Watch for signs of getting old
When
it happens you’ll just know
You
remember Saturday night live
When
it was still a funny show
Friday, 16 April 2021
OLD SHOW
CAREER PATH
Would you like to meet new people?
Would
you like a change of scenery?
Are
you interested in a new career?
Then
just screw up one more time for me
UNFAIR CONDITIONING
An air conditioning unit
Renders
a computer room unfit
For
the humans that enter it
THE LADY MONDERGREEN
THE
LADY MONDERGREEN
Everything nowadays has a name every illness, every condition has a pigeon hole,
every hobby or pastime, every job and occupation and there’s nothing inherently
wrong with that, after all that is one of the functions of language.
Names
and definitions enable us to know what someone else is talking about as well as
feeding the habit of those interested in trivia.
I
like trivia myself all those interesting facts about just about anything, the
origins of surnames, inventors, adventurers, sporting events, who did what to
who and when.
In
fact my head is absolutely full of useless bits of trivia from irrelevant facts
to complete rubbish I even know the origin of the word trivia.
All
of which brings us neatly to the purpose of my rambling namely that all of us
at one time or another have listened to a song and got it wrong and completely
misheard the lyric, sometimes just the first hearing and sometimes every time
you hear it.
I’m
sure that everyone has a list of their own that they can recite but one that
always sticks in my mind is from the Queen classic “Bohemian Rhapsody” the
correct line is “spare him his life
from this monstrosity” but I always hear “spare him his life from his Walls
sausages”, I know it makes no sense but that’s what I hear.
I
once heard Billy Connolly telling one of his tales many years ago, which
happened when he was working in America, it was about a little girl in church
who instead of singing “Gladly the cross I bare” sang “Gladly the Cross Eyed
Bear”.
Now I’m sure that you all have far better examples than
the two that I have mentioned.
All this leads me neatly to the point where I impart my little
piece of boring trivia, a little gem of trivia which just happens to be the
name to describe a misheard
lyric, that word being ‘Mondergreen’.
The word “Mondergreen” is
derived from an old
folk song that was released on a record in the early 1950’s which contained the
line “They laid him on the green” but this was misheard and was thus
misinterpreted as “The Lady Mondergreen.”
Now
wasn’t that an interesting bit of rubbish.
I
would be interested to hear your own examples of Mondergreens.
WHATS IN A NAME (7)
Did anyone else see William Strutt?
Did
anyone else see Nicky Butt?
Does
anyone know is Shelley Long?
Does
anyone think is Nancy Strong?
PC COFFEE
Coffee, black
That’s all I crave
Nothing fancy
Just black coffee
Not latte
Or espresso
But now I’m told
It’s not PC
To ask for black coffee
Apparently
To be PC
I must order
Coffee without milk
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