April 2024 - Museum of Photocopies

PINS – Rule Thirty-three: More Unsteady Zones

Oh heck, things are getting unsteady, we need to keep hold of our pins and wait on our C.O. otherwise all hell’ll be brekkin loose like it does down Funnies on a Friday neet.

A heavily treated photograph of a strange glass recepticle, full of the Photocopier’s playthings, ones he buried in the garden between 1972 and 1977. If you don’t get out of your Unsteady Zone you’ll end up like this.

A heavily treated photograph from another angle, of a strange glass recepticle, full of the Photocopier’s playthings, ones he buried in the garden between 1972 and 1977. If you don’t get out of your Unsteady Zone you’ll end up like this.

PINS – Rule Thirty-two: The Unsteady Zone

Elite troops keep the morale of other units steady in the Unsteady Zone. That’s the place where contact with the opposing force occurs.
You can read all about that here, along with why you musn’t leer, or be a lummox at the Con Club whist drive.

A photograph of a photocopy of a letter with letterprint, biro, photocopies and marker pen. Posted letters like these marked out the Unsteady Zone in 1992, the possibilities of grown up communication seemed endless.

A photograph of a photocopy of a restaurant bill and a drawing reminding the curator of happy times in the South of England. Despite these happy memories, the South of England is a nonstop Unsteady Zone, due to the fact that you get strange foodstuffs down there at twice the price.

A photograph of an illustration of a dinosaur in an old, old book celebrating The World in the Past. The curator has no doubt this dinosaur, because of its small brain, is not in an Elite Unit and would make a muck up of any Unsteady Zone it lumbered into.

PINS – Rule Thirty-one: More food.

There are lots of places to go and things to do with a full stomach, so the most important thing is having no interference in the kitchen. That’s where the food is.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

For their own comfort and safety, children under 5 and babes-in-arms are not admitted.

These photocopies accompany a post that is not a rule as such, it’s more an adjunct to Rule Twenty-nine and a reminder. You need to put some meat on your bones. And you need to make sure everyone is out of the kitchen. Don’t be soft and don’t be numb.

A photograph of a photograph of an image in an old book celebrating photographs. Here are some women shifting coal in 1916. They need meat on their bones if they want to carry out PINS Rule 29, and they are put of the kitchen.

A photograph of an illustration of a dinosaur in an old, old book celebrating The World in the Past. The curator has no doubt the dinosaur would get meat on its bones and could carry out PINS Rule 29 with ease.

A photograph of a photograph of an image in an old book celebrating British Wildlife. These are dippers, which spend a lot of time at the water’s edge putting meat on their bones, (if they should ever need to carry out PINS Rule 29).

PINS – Rule Thirty: Marching on an empty stomach

The Museum doesn’t like to unduly quote Napoleon, for as we all know, Boney was a warrior, Boney was a thief. But he was right when he said, an army marches on its stomach. Here are some images to make you think about marching on your stomach. Click here to find out how you can march on a full one.