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what does “beware the friendly stranger” make you think of?
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 8:02 am
by yoorhuckleberry
for me, it makes me picture a playground with a bunch of kids on a sunny day with a tall man in a trench coat watching from a distance
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Re: what does “beware the friendly stranger” make you think
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 5:29 pm
by Navaru
Makes me feel the same way I feel when I hear an ice cream truck in the distance.
Re: what does “beware the friendly stranger” make you think
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 5:43 pm
by Orbited insanitarium
Navaru wrote:Makes me feel the same way I feel when I hear an ice cream truck in the distance.
It gives you the urge to eat a Cornetto with a '99 Flake?

Re: what does “beware the friendly stranger” make you think
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 5:56 pm
by rodox_head
Orbited insanitarium wrote:Navaru wrote:Makes me feel the same way I feel when I hear an ice cream truck in the distance.
It gives you the urge to eat a Cornetto with a '99 Flake?

and with a diet coke?

Re: what does “beware the friendly stranger” make you think
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 6:27 pm
by Wildfire
I just looked at the Bocpages entry for this tune for the first time. I wasn't aware of the Iluminatus Trilogy connection....
The 'Friendly Stranger' is mentioned, as the name of a bar, in "The Illuminatus! Trilogy". It's in the chapter entitled "the second trip, or chokmah":
Re: what does “beware the friendly stranger” make you think
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 7:42 pm
by Burning Shadow
Makes me think of 70s TV, UK public information films - along the lines of “Charlie says don’t play with matches” and the kids that decide to climb an electricity pylon to retrieve their frisbee
Re: what does “beware the friendly stranger” make you think
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 8:46 pm
by rodox_head
I just think of shades of brown with film grain over it.
Re: what does “beware the friendly stranger” make you think
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 9:01 pm
by Roswell
Forestry, and the feeling of being watched.
Though I'd like to imagine the title could be a reference to corruptive governments
Re: what does “beware the friendly stranger” make you think
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 6:56 am
by steeldancer-x
An upside-down campfire.
Re: what does “beware the friendly stranger” make you think
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 3:42 pm
by portiss
Salad Fingers
Re: what does “beware the friendly stranger” make you think
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 7:47 pm
by arvy
bad person
Re: what does “beware the friendly stranger” make you think
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 8:14 pm
by Magrathea
I am with portiss on this one, Salad Fingers, My introduction to BOC
Re: what does “beware the friendly stranger” make you think
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2022 5:00 am
by mechanismj
This.