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They're here and they have no taste!

TheOriginalCujo

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I was browsing through one of my favourite sites when I happened upon a link I hadn't noticed before. It was entitled 'The Grooviest Hotel in Wisconsin'. Little did I realise as I clicked on the link with carefree abandon what I was letting myself in for.

I have long suspected that something very strange happened to western civilsation during the 70's and late 60's. I had put the strange attraction to burnt orange brushed nilon pared with chocolate brown shag pile carpet, plastic chairs and lilac flock wallpaper down to some sort of drug hangover. Now I realise the real and horrible truth.

See the proof

During the 70's we were invaded by Aliens From the Planet With No Taste. They tried to go unnoticed but hampered as they were by their complete lack of taste their initial attemps were crude and gimicky.

This so called bed for example is quite clearly some sort of escape pod.

This cannot posibly be real grass.

No Human being could possibly feel comfortable in a room like this.

The exterior view clearly shows that the whole building is merely a crudely disguised space ship. Perhaps it crashed in Wisconsin and the stranded crew decided to make the best of it.

TheDining Building is also clearly a craft of some sort. The rectangular porch has obviously been added as an afterthought. The inept stone cladding fails to conceal the otherworldly shape but the gigantic antenna on the roof really gives the game away, as do the so-called 'cars' parked outside. Look closely they are not cars but otherworldly vehicles disgused as cars.

Rotating Bar? Or flight deck?

I think I've proved my point. The only questions left to ask are: Was the general tastelessness of the 70's accidental psychic contamination from these 'Tasteless Ones' or were they deliberately trying to infect us? Did they use their clashing colours and dizzying shapes as psychological warfare against us? Was the coming of Punk our salvation? Did our minds rebel at last against the horribleness of it all and drive them away with our leather and our denim and our brighly coloured hair or did it mearly drive them into hybernation.

Are they still with us?

Cujo
(I'm not making this up you know.)
 
I was going to write something smart here, but I've just done the whole tour and added it to `Favourites.'

Maybe they they have a different kind of sun where they come from?

This is undoubtedly, either:

a). The real interior of the `Close Encounters of the Third Kind' Mother Ship.

b). A portal to Hell.

c). Both.

I can feel the static discharge from here!
 
AndroMan said:
This is undoubtedly, either:

a). The real interior of the `Close Encounters of the Third Kind' Mother Ship.

b). A portal to Hell.

c). Both.

I'd go with option c). It's certainly a portal to hell for anyone who'd booked in with the intent of a romantic weekend away from the kids.

Cujo
 
I kind of liked it. OK i'm not about to start putting carpet on the walls.... but it's got a certain appeal. I have always liked the idea or rotating restaurants and gimmicks like that. A rotating bar could save you getting off you chair to socialise and after 10 mins you'd have a whole different perspective!
 
Im always telling people that the bar is rotating, but they never believe me.
 
It scares me, and the whole place looks really disturbing. Someone mount an expedition there, too. Tie a rope to your car incase you get lost inside.
 
I really really like it! I want to go there - I'd just be in stitches throughout my stay. Are they still open for business?
 
I'd love to go there too, but I can't help thinking of all the germs there must be in that shag pile. It's not called "shag" pile for nothing you know. :cross eye
 
Sally said:
I really really like it! I want to go there - I'd just be in stitches throughout my stay. Are they still open for business?

I don't know. I don't think the guy that put the site together knows either. If anyone from Wisconsin is reading this could you please check?

Cujo
 
No taste, maybe, but a lot more character than your run-of-the-mill Post House/Holiday Inn/generic stopover hotel.

Although I recall a hotel where the bed was 2' wide by 5'6" long, and the matress was lumpy teak... The en-suite bathroom was that small that turning around in the shower got the bedclothes wet... the only way to dress was to stand on the bed.....

And the "twin" room in Blackpool where I shared with Big Tam (6'2") - the bed (singular) was 4'6" by 6' - Tam would have filled it on his own - and it was in a less than spacious corner - "twin" obviously implied "conjoined" :rolleyes:

At least the turkeys here get room to roll over...
 
One of "Them" is well known to many, if not most, of us. I have traced his almost meterotic rise across the decades. His clothing is discordant, his persona almost incoherent. He has almost sucessfully blended into human society, although it is fairly obvious to many observers that he isn't human.

I speak of course of Ziggy Stardust, although you may be more familiar with his human identity: David Bowie.

