Courtesy of the estimable Jim Adams, this week we have to tell porkies about ancient Egypt. Who was buried in King Tut’s tomb? Shergar Why did the Sphinx have a lion’s body and a human head? Because it was easier to do it like that rather than the other way round. What month of the…
This week, Jim’s after something from one of the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame’s definitive list of the top 200 albums. Well, nestling there at #20 (too low, some might say) is the Grateful Dead’s 1970 masterpiece ‘American Beauty’, of which this is the opening track, here presented in an acoustic performance from 1980.…
The rather vulgar subject of money is the theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. Well, it’s either that or taxes, which holds no appeal – it just encourages them. A little over a year ago, I used the song ‘Doctor, doctor’ by The Thompson Twins for an SLS contribution. I explained then that it…
This week, it’s more definitions… Embiggen Instruction to staff given by POTUS when he wants a larger cup of covfefe. Eargasm A very niche section of Pornhub. Erumpent Estuary English dialect word meaning harrumphing. Eldritch Ageing hippy, but comfortably off, resident of Glastonbury. Epizootic Rural activity that is actually illegal in 48 states of the…
For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, Jim asks us to present a song whose title contains the word ‘black’. Well, fair enough, there’s a lot of them about, including many that I wouldn’t be ashamed of putting forward for the challenge. However, for various reasons I settled on ‘Black Magic Woman’. Although this was written…
This week, Di is looking for some (wrong) answers. Who made the first manned hot air balloon flight in 1783? A sheep, a duck and a rooster – as you would know if you were watching ‘Richard Osman’s House Of Games’ this week. Which is the more widely used around the world, cow’s milk or…
This week, Jim invites us into the shady world of drugs. Admittedly, that topic doesn’t preclude the possibility of pharmaceuticals with a proper medical purpose, but has anyone ever written a song extolling the virtues of paracetamol? There’s plenty to choose from in the seamier parts of the drugs world of course, including such blatant…
Di is after some new definitions this week. I’d be the first to admit that these are nowhere near in the same league as the ‘Uxbridge English Dictionary’ segment of the BBC radio comedy panel show ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue’, but here goes anyway. Verisimilitude A person with a limited diet, who only…
Weather is the broad theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday – a little more specifically perhaps, bad weather. Leaving aside the more obvious selections – ‘Hard Rain’, say, or ‘It’s Rainin’ Men’ – for me it came down to a choice between Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Thunder Road’ or this, a Hunter/Garcia song that was certainly…
This week, Di has gone all classical on us. As one who, by virtue of having obtained a Latin ‘O’ level in 1968, and therefore being rightfully able to lay claim to a classical education, this is right up my street (or should that be via strata?). Anyway, Di’s given us ten names from classical…
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