Sunday 20 March 2011

Mike Pike Essipode 8

Note in Frame 2 an unsuccessful attempt at editing a background with Tippex, which looks exactly like a frame which has been edited with Tippex.

Igor. What else do you call a henchman?

Nim. An all purpose nonsense word, and one that I'd adopted rather extensively myself in the 1980s. I even had a music project at the time called the Nimband. Not so much a band - more someone experimenting with layering sounds on tape recorders who couldn't play any instruments. The tapes are probably best left in the vaults to decompose into sellotape and iron filings.

Finally, how can you tell someone who was born in Kent from someone from the rest of the world. Get them to pronounce the name of the following small town: Wrotham.

I'll give you a clue. It's in England so it can't be pronounced the way it's spelled. For example: Gloucester - Gloster; Worcester - Wooster; Towcester - Toaster; Bicester - Bister; Holborn - Hobern; Chiswick - Chizzik; Beaulieu - Bewly; Lympne - Lim; Kingston - Hull.

It's 'Rootem', which not even the BBC can get right despite having an enormous transmitter plonked on top of the down there. As we shall see...

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