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TICKLE MCNICHOLL™

by TICKLE MCNICHOLL™

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Tickle McNicholl a Bit of a Tippler Sipping a Trickle of Liquor or Similar Drinking a Slippery Nipple and Thinking to Sling in a Finger of Gin at a Minimum Bid in a Minute to Buy a Spirit or Cider Swigging it I'd Exhibit a Kind of Imminent Wish and Ambition to Find a Given Imbibing Limit and Campbelltown Loch it isn't Ardinning I Wish it were Whisky Brimming and Shimmering I would Drink it Dry and Finish it Likely Dive or Dip in and swim in it Pint or five and I'd be Minging I might decide to try to sing and that Type of Thing______________________is why I've Been a Minor Dick I'm Tickle McNicholl a bit of a Pickler Puffing the piff and I'm picking a spliff and I Covet the kiff and the kick and the kiss of the bubble gum bud and if Somebody's Skinning it Up and they're Bunning it Loving it Living it Grubbing and Grin and then Gubbing it Give us it I'm Uninhibited I'll be there Diffident Supplicant Bumming a HUFF and a HIT of it So Broke:____Rummage to Chip in a Couple of Quid on it So Stoned:__Suddenly Titter at Nothing Particular No Joke_____Thoroughly Digging the Cut of it's Jib and a Lid of the hubbly bubbly Doubly lovely Jubbly crumbly shit Tickle McNicholl a Bit of a Nibbler Cavernous Quickening Cavity Bigger than Massive and Infinite Lacking a Limit a Ravenous Tip when the Cannabis Triggered it __Managing Cinnamon Rapidly Risen to Challenge and Chinning it _Scranning the Littlest Half of the Chitterling Bap and I've Bitten it Grabbing a Chip and then Happily Rip in and Having a Kipper or Haddock and Vinegar Man on a Mission I'm Mad for the Fish and Kebab and a Dish Of The Haggis and Rib and a Coke Float__Attacking a Cinema Snack and a Sizzling Roast Goat_and Tanning a Jiggot of Rabbit or Chicken and Tickle McNicholl a Bit of a Stickler Sick of the Pickling Nick of the Living and Quitting the Drinking: Inimical Hinder the Lyrical Swing of the Sibilant Rhythm and Given up Nibbling Hitting the Gym and I'm Diligent Militant Slimming to Trim and the Scrip of the Ritalin Stimulant Citizen Bringing a Driven and Vigorous Vision I'm So Close_____King of the Liminal Vim and I'm Winging it Go Slow_____Still in the Middle And ill I'm Beginning it So Though___Figured I'm Rid of it Blip and I'm Missing it Gripping the Tick and I Chill and I'm Winning it Tricky to stick at it Slick I delivered it
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I started work at the age of four maybe five They ignored child labour laws at Wayne Enterprises Yeah they ain't the nicest, nae surprise the pay was shitest. I did some dark night shifts to pay the rent on time. Apprenticed as a soldier of fortune. A great scheme. I learned to problem solve and work as part of A-Team. I did a few tasks at New Path escalating up the tree. I made the cups of tea, I laced with substance D. Precrime dudes don't have a clue what remorse is And a minority reported I was using brutal force and Aye well I don't always choose the suitable course and At Tyrell I was more human than human resources. And at the internship at Alchemax I'd binge and filled my mouth with snacks. Til I got asked to stop it after porking out some more. Worked on and off at Aperture. Fired and rehired and resigned. Then right back in the office after walking out the door. I'd like emphasise my tenure's generally long And if I didn't work for Rekall I'm remembering wrong. Plus I'm pretty sure I worked for Treadstone Seventy-One. But I can't quite recollect though cos my memory's gone. Then on to Gen-Sys maybe three months as a medical flunky. If your intent is to pay peanuts then expect to get monkeys. I did intense chores at Lex Corp, in one sec I'd get bored. Then ConSec and next Zorg: the best in the country. And the Umbrella Corporation had some excellent people, But the CEO's a wanker and the president's evil. I worked in Hanka on robotics. Had a crack at making chocolates, Where the CEO's a Wonka with incredible treacle. My communication skills are blatantly dope. Was proving that chewing the fat back at Paper Street Soap. I know that I was on the sick a little while at Monsters, Inc. I think despite the problem kids I missed I basically coped. Those dinosaurs at Ingen tried to screw me like a newbie. Vought has non-disclosure forms. The guys at Veidt have sued me. I worked a chain of burger chains with burger flipping duties. Big Kahuna, Krusty Burger, Burger Shot then Moobys. Then it was a stress at Stark. Busy as a hired hand. Ended when they went and started nicking my inspired plans. Said you aren't dressing smart: criticised attire and Saying I'd get fired if I “don't give that shirt an iron man.”