Why Mr Carl McCoy is such an inspiration?

[squishy]

Pint, anyone ?

Yes please: I'm already dying to sprinkle it over my head

[gingerpazuzu]

I agree with you Squishy

Which Squishy? Squishy's the other. Or another. The other another. The another's other. Or the other of another's other?



A nice lollipop for everyone involved:



I wonder if you realize how difficult it is to google an image of a lollipop even relatively disconnected from the ubiquitous world of porn; Gawd . . .

All of the Squishy's! nice lollipop

[squishy]

I agree with you Squishy

Which Squishy? Squishy's the other. Or another. The other another. The another's other. Or the other of another's other?



A nice lollipop for everyone involved:



I wonder if you realize how difficult it is to google an image of a lollipop even relatively disconnected from the ubiquitous world of porn; Gawd . . .

All of the Squishy's! nice lollipop

Help yourself, please Took some time to find it

[gingerpazuzu]

Carl appear to me lately as 'the door', more like 'portal'...it is new idea and I did not develop it yet, not even can explain it, but that idea simply appear and as that thread is alive again...what do you think?

Thats very much how I see The Nephs, and indeed all art, music, literature....its there to make you think about your own response to it, not for the deification of its author. In fact, at the risk of getting all deconsructionist here, I'd go so far as to say an author is really only half the story, the meaning emerges in the inter-reaction of text & reader, and its always different (best example I can give is the novel "On the road", which changed my life aged about 12, and seems like the self obsessed ramblings of a boring speed freak nowadays). Carl's work has certainly led me into all sorts of stuff I might not have found otherwise, but I think maybe he puts it best himself in the howl "You cannot follow me", the unspoken subtext saying, "but you can get there yourself by your own ways & means".

eloquently put Last Exit personally I think despite all the influences in our life,be it literature,art,music,other people in the we all do best we just be ourselves + far happier for it

[moomaaman]

Carl McCoy is just a ficticious character, an actor on a stage.
By day, and away from his ' nephilim' guise, Carl's real name is Rodney Shorthouse, a car mechanic from Ackrington Stanley. He is married to Doris Shorthouse, who fillets chickens at a local warehouse. They both enjoy greyhound racing, and watching old westerns on television. Rodney spends a lot of his time tending to his prized possession, an orange 1975 Ford Capri (complete with furry dice ) which he has kept in tip-top condition, in fact he has hardly ever used it, it has a very low mileage.
He listens to Ace of Bass very loud through his kenwood stereo and sub-woofer.

Sorry to shatter any illusions

[BlackSun]

Carl McCoy is just a ficticious character, an actor on a stage.
By day, and away from his ' nephilim' guise, Carl's real name is Rodney Shorthouse, a car mechanic from Ackrington Stanley. He is married to Doris Shorthouse, who fillets chickens at a local warehouse. They both enjoy greyhound racing, and watching old westerns on television. Rodney spends a lot of his time tending to his prized possession, an orange 1975 Ford Capri (complete with furry dice ) which he has kept in tip-top condition, in fact he has hardly ever used it, it has a very low mileage.
He listens to Ace of Bass very loud through his kenwood stereo and sub-woofer.

Sorry to shatter any illusions

let the cat out of the bag there haven't you!!

[gingerpazuzu]

Carl McCoy is just a ficticious character, an actor on a stage.
By day, and away from his ' nephilim' guise, Carl's real name is Rodney Shorthouse, a car mechanic from Ackrington Stanley. He is married to Doris Shorthouse, who fillets chickens at a local warehouse. They both enjoy greyhound racing, and watching old westerns on television. Rodney spends a lot of his time tending to his prized possession, an orange 1975 Ford Capri (complete with furry dice ) which he has kept in tip-top condition, in fact he has hardly ever used it, it has a very low mileage.
He listens to Ace of Bass very loud through his kenwood stereo and sub-woofer.

Sorry to shatter any illusions

you are Carl/Rodney aren't you:!: who else would know his secret identity!....

[Sadoldgit]

Carl McCoy is just a ficticious character, an actor on a stage.
By day, and away from his ' nephilim' guise, Carl's real name is Rodney Shorthouse, a car mechanic from Ackrington Stanley. He is married to Doris Shorthouse, who fillets chickens at a local warehouse. They both enjoy greyhound racing, and watching old westerns on television. Rodney spends a lot of his time tending to his prized possession, an orange 1975 Ford Capri (complete with furry dice ) which he has kept in tip-top condition, in fact he has hardly ever used it, it has a very low mileage.
He listens to Ace of Bass very loud through his kenwood stereo and sub-woofer.

