What I want to know is ...

What I want to know is ...

... what were the blessed larks playing melodeons at the dawning of the day and waking people up for in the first place? Eh?

# Posted on September 22nd 2010 by ethical blend

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And, while we're at it, what was this fixation that Sting had with Sue Lawley?

... and what's so romantic about sellotaping my glove to you tonight?

I think we should be told.

# Posted on September 22nd 2010 by ethical blend

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I think larks only play melodeons in Suffolk, where for a long time anyway people got used to sleeping under American military transport planes the size of blocks of flats on their side cruising in twenty feet above their bedrooms. So the larks with melodeons will not have bothered them much.

Poor bloody Sue Lawley. Sting's singing is enough to convict him of being a sex pest.

I don't know about sellotaping gloves to people. I've never done it myself. Sure you don't mean sticking your chewing gum to the bedpan overnight? I must admit I've never done that, either.

# Posted on September 22nd 2010 by nicholas

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Oh Sting, where is thy death?

# Posted on September 22nd 2010 by Steve Shaw

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Death left the Police because he got tired of being a professional musician and got a job as one of the characters in the DiscWorld series by Terry Pratchett.

# Posted on September 22nd 2010 by fauxcelt

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The internet has a saying for threads like this:

LOLWUT?

# Posted on September 22nd 2010 by SWFL Fiddler

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Steve Shaw, that's priceless!

# Posted on September 22nd 2010 by nicholas

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Maybe I'll ask Barney the Pilgrim. He'll know. Or I could ask me father ... or tell me ma ... tell her I am off to the hunt ... Ah surely one bottle more 'll do it.

# Posted on September 22nd 2010 by ethical blend

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Yes, I do like that, Steve. Is his death walking on the moon, do you think?

# Posted on September 22nd 2010 by ethical blend

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Enjoy your bottle but don't call me Shirley.

# Posted on September 22nd 2010 by Steve Shaw

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"Oh Sting, where is thy death?"
One of the best posts I have ever seen!

# Posted on September 23rd 2010 by AlBrown

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either the whiskey or the internet, I got to give one up

# Posted on September 23rd 2010 by Barry1963

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Ashley I wasn't.

# Posted on September 23rd 2010 by ethical blend

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"Enjoy your bottle but don't call me Shirley. "

SS: Didn't you mean "Enjoy your MESSAGE IN A bottle, but don't call me Shirley." ?


[ ok, I'll get my coat ! ]

# Posted on September 23rd 2010 by domhnall.

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I always liked 'The Lobsticle' song. You know the one
"I can see clearly now the rain has gone. I can see .........."

# Posted on September 23rd 2010 by flossie

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I've never actually seen a lobsticle but I imagine it's a very large shellfish that makes a habit of getting in the way. What do you think Shirley?

# Posted on September 23rd 2010 by flossie

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It's a big building with doctors and sick people. But that's not important right now. . .

# Posted on September 23rd 2010 by Martin_BC

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Never mind the larks playing melodeons, it was the bloody seagulls singing sea-shanties that woke me up early in the morning at Whitby...
...I think Tony Hall was responsible for the larks, see his cartoon re the lark melodeon classes......

# Posted on September 23rd 2010 by Guernsey Pete

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I think it is a testicle that has been in boiling water and gone bright red.

# Posted on September 23rd 2010 by nicholas

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At least the seagulls probably were not burning caravans, Pete. You should have been at Girvan in May this year. That's where all the real early morning excitement was.

# Posted on September 23rd 2010 by DrSilverSpear

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Yes, yes YES!!! Flossie! At last someone on my level.

[Thought, to be fair, Steve and Mark had pretty good goes. ]

# Posted on September 23rd 2010 by ethical blend

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"I've never actually seen a lobsticle but I imagine it's a very large shellfish that makes a habit of getting in the way."

This would be a lobstacle, Shirley?

# Posted on September 23rd 2010 by Steve Shaw

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"It's a big building with doctors and sick people. But that's not important right now. . ."

Boy Trapped In Refrigerator Eats Own Foot

# Posted on September 23rd 2010 by Steve Shaw

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Oh really Steve I think you're being a bit pedanticle !
' You say lobstacle and I say lobsticle, lets call the whole thing off '

# Posted on September 24th 2010 by flossie

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Ooh, I always thought it was "let's call the hole thing off". You know, as in the jazz classic "What's this thing called, love?"

# Posted on September 24th 2010 by ethical blend

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I like that Beatles song, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, when they sing:

"The girl with colitis goes by."

# Posted on September 24th 2010 by Jeremy

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Brilliant!

# Posted on September 25th 2010 by ethical blend

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"Let's call the whole thing off" I can dig it.

Laurence

# Posted on September 29th 2010 by fauxcelt