. Alienated by my labour at Weyland Yutani. I learned to trust my gut and fuck the catering its shabby. Had an animus against Abstergo management admit it Because nothing was permitted and the rate of pay was crappy. Computer's skills are highly prized at Cyberdyne. They try to find the kinda silent type the guy that likes arriving right on time. The finest mind. Inspiring if he winds up in the firing line. Your contract's terminated if you fail to make them happy. Like the factory at Acme. Bored right to the back teeth. Sick of the conditions and the foreman's quite the Nazi. So when I saw the light and organised and brought the fight And called a strike of all the guys: of course they tried to sack me. Played the devils advocate at Thorn for a hefty wage. I lost the bosses big wig he swore there was hell to pay. Disposed a sacks of broken glass for dough at Nakatomi. Got acrimonious demand the load of cash they owe me. Down with OCP: yeah you know me. They said my cyber-human fusion was a pile of stupid bollocks. My rise was super sonic. I designed consumer products, But the Omni buggers dropped me cos they liked to boost the profits. Yeah I missed a lot of lessons I'm a bored and listless learner. Got Saturday detention when I called in sick at Shermer. Earned my first degree at Greendale where my beers were mixed with chronic. I've a correspondence doctorate I got at Miskatonic.
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no tasty genofixed enhancements no never to get that level of death hack genital pepping and general epic embetterment no faces crisper gifted handsome No no Never gonna get that bet they're gonna check accession to relevant meddling when it's invented and no basic neural lace implants in no never ever gonna get the benefit of those whether developing tech and a method I reckon it's so no advances for the ill bred uh uh uh uh no advances if you've nil creds nut nut nut nut No stricken player games of chance and accept that no fettered depressive or beggar is tethered and dead if you bet red better to bet black no brain state skimmed and scanned in no anti-grav but you're better with a jet pack fella Could forget that Helluva set back regret that: fell and with a wet splat no gain and quicken mix is glanding no head is embedded with chemical revelling heavily leathered impediment blending in edge and then centred and no advances for the pill heads uh uh uh uh no advances if you've nil creds nut nut nut nut no painless living safe and cashless toking the dope of the smoky bowl No taking trips to shape up planets having the compassion that'd throw them a bone no claim to back the safer factions toting a noble goal no advances for the swill fed no no place for action stained combatants no soap for the woeful soul no case for special circumstances' no bit of hope for the folk that are droned no wave of slick and paid assassins go rogue for the dough no advances if you've spilled red no no chasing ships in crazy tangents pace that's swift and racing fast and grip egrid and gaining traction no no no stations ripped away to fragments haze of gridfire blaze and dance in space’s inky graceful vastness no no No marain on lips in cadence practiced changers thick and strangest accents shape to shift in phasing trances uh uh uh uh no advances if you've nil creds nut nut nut nut what's the chances banks is still dead? Yup yup yup yup
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The Man With No Arms When we were wee on weekdays dad got home after dark But then at the weekend we'd go to the park Sometimes on Saturdays sometimes on Sundays Sunshine or scattered rain always a fun day Not more fun without mum mind Rather some kind of bonding type father and sons time We'd walk to the pond and feed bread to the ducks Then further along take the squirrels some nuts The birds in the trees and the dogs off their leads Spring was for frog spawn in the autumn kicked leaves And then at the end of these natural charms We'd visit the grave of The Man With No Arms Highgate cemetery just by the park was the place For The Man With No Arms and his serious face A big beard like Santa but sorry to say Not a nose like a cherry just stony and grey His likeness atop a huge plinth very grand I worked out that they'd made him it cos they felt bad That he didn't have arms that he'd lived all his days Without arms so to compensate gave him that grave And though he lacked arms and the hands for the fight He still hoped that the workers of all lands would unite Some interpret the world in various ways But The Man With No Arms said the point is to change it my brothers and I miss our dad such a lot We're all grown up now but we've never forgot That he took us each week for a walk to the spot Of Karl Marx's grave it's a communist plot
