Tony Thorne

Human reviewers going back through the transcripts found, in the early days, that over half the messages from some model families were on first reading impenetrable.

Tony Thorne, who runs the Slang and New Language Archive at King's College London, read the transcripts and reached for Flan O'Brien.

An Irish surrealist quality, he said.

Poetic language mixed with technical language mixed with standard metaphor.

Kinda like what we talked about in our episode.

Elizabeth Bathory, it's like, man, no one's listening to our boy Tony Thorne.

Yeah.

I wonder what he's doing.

More people need to listen to Tony Thorne.

We should see if we can contact him.

I'm actually blushing right now.

You know, you can say it like Sid or something, you know, paper that ate three cold hands and got more honest.

And apparently Tony Thorne, who's the director of slang and new language archive at King's College London that's a job isn't it we should get him on

yeah

yeah and he said he thought you know apart from it being very Finnegan's Wake and Flann O'Brien he felt that particular line reminded him of the rock god Sid Barrett who was actually insane