It appears that I may have scattered the sawdust with a certain individual in
the Shiten Roll of Shame in my Noelanders report. For some reason just because you played
“chicken” with an electric saw, and lost, doesn’t AUTOMATICALLY enrol you in
the Shiten Hall of Fame although some
would say that it worked for Simon Jones!
Membership is a precious and valueless gift that is bestowed only to
biggest and up and coming shites in UK Bonsai and occasionally the mentally
unhinged!
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| Life's tough in that there Wirral like! |
Harcourt “Dougie” Mudd seems aggrieved that his plywood
stand wasn’t included in the list of shite personnel but what do you expect if
you’re not a member? It has been
discussed, at length, that we could do with a casket maker for all the trees
that Les kills* and your name was near the top of the list and duly under
consideration.
Unfortunately, with your
blatant attempt at “queue jumping” and your impossibly high stands of your
work, this just MIGHT work against your inclusion into this Club of very high
moral standards and outstanding fashion sense.
For those of you younger viewers who don’t know “Fingers”
Mudd, he is highly sought after in the UK and abroad in true Scouse style but
not by the rozzers or Interpol as you would first expect. His fine work has help lift good trees into
great trees, or so he tells me, and he must feel that being a Disciple of Shitenisum would further
help his road to enlightenment. We do
agree that his subline use of MDF, rough sawn Pine and Hardboard is a cut above
the rest but does he REALLY have what it takes to be an all-round total
Shite? Below is some of his work, we
will let you be judge, jury and executioner!
Whilst we are “setting the record straight” I would like to
reply to a comment made in a report by Peter Snart Jnr from Kent. He reported that Shiten was started as “a joke” by the Grown-Up Baby and Frog Boy
and this may well be true. Although seen
in many circles, and by many esteemed Bonsaists, as a joke, Les and I, along
with the ever increasing list of disciples, BELIEVE in the true spirit of
little trees and are helping to raise, or in some cases prop up, that bar in
the belief that no matter how large your chequebook or how little talent you
have we can ALL make our trees Shite and should be proud! It does, however, begin to appear that the
joke is now on us with Shiten getting legitimate invitations to exhibit our
trees. Maybe, at the start, this was not
our mantra and maybe it still isn’t, but who knows that maybe one day we will
able to visually abuse the viewing
public at an event like the Swindon Winter Image Show or EVEN the prestigious
MBS Show!
(*allegedly)
