Talk Audio morrrrphhs: MEET TALK STUFF!! (Now, with wings)
This slightly cryptic post was greeted well upon our Facebook page the other day. ‘For 16 years we have been the leading UK resource for car audio and motoring tech. We have always upgraded the site and forums to meet the expectations of our loyal community… and that time is here again. Expect more “stuff” from us soon.’ It was posted under a classic meme of Buzz Lightyear, waving his arm for Woody the cowboy, from the first iconic Toy Story movie, with the words, NEW STUFF – New Stuff Everywhere.
And as I type late upon a weekend’s eve, five minutes to the Witching Hour..our very own Switchy, is wrestling with a mighty upgrade to our forum structure. We will have far more scope to include more stuff of more kinds, be it cameras on kittens, or warm woolly mittens – that STILL operate touch screens. From drones, to clones of phones and fiddlesticks. Diamond HF domes and geodesic biomes, man zones and Batmobiles, Every Day Carry and cameras. If it’s stuff you care about, then our community will, too. So now, Talk Audio is to become Talk Stuff.
Now With Wings
I got the E-mail to pull the trigger on telling you folks this stuff about Talk Stuff, with the message to let you know, ‘˜Now With Wings’. But do let me tell you about how that got buried in pop culture as a term. Put it this way, the projected sales figures were 500% too low, after my mum did the first ever advert about a new clever sanitary towel, where that phrase was the last line. It went huge and was copied and parodied. Even British Airways did a version ‘Now with wings’ with an aeroplane.
We even called her memorial show at the Criterion Theatre by the same name. You can read about it here. link And just so you know, Stephen Fry does know my brother but we have never spoken. He presided and presented, I delivered a little item. (All I can recall was a getting a good laugh for a proper ‘˜Hello’ like I knew them, as my opener.)
But Stephen is a tech icon in many directions, so I figured I would use his face as he might say. Oh dear