the fact that it
has ceased to exist probably hurts a lot...I would also doubt she'd even
consider making a replacement...that would be like an author rewriting a
book from scratch because all the existing copies have been destroyed...it
would be all the work, none of the fun and creativity, and in most cases
it simply isn't going to happen

who owns the concept is straightforward in artistic terms...the original
artist...anyone later copy made by anyone else is plagiarism not art

Torak

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Jun 22, 2004, 9:32:47 AM6/22/04
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Duke of URL wrote:
> "X Kyle M Thompson" <news.arghbug...@spamgourmet.com> wrote in
>
>>Some Saatchi gallery people were advertising outside the Shell
>>buildimgs on Wednesday as I walked from Waterloo to the South Bank.
>>
>>"didn't eveything burn"
>>"No just some of it"
>>"Better luck next time"
>
> Now THAT's funny.

I still hold that the place must have been torched by a fanatical band
of art lovers.

Nigel Stapley

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Jun 22, 2004, 3:37:37 PM6/22/04
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"Torak" <and...@andrew-perry.com> wrote in message
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That's like Spike Milligan's remark about the De La Warr Pavilion in
Bexhill. It was bombed during WWII, and Millligan speculated that the plane
was sponsored by the Royal Institute Of British Architects, with Hugh Casson
piloting and John Betjeman as the bomb-aimer.


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Richard Bos

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Jun 22, 2004, 4:10:31 PM6/22/04
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"Orjan Westin" <nos...@cunobaros.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Guess how I first parsed that...

And now I'm wondering how Mr. Hallett drinks his water.

Richard

Orjan Westin

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Jun 22, 2004, 5:53:43 PM6/22/04
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Richard Bos wrote:
> "Orjan Westin" <nos...@cunobaros.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>
>> Duke of URL wrote:
>>> Well, you know those Midianites - they get all excited and fussy
>>> about insignificant things all the time...
>>
>> Yeah, that's what Palatine said too.
>
> Guess how I first parsed that...

This is just a wild guess you understand, but was there a font name
involved?

> And now I'm wondering how Mr. Hallett drinks his water.

Eh?

Orjan


ppint.

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Jun 23, 2004, 11:21:01 AM6/23/04
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- hi; in afparticle, <2jronkF...@uni-berlin.de>,
nos...@cunobaros.demon.co.uk "Orjan Westin" confutheled:
> Richard Bos wrote:

>> "Orjan Westin" wrote:
>>> Duke of URL wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Well, you know those Midianites - they get all excited and fussy
>>>>about insignificant things all the time...
>>>
>>>Yeah, that's what Palatine said too.
>>
>>Guess how I first parsed that...
>
>This is just a wild guess you understand, but was there a font name
>involved?
>
>>And now I'm wondering how Mr. Hallett drinks his water.
>
>Eh?
>
- mr. hallett, mediator with cupped handth - and no lithp?

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Richard Bos

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Jun 23, 2004, 1:38:03 PM6/23/04
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v$af$pp...@i-m-t.demon.co.uk ("ppint.") wrote:

> - hi; in afparticle, <2jronkF...@uni-berlin.de>,
> nos...@cunobaros.demon.co.uk "Orjan Westin" confutheled:
> > Richard Bos wrote:
> >> "Orjan Westin" wrote:
> >>> Duke of URL wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>Well, you know those Midianites - they get all excited and fussy
> >>>>about insignificant things all the time...
> >>>
> >>>Yeah, that's what Palatine said too.
> >>
> >>Guess how I first parsed that...
> >
> >This is just a wild guess you understand, but was there a font name
> >involved?

No.

> >>And now I'm wondering how Mr. Hallett drinks his water.
> >
> >Eh?
> >
> - mr. hallett, mediator with cupped handth - and no lithp?

Yes. Although the lisp refers to neither of the above, but to Ephraim.

Judg. 6-8, 12, and 13.

Richard

Robert Carnegie

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Jun 23, 2004, 4:47:16 PM6/23/04
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In article <40D83496...@andrew-perry.com>, Torak
<and...@andrew-perry.com> writes

I believe the police think that someone set a fire at the other end of
the block of storage to destroy evidence of a robbery of something
completely different, and it spread along to the Brit-Art as fire
does.

Robert Carnegie

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Jun 23, 2004, 4:57:06 PM6/23/04
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In article <w$Qr3KAsA...@redjac.demon.co.uk>, Robert
Carnegie <rja.ca...@excite.com> writes

> if the rule put in a few years ago that whenever a work of art is
>sold for an eye-watering amount of money, the starving artist gets
>a small slice of the pie, still applies,

And I did a little checking, to wit, I found
http://www.axa-nordstern-art.co.uk/cw/law/law2003/buyingart.html

"An additional artist's "resale right" (droit de suite), which already
exists in continental Europe, is to be brought into force by all
Member States before 1st January 2006. It is intended to ensure
that authors of graphic and plastic works of art share in the
economic success of their original works of art. The right extends
to those entitled to the artist's estate after their death and extends
to all acts of resale, save where affected directly between persons
acting in their private capacity without participation from an art
market professional. Article 4 of the Directive sets out a rating
system for the royalties to be paid to the artist based on a
percentage of the sale price. The royalty is payable by the seller to
the artist or the artist's estate. The UK has not yet adopted this
system."

Which surprised me, since I thought I'd heard several years ago
that (1) "Because this law is about to be enacted, the European art
will collapse, nothing will be sold in London any more, it'll all go to
New York where ripping off the artisan is still acceptable just as it
should be", and, a little later, (2) "Although this law has been
enacted, the European art market has not collapsed, things are
still being sold in London, it hasn't all gone to New York etc etc."

Perhaps the latter part was in the context of art dealing in
continental Europe. If this only has to kick in by 2006, then I'm
surprised that the commentator I first heard was so certain of an
immediate apocalypse - as I say, several years ago.

Possibly "graphic and plastic works of art" needs clarification;
evidently, it refers to objects whose artistic identity is of the visual
and/or concrete sort, but not necessarily made of plastic (or of
concrete). For some of the conceptual stuff, it might be a stretch,
e.g. that business of rigging your lights to switch off and on
randomly. Like many other people, I have one like that, and I've
been meaning to... well, not put it up for auction, anyway.

hjlawlor

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Jun 23, 2004, 8:07:32 PM6/23/04
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> The best I've heard on it (i dont' usually watch the news) was an art
> critic or someone said that the fire was a judgement from God on art.
>
> Kilyth
> (got the joke too)

Now that I've seen the article, I get the original joke. I didn't
much care for the Pompidou either...any leads? ; )

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