FATBOY Oerboy (story for on website)

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Tjock Pojke and the quest of the Original Oerboy


Among the remains of an ancient cave design exhibition, somewhere in the middle of a desolated desert, our hero Tjock Pojke unexpectedly discovered evidence that proved the existence of a beanbag like primal piece of furniture, the so called Oerboy.

Tjock Pojke really wanted to find and excavate this Oerboy for thorough examination on how it was used, and for better understanding on what role it played through design evolution. The cultural value of this so-called Oerboy could be tremendous, possibly explaining tons about people’s sense of style in the Stone Age.

Tjock Pojke needed the world’s best specialists in order to make this Oerboy expedition a success, but he didn’t have the kind of money to fund this expensive operation. Luckily he got drunk with a certain Alexander Fjellgutt, who was very interested in Tjock’s story. Alexander had a friend RJ. Sinne-Ekker who worked for a bank and together they pitched a convincing story to the bank and arranged the money they needed without making a scene.

Before they would appear on Oprah to let the world know about their quest, Alexander and RJ made a deal with Tjock. They insisted on joining the expedition, after they find and excavate the Oerboy they would let Tjock examine it until he found the answers he was looking for, and since Alexander and RJ funded the expedition they would be the owners of the Oerboy, free to do with it for whatever purpose. Tjock agreed without hesitation and he quickly flipped through the Yellow Pages, found the specialists and assembled the crew they needed.

After hours of research in their city library they went searching and excavating around the globe for an entire week, but they didn’t find a trace of the Oerboy. It was getting hard to stay motivated since hope of actually finding the Oerboy was fading away. As last attempt Tjock decided to lead the expedition back to the cave where he found the first evidence of the existence of the Oerboy. This time Tjock brought up the courage to go further in the cave than he did last time, maybe he would found something new that could lead his fellowship to the Oerboy’s whereabouts.

All night Tjock was searching deep in the belly of the cave when he suddenly got tapped on his shoulder. A big Yeti kind of creature of which the existence was never proved, looked Tjock straight in his pretty eyes. Tjock didn’t panic and sensed that the creature was just protecting a specific part of the cave. He managed to keep tickling the creature until it passed out on the floor.

With the creature out of the way, Tjock now could see the huge cave drawing it was protecting. To dark to see all the details he decided to cut out the whole drawing with his laser pen and he dragged it back towards the exit of the cave. Ours later the team was exited to see Tjock coming out of the cave, although they were in the middle of a film on a bootleg DVD. They all gathered around at first light to finally see the cave drawing in full detail.

It was a drawing of a giant potato with a drawing on it.

All the experts of the team where flabbergasted and about to loose their last hope and motivation, like a dog giving up chasing his own tail. But Tjock was staring at the drawing and he couldn’t help letting a tear of joy and relief escape the corner of his eye. He recognized this potato as being a huge rock formation, quite nearby a Dutch town called Den Bosch where he lived with his ex girlfriend. The first time he saw that rock formation while making love on top of it with his ex girlfriend, it didn’t come to his mind that this rock formation was not 100% natures work, just like his ex girlfriends boobs, but in fact an ancient statue made by the same civilization that made the Oerboy. Now his gut was telling him to go backt to that memorable place and excavate under the foot of that rock formation to finally make this expedition come to its climax.

The next day they arrived at their destination. There it was. The drawing on the potato where hard to see, but after cleaning them up a little with the expert’s brushes it actually made clear where to start digging for the Oerboy, like the big X on a treasure map. They all knew they where about to write history and started excavating under the big stone potato with their specialist plastic spoons. After a couple of days they finally saw the first contours of the Oerboy appearing on the surface. With huge care they proceeded excavating and after all the blood, sweat and beers, they finally brought up the Oerboy in full glory. Tjock, Alexander, RJ and the rest of the team where overwhelmed with joy and they all started hugging each other like they really mean it.

They found the Oerboy!

The Oerboy somehow was preserved in formidable state during the passage of time. The whole crew gathered around for a group picture with the Oerboy that quickly found its way to the press. Soon everybody would know about the finding of the Oerboy as one of the greatest discoveries in design history.

Tjock could not wait to have the Oerboy on his research table. There was much it could tell about the people from the era of the Oerboy. And so it did. Tjock, Alexander and RJ where nicknamed Archeologists of the Future, since their historical find created a new future for all beanbags to come…



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