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out for a few beers the other night with a couple of mates

 

ended up in a late night coffee shop ( yeah i know must be my age )

 

anyhow at a table adjacent to ours were a bunch of student types deep in discussion

 

about whether the works of Jack Kerouac really did inspire the Beatnik generation

 

and whether there were any intrinsic comparisons to Che Guevara

 

where as the topic of conversation at our table was more concerned with whether we'd like to allow

 

either Kylie or Danni into our beds, but alas not both, and exactly what appropriate deeds would be committted

 

 

i don't know the youth of today eh!!! :P:lol:

 

 

P.S Danni won hands down :):yes:

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The American writer Jack Kerouac, b. Jean Louis Kerouac, Lowell, Mass., Mar. 12, 1922, d. Oct. 21, 1969, became the leading chronicler of the beat generation, a term that he coined to label a social and literary movement in the 1950s. After studying briefly at Columbia University, he achieved fame with his spontaneous and unconventional prose, particularly the novel On the Road (1957). After the success of this work Kerouac produced a series of thematically and structurally similar novels, including The Dharma Bums and The Subterraneans (both 1958), Doctor Sax (1959), Lonesome Traveler (1960), and Big Sur (1962). His loosely structured, autobiographical works reflect a peripatetic life, with warm but stormy relationships and a deep social disillusionment assuaged by drugs, alcohol, mysticism, and biting humor.

 

so after studying at columbia the Che Guevara comparisons

can be understood.

i think.

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Mark, you must have cut and pasted that utter ****

We all fell asleep after the first sentance,so I can't believe you took the trouble to type it :):yes:

 

 

LMAO! :lol::P

 

I looked it up on Wikkipedia for a nanosecond and bored myself to tears.

 

My revised entry would be:

 

"Beat Generation" - A bunch of gaylordian layabouts that drunk too much and skived off work under the guise of being intellectual and arty.

 

As for the more important Kylie -vs- Danny debate - oh yes, in the immortal words of Avid Merion... "I love her, twice in the face".

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Mark, you must have cut and pasted that utter ****

We all fell asleep after the first sentance,so I can't believe you took the trouble to type it :yes::lol:

 

 

LMAO! :P:lol:

 

I looked it up on Wikkipedia for a nanosecond and bored myself to tears.

 

My revised entry would be:

 

"Beat Generation" - A bunch of gaylordian layabouts that drunk too much and skived off work under the guise of being intellectual and arty.

 

As for the more important Kylie -vs- Danny debate - oh yes, in the immortal words of Avid Merion... "I love her, twice in the face".

 

 

Danny :)

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for a moment there i actually sat upright and read with some interest because of a potential discussion about kerouac and che guevara.

 

blahhhh. im disappointed :yes:

 

if any of you get the chance, you should try reading kerouac's 'on the road' (a story of two friends on road trips in the 40's, on a quest for true experience and meaning of life).

 

but those students you overheard were *****. discussing whether kerouac really did inspire the beat generation? it was kerouac himself who named the generation 'beat', and he is the principal avatar in my opinion.

 

hmmm anyway tosspot, you must have known something of these writers to have remembered the students' discussion. either that or you really need to get a life dude :)

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for a moment there i actually sat upright and read with some interest because of a potential discussion about kerouac and che guevara.

 

blahhhh. im disappointed :yes:

 

if any of you get the chance, you should try reading kerouac's 'on the road' (a story of two friends on road trips in the 40's, on a quest for true experience and meaning of life).

 

but those students you overheard were *****. discussing whether kerouac really did inspire the beat generation? it was kerouac himself who named the generation 'beat', and he is the principal avatar in my opinion.

 

hmmm anyway tosspot, you must have known something of these writers to have remembered the students' discussion. either that or you really need to get a life dude :)

 

 

 

Were you out last night drinking with some friends in a pub near TP?

 

Nigella Lawson doesn't do it for me - say her name and I am instantly reminded of her father and in so doing remember the Spitting Image puppet of him.

 

Mind you she has lovely bangers.

 

 

 

 

 

Err I mean sausages of course.

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For me it's got to be the bird who does lion watch, Saba Douglas - Hamilton :)

 

P.

 

 

Ah, a liking of the posh.

 

For me it has to be Sarah "you don't get many of them to the pound" Beeny. A dream woman - minted, big jubblies and could rebuild, rewire and replumb a house.

 

What about Spice Girls then - which one and why?

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I stupidly watched that Top of the Pops rubbish the other night and the Spice Girls were on it. I'd have to say that it would be Emma B in that little white number she was wearing. Tantalising "up" shots by the camera man were rather pleasant :):yes:

 

P.

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:):yes::lol::P

 

indeed tosspot. i was 'extracting the michael'?

 

i know Darebear just joshing with yer

 

it could be argued that American youth culture was already heading in that direction and Kerouac

jumped on the bandwagon at a very early stage and although helped to mould the outcome

he wasn't responsible for starting it

 

just as the sex pistols are acclaimed to have started the punk revolution the ramones predated them by three years but the pistols and Kerouac receive the the credit as they had the where withal to claim the cultural banner just as the public opinion started gathering momentum

 

or

 

i believe the Whizzer and Chips annual of 1978 vintage to be the pinnacle of my childhood meanderings

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Were you out last night drinking with some friends in a pub near TP?

 

not unless he was in the same pub me, scaffy and hawkeye were in

 

:):yes::lol:

 

 

:P:lol::lol::)

 

indeed tosspot. i was 'extracting the michael'?

 

i know Darebear just joshing with yer

 

it could be argued that American youth culture was already heading in that direction and Kerouac

jumped on the bandwagon at a very early stage and although helped to mould the outcome

he wasn't responsible for starting it

 

just as the sex pistols are acclaimed to have started the punk revolution the ramones predated them by three years but the pistols and Kerouac receive the the credit as they had the where withal to claim the cultural banner just as the public opinion started gathering momentum

 

or

 

i believe the Whizzer and Chips annual of 1978 vintage to be the pinnacle of my childhood meanderings

 

i totally agreed with you. i guess kerouac himself was inspired by the actual culture, to give it a name. and given he was the first (by jumping on the bandwagon) to do so, tis why i see him as a forefather of the beat generation.

 

all discoveries are founded by someone, but it doesnt mean they didnt already exist. someone always gets the credit.

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The American writer Jack Kerouac, b. Jean Louis Kerouac, Lowell, Mass., Mar. 12, 1922, d. Oct. 21, 1969, became the leading chronicler of the beat generation, a term that he coined to label a social and literary movement in the 1950s. After studying briefly at Columbia University, he achieved fame with his spontaneous and unconventional prose, particularly the novel On the Road (1957). After the success of this work Kerouac produced a series of thematically and structurally similar novels, including The Dharma Bums and The Subterraneans (both 1958), Doctor Sax (1959), Lonesome Traveler (1960), and Big Sur (1962). His loosely structured, autobiographical works reflect a peripatetic life, with warm but stormy relationships and a deep social disillusionment assuaged by drugs, alcohol, mysticism, and biting humor.

 

so after studying at columbia the Che Guevara comparisons

can be understood.

i think.

sorry mark from a thick scotsmans point of view that could be written in gogagoga tongue!!

way way over my head !!

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