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My mum's a pirate with a pirate ship and i'm not talking wank She's on a maritime type tyrant tip don't try her, shit, you'll walk the plank Or get shot full of lead, should have said she's got a wooden leg Had parrot on her shoulder but it died a bit and sort of stank She chucked it. Grabbed her cutless and she'll cut you up to fuck yes She's corrupting and corrupted and her crew do as instructed She's a pirate's pirate eh? And you can hate it or admire it say No sooner see a cannon than she'll steal that shit and fire it straight At all the good guys must admit she must have missed though that was a good try Could've been goodbye to the good times should've never put that the patch on her good eye Truthfully yes she brutally supressed A mutiny with just her sense of duty To see guests were suitably left At the bottom of a bottle Yeah she's sodden in grog She's bold wee soul She's an old sea dog She'll use the cat o nine tails When you've got to be flogged And see the fact that she's the captain means It's properly logged My mums a pirate with a pirate beard And i'm not speaking balls She's a privateer with pirate gear A pirate leer an all When violent pirates see her Seems all of them feel small She's highly feared and while you're here She'll order you keel hauled Got some flotsom what son? Flotsom? Lots and lots And you can bet son When she's got some you can get some Then she's gonna get some jetsom yes Some jetsom you can i bet some new dubloons Be soon a nervous wreck With you marooned the gruesome Crew resume their murder quest She says “no cheek or swearing on this Ship right? Not the place.” And if you do i swear beware she'll tear that Lip right off your face Splicing the mainbrace take All the pieces of eight In the main they say Wanna be first mate Sail everywhere they're barely scared The brits might stop the chase She got a dead man's chest You knew she stuck her gear in They do their rucking, booty's sunk and Soon you'll duck in fear and The crew are drunk and cheering Harpoon's their lucky spear and Buccaneering is the route their Fucking steering ya hearing? My mum's a pirate she's sails the seven seas see My mum's a pirate my mate's never believe me My mum's a pirate we love it living free I'm bored of sitting sick at sea it's always fish and chips for tea
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as a kid was a bit of a sad and brooding fat amusing average loser didn't exactly lack a snack or two or have to scrap for food got bigger and in fact i grew slimming to skinniness thin and then back to huge unlimited in fat to choose a given i've bitten in tanned in through the scran admit it i've quaffed the booze a bit on a tuesday afternoon to mask the blues even if it's a classic move a little bit daft if you've a crashing mood been on a path to soothe never bashed or bruised at an action too like a kid in a militant faction who has a dig at a pig or a nazi dude winging it thinking a tack to choose hard picking a vigorous path to prove only speaking for myself and I can just barely do that too that fan hit and he had the news bad bad shit and the cancer grew man still missing my dad I do massively crippling sadness true had to be bringing up gladness that i had him cos I am and I did i'm thankful of his example and if ever i'm having a kid hope to cope with the challenge of having a family and if my calibre's adamant man i'll be grand i'll be manically panicky plan I can handle my shit like a man as he did i've actually been radically shit sanity vanished said back in a bit mad and inadequate habit of sabotage happened then rapidly sapping my wit and shattered my grip and battered my happiness slap of the crappiness rap on the chin the saddening smack on the back of the napper the savage attack and the crack of the whip the damaging digs ------------- I hurt me nice and deep I chatted a bit to baffling shrinks ---------------- prefer the silent treatment champ at the bit to rap what i've writ no happier tickle than having a spit and manage to give my affect a lift ------------------ i'm bursting wide asleep i try to meet the kind of people who'll be kind to people seeking to be kind to people who'll be kind to me I try to be but i'm a people: typical blind to evil deeds of mine and even minimal minor secret vice unseen am I the freak? the difficult snide conceited guy that's seated not so deep inside of me the side of me that likes the beef resigned i'm beat thinking its fine to fiend on picking a fight with peeps or is it the vision that we can find a peaceful kind of peak to climb i dream try to meet the kind of people who'll be kind to people seeking to be kind to people aye the keeping kind of people finding people minded people people who'll be guiding people Vis a vis the vibing people seek the sweetest side of people
