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A baker’s dozen of little-known facts about French revolutionary theorist and cofounder of the Situationist International Guy Debord:
1: In 1965, he was the inventor of Gunshot Golf. Players starting from a random point in Paris with a loaded pistol, the object of the game was to put a bullet in the door of Notre Dame Cathedral in the fewest number of shots. Each shot had to be taken from the spot where the previous bullet had embedded itself.
2: Debord would never sleep with prostitutes who wore glasses. Or monocles.
3: His desire to stay permanently drunk was hindered by his devout Muslim faith.
4: Because of a hospital clerk’s error in recording his birth twice, he had to be returned to his mother’s womb for 4 hours.
5: A chance meeting at a marionetterie with Gerry Anderson resulted in the TV puppeteer devising the character Guy 90, later rechristened Joe.
6: The rhyming scheme for his poems was determined by what Class (A, B or C) of drugs he’d used on each of the previous six days.
7: Debord was the first person to use the abbreviation “sitcom,” in his pamphlet “Can there be a Situationist Community?”
8: He was the original model for Jelly Babies.
9: On June 3, 1964, inspired by the surrealists, Debord experimented with automatic writing. He produced 15 pages of A4 text, the word “haddock” repeated 4,500 times.
10: Debord’s novel idea of replacing the text in the speech bubbles of cartoons with revolutionary slogans came about after reading Ronnie Barker’s book of saucy seaside postcards, Sauce.
11: His reputation for being highly strung arose as a result of his constant chewing of other people’s fingernails.
12: He spent the years 1985 to 1992 asleep on the Circle Line of the London Underground.
13: His revolutionary pseudonym was Toni Cotti.
(This is an excerpt from Khmer Rouge Strippergram blog www.thekettleisalwayson.blogspot.com/)
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