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Mint Sauce to Singletrack Petition
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Well that was a good read - thanks for all the strips. Here's the best van I ever saw ever, in Glentress car park. Simon MUST get this. It's just nice is all. Like your pictures you know?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/allankelly/3711904769/in/set-72157604079122726
Cheers, al.
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Oh, and here's my favourite ever picture of a sheep ever. Taken leaving Newcastleton after SSUK09.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/allankelly/3622302263/in/set-72157619692484396
Cheers, al.
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Oh, and what it's like is Cerebus by Dave Sims if you've ever read that. Started as a joke "Aardvark as Barbarian Warrior" strip, and became a deeply political and emotional commentary on Sims' life as well as history and religion. Sadly disappeared up it's own ar5e, which MS has not done.
Cheers, al.
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It's not about 'getting it' , or ' not getting it ' . Is it ?
Isnt it just , ' is ' .?Like I said , I kinda like it .
I never really did rush out to buy MBUK once there were alternatives to buy . Ones that didnt involve me visiting ' specialist magazine shops ' for american mags , anyway .
I'm sure it just went a bit like this .
Jeremy Torr ..." so we're doing a 'proper ' magazine now ? I'll do a how to goddamn wheelie article .Eh ? "
Tym Manley ...." Yes .And We'll need a cartoonist . All the crazy kids want cartoons these days .It's the latest thing. "
Max Glaskin.. " There's this kid who does some quite clean inoffensive MTB related cartoons for our piece of A4 folded fanzine . I'll get him on the horn "
J.Jonah Jameson.. " Get Parker in here ! ( chews cigar ) . Some guy's changed the middle letter of his name .Drop the goddamn wheelie article. Timothy is a perfectly acceptable name . Communists everywhere !!"or something .
Maybe some of the more recent participants of ( our ) sporthobbypastimesundaytimewastingpointlessexercise cant relate to it .
I actually remember seeing the very first ones . With my eyes on paper . Not some scan .
I am a terribly nostalgic person who is probably going through a mid life crisis , and I just kinda like the fact that it takes me back to a place in my mind .
But . An old advert for a Panaracer Smoke does the same thing .I get a thrill from operating my Hite Rite .
I like rigid forks.
Last week I was wearing legwarmers .
Just let it be .
"it's not how much you do . It's how much love you put in the doing "
Okey dokey . The fava beans are done .
TIM . Rivi . Sundays . Getting it . Optional
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As you scanned the above post before you actually read it , did you notice where I inserted sex?
Do you get that ?You dont have to understand it .
It just is .Posted 2 years ago # -
It just is .
I think that was my mistake, expecting more - but I always do
Posted 2 years ago # -
I like -
Ogri as well.And -
Joe Barr & friends.But I really miss -
Bloom County.Posted 2 years ago # -
Wow, yes I have 3 Ogri books, wonderful stuff :o)
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Why do I not have /get /understand ogri ?
Exactly .
Or woodturning monthly for that matter .
Is there a cartoon in the peoples friend? I dont really care .
It just is ...bedtime .
I are definitely eating less coffee from now on.Posted 2 years ago # -
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SFB: Not all cartoons are jokes. MS is not a joke, it's visual poetry.
From the strip that Poddy posted: "It's not mother nature, it's her 18 year-old daughter". You're a bright guy; you can understand what that's about.
I have never understood why JB/MS is bound to MBUK, a mag aimed at a young audience. His work is much better suited to the ST crowd IMO. I might be a regional thing I suppose, given that MBUK is in Bath.
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Hi, can I do my usual spam the Jo Burt thread and mention that I still have 3 medium and three XL Jo Burt Russ Appeal shirts left.
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"I are definitely eating less coffee from now on."
Most people dilute it with water before ingestion.
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SFB: Not all cartoons are jokes. MS is not a joke, it's visual poetry.
yet some appear to think otherwise, hinting obscurely at hidden depth...
From the strip that Poddy posted: "It's not mother nature, it's her 18 year-old daughter". You're a bright guy; you can understand what that's about.
yes I understand mixed metaphor
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"I have never understood why JB/MS is bound to MBUK, a mag aimed at a young audience. His work is much better suited to the ST crowd IMO. I might be a regional thing I suppose, given that MBUK is in Bath."
the average age of the MBUK audience is considerably higher than you may think, and JB/MS live over 120 miles from Bath, several regions away
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SFB: Not all cartoons are jokes. MS is not a joke, it's visual poetry.
Actually whilst you might not laugh out loud at them, the ones I found from '94 and '95 were humorous in the same way as other comic strips (standard twist at the end sort of thing).Posted 2 years ago # -
I don't mind MBUK really, although I always feel a bit embarrassed for the guy who pulls the funny faces in their pics.
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Is this where I admit that the first page I check out in MBUK is Mint?
If Mint were to hang up his Pace/Cotic bike...how would you release the need to share your views on our sport JoB?
Is there another side of JoB that could be nudged in the STW direction?
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morning Jo. hows things...? DO i mention 'Brick' at this point? xx
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I loooooove mint sauce, was part of my inspiration to ride at one time. I'd like to see it in STW. Never understood why mint rides a geared bike? Would have to change to SS if it was in STW lol
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Never understood why mint rides a geared bike?
Really? Are you sure you understand MS?Posted 2 years ago # -
Dilute with water .
hmmmMaybe the sheep could come to some kind of midlife crisis / crossroads in his life , realise that all this media driven consumerist bolt on techno techno , is what he was trying to escape from in the first place , and that it detracts from the experience ,even , reducing his alltime favourite rides to a selection of 'transition stages ' between the (now much less ) challenging bits.
That'd take it in a new direction , and would reflect what I'm sure a fair portion of the STW massive are feeling .
Keep it current and that.He could flog the IBIS Bow-type , dust off his old MuddyFox Courier , and relearn the art of flipping hiking boots into toe-clips .
He could be redrawn as some other equally appealing countryside creature .
With a bushy tail .Boom boom.Of course he wouldnt be counting his miles any more than his VO2max, and would probably just do Sundays these days , up Rivi .
He may occasionally
just
stop.Thinking about everything.
And there'll be no bin scavenging as a metaphor for man's relentless pursuit of tarmac-ing the world.
Bialetti .
2 scoops .I think that's probably more than enough.
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the average age of the MBUK audience is considerably higher than you may think
Apparently: "Future Publishing's readership demographics research has indicated the magazine's readership to be 98% male, with an average age of 24.5 and an average income of £36,000."
No surprises in the gender balance, but the age is a little higher than I expected, not hugely though. Mind you, that's taken from Wikipedia and there's no reference to back it up, so probably absolute bollocks.
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Ergo wikipedia
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I might have long since stopped buying MBUK - but I can't imagine Mint Sauce in any other mag. It just wouldn't be right (or, I suspect, practical). That said, I've always liked the crayola enthusings of (US) Dirt Rag, so if Mint should ever re-locate...
I've said it before, but Summer reading Surrender the Pink somewhere high on the Downs is as splendid a moment of "emotion recollected in tranquility" as anything else I know.
Posted 2 years ago # -
So he has! And as right as ever, good work Jo!.
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Jo is that a triptych? Great colours, can we get one?
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Great colours, can we get one?
I had imagined it was rendered in gloomy shades to make it less stealable... such are the vicissitudes of colour blindness
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I'm 42 this year, and still buy most copies of MBUK, aside from STW, and Dirt it's the only one I read with any regularity. It was the first one I bought when I started becoming serious about mountain bikes, It's got Mint in it, and OK, sometimes it goes all a bit pantomime, but it's generally alright, there's nice pictures, they promote more up and coming riders than all the other mags combined, and it's entertaining.
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It's the Doddy-worship I can't stand. Last time I bought it he was on nearly every page. He was "dee-jaying" that hippity-hoppity noise on one page.
al.
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What is a Doddy I thought that was Ken Dodd.
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