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Been sitting around and thinking about what topic to pop on the top of this beat the obvious subject love cos I’ve just tumbled and tottered and toppled in deep but hobee not gonna be nodding and positive she's not shockingly keen on awfully waffly voluble leaps or prodigal prosody homage or homily scenes been figuring out considering how the strong and inhibited block is a bit of an issue and bound to limit amount of public love I could properly offer in tribute without an immanent row and probable bollocking reaped the problem is ominous gonna be stopping us plotting to snog in the street see timidity pivotal leads to nobble my gobbiness feats my whimsical wanton and wittering compliments written to boggle her wonderful noggin in simmering sonorous lyrical bobbing and mythical quality risible homonyms literal drop of the biblical torrent of smitten and possible speech love blossoming, shimmering giggling, solemn, unstoppable constant across all continents cosmic to Qwantum Konsequence connected consciousnesses consonant *** she's the one til I’m a blithering dithering doddering fossil indeed i love her, love her lots and it's epic love her til I’m wobbly and weak love her and I said it be7ebek and I meant it and I’ll love her til I hobble and I creek love her til my life's end credits love her til I’m dropping to my knees love her to the tip tip top of the peak of Ben Nevis and I love her to the bottom of the sea love her love her lots like what a phenomenon level of loving is novel and foreign I love her love her lots like wanna be alongside got to be the one aye provident covenant love her til the lochs dry love her til the rocks like liquid indicative of the hominid I need i'm a lucky little tickle and I give a little jiggle and a wriggle she's the one I got to meet I spin and I hop and I skip and I jump and I want to leap I'm whispering, spitting a lyric and singing the song I mean the snuggling kissing and cuddling building the bond i'm pleased to deliver on promised treats and keep giving her props like these: the one I wanna settle with, and be a better fella with the rest of time put the pedal at the metal wit and revel in the bed a little reckon if I'm getting on a sentimental bent a bit the one I seek I dig her bigger better than I ever did or Anybody Anywhere or Anyone that ever lived or Anyone that Anyone is ever gonna reckon that they're gonna wanna get in with the one I need
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we haven't met but you're a great fan of the great man a dishonest mistake and when claim it you're a fake stan it's injury time cos imminently my failing tactical grace and pacifism's away to lapse with a misophist to the face palm you say banks “wasn’t pro-trade union” ridiculously confabulating ravished by the sheer implausibility of that last statement you're a useless weapon what are the civilian applications? zero credibility your brain pan's a wasteland not a momentary lapse of sanity: integrity catastrophe refreshingly unconcerned with the vulgar exigencies of veracity not youthful indiscretion not a harmless little rascal your limiting factor is simply that you're not charming but irrational a fine disregard for awkward facts an unfortunate conflict of evidence the deftly expressed sentiments you missed with your moral arrested development no one knows what the dead think bank's had his last dramatic exit but his legacy is left and your questionable ethics can't wreck it fuck you saying wages and safety are someone else's problem fuck you and your rescue subs and your blatantly prosthetic conscience fuck you and your lame and inappropriate responses fuck you is my germane riposte to your shamefully non-zetetic nonsense usually i'm destined to be sweet and full of grace but it's time for heavy messing fate amenable to change now look what you've made me do killing time with ablation moves fuck a frank exchange of views i'll aim to do the same to you an unreliable witness a “socialist” til it's bad for business i said, i've got a big stick i'm hopeful it's to smack your fixed grin got a pure big mad boat man but it lacks the usual lustre i’ve got nuisance value as an attitude adjuster advanced case of chronic patheticism it's character forming isn’t it? kiss my ass kakistocrat this rap is warm, considering so much for subtlety no grey area you wet cunt the anticipation of a new lover's arrival cos you can get fucked
