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PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:15 am    Post subject: Going Underground. Reply with quote

It’s been a wee while now since I’ve written a story on the forum, so in a moment of welcome respite from my book (which is heavy going at the moment) I thought maybe a bit of light relief in the form of a short story would both keep my fingers warm, and stretch my imagination, if only very slightly. Now I know that very few of you read my nonsense stories but they do have an awkward habit of coming true (in part anyway)- well almost…. If this story comes true…… blimey, are we in for a treat.

The Story is called…….

Going Underground.

Having left the office in a hurry because they were late for a dinner date, Steve and Jenny grabbed a Taxi. The traffic was terrible that night. “Isn’t there a short-cut?” said Steve to the driver. “Yeah but it’ll cost more cos, it’s much further to go the short way,” replied the driver. “ I don’t care – just get us there,” said Steve. Moments later they were on the road to Edgbaston. It would be a trip down memory lane for Steve and Jenny, as they would be driven past the old Pebble Mill Studios, where they used to work. “ You know they’re turning it into luxury apartments,” said Steve. “Yeah but who’d want to live there- after all that happened?” said Jenny. “It’s been empty for years now- hang on – there’s a light on- wonder what’s going on,” enquired Steve. Jenny looked at Steve with that puzzled inquisitive look he’d grown to love. “Just drop us here” yelled Steve. They got out of the taxi. “What about dinner?” Jenny yelled. “ Don’t worry- I have some Marmite sandwiches and a Strawberry Yoghurt left over from lunch “ said Steve, looking rather pleased with himself.
“ Oh yummy,” replied Jenny. “ “Look there’s people moving about in the old studios,” Steve whispered. “Probably squatters,” said Jenny. Steve led Jenny across the road, he took a small clockwork torch from his jacket pocket then began to wind it up. “What’s that?” whispered Jenny. “Is it a gun?”. “No- it’s a torch,” sighed Steve. “ Oh and there was me getting all excited thinking you were a Secret Agent or something” said Jenny. They climbed over the old rusty gates then headed for the windows. The windows were high and blacked out- but years of neglect had left them with the odd spy hole scratched into the black coating. “ Give me a bunk up – I’ll see if I can see inside”, said Steve. “ Are you kidding?” said Jenny, “ you’re size of an Elephant- you give me a bunk up!”.
“What can you see?” asked Steve. “ You idiot!” said Jenny.“ You can see an idiot” said Steve. “ No! – you idiot- said Jenny, it’s the Ladies loos!”
“My memory of the old place isn’t what it used to be,” said Steve. They moved further along the building and tried again.

“Anything this time?” Steve whispered. “Oh my God!- you’re not going to believe this!” replied Jenny. “ Believe what?” Steve said, sounding impatient. “It’s Johnny Walker! – the old pirate is moonlighting- he’s doing a show!”……..

To be continued....
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Marmite sandwiches and strawberry yogurt Surprised - No wonder his memory ain't what it used to be!

Looking forward to part two already Smile
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

“ Do you think we should go in?” asked Steve. “And do what!,” said Jenny. Steve reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out an old BBC promo picture of Johnnie Walker. “ You have got to be kidding me!” said Jenny. “ Do you think he’ll sign it for me?” Steve said, looking more excited than Jenny had ever seen him before. “ Are you mad- we’ve just stumbled on an underground pirate radio station with one of the world’s top celebrity DJs broadcasting illegally from a disused BBC facility, and you want to walk in there and ask for his autograph?” “What’s your point?” said Steve indignantly. “ I have an idea,” said Jenny. “ What?" said Steve. “Eat the Yoghurt,” said Jenny. “ I don’t want to eat the Yoghurt- I didn’t want it a lunchtime- I don’t want it now- how many times have I told you- I don’t like Strawberry Yoghurt!” fumed Steve. “ Look- if you know what’s good for you you’ll eat the Yoghurt,” replied Jenny. Steve ate the Yogurt, with, it has to be said, some speed. “Right,” said Jenny, now give me a bunk up again” Jenny held the bottom end of the empty Yoghurt pot against the Studio window, and then placed her ear in the open end of the pot. “ What are you doing?” asked Steve. “ Shhhhhhhhh-I’m listening Jenny replied, “ I saw this in a film once”. “ What can you hear?” asked Steve. “ Nothing!” said Jenny. “ You know, I have a clockwork FM broadband Scanner in my briefcase, said Steve. Jenny threw the Yoghurt pot at Steve with such force; he dropped her- they both landed in a snotty heap. “ Some dinner this is turning out to be,” said Jenny. “Yeah I bet you wish all your dinner dates were this exciting,” purred Steve, looking even more pleased with himself. As dinner dates went for Steve, this was going better than any he could remember. “Laying with you on the wet ground, after dark, in a disused car park covered in Yoghurt, is not what I call exciting,” barked Jenny, “ now get your scanner out”………

