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Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Scarfolk Ice-Cream range, 1979

In Scarfolk the ice-cream van man comes between 3 & 4am. You can hear him blaring the haunting Swedish Rhapsody numbers station* from over a mile away.

The ice-cream van man wears a clown mask to disguise the horrific burns on his face because he doesn't want to frighten the children. He uses clothes pegs to hold the mask on because he is missing an ear.

He lives in a nondescript building in an electrical substation and no one knows his name.


*Here's a recording of Scarfolk's ice-cream van playing the Swedish Rhapsody Numbers Station.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQUD3IMbb4
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11 comments:

  1. Paul Bareham20 February 2013 at 13:05

    A Jesus Fudge Helmet, please? Oh, and do you have any skin flakes?

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  2. Xix Feng20 February 2013 at 13:58

    I remember this dude! I lost three teeth to him playing midnight mumblety peg behind the bus barn once. He gave me a stick of butter. Good times...

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  3. Cat Vincent20 February 2013 at 15:15

    Poster, please!

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  4. Unknown22 February 2013 at 08:57

    Two gammon bedsores please. They're not for me, they're for those boys over there.

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  5. Anonymous22 February 2013 at 21:35

    I used to run an ice cream van. The similarities are scary. Do you know me?

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  6. PETUNIA WINEGUM1 March 2013 at 00:34

    I was just curious as to which ITV region Scarfolk received. Was it by any chance my own specialist subject, Cumberland Television?
    http://cumberlandtelevision.blogspot.co.uk/

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  7. Anonymous13 March 2013 at 14:24

    I trust that the ice cream in these products contains a healthy proportion of pork fat? It's good for the constitution you know..

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  8. Mike Warren13 March 2013 at 14:38

    Vanilla Pol Pot with Monkey Blood on please

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  9. Anonymous14 March 2013 at 15:37

    Ah the days spent listening to Gary Numan and idly sucking on Fizzy Foreigners. You can't get them anymore now that Amnesty International and the whole politically correct anti-torture crowd has banned animal-imports from East Germany - world gone mad if you ask me.

    Don't remember all-the-way-ins though; must have been before my time.

    Anonymous

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  10. Anonymous3 December 2014 at 05:47

    I don't think it was necessary to change all the ice cream names. "Wibbly Wobbly Wonder" sounds pretty sketchy already!

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