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‘We used a beachball as an alien!’ John Carpenter on his gloriously shonky sci-fi comedy Dark Star (www.theguardian.com)
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‘The control room buttons were upside-down ice-cube trays, one space suit had a dish-drying rack on it – and the special effects guy wrote the theme tune lyrics’

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[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

... "shonky"?

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe they meant "schlocky"?

/shrug

[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That makes sense. I wasn't sure if it was some newfangled lingo.

I do like "shonky", though.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

Ah, it's those damn Australians!

Thanks for the link. TIL.