To be continued…. (on Monday)


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can hear "Avengers" style music in the background.. and I've run out of fingernails! Confused
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Laughing your stories are fabulous Rachel - just been reading the others can't wait until Monday.

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh thanks BDG Smile - they're just random nonsense really- the Zac story is the one I've enjoyed doing the most...
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A large black mean machine pulled up in the car park of the Hogshead and Hudee, the meanest, badest pub this side of the black stump. Arriving at the epicentre of the most notorious hudee hang-out in the no-go areas of Watford, Alex, was justifiably worried. Dressed in black, wearing his Razar Sunglasses, and a long black leather coat, carrying a box of blag, Alex headed for the back door. Before he managed three paces distance from his car, Alex heard a voice….

<hudee1>“Hey man, dat a sick box init?”

Alex stopped: out of the darkness a group of faceless hudees approached, then surrounded him, several of them went to check out his car.

<hudee1> “ Nice box man- do it got history?”

“History?” Alex replied.

<hudee1>“ Yeah man- you know, how many drive-bys you pulled?”

<Alex> “ Er none”

<hudee1> “ You lijit man?- that don’t bake wiv us- you better got blag?”

<Alex> “ yeah I’ve got blag – 5000 units of Underground Sound Pirate-TeK

<hudee2> “ so what’s you kin man?”

<Alex> “ They call me the Pork Lard”

,<hudee2> “ Pork Lard ?-Meh! That kin don’t bake- like a lijit truck–man

<hudee 1> “ Pork Lard? You mean…. like Pig Fat init? - you ain’t no fat man- you more like batman hangin wiv da cape- you sweet on Bubba Fendabelly – now he so fat he bakes…. now load us the blag and blow skinee man…….

Alex left the hardware in the car park, retreated to his car then sped away back to the safety of the underground. In just less than two hours it would be Alex’s first transmission on Underground Sound FM. Having just met some of the listeners , Alex got busy tweaking his show…………


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<Steve> “ Nothing – the scanner is just picking up the regular channels.

<Jenny> “ Maybe the’re broadcasting on digital or only on the net?”

<Steve> “Can you start winding this handle?”

< Jenny> “ What is it- some kind of explosive?”

<Steve> What is it with you and violence? – it’s a HCIPS- that’s a Human- cyclic induction power solution!”

< Jenny> “ You mean a wind up battery?”

<Steve> “ Well …….. yes”

Steve packed up his briefcase, took Jenny by the hand then headed for the front door of the Studio buildings. The door was hanging off, and slightly open. They crept inside: using just the glow from a luminous wavy glow stick left over from a trip to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, they made their way along the dark corridors to the Studio that they’d looked into earlier. Steve burst the door open. “ Ha,” he said, “ gotcha”. Johnnie Walker just carried on as if nothing had happened…

<Pugs>Well that’s been another drive on Underground Sound FM, the station they all receive but only you can hear, coming next it’s Bubba Fendabelly’s Yoof of da Nation Culture Show, so until next time that’s it from me Captain P – yo nighters pirate peepers……”…….

Johnnie started his shutdown routine on the studio desk – then vanished into thin air.

<Steve> “Where’d he go?”

<Jenny> “ We’ve been had- look this is not a Studio at all – it’s a Random Pozitronic Holographic Self- Erasing Decoy Module – he’s not even here and I’ve missed dinner for this!”

<Steve> “Marmite sandwich?”



