From: Hog on 4 Aug 2010 07:54 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! -- Hog
From: Hog on 4 Aug 2010 08:06 Hog wrote: > 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 -- Hog
From: prawn on 4 Aug 2010 08:19 Hog <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: > 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! > 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> -- Leviticus 11:10
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 4 Aug 2010 08:55 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> saying something like: >John Frum >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum > >and > >Cargo Cults >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult Strange stuff, indeed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip_Movement
From: Hog on 4 Aug 2010 08:58
prawn wrote: > Hog <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: >> 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! >> > > 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! -- Hog |