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…
This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday could be described as the edges of the day: sunrise and sunset, or dawn and dusk, for example. Which leads me to this rather lovely yet sad song by The Eagles, from the album ‘Desperado’ and written by Glenn Frey and Don Henley (him again). The epitome of…
This week, Pensitivity101’s Di has decreed that D is for ‘definition’, so let’s get down to it. Doohickey To chew on a partner or boy/girl friend’s neck, apparently as a sign of affection, but probably with a slightly sinister proprietorial undertone. [is this still a thing?] Donnybrook A stream running at the bottom of the…
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