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

6th Floor…..

The R2 Icon (you didn’t think I leave her out did you) left her office then headed for the lift. She hated the lift, the lighting and mirrors made her look really ill even when she felt tip top. Oh good there’s nobody else in here she thought. After placing a post-it note over the lift spy-cam she slid the small polished aluminium panel next to the lift buttons to one side. Under the panel there was a second set of lift buttons giving access to the secret sub levels. After selecting sub-level seven – the lift jittered into life then started on its long descent. The face staring back at the R2 Icon from the wall of the lift looked nervous- this was the biggest covert operation she’s ever had to manage- it wasn’t going to be easy, and discovery before completion would mean certain expulsion, not just for her, but almost the entire inner circle of Radio 2 staff and presenters. A broadcasting coup had never been attempted before – everything had to work perfectly or it would be curtains. Arriving deep in the underbelly of Broadcasting House -on sub-level seven the R2 Icon made her way to the test and verification lab where her boffins were putting the final touches to the technical revolution that would change the face of Radio forever. The Particle Integrated Random Activated Transmission Equipment (PIRATE) had passed all major testing phases; it was ready to go live on the R2 Icon’s command. Initially the R2 Icon had thought maybe taking London would be a first step but pressure from the really big cheese meant going national from day one. The risks were massive – the reward – to save the world…….

Steve and Jenny picked up the remains of the Random Pozitronic Holographic Self- Erasing Decoy Module then made their way out of the old Pebble Mill building. Steve knew something big was afoot but he couldn’t put his finger on it. Jenny was hungry. “How about a Pizza?” asked Steve. “Great idea- where do we get one those – way out here?” said Jenny. “ “I’ve got a yellow pages in my briefcase,” said Steve- “I’ll phone for one now- what’s your topping?” “ Twelve-inch deep-pan cheese-crust meat-feast, a bladder-buster of Pepsi, and a taxi home!” Jenny demanded. Steve put his brief-case on the ground then set about digging around for his yellow pages. “Ah here it is,” said Steve. “What the bleep is that?” said Jenny. “ Yellow pa… “No! – That!” Jenny said, pointing Steve’s head at the roof of Pebble Mill. “Gosh!” said Steve as he sat in disbelief at what his eyes were telling him……..

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Or the ghost of Alan Freeman in the persona of Roger Waters' lost inflatable pig? Or none of these...

The suspense is killing... Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Laughing

The lift is very small Wink
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“it was a 300 foot animated holographic image of what looked like Chris Evans on a Skateboard, doing wheelies around a studio! – What’s going on!?”, said Steve. “Oh my!” said Jenny- “ he looks much bigger than he did on the telly!” “We need to get a picture – quickly – I’ve got a camera in my briefcase,” said Steve. But no sooner had Steve rummaged around in his briefcase and the image was gone.
“Here’s the Pizza! – Oh yummy!” said Jenny.
“ Did you see that?” yelled Steve to the Pizza-boy. “See what? -I don’t see nuthin- twenty four fifty for your eats- what you doin' round here anyway?” the Pizza boy asked. “ Oh we’re just checking something- you don’t need to worry,” Steve replied. “Hey – nice tip- see ya,” the Pizza boy said, as he sped away on is moped. ….
Steve and Jenny had worked in the BBC compliance department for a long time but they’d not seen anything like this before, this was something big Steve thought to himself, as he and Jenny headed back to Jenny’s flat in a taxi…..



Sub-level seven….

“ Ma,am- they’re all ready for you in the drop zone”- came a voice from behind the R2 Icon.
The R2 Icon, a one off prototype C7000 Managerial Robot Droid (Generic Human female) was a workaholic and a bit of a slave driver but everyone at Radio 2 loved her to bits. She made her way to the drop zone, the nerve centre of Underground Sound FM.