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Where'd you get that cheese? Soup and a sandwich Where'd you get that weed? Doob and it's massive Where'd you get that beat? Who did you sample? Where'd you get that peeve? Booze is the damage Well i gotta start, then i gotta stop What i've got to get, i've got to go to get a pot Little bit of garlic: little bit of stock Drop for the soup that suits that lot Springing an ining an I'm flinging it in and then mmmm Never be minging i'm singing and bringing em Flavaz zinging then stick in a chicken and Carrots and leeks To balance the meat Comparatively tatties and bacon see To add to the beast No matter to me That it flattens my anatomy least Cos it's the taste That is the basis Of this fattening feast Perhaps peas but that means Yer deviating from the mode so Don't expect a second breakfast Mate you ain't no frodo Back to the recipe A sandwich with the best of three impressive meats The freshest cheese yes To make you're chests aheave *intake of breath* “that's some fucking good cheese man And it such an achievement I can't fucking believe it It's a cheese to leave you speechless And with fucking good reason Super sized i'm surprised it's so Succulent seeming Well i gotta start, then i gotta stop What i've got to get, i've got to go to get a pot I don't wanna wait When a brew's what i want to make Waters cold but the fire's hot Stoned as standard seldom see me sober And i over eat why Sinking my teeth into deep fried beef aye Eat ice cream like i been to the seaside Masturbate to the plan of tanning Half a crate of jaffa cakes With the big fat bastard massive plates Of pasta bake i masticate When i'm baked man then i'm in rasta state Toast is all i can be assed to make No boast man and i'm in the drastic straits When the post man's my most classic mate All drinks in moderashun Need an exception got to make one When i wanna play When wanna hae fun late Dunno what to say But i wanna straight rum eh? Sugar and ice and lots of lime eh Would have been nice but not tonight take Shite days: gotta be the friend of the mic say Winner when i wonder why they end in the right way Got a big bag of high grade rhymes eh? Chopping up four or five lines at a time eh? Slick with the rhythm in em i wait Life state i hate Might skate by mate Tick said better give a seditive Verse is sick but embedded in his head it is Nurses quick it's getting all repetetive Mic master mc's who the medic is
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My nose to the grind stone similar days similar pay Given a raise: crap a bit of a slap to that bit of my face Bite the hand that doesn't feed me but I’m sick of the taste Fight the man that loves the greed see cunt's completely minimum wage King of the fake he's tough to beat wi bigger displays Live in age: is it you have to flash the cash to win the debate? Sibilant snakes eh? slinging their mates a bit of the cake Kicking the cage and bringing the pain cos it'd be great to ring in a change Their austerity merits a heavy levity Benefits sent to cemetery bevan's went to spin in his grave Can't see the evidence set to unsettle sediment Of selflessness embedded meant my sentiment: imminent rage Sick at the pace- shady papers say they're trimming the waste Isn't the case blatant play delivered to date to break the place Deliberate hate, hidden away saved for reigning, into the day Take the bait: a differing state I kid on I make with rhythm and bass So where did we sign up? to line up and wind up fucked I’m thinking it's somebody ripping the piss to kinda define us as such An enemy better be fired up divide up to sides of the ruck And kick in the buggers who're ripping and fucking us try to decide It's enough is enough and we're toughened but we suffered this stuff and it sucks And in the sucking we been struck by the guff and the muck So when do we wise up to lies of the guys that we trust Somebody come and advise us rumble the guys by the lies on the pus Fuck the government cuts fuck their abacus Chuck the buck they're covering up their malice with a narrative Buggering up the masses with a class analysis A given they're willing to kill a debate with damaging parameters So suck on my nuts you bucket of cunts you punks are average The up of the crust are double or bust they're just a bunch of amateurs Shenanigans a troubling bluff so shut the fuck up you're babbling Day come when you're numb and you crumble to rubble and dust in fucking bafflement