Sorry to shatter any illusions

Is he related to the Bacup Shorthouse's?

[moomaaman]

He is indeed, on his father's side. Though the bacup shorthouses rarely speak to the rest of the family, ever since they made a fortune in recordable media. They tend to look down on their poorer relatives, although somewhat unwarranted snubbing as they all share the same working class Lancastrian roots. Though Rodney, having made a couple of quid in his younger days, is acknowledged more than the others by the Bacups.

[Sadoldgit]

He is indeed, on his father's side. Though the bacup shorthouses rarely speak to the rest of the family, ever since they made a fortune in recordable media. They tend to look down on their poorer relatives, although somewhat unwarranted snubbing as they all share the same working class Lancastrian roots. Though Rodney, having made a couple of quid in his younger days, is acknowledged more than the others by the Bacups.

Thought so. I knew the Bacup branch...did it with the daughter once...behind the old mill. On the ground as it 'appens!

[wild bill buttock]

Roddy Shorthouse's cousin Bertha from Bacup?
My mate did her up the wrong 'un while I gave her a facial.
Charming girl and a credit to the family.

[Bau]

Actually I think this whole story is some kind of fabrication concocted by the record company to cover up the fact that there is no Carl McCoy and what you see on stage is a hologram.

[Echo Barley]

It's we who should be an inspiration to him, not the other way around !

[moomaaman]

Roddy Shorthouse's cousin Bertha from Bacup?
My mate did her up the wrong 'un while I gave her a facial.
Charming girl and a credit to the family.

The very same.

Though she is now a lady of the cloth and a staunch environmentalist.

[squishy]

Actually I think this whole story is some kind of fabrication concocted by the record company to cover up the fact that there is no Carl McCoy and what you see on stage is a hologram.

No, you're terribly miastaken, Bau.

There was that real McCoy; though he didn't come from a reggae band, he did start the whole FotN thing, songwriting, lyrics and all. Every gig he would stand behind the scene, struggling with the shadow of the hat-wearing puppet onstage, covered in sweat, slapping its wooden face to get the low tones, pulling its plastic nose to get the high ones.

Then he was found impaled on a coat-hanger, but before the band disbanded, the puppet had disappeared, too . . .

Now, who pulled Andy Delany's strings - and why I most certainly heard Delany breathe?

[Last Exit]

is that them then

[Bau]

Actually I think this whole story is some kind of fabrication concocted by the record company to cover up the fact that there is no Carl McCoy and what you see on stage is a hologram.

No, you're terribly miastaken, Bau.

There was that real McCoy; though he didn't come from a reggae band, he did start the whole FotN thing, songwriting, lyrics and all. Every gig he would stand behind the scene, struggling with the shadow of the hat-wearing puppet onstage, covered in sweat, slapping its wooden face to get the low tones, pulling its plastic nose to get the high ones.

Then he was found impaled on a coat-hanger, but before the band disbanded, the puppet had disappeared, too . . .

Now, who pulled Andy Delany's strings - and why I most certainly heard Delany breathe?

a puppet?? ah you must be refering to this:


well thats why this tour they resorted to the hologram, illustrated by the way you see his image fading out in this telling photo:



soory I just had to sneek some stupid photos in here somewhere!

Coat hanger not withstanding, I know these record companys, they are a bunch of fibbers. Like the time they said Carl couldn't finish Fallen because he went mad. He wasn't insane or having a fit he was just scatching a bad case of fleas, I ought to know, I was the attending veterinarian!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZFyGfp0q6Q




he had had enough after that and went on to further his career as a stunt cyclist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS3CR8eP ... re=related

[Echo Barley]

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he had had enough after that and went on to further his career as a stunt cyclist.

I read that the wrong way round.....

[BlackSun]

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he had had enough after that and went on to further his career as a stunt cyclist.

I read that the wrong way round.....

what a tsilcyc tnuts... that's quite a talent

[gingerpazuzu]

there is no Carl McCoy or FOTN,I believe its a mass halluicination we are suffering from...possibly engineered by some sinister forces such as teletubbies or Cliff Richard in an attempt to fcuk with our tiny minds