Over time Ziggy has become increasingly more human in appearance, from the strange 'makeup', clothing and bizarre behaviour to what appears to be an almost complete transformation.

Curiously this process is mirrored in Ziggy's most famous, or should that be infamous, cinematic appearance: the 1976 release "The Man Who Fell To Earth". A movie now starting on BBC2... :)

Ziggy is obviously one of those aliens who created the Gobbler, but is he friend or foe? Is he an infiltrator or rebel trying to protect and warn us of the activities of his people? You decide.

Niles "The Truth is..." Calder
 
ah i wish i could be watching that, but my sister is watching from hell (whichg is TERRIBLE! i had to walk away form the screen. I have just read the comic, and I am frankly disgusted at the first half hour of what is evidenytly the shiteiest film ever produced... from such a fine book too.)
Ziggy played guitar... dum dde dumd e dum
 
Faggus said:
ah i wish i could be watching that, but my sister is watching from hell

:eek!!!!:

Poster's Practice of Not Capitalizing Produces Unintentionally Fortean Result.

Film at eleven.
 
Annother Alien Revealed?

I think I may have discovered the identity of annother of the aliens amoung us.

Think turquoise shell suit. That's right it's our old friend David Ike. To one of 'them' a tuquoise shell suit probably seems quite restrained atire but once his outfit had been extensively ridiculed in the press he quickly switched to a beige suit. Beige - the last refuge of the seriously sartorially confused, the ultimate safe choice.

So if Ike is an Alien then who are the reptoids? Is he a rebel like Bowie or is he on some sinister disinformation mission?

What do you guys think?

Cujo
 
Interesting... very very interesting Cooj!

Personally I agree, his ramblings about Reptoids make a lot of sense if seen from the light of 70's fashion... I speak of none other than 'Gatorskin!

Yes the skins and scales of alligators made into shoes, belts and handbags. When Ike speaks of shape changing lizards he's not talking about a physical transformation, he actually means that, deep down, the 'Reptoids' are known to wear reptile skinned clothes. Don't look at their little fingers to see if they bend; look at their feet!!!!

What do you guys think?
I try not to think Cooj', it's far too dangerous ;)

Niles "hugs from 'Amanda' and company" Calder
 
And noone mensoned the name.


It's called 'The Gobbler' for christ's sake!

Meby I just have a dirty mind.
 
jamesveldon said:
And noone mensoned the name.


It's called 'The Gobbler' for christ's sake!

Meby I just have a dirty mind.

We all noticed the name, we've just got too much class to mention it. ;)

Cujo
(Do you think that place counts as psychological warfare?)
 
So on the next TV show entitled "I love the seventies" will there be a Grey talking about ho he loved to abduct people whilst wearing flared trousers and listening to the bee gees?
 
Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Wierd and Gilly, The Spiders from Mars.

Now that Mars is at it's closest approach to Earth in the last 60 thousand years are we due another invasion from planet bad taste?

Will the sky be soon filled with biege motherships, taffita flare clad storm troopers marching from them to conquer the Earth?

Sorry I saw his thread during a search and just had to shake the cobwebs from it.
 
Niles Calder said:
Now that Mars is at it's closest approach to Earth in the last 60 thousand years are we due another invasion from planet bad taste?

Will the sky be soon filled with biege motherships, taffita flare clad storm troopers marching from them to conquer the Earth?

And Sarah Brightman's 'I lost my heart to a Starship Trooper', back in the charts?
 
And we stand on the verge of a threatened 80's revival. The 80's look was ok the first time. It was new and daring and we didn't know any better. To revive it seems pointless and can only mean one thing.

They're baaaaaaaaack!
 
Oh, none of you have ever set foot in Wisconsin. That hotel was high class for Wisconsin then, and it'd be even higher class for Wisconsin now. I'd TOTALLY stay there.

Alas, now I must make do with the Burnsville Fantasuite.

