i'm probably not attentive, but...

12 Oct 2006, 21:01

Maybe he'd just read this.....

and thought it was a cool name

mh · 12 Oct 2006, 21:52

A more likely candidate.

Dan · 12 Oct 2006, 22:00

Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that. There's another connection too. The phrase "In German, gift means poison" is used in the book. Eldo once used the same phrase in an interview when being asked about the Sisterhood record.

James Blast · 12 Oct 2006, 22:25

even I knew that.

Nic · 12 Oct 2006, 23:28

Dan wrote:"In German, gift means poison"

In Swedish too...

James Blast · 12 Oct 2006, 23:35

Nic wrote:
Dan wrote:"In German, gift means poison"
In Swedish too...

I didn't know that.

Thankee!

ormfdmrush · 13 Oct 2006, 20:13

mh wrote:
Dan wrote:
ormfdmrush wrote:OK...

but, so WHY Eldritch?
He probably read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft.
That's pretty much what I would have guessed too. There's normally never a deep meaning behind these things - he'd probably just read something like At the Mountains of Madness or whatever shortly before, and if there's one thing that most people remember from Lovecraft it's his use of the word "eldritch".

ha, i didn't know that
i guess it's time to read H.P. in original

and thank you for the Philip Dick reference - now i remember, where i've seen this "Eldritch" word before

Syberberg · 18 Oct 2006, 01:49

There's also a rather tragic female character in "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" called Emily and interactive (once you've taken a hallucinogen called Can-D) sex dolls called Perky Pat (only available in the colonies).

If you don't have the time to read the book (shame on you...make the time), a good synposis can be found here.

James Blast · 18 Oct 2006, 18:19

sounds pants, sorry not my thing

Nic · 18 Oct 2006, 20:22

Pants is not your thing?

And you're welcome.

scotty · 18 Oct 2006, 20:44

James Blast wrote:sounds pants, sorry not my thing

Should that not be -

"sounds pants, sorry, not my thong"

.........burummm tssshhhh..........

James Blast · 18 Oct 2006, 22:55

the only things that comes to mind are:
butt-floss
and
arse feta

bushman*pm · 09 Jan 2007, 19:04

streamline wrote:
markfiend wrote:To carry on claiming benefit money from the government under his real name while earning money from The Sister
...which is a naughty thing to do

.....but not as naughty as #1!!!

eastmidswhizzkid · 19 Jan 2007, 06:52

ben gunn's real name was benjamin matthews.

ormfdmrush · 19 Jan 2007, 08:44

eastmidswhizzkid wrote:ben gunn's real name was benjamin matthews.

how did you know that?

more-sedatives-pls · 19 Jan 2007, 09:45

ormfdmrush wrote:
eastmidswhizzkid wrote:ben gunn's real name was benjamin matthews.
how did you know that?

Almost everybody's real name in the UK is Benjamin Matthews.

Except for Daniel Johnson; his real name is Billy.

That's not the case for Belgium though; our real names are generally Eddy Wally.

uhm... ok, so indeed, How does he know that?

eastmidswhizzkid · 19 Jan 2007, 14:14

ormfdmrush wrote:
eastmidswhizzkid wrote:ben gunn's real name was benjamin matthews.
how did you know that?

by reading anything and everything to do with the band that i could get my hands on in the last 20-odd years.

i can't remember what publication it was originally from but there an interview in the sisters' scrapbook (the unofficial purpley photocopied one available in the 80's) entitiled "the man that time forgot" or somesuch in which his real name is given as benjamin matthews.

ormfdmrush · 19 Jan 2007, 18:11

i see...
it would be fun to see him now
are you sure that Ben Christo is not Ben Gunn in disguise?

Ozpat · 19 Jan 2007, 20:29

more-sedatives-pls wrote: not the case for Belgium though; our real names are generally Eddy Wally.

Wally in Holland as well. Wally as in Wally Tax.

eastmidswhizzkid · 02 Feb 2007, 07:10

ormfdmrush wrote:i see...
it would be fun to see him now
are you sure that Ben Christo is not Ben Gunn in disguise?

chris robobreezers told me he was one year -old when the sisters started out- ben christo wouldn't even have been born.

ormfdmrush · 04 Feb 2007, 09:01

eastmidswhizzkid wrote:
ormfdmrush wrote:i see...
it would be fun to see him now
are you sure that Ben Christo is not Ben Gunn in disguise?
chris robobreezers told me he was one year -old when the sisters started out- ben christo wouldn't even have been born.

what about time machine?

it would be great to be kicked out from the band and then return to it at the same age, but 2x years later

Badass · 05 Feb 2007, 23:21

So what about the Doctors real name? Ben Drum?

ormfdmrush · 05 Feb 2007, 23:42

Badass wrote:So what about the Doctors real name? Ben Drum?

what if all band-members' names are 'Ben'?
Ben Eldritch, Ben Ben Christo and Ben May?!
OMGoth!!!

Bartek · 05 Feb 2007, 23:57

and real name of Gary Marx is Ben Big

ormfdmrush · 06 Feb 2007, 00:01

and real name of Patricia Morrison is Ben Teets