Neo: thanks very much for the laugh. I too was raised on Flanders & Swann, a regular diet of “At The Drop Of A Hat,” but I had not previously heard this excellent piece. And as one with Welsh heritage, I laughed all the harder at their send-up of “my people.”
IMHO a sign of a healthy society is the ability to poke fun at itself; to not take itself too seriously. That way lies fanaticism and a culture of fear. As you say, that song would never be permitted today.
Back when humor was funny !
I imagine they would have been shocked about the European Union, but happy about Brexit. Of course Brexit was only the second of its kind. The first was in 410 AD when Brits asked the Romans to take a hike.
The first was in 410 AD when Brits asked the Romans to take a hike.
They didn’t.
I must have lived a sheltered life: never heard of Flanders & Swann. Funny, but the piano kind of drowned out the song. (Bad ears.)
I totally remember “glorious mud” which I’m assuming was the Hippopotamus Song referenced above and “have some madeira, m’dear.” The kind of stuff a little kid would store away in the memory. The rest would probably come back to me if I heard it.
AMartel:
The Reluctant Cannibal, In the Bath, the Wom Pom song, Misalliance, I’m a Gnu.
Back when humor was funny ! — LeClerc
And it was OK to offend the humorless.
Zaphod:
I saw them live in NY when I was pretty young.
Little before my time. I remember Tom Lehrer. He did some really funny and irreverent stuff, for which would be lynched today.
In any case, you are one hundred percent right. We don’t laugh at ourselves like before.
“The first was in 410 AD when Brits asked