These theme rooms are mighty groovy:

The Just Married by an Elvis-Impersonator Honeymoon Suite:
http://www.fantasuite.com/Rooms.asp?Loc ... &RoomID=22

Party the Donner Party way, with none of the harship and ALL of the passion!:
http://www.fantasuite.com/Rooms.asp?Loc ... &RoomID=21

The Nanook of the North room:
http://www.fantasuite.com/Rooms.asp?Loc ... &RoomID=15

The Nothing Spells Romance like WHALING room:
http://www.fantasuite.com/Rooms.asp?Loc ... &RoomID=14

The Lose Your Virginity in the Back Seat of a Camaro room:
http://www.fantasuite.com/Rooms.asp?Loc ... &RoomID=13

This emission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it, Dave:
http://www.fantasuite.com/Rooms.asp?Loc ... &RoomID=18
 
Longtime Married Couple Subjected To Excruciating 'Romantic Weekend Getaway'

KENOSHA, WI—Sources report that longtime married couple Duane and Edna Schumacher's weekend stay at Chicago's FantasyLand Suites was a grueling ordeal of unwelcome interruptions to their long-established marital routine.

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Edna and Duane Schumacher prepare to leave home for their agonizing weekend at FantasyLand.

"Oh, for Jiminy Cricket," Edna, 52, said Monday after returning from the trip, a 30th anniversary gift from her daughters. "Why the girls thought either one of us would find such an experience enjoyable is beyond me."

She added: "I was planning to weed my flower bed and maybe scrub out the back sink, which is just covered in muck, but now the whole weekend's shot."

The Schumachers said the unbearable ordeal began at check-in, when the reservations clerk handed the couple their keys, winked, and said, "Enjoy your stay." From that moment forth, virtually everything that occurred during the weekend induced cringes and winces from the aging pair.

"I love Edna, and I enjoy spending time with her," Duane, 58, said. "But when you're at that place, wherever you go, you know that the staff thinks you're either just coming from, or on your way to, having sex. I don't care for that kind of attention."

Thinking that "once they got settled, they would at least be able to relax," the Schumachers realized upon entering their suite that there was no escape from the crippling awkwardness that awaited them. At the sight of the red plush carpeting, red light bulbs, garish neo-Victorian nudes, and ceiling mirrors above the waterbed, Duane said he began having a severe attack of acid reflux.

The retiree, whose nighttime routine includes a shower at approximately 8 p.m., said that when he saw the heart-shaped hot tub in the center of the room, his first thought was, "How am I going to take a shower in that?"

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According to Edna, a complimentary gift basket on the dresser contained flowers, Godiva chocolates, passion-fruit bubble bath, body oil, condoms, and "several battery-operated 'marital aids' that I don't care to describe."

"The chocolates were good," she said. "But they were the only thing we had to eat. Was that the hotel's idea of a proper supper?"

Edna, who privately told her daughter that she has been haunted by the image of her husband's posterior ever since she saw him emerge from the hot tub Friday evening, said, "There was an Inspector Lynley on Channel 13 that I was hoping to catch Friday night."

As the romantic weekend away from home progressed, so did the aging couple's agony.

"I could hardly sleep, which kept Edna awake, too," Duane said. "And that waterbed made Edna so seasick, I had to get up and make a 1 a.m. trip to Walgreens to get Dramamine."

On Saturday morning, the couple said they were informed that FantasyLand Suites does not offer morning newspapers—leading Duane to spend close to an hour angrily bellowing, "What do I have to do to just get a copy of the paper?!"

"It was even worse in the breakfast dining room," Edna said. "There we were, surrounded by young couples who were all over each other, and Duane is barking at me about 'What kind of a hotel doesn't have Total?'"

That night, the Schumachers suffered through a moonlight cruise on Lake Michigan, complete with violin accompaniment. During the cruise, which lasted for several hours, Duane said he had no way to return to shore to access the overnight bag containing his foot medication. Additionally, the couple missed their normal evening newscast.

On Sunday morning, the couple checked out and spent the rest of the day at a local Motel 6.

"We've been married for 30 years. There comes a point in a man and woman's life when you're happy just to get a good night's sleep," Duane said.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/37469
 
So, you haven't seen MY bedroom then?

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leopard print and that painting :shock:

Looks like a load of Pollacks to me.
 
In fact, here's a more recent snap. 'Scuse the mess.
The cat was too busy surfing to tidy up, and the dog obviously had other things on her, er, mind. ;)


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Going back to the old Gobbler (hmphhh, no, stoppit - Spook tries unsuccessfully to repress infantile snigger). Ahem...going back to the Gobbler - for some reason I keep thinking David Lynch. It looks like somewhere he might use for a bizarre dream sequence - or a bizarre reality sequence for that matter. In fact, it looks a bit like how I imagine his home might be.

Room 34 comes with its very own midget and the Zebra Room has real zebras
 
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