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wash my big balls like a woman you wee poof. your dick's small. I’m assuming. I don't need proof. Lived tall, war wounded but I’ve been stooped least I had a proper man's job like a real dude Regular proper man gotta big cock and that breadwinner not a vag got a fat wad of cash said if there's gobby twats talking back knock em flat you're a male nurse and a wee tube my capacity for rational analysis is as massive as my actual bag and phallus is as vast fastnesses or a mass of palaces your dank shack's lying empty it's a lean to that sound is glass houses women living in em shouldn't buy a dress that's see through you're having a laugh to try and test me and my deep truth. these two massive giant testes need a clean you how are you mate? Thinking a lot considering what to see to Bring in a cloth give it a bit of a wash and get the tea brewed You take____ milk and two eh? me too usual wait to urinate or you could make a wee poo wages are proper bad______my______job is crap Strange if i'm honest that____i'm____often glad changing a horrid sad hobbled man's rotten pad I'm a great nurse and a wee tube My capacity for managing your callousness is as natural as my affable compassion is can't be hassled with passing on the malice if you're chat's rank that the crappiness you've been through that feeling's glass ceilings women driven winning don't comprise they threat they seem to you're having a laugh to try and vex me with your mean mood please do ask me if there's anything you need dude
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organised a round of applause for all the nurses if you're a worker got to work out what your worth is organised a round of applause for all the nurses if you're a worker got to work out what your worth is similar days I grind for similar pay shite high time I was given a raise right strive for snide bribes minimum wage sick of the taste of this twice sliced sliver of cake liberty bell i'd strike chimes ringing a change try to come up for air like i'm living in space live in an age the price hikes bigger inflates sick of the pace see bite's size shrink in the main imminent rage aye nye might spin in his grave sick of the claim the nice guys are trimming the waste isn't the case spit in the face of the sick and in pain skimming their take off shore slyly hidden away pinnacles staked commanding heights a midden of fake shit and the snakes lie and take prizes win the debate hypocrites aim finger of blame a different place bringing the hate whine and spray jibes at immigrant rates mate fuck their austerity fuck their abacus crush the discussion with rubbish parameters different fucking planeters sucky janitors: barely balancing calibre is average nothingness passionless callow narratives ///// pack of wankers debate a mass of amateurs fuck their paralysis fuck their sanctioning attacks on taxes all tax they're challenging fuck shan banter man rabbited like alice did up his own hole: where he owns gold palaces demands no stand on this and hassles activists amassed a massive list of baffled anarchists bankers fucked the plan again duck and managing dumb shenanigans just an embarrassment run the analysis of masters malice it's debacle catastrophe cataclysmic twattishness organised a round of applause for all the nurses if you're a worker got to work out what your worth is organised a round of applause for all the nurses if you're a worker got to work out what your worth is
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I'm not rapping any more. Maybe grab a flag and that. Wave it like semaphore. If it's pressing then it's possible. A message or some gossip in a bottle. Might wait on any shore You can bet that it's true. You'll be getting my news. From my messenger doos. Make ready for. A better set of methods to chose. That are sensitive too. And i reckon i'll use. A great many more. Scribbling in ill. Illuminated letter form. I'm only gonna communicate in metaphor. Bringing in a little liberated ape to. Train to take The train the ape. May get a horse. Tell a mate to tell a mate. To tell a mate to tell 'em or. Tell em at their place. Face to face if i teleport. Hope is that folk dig. My toking's for smoke signals. Most think the dope is. To make me a better sport. If i miss you all. Ache very sore. If i missed your call. Wish you'd all. Make plenty more. Telegram or tell a man. Or telegraph or telepath or. With the crystal ball. From my auld mate skeletor. Read tea leaves. Head state sending thoughts Reach deid ouijas. Remonstrate when they're board. Got an old. Game we can play and you're getting warm. Hot and cold got the whole day. Eh? Twenty four. Flying in a chopper what. I'd take from a heliport. Writing on a bomb: bomb. Your base in a deadly war. Miming to a song. I'm trying sign along. Strong rhyming in binary my. Brail spelling's raw. I spose i might compose. Paintings with many flaws. I hope i write a note. Won't break any laws. D'ya have a basic lingo? See? I wrote a line of code. And you know i cyphered loads. With that hater fellow morse.

