Issue number 1

Published: 20-4-2000

F.A.Q.

• Why Bottom Pineapple?
• Who is Odd Gonk Shine?
• What are the origins of The Surrealist Worker?
• How often will The Surrealist Worker be published?
• Why does this page look pooh on my browser?

• Why Bottom Pineapple?
  Back in 1996, I was working at Caldershaw Dyeing Co. Ltd. in Rochdale (Lancashire, NW England) [hi folks] and one of my colleagues there used the expression "top banana". My instant response was "bottom pineapple" and it just stuck. After all, it's no more illogical!
  
  
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• Who is Odd Gonk Shine?
  Yes, dear readers, 'tis I, your beloved editor. This picture shows my inner glow, from which I get my name. For those of you who doubt that this is true, then work on this: Odd Gonk Shine is an anagram. Previously I'd always worked on my full name, but recently I realised that if I just used the name everyone calls me by, it produced a much better result. Oh, and yes, I worked out the anagram. I don't cheat with computer programs.
  
  
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• What are the origins of The Surrealist Worker?
  The Surrealist Worker started out life as "Nibblers", a school comic, in the mid 1980s. The comic was produced by a group of friends (myself included) and distributed round our school (Haslingden High School, Rossendale, Lancashire.) We broke even. I took over control of the comic (no-one else could be bothered) and started on the second issue. It's still in the preparation stage!
  As I grew up (I did, honest) I started developing a parallel magazine - "Nibbles". It was still schoolboy humour, but less pictures! Over the next few years, it developed into "The Surrealist Worker", and the first paper issue is now nearly ready for print. With the advent of the web, it seemed like the natural course to delay the paper version even longer, and produce an electronic version.
  
  
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• How often will The Surrealist Worker be published?
  If the paper version is anything to go by, expect the next issue to be released around 2015. Seriously though, I intend to update this page with at least some semblance of regularity. I'm hoping to have something new, if not a completely new issue, every month. Failing that at least bi-monthly.
  
  
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• Why does this site look pooh on my browser?
  Bottom Pineapple Productions cannot guarantee that all sections of this site will work on any browser, however I do all I can (within reason) to make it platform independant.
  This is a manually written site. I believe in understanding HTML, thus having greater control over the content.
  This site should be viewable on any browser supporting tables, but it is written on a PC using one of the two big name browsers. I check it on the other main name, but I can't install every browser, nor check it on an Apple. Should you have any problems with this site, please send details of the problem, and your browser, to
  
  
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Enjoy yourselves, and don't forget to send in your questions,
Odd Gonk Shine. 20-4-2000