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November 7th, 2010

Untitled blog post IV

This blog post does not merit being called anything.

I was out and about in the neighbourhood, scouring the empty shopping trolleys for completed cartoons that I could post on my blog or send to ecclesiastical newspapers. Once again I found nothing, so this will have to do:

shopping list

This note was discarded, one assumes, by a chef purchasing essentials for some of the local delicacies. Note ‘Sasuages’, which are a form of sausages, but posher.

Questions for study groups
1) What did the author intend to write for item 6, before deciding upon ‘drinks’?
2) That’s an awfully thick pen for a shopping list, don’t you think?
3) Spend some time wandering off the topic for a bit.

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15 Responses to “Untitled blog post IV”


  1. The Church Mouse says:

    I would also be interested in your readers views on whether the author intended “Branston” as one word or two, and what an appropriate margin should be for shopping lists.

    November 7th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
  2. David Jeanneret says:

    Gin

    November 7th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
  3. Rural Vicar James says:

    As to thickness of pen – we need some sense of scale to the paper; is it really tiny paper(hard for Dave to have found) with a normal thickness of pen or not? Discuss

    November 7th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
  4. Dave says:

    Church Mouse – yes, I was disappointed by the margin.

    RVG – this is A4 paper folded in half. A5, as I like to think of it. This is a serious marker pen.

    November 8th, 2010 at 12:17 am
  5. Gill says:

    Tesco ergo sum?

    November 8th, 2010 at 9:54 am
  6. Russ says:

    I would like to think the writer had begun to put “Crawfish tails”, but stopped realising it was such a workaday item they really didn’t need to note it to ensure they remembered to get some. Possibly not.

    There are also pleasing signs of a pickle snob at work – or at least, the one giving instruction for the comestibles to be obtained, has given the brand addendum to ensure inferior pickle is not purchased in error.

    November 8th, 2010 at 10:12 am
  7. Gregory says:

    I’ve always thought it was called Branston Pickle, not Pickle branston, but I don’t like it at all (horrible stuff!) so I might be wrong.

    November 8th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
  8. chris clark says:

    Quite clearly another sermon outline

    Your not ready for strong meat but you need the pure milk of the word …and the Eucharist in one kind.

    If you don’t stoke the fire of your spiritual life and drink of the everlasting water you will be in a pickle.

    He is going to use an illustration from Richard Branston’s life

    If you think the sermon is little incoherent then you haven’t heard my other efforts

    He uses a large felt tip because my friend he has poor eyesight and doesn’t like it to be obvious in the pulpil

    November 8th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
  9. Liz from the sewing room says:

    My first thought was this was the list of an encouraging parent, giving their child “real life” writing to do, by writing out the shopping list the parent dictated whilst the parent did the ironing. Hence the large pen, poor margins, odd spelling and inappropriate capitalisation – note branston should have capital B.

    I then considered that line 7 could be a command -pickle Branston. Poor Branston, wasnt he a character in a Bronte novel?

    Line 6 can also be interpreted differently. Since spelling isnt this author’s forte, what your have taken to be a letter d could in fact be a letter a, making line earinks; most large supermarkets do now sell earrings.

    November 8th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
  10. joe says:

    1. he was going to write coke again, but realised he’d already written it. not that I do that or anything.

    2. he has small children.

    3. you’ve no idea.

    November 8th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
  11. Jaded for Jesus says:

    I reckon the first, uncensored, attempt at 6 was ‘Guinness’.

    November 8th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
  12. Martha S. says:

    ‘Burgers’ are a form of mince, but posher.

    November 8th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
  13. Dave says:

    I think all of you are probably right.

    Chris – the incoherence of your sermon is an example to us all.

    Thanks, by the way. I do find the comments on this blog to be a kind of a tonic.

    November 8th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
  14. Pam Smith says:

    Since the list writer has put ‘drinks’ on the list as well as ‘coke’, I don’t think coke is short for Coca Cola.

    Therefore I deduce list writer needed either smokeless fuel – perhaps using it as an alternative to barbecue ‘briquettes’ – or crack cocaine.

    November 9th, 2010 at 10:28 am
  15. Pam Smith says:

    There is a definite change of handwriting style between ‘bread’ and ‘coke’ which makes me think at least 2 authors may be involved.

    This gives an intriguing intertextuality to the list. I think.

    It may be that the original Marker Pen List Writer felt the list as it stood carried enough information, or was interrupted in some way before it was finished.

    The Deutero Marker Pen List Writer may have completed it as a memorial, or added to it because the idea of what makes a good barbecue had moved on from when the first list writer produced it.

    It is arguable that a third writer may have added ‘Branston’ as a gloss on Deutero MPLW’s simple, heartfelt ‘pickle’.

    November 9th, 2010 at 1:21 pm