Workers' Girder! Getcher Workers Girder!

[JimW]

Anyone got any good ideas for a different quote from the Workers' Girder?
Some tasty pun or oblique reference perhaps?

Best alternative I've come up with is "You'll explode with fun and laughter" but it's not great and I'm sure there's better out there.

"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. But it can be a bucket of chuckles with this fun game for all the commune bunk room!"

 

[el-ahrairah]

i might unlike that so i can like it again.

 

[BigTom]

"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. But it can be a bucket of chuckles with this fun game for all the commune bunk room!"

That's great.. I think it might be too long for this though "Revolution is not nice, but it can be a bucket of chuckles with this fun game!" ?

 

[JimW]

That's great.. I think it might be too long for this though "Revolution is not nice, but it can be a bucket of chuckles with this fun game!" ?

If you need to cut I'd keep the 'dinner party' bit to make the classic quote even more obvious.

 

[JimW]

"A revolution is not a dinner party, but your dinner party can be a bucket of chuckles.." etc?
ETA: Suspect bourgeois tendencies there, obviously.
ETA: or to keep the balance/ uprising reference both sides of your detourn: "A revolution is not a dinner party, but your dinner party can be a chuckle riot with this megaton of gaming fun!"

 

[BigTom]

"A revolution is not a dinner party, but your dinner party can be a bucket of chuckles.." etc?
ETA: Suspect bourgeois tendencies there, obviously.
ETA: or to keep the balance/ uprising reference both sides of your detourn: "A revolution is not a dinner party, but your dinner party can be a chuckle riot with this megaton of gaming fun!"

I'll see what I can fit in, I didn't recognise the quote, it's probably really famous and all

 

[JimW]

I'll see what I can fit in, I didn't recognise the quote, it's probably really famous and all

Whatever works matey, you are the leading combabe on this masterpiece!

 

[BigTom]

So I think this is it then, although I've probably spelt something wrong .. and well in time for Christmas too! (Though obviously we reject the christian-centric consumerfest that is Christmas. Still, good opportunity to raise funds eh?)

 

[equationgirl]

@BigTom : awesome, comrade, truly awesome. I salute you

 

[weepiper]

'This would make a great gift to me, to you' Barry Mainwaring

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Colleactive Action a split from the Anarchist Federation have actually brought out a Chucklist badge

 

[framed]

Colleactive Action a split from the Anarchist Federation have actually brought out a Chucklist badge

Comrades, is it not petit-bourgeois deviationism to change the words of this revolutionary slogan and thereby alter the thrust of the powerful mantra that the Chuckles (and indeed the entire working class!) have made their own?

"From each to me to each to you" is little more than anarcho-revisionism, a deliberate departure from the political path of the party, as set out by Cde Mainwaring. This subtle wordplay aims to divert the masses down the blind alley of anarchist adventurism, sowing confusion in the ranks of the party, disrupting their revolutionary education and ultimately breaking the loyalty of the workers to the purest revolutionary slogans associated with Cdes Barry and Paul Chuckle (and, of course, with Proletarian Democracy).

 

[Delroy Booth]

Could someone who is good at these things possibly photoshop this to say "Fallout: New Workers Party" to help with an idea I have? Much obliged

 

[barney_pig]

Could someone who is good at these things possibly photoshop this to say "Fallout: New Workers Party" to help with an idea I have? Much obliged

Not too sure of the mosleyite connotations of the lightning flash and 'New Party'

 

[ViolentPanda]

Not too sure of the mosleyite connotations of the lightning flash and 'New Party'

The "lightning flash" is a Sig rune, from (supposedly) the Old Norse meaning "victory" (or "success" or "we had a good day at the Althing market").

 

[frogwoman]

Good news, comrades!

The Marxist Internet Archive now has Comrade Posadas' seminal work, "Flying saucers and the socialist future of mankind" on its website. Those who have struggled through the difficult period for true Trotskyism are now vindicated. This is a key step towards the formation of a new mass workers' Posadist party

 

[frogwoman]

Remember you can't have Socialism on one planet.

 

[Idris2002]

Remember you can't have Socialism on one planet.

Actually, you can, but you must live on another.

 

[equationgirl]

Good news, comrades!

The Marxist Internet Archive now has Comrade Posadas' seminal work, "Flying saucers and the socialist future of mankind" on its website. Those who have struggled through the difficult period for true Trotskyism are now vindicated. This is a key step towards the formation of a new mass workers' Posadist party

I am truly pleased about this - readings will feature in the Proletarian Democracy Annual radical downtime to greet the new year. Only for 30 minutes mind. There's bombs to be built.

 

[barney_pig]

Comrades, my truly proletarian milieu family have clubbed together to buy me a Harris tweed jacket- soon I too will be following our inspiring leader sartorially as well as politically.

 

[equationgirl]

Comrades, my truly proletarian milieu family have clubbed together to buy me a Harris tweed jacket- soon I too will be following our inspiring leader sartorially as well as politically.

*applauds*

 

[cesare]

Comrades, my truly proletarian milieu family have clubbed together to buy me a Harris tweed jacket- soon I too will be following our inspiring leader sartorially as well as politically.

Proletarian Democracy branded elbow patches?

 

[rekil]

A leaflet handed to somebody on the twitter at a tube station the other day. PD propaganda should be striving for this sort of clarity.

 

[barney_pig]

Proletarian Democracy branded elbow patches?

Brand new, no truck with petty borgeious pedagogic elbow snares!

 

[el-ahrairah]

leading from the front as always cmmde pig. i believe a citation of dedication is appropriate, subject to clarification by the Dedications (Citations, Congratulations, and Approbrium) Working Group Committee when she gets back from her fact finding trip to her parents place in Cleethorpes, where I understand she is spending Christmas.

 

[Red Storm]

A leaflet handed to somebody on the twitter at a tube station the other day. PD propaganda should be striving for this sort of clarity.

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Plain proletarian propaganda.

 

[BigTom]

 

[BigTom]

A5 sized/proportions for leafleting purposes obviously.

It looks really weird on a computer screen with a white background and no border to it..

 

[DotCommunist]

should chuckling be wry or not wry?

 

[BigTom]

should chuckling be wry or not wry?

I can't say I ever felt I got to grips with chuckle theory tbh, and it's a tenous relationship between that and chuckling at best. I think any form of chuckling would be fine but then I'm known for my liberal tendencies which must be beaten back with the hammer of democratic centralism, so I need the appropriate committee to decide for me whether wry or not wry chuckling is the revolutionary method, and which is the counter-revolutionary or reactionary method.