<Icon> “You all know why we are here- tomorrow at 06:00hrs, we go live with the biggest Pirate Radio Station on the planet. The pilot trial in the Watford area with Johnnie, AKA- Captain Pugwash – thanks for that Pugs, and Alex, AKA Bubba Fendabelly - you’ll always be my Hubba-Hubba Bubba <smile> has been an outstanding success, with 98% uptake on the Pirate Tek decoders. Seasonally adjusted, extrapolated and translated nationwide this will give us an estimated 84% reach across the 12-20 year old listener population. We’ll blow Radio 1 from the map and into the weeds. All of you will have to continue with your regular Radio 2 gig- then afterwards it’s down here for two hours of your alter ego. There will be no cross-referencing between shows. You will all be given code names shortly. Before each of your shows go out – giant holographic images of your alter egos will be displayed for 5 seconds at various young peoples’ hang outs across the nation. The trials of this technology have been completed today. Any questions?”

<Steve Wright> “What’s my Alter ego?”
<Icon> “ You will be given your code name shortly”
<Sarah K> “ How will it work ma’am?- how will they not catch us?”

<Icon> “ the technology is such that our broadcasts are undetectable without Pirate Tek hardware. Young people love to be different, if it’s illegal, they like it even more. The great thing about this technology is that we will broadcast nationwide on BBC Radio Channels only – Underground Sound transmissions will be time sliced in a digital coded algorithmic matrix then fed in encrypted individual data packets across the entire BBC transmission network without affecting the BBC transmissions – very tiny adjacent parts of our transmission will be mixed – frequency hopped and broadcast within the regular BBC programmes. Only the Pirate Tek hardware has the decode algorithms that will scan the entire spectrum to extract the individual data packets then reconstruct the pirate broadcast right there in the listeners ear…..”

<Sarah K> “I thought that’s how it might work”

<Icon> “ so I expect you’re all dying to find out what your code names are… well I’ll read em out for you .. this list is “Top Secret”


Alex Lester- Bubba “Big Boy” Fendabelly or Big Boy Bubba or just “Bubs”
Johnnie Walker- Captain Pugwash- Captain P or just “Pugs”.
Sarah Kennedy – Barbie Scattycat Lush Lashes or just “Scats”.
Terry Wogan- Seismic Sausage Snorkerboy or just “Snorky”.
Ken Bruce – Reg Busboy Highlander or just ”Mac the Bus”
Sally Traffic- Lady Goddess the Jam Buster or just “Busta-Jam”.
Lynn Bowles- Jack the Spanner Babe-Rover or just “ Offroad Jack”
Jeremy Vine- Harry “the Scoop” Paper Raker or just “Hazbo”
Steve Wright -Uncle “Gatling-Gob” Bob or just “Gatso”
Chris Evans- Tiffosi “Skaterboy” Master Blaster or just “Red Skates”

That’s the daytime crew, the rest of you will get your code names shortly after coffee which has just arrived……….”


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Brilliant!
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<Icon> “ well that’s coffee done- nothing like a double moca-chocachino to get the servos going. So where were we- ah yes- The Top Secret Code names. Now I’ve received some feedback during coffee- apparently some of you aren’t happy with your code names. Don’t worry they’re just code names: they don’t mean anything. Any more questions before we run through the rest of this list?”

<Bubs> “Ma’am – you know I’m on blubberwatch at the moment.”

<Icon> “yes.. and doing quite well.. well, apart from that incident with the crate of larger in the Kebab shop but that is best forgotten.”

<Bubs> “yes, well, how is my new svelte silhouette going to sit with my Bubber “Big Boy” Fendabelly handle?”

<Icon> “Well we did wonder about that, and we’ve come up with a reasonably cunning plan.”

<Bubs> “you have?”

<Icon> “Oh yes; we’ve got you a fat suit; Scats has loaned us some of her glue- it’s really strong stuff, so once you’re in it you won’t need to worry about it falling off, we’ve also hired you a couple of body guards, and a seriously bad car- I think it’s a pimped Ford Zepher, to boost your bad-boy-about-town image – the Hudees will worship you.”

< Bubs> “oh good.”

<Icon> “Right, anymore questions? No? Good! I’ll get on with the list. Oh before I forget : The Christmas Thrash is in the same place as last year – tickets available from lunchtime today… all the usual stuff, food, drink, music and the bucket competition.”