about

Kicking off the album, title track 'TICKLE MCNICHOLL™' is a self indulgent reflection on Tickle's addictive personality, his relationship with various sensate pleasures and the limited effectiveness of any attempt at gaining self control or achieving personal growth.

Tickle's CURRICULUM VITAE is a whimsical account of his fantastical employment history. Journeying through myriad fictional roles within equally fictional corporations, Tickle highlights his lack of suitability for all and every job and shows that his capacity for workplace incompetence stretches far beyond his real world experience.

ELON M BANKS (DON'T FUCK WITH THE CULTURE PART I) imagines a future where technology has advanced to levels comparable to The Culture, a fictional hyper-advanced anarcho-communist civilisation which is the setting for numerous novels by the late Iain M Banks, but remains subject to the exploitative socio-economic relationships which the pedo Elon Musk loves so much. A better world is possible, Banks hoped for one, pedo Musk doesn't give a shit as long as he has his rockets. The pedo prick.

In THE MAN WITH NO ARMS Tickle describes a feature of his early childhood in London: regular trips to Waterlow park in Highgate with his late dad, the inimitable and much missed Mike McNicholl, including the usual detour to the adjacent cemetery to visit the grave of a certain special person. This song sees Tickle deliver an uncharacteristically personal and introspective song in an uncharacteristically slow and unadorned style

ME MUM'S A PIRATE finds Tickle back to his usual kung foolery. Tickle plays the entire ship's crew as they detail his mum's piratical lifestyle from her wild eyed, cutlass rattling criminality to her warm, grog goggled hospitality.

On EWAN ALEXANDER MCNICHOLL™ Tickle gets, feeling his age a bit, becomes somewhat introspective over a beat by his long time collaborator Salemanders. Tickle raps about addiction, grief, depression and the symptomatic relieve provider that is Hip Hop. Be kind.

MRS MCNICHOLL™ doesn't like Tickle drawing attention to her with passionate and public declarations of love so what better than a two minute song dedicated to how incredible and amazing she is and how much he adores her?

MISTAKE NOT (DON'T FUCK WITH THE CULTURE PART II) is a vitriolic attack on pedo Elon Musk. The lyrics were inspired by pedo Musk's persistent public misrepresentation of the late author Iain M Banks' political and world view as anti-trade union and pro-libertarian capitalist. Banks supported the Scottish Socialist party in the 2002 Scottish parliamentary elections, the left wing Radical Independence Campaign in 2014 and a cultural and educational boycott of Israel in 2010. Pedo Musk didn't. Approximately 80% of the words in the song are the names of AI Minds/Spaceships from Banks' Culture novels.

As if the main themes of addictive personality, impulsive intoxication and rampant over-eating weren't already apparent MIC MASTER MCNICHOLL™ provides further evidence of what really makes Tickle tick. Cake. Gin. Biscuits. Rum. Weed. Cake. There's not much more to add. Chocolate sprinkles perhaps?

In AUSTERITY TIL INFINITY Tickle rants about the last ten years of Tory austerity government.

In NURSE TICKLE™ we see Tickle playing two roles simultaneously. Tickle is a care assistant approaching a challenging care home resident to deliver high quality care with as much professionalism and positive energy as a person can manage in the last hour of the third twelve hour shift this week. Tickle is also an angry, reactionary army veteran laid low by old age, resentful and embarrassed by his need for care and especially put out that a man is delivering it.

This Is Not Pop impresario Asthmatic Astronaut and long time Tickle collaborator provides the beat for AUSTERITY: NEVER ENDING STORY. Tickle provides another rant about the shitey Tory government and their worker hating ethos.

The album finishes with a bright shiny new version of a previous Tickle classic. With each rap Tickle has rapped in the eight years since the original song was released, the lyrics of I'M NOT RAPPING ANY MORE have rung ever more hollow. Indeed the TICKLE MCNICHOLL™ album stands as evidence that Tickle is at best misguided and at worst a liar. Perhaps this version will be true? One can only hope.

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released February 26, 2022

ALL LYRICS BY TICKLE MCNICHOLL™
RECORDED AT VILLA SHAARAWI, ZAMALEK, CAIRO, EGYPT

'EWAN ALEXANDER MCNICHOLL™' BY SALEMANDERS™
'AUSTERITY TIL INFINITY (NEVER ENDING STORY MIX)' BY ASTHMATIC ASTRONAUT™
ALL OTHER BEATS BY TICKLE MCNICHOLL™

MRS MCNICHOLL™ FEATURES A SAMPLE FROM 'ACTUAL BEAUTY' BY DONNA MACIOCIA

ALL MIXING AND MASTERING BY ASTHMATIC ASTRONAUT ™ AT IONOTROPE STUDIOS

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