Ivor Cutler down

Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by Rusty Hinge 2, Mar 7, 2006.

  1. Aged 83

    Gruts in peace.
     
    Rusty Hinge 2, Mar 7, 2006
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  2. In uk.rec.motorcycles, Rusty Hinge 2 belched forth and ejected the
    following:
    UKTV
     
    Whinging Courier, Mar 7, 2006
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  3. We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
    drugs began to take hold. I remember Rusty Hinge 2
    <> saying something like:

    What, again?

    That was bloody careless of him.
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    Grimly Curmudgeon, Mar 7, 2006
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    Christofire Guest

    Doesn't someone mention the steve hislop thing about now?
     
    Christofire, Mar 7, 2006
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    Chris H Guest

    He's not dead as well, is he?
     
    Chris H, Mar 7, 2006
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    Veggie Dave Guest

    Veggie Dave, Mar 7, 2006
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  7. Grimly Curmudgeon, Mar 7, 2006
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    Rasman99 Guest


    If you GAF here is a bit of IC you need the voice though







    Big Jim

    by Ivor Cutler

    "Help!"

    What an arresting voice! Such a rich timbre... full and melodious. I wonder
    if it's a natural voice, or whether its owner has had it trained? I'll let
    him call again. Perhaps I shall then be better able to tell.

    "Help!"

    Lovely! Rich and sonorous. But trained? I'll ask him to call again.

    "Sir. Will you call again? I so enjoy the quality of your voice."

    The man I addressed was floating precariously, just above the surface of the
    canal. Hi! I recognise him. It's Big Jim!

    "Hello, Big Jim! How good to see you."

    "Ivor, you big twit! Get me out of here! I'm drowning!" called Big Jim, with
    that poignant sadness in his voice that has all the fathers of heavily-built
    daughters from Troon to Aberfeldy shaking in their shoes.

    "I'm wearing my good suit, Big Jim," I replied. "Please don't ask me to
    rescue you," knowing as I was speaking that I should be forced to save this
    life, human though it was.

    "Save me, you fool! You'd have it on your conscience!"

    Even at this moment, Big Jim was in full control of his facilities. He had
    me there, and knew it; knew he was safe on dry land already.

    I peeled off my clothes, even my string vest and pants, and plunged into the
    water. How soft it felt, like a housemaid's knee. It was two foot six at the
    edge, but towards the middle it was three foot six, and three foot nine in
    the dead centre, where the barge keels had scraped a way for themselves when
    carrying a full lead of pig steel. I swam over to Big Jim and gripped him,
    and hauled him to the bank, and climbed out, and pulled him after me.

    "You saved my life," he grinned, and pushed me back into the canal. "I can't
    bear to be beholden to anyone," Big Jim continued, as my head broke the
    surface, "so I'll take these," and he strolled off with my clothes. One
    could hear the fathers of heavily-built daughters from Troon to Aberfeldy
    beginning to tremble again.

    When it was dark, I left the soft water and ran stiffly home in my string
    vest and pants. They were already playing ping-pong in the orphanage as I
    passed.


    Ras
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    Rasman99, Mar 7, 2006
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    Switters Guest

    That's supposed to help is it?
     
    Switters, Mar 8, 2006
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    Veggie Dave Guest

    I'm guessing, due to the utter lack of replies, that he's some unknown
    **** that all of no one gives a **** about.

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    Veggie Dave, Mar 8, 2006
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  11. Veggie Dave wrote
    Old is the pertinent point I think. That he was a voice on kiddies
    radio when I was nowt burra a lad should give you an idea.
     
    steve auvache, Mar 8, 2006
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    Veggie Dave Guest

    I was right then.

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    Veggie Dave, Mar 8, 2006
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    Eiron Guest

    Played on John Peel's show, and Robert Wyatt's albums as well as his own,
    and acted in some film with a Scouse skiffle group, so not exactly unknown
    or unloved.
     
    Eiron, Mar 8, 2006
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    marina Guest

    If I had been born a boy, I would have been named Ivor after him. My
    Dad found him hilarious.

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    marina, Mar 8, 2006
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