“Ok the list …

Mo Dutta- where are you Mo- I’ve not seen you for ages – oh I see you hiding there at the back – you’ve got an evening shift my darlin’

Cosy the twilight Tea-boy… or just “T-Cosy “

Tim Smith and Janey; we’re gonna try you two together, so we thought

“ Punch and Judy”

would be pretty cool-beans code names for you two.”

Now we need to have a break for lunch – so everyone back here at 2pm – we have a street language training session for you- then a run through the studios down here… oh don’t forget your Chrimbo thrash tickets when you go upstairs …..”

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450 years later….

The Icon walked out into Underground Sound’s, Garden of Remembrance, as she had done every morning, just before 6am, for the past 400 or so years since the garden was opened by King William. The Icon carried with her a fresh single rose: walking past the many bronze statues – so cold and still but somehow, so full of life, she made her way to the foot of Alex. Yesterday’s Rose had wilted in the overnight cold winter chill – the Icon ran her comparatively warm biomechanical fingers across Alex’s cold eternal bronze locks, then while holding the silver locket around her neck, paused for a moment of reflection before replacing the Rose in the little vase at Alex’s feet. Once again the Icon smiled to herself as she read the small brass plate with the words.

“Alex Lester – Broadcaster
. It started here.”

The Icon walked back to her office thinking about the old days when Underground Sound was a happy, small, pirate radio station. A station that captured the hearts and minds of the young, the dispossessed, the disenfranchised, the needy, the nerds, as well as the masses, so much so that it became the most popular radio station in history. Popularity though did not come without its drawbacks – the pirate station was soon infiltrated by compliance droids – headed by Steve: a type C7004 Managerial Robot Droid (generic human male-enhanced- pain in the backside variant). Underground Sound became a Legitimate (lijit) Station just 6-years after launch. By then the human race was tired of the struggle so they had become an easy target for the compliance droids. Life for humans became, oh so perfect. Each and every one of them with perfect skin, perfect teeth, perfect lives. Hundreds of years of perfection had left the humans weary of themselves, they wanted more than perfection. Perfection was no longer good enough – there was something missing.

The Icon took the silver locket from around her neck then gave it to one of her boffins, “this”, she said, “ is our last hope……

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Phew! Thank goodness there is hope to save us from the Droid Laughing
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The icon sat patiently in her office, waiting for her phone to burst into life – after what seemed like an eternity it did.
“ You have them all –the entire 2008 team?…. well done- I’ll be down to collect them in an hour”.

Steve came into the Icon’s office.

“You know what this is Steve?”

“Yeah it’s a Muli-media Terra-Pod – every piece of commercially available music and video from the last 600 years, in one convenient pocket-sized personal entertainment system- how cool is that?”

“No Steve – it’s a disaster”

“How so Ma’am?”

“ Well can you remember the 1960s 70s and 80s of the last millennium?”

“Of course ma’am – it was an orgy of sex drugs and Rock ‘n’Roll!”

“ No, go deeper than that Steve.”

“ I don’t know what you mean ma’am.”

“Well this Multi terror box thing contains every track from ever, it’s available to everyone without any discipline required to obtain it- that is the tragedy! All the passion – all the agonising decision making – spending all week delivering papers or helping the Milkman so you could spend hour after hour and your entire weeks pay choosing just one track on a 45 Single- all the sense of belonging, all the pleasure of ownership is lost in this device- we must start again.”

With those words the Icon left her office then made her way to downstairs to meet James the Boffin.

“ Ah there you are ma’am- I have them here”

“ Thank you, James”

The Icon took the incubation briefcase then left the building for what only she knew would be the very last time. She made her way to the garden of remembrance- stood once again at the feet of Alex – she put her arm around his waist, placed the left side of her head against his manly bronze chest, smiled, and said, “ it is time to live, breathe and dance like your dad again- together we will save the world”…….


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Rachel wrote:

“All the passion – all the agonising decision making – spending all week delivering papers or helping the Milkman so you could spend hour after hour and your entire weeks pay choosing just one track on a 45 Single- all the sense of belonging, all the pleasure of ownership is lost in this device-


How right. Stop me, someone, before I lapse into irredeemable and terminal nostalgia mode...
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The Icon took her precious cargo to a secret underground facility that she’d built over the last two-hundred years- the Compliance Nano-droids had no clue this place even existed, it would be a safe haven for the first phase of the Icon’s dream to recreate the early-days of Underground Sound FM some 520 years after it was first launched. The original team – the original music – everything, exactly as it was then, was to be again. The modern perfect world wouldn’t know what had hit it.

During the Radio 2 Christmas Party of 2008, the Icon collected a single hair from each of the 2008 presenters – she kept them in her Silver Locket, knowing that one day the clone technology required to recreate those hair donors would be available in the future. She had thought of everything, every detail of the 2008 presenters’ lives had to be reconstructed, exactly as it had been from birth to their ages in 2008. The prototype Embryonic Historical Experience Reconstruction Chambers (EHERC) were ready for their first inhabitants – this would be a seventy-year phase as the reconstruction happened in real time tactile interactive mode. (The Icon is very patient- you learn to be when you have a 5000-year-life primary power unit) The Icon looked forward to seeing the young Alex growing up, with his girls’ bike, wooden blocks on the pedals, and his wooden Spiro-graph. Not to mention all that hair. Every detail exactly as it had been- an entire team of imperfect radio presenters with imperfect lives, reconstructed in every detail, in a perfect world – what could be more perfect than that?

At just the perfect moment the Icon would switch the EHERC from reconstructive simulation mode, to real life mode: …….that time was now:-

[The day before the launch of Underground Sound FM]

with coffee and code names given the Icon said…..

“Now we need to have a break for lunch – so everyone back here at 2pm – we have a street language training session for you- then a run through the studios down here… oh don’t forget your Chrimbo thrash tickets when you go upstairs …..”

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So with the entire 2008 Radio 2 team having spent up to 70 years in the hidden Embryonic Historical Experience Reconstruction Chamber, and having their original lives relived in every detail by their clones- all according to the data stored in each of the hairs the Icon had “acquired” at the R2 Christmas party in 2008; it was going to be a leap of gargantuan proportions for the team to discover that it was actually the year 2528 and they weren’t really themselves.

200 years had gone very slowly past since the planetary music ban imposed by the 9th Commission of Euro Compliance Nano-Droids. Humans had become dull, lifeless compliant worker- ants, living in large communes – fed by the droids – entertained by the droids – even reproduction, involved droids. In short, life had become a real droid. The masses were entertained with 24-hour a day womb-music and whale-song, piped into every street, every workplace, and every room of every communal home. There was no escape.

After briefing the entire team on who they were, where they were, and more importantly, when they were, the Icon asked if anyone had any questions…

<Steve Wright> Yeah I have one ma’am… How did you get a hair from Ken Bruce?

That is a very good question Steve but unfortunately one which lies beyond the scope of this short Story- suffice to say, whenever men wrap Christmas presents, there’s always a hair on the sellotape somewhere.

Tomorrow at 6am we go live Worldwide with Alex and our regular set. Be prepared for worldwide anarchy – no living human has ever heard any human-generated music. This experiment will be the definitive work on the original and most important question ever posed, and one that has invoked many arguments and wars across history.
I’ll be overseeing the production of all shows tomorrow.

Next day in the studio…

“ Ok we’ve captured the uplink –we have worldwide connection –we have audio and visual monitoring on screen….. standby Alex….. standby track one… 5 …….4…….3……..2……..1…….Hit it!"

Track one … Dizzy Miss Lizzy by the Beatles …….

The screens went wild with activity- people were dancing in the streets. The Icon phoned Steve- the big bad leader of the Compliance Droids.

“ Steve”, the Icon said, – “remember that fiver you bet me in 2008…- take a look out of your window , then hand it over big boy- I was right all along- human males are genetically predisposed to playing air-guitar when they hear decent music.

The world returned to mayhem, with music …. Perfect.

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So, when I'm reincarnated and return in 520 years time, everything will be just as it is today... Radio 2, Beatles, Air Guitar, Lester, Icon...

I love a happy ending! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

and Steve Wright sounding just as good as he did 540 years ago! can't get any better than that...
I suppose Chris Evans would be on fifty five Zillion quid and still not on the Breakfast show!
Great story Rachel! Laughing
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