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Date: 04 July 2007 18:35:18
Yes, like seemingly everyone else on earth, I have recently been introduced (and subsequently become slightly addicted) to facebook. Now, of course, many people (Wibloggers and Wibsite fans alike) have discovered that Dave and Chris have set up a Wibsite group on facebook, to which we all say "huzzah" and "cheers" and similarly affirmative noises. But what about all the other groups out there?
Well, I'm in a few but they're all generally quite sensible things. A quick look at some of my friends' profiles (and all my facebook friends are actually people I know or have at least met IRL) reveals a few beauties. There's the A-Team Appreciation Society (which I would love to imagine comprises people who said "I ain't joining no A-Team Appreciation Society, fool!" shortly before falling unconscious and awakening later to find they had joined it), a campaign for the comedian and musician Bill Bailey to be next year's UK entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest, a society celebrating the French philosopher Michael Foucault (entitled What The Foucault, when it clearly should have been called I Know Foucault) and the self-explanatory I Secretly Want To Punch Slow Walking People In The Back Of The Head. But undoubtedly my favourite is the National Campaign For Spokey Dokeys On The London Eye.
As any British child of the 1980s will tell you, spokey dokeys were those little plastic bits, given away free with breakfast cereals, that clipped onto the spokes in bicycle tyres, and made a tinkling noise as they slid down the spokes when you rode the bike. So I can see the logic of putting some on the Eye to brighten it up, but there is a flaw in this plan. The Eye moves round so slowly, that rather than a gentle succession of tinklings as on a bike, the giant spokey doekys would just clunk down, probably at intervals of several seconds. And unless they were made of something quite lightweight such as fibreglass, I can foresee potential danger in a big dokey rapidly heading towards the roof of your capsule; frankly, that would probably scare a lot of tourists away.
So upon reflection, it's probably best not to decorate one of our most prominent landmarks with these lovely items. Or, indeed, to overanalyse tongue-in-cheek facebook groups.
As you were, troops.