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06-19-2010, 11:19 PM | #1 | |
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June 20, 2010: Helter Skelter
When I get to the bottom
I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop and turn and I go for a ride Till I get to the bottom and I see you again Yeah, yeah, yeah Catchy, but what the hell are they talking about? Quote:
These Helter Skelter builders found an ingenious way to entice people to keep moving... and peek at petticoats. link
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06-20-2010, 01:24 AM | #2 |
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It is from an old movie about some sailor who meets his wife after the Great war, they meet at the lonely hearts club, and the main character says how helter skelter things where getting.
However, it is neat to know what a helter skelter is.
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06-20-2010, 02:33 AM | #3 |
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The Cellar: You only realize life is all helter skelter once it has gone all pear-shaped.
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We must all go through a rite of passage. It must be physical, it must be painful, and it must leave a mark. I have no knowledge of the events which you are describing, and if I did have knowledge of them, I would be unable to discuss them with you now or at any future period. Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years |
06-20-2010, 05:01 AM | #4 |
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Tora - Helter Skelters were around long before talkies.
The phrase meaning things going badly might have gained popularity from a film, but the British meaning has always been rgis type of spiral slide. I loved helter skelters as a child. They're your first experience of the throll that adults get from rollercoasters. I have an early memory of being on holiday and going down on my Dad's lap, followed by my sister going down on Mum's lap. Mum had to slow them down because Laura was frightened. I was encouraging my Dad to go faster! faster! I would have been 4 at the most, as my brother was not yet born. You go down on a mat btw, not just sitting on the slide. It's not smooth either, like one in a playground. It had treads on it, like a wooden escalator. I assume this speeds you up. And you used to pay by mat, hence our doubling up. Helter skelters aren't just for kids either. Certainly when I was younger a lot of adults went on. This might have changed now that fairground/ theme park rides have moved on. There was one in Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach that went down into a huge wooden underground bowl. We stood for what seemed like hours just watching the riders spill out into it. We didn't have the money to go on it ourselves, but I remember just watching seemed eventful enough. |
06-20-2010, 05:30 PM | #5 |
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Neat, I wonder where the oldest one is and for that matter where the first was?
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06-20-2010, 05:37 PM | #6 |
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Mmmmmmmmmmmm...phallic.
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06-20-2010, 05:59 PM | #7 |
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how odd. I have never heard of or seen that. I just thought it meant all--chaotic.
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06-20-2010, 07:55 PM | #8 | |
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06-21-2010, 12:34 PM | #9 |
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While doing added research, here is a modern indoor helter skelter.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...n-seconds.html
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06-21-2010, 12:44 PM | #10 | |
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Trust the Hate Mail to inject a completely pointless dig into the article
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06-21-2010, 01:55 PM | #11 | |
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Electric Slide?
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06-21-2010, 02:01 PM | #12 |
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Pretty interesting. Common people separated by a language or something like that...
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06-21-2010, 04:54 PM | #13 |
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This is fantastic Bruce! Thank you for clearing up this mystery for me. Now I must clearly repost!
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06-21-2010, 06:05 PM | #14 |
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A helter skelter could have saved the people on 9/11
But then again if you skelted down 100 floors, you'd be going so fast by the bottom that your ass would be on fire. Aiyyo, don't wear polyester down the tube thing, man, it melts. Yeah man yesterday some guy burned his nads on that thing. |
06-21-2010, 07:36 PM | #15 |
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It's not truly a helter skelter, but there's an old elementary school here that still has emergency exit slides coming down from most rooms on the second floor. Never seen anything like it on any other building.
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