For a lighter side to the Tamam Shud / Somerton Man case, you could (probably) do worse than Mose[le]y over to the Consbeeracy Theories Conspiracy Comedy Podcast site, where their latest episode is 009: Follow The 100° Proof Fence (Somerton Man).
The guys making the podcast clearly find each other hugely funny: though there are indeed a few good yoks in there (Tamam Shuda Cuda Wuda, etc), the closest they get to comedic historical insight is wondering why the dead man wasn’t wearing an “Australian Tie” (i.e. why he didn’t have vomit down his front having been poisoned). All in all, I get the feeling that their research train set out from Wikipedia, but never arrived at Feltusville.
All the same, it is (putting all their lazy stereotypes aside) a not-entirely-unpleasant contrast to the usual po-faced ‘battling theorists’ mushfest that gets posted: but just don’t expect to get to the end any wiser. 🙂 Enjoy!
How kind of you to give us glimpses of the sort of place no-one would actually want to live, and which is far too far to visit – socially, I mean. I positive word about anyone resident in Australia would be social death: I mean, people might think you were slipping.
Keep up the work.
Diane: feel free to share any better Somerton Man Conspiracy comedy links you find. So far this seems to be #1 in a list of 1. 🙁
Do you know where the song at the start of the podcast came from?
Thanks for the love!
The theme song is a karaoke version of “Somebody’s Watching Me” by Rockwell, which I programmed cliche/dumb conspiracy words over top.
Oh, wait–we did two songs. It’s a cover of Solitary Man by Neil Diamond, sung by Theorist Dave Proctor.
Eric: Would that be “Someone to ‘watch’ over me”?
😉