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Hello then you - and welcome at DRIVEL BARN - a big pile of all the bits and sods which
weren't good-ish enough to go on John Fanzine. ie. Not very good-ish at all really.

Some of it may raise a giggle though, if you're drunk or something.

Here's the list. (Some content may offend)

MAN MARRIES OWN SKELETON The forerunner of the first ever news story on johnfanzine.com. Not too bad actually.

SIX SCANDAL Pseudo political claptrap written when I was young and daft. Reference to John Major's "government" shows its age.

FRIENDS EPISODES Rude but not funny.

TALES FROM THE GLOOPY MINSTREL One character who did make it onto johnfanzine.com - though these stories didn't. See if you can guess why.

HAMMER'S HINGE PEOPLE Short and silly.

ROBOCOP Software to "automate the process of pulling birds on the internet" ? Hmmm... Richard Hawkins is a friend of mine by the way, and I was probably only jealous. :-)

WE'RE ALL GOING TO HELL Weak satire.

JRUPGY Random facts about a fictional character with a silly name. Crap, apart from the bit about Sinitta.

BREEZE BLOCK ORCHESTRA Drivel, though I still like the idea of an illegal orchestra for some reason.

FREE MARKET OGRE One of Phil's. I'm not even sure this is supposed to be funny.

POLICE Ooh! Satire!

RAVE! Some nicely written and quite funny ideas in this, but I never managed to finish it. Intentionally out of date, even at the time of writing, it was originally intended to publish it ten years after the summer of '88.

MAYONNAISE A stupid rant thing I wrote after being unable to buy a mayo-free sandwich once.

4D HANDSHAKING Some nonsense written by Phil in the days of the original paper john Fanzine. (About ten years ago)

PEK The last sentence is the only funny bit.

COURT CASE Absolute gibberish. This must have been when I first discovered beer.

TIGER HIDER More of Phil's surreality. Didn't quite make Neural Netto.

COMPASS ENTHUSIAST TOLD OFF Absurdist pseudo scientific drivel.

Einstein P Haemoglobin's
PARTICLE ARTICLE
An unedited brain-dump about a mad scientist character we never used. A couple of okay ideas in there.

THE DENGAR AND BOSSK SHOW I think this was originally going to be an animation starring two star wars figures. Kind of like Adam and Joe but not funny.

THE DENGAR AND BOSSK SHOW 2 More of this rubbish. What were we thinking?

PHRANC Poorly written unfunny gibberish.

GLUM Good old Glum. I did this one before he went all 3D and stuff.

JOHN FANZINE INTRO 1 The text of the original johnfanzine.com intro. A perfume ad with a few words changed, in case you didn't realise. I may dig out the Flash movie and stick it on the John Fanzine archive page actually...

JOHN FANZINE INTRO 2 The second John Fanzine intro, with the German. Originally an ad for a set of bathroom scales. ("Step on the fanzine by both feet...")

JOHN FANZINE INTRO 3 This was going to be one of those silly intros where we change the words, but unlike the ones above this didn't really work. I think it was originally about toffee or something.

JOHN FANZINE INTRO 4 As above. This one was originally from some technical manual.

TRAIN SPOTTING IN THE AFTERLIFE Written by Kev Adlam for the old paper fanzine. Not great but he'll probably be happy to see it here. :-)

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None of this material may be re-used unless you're a complete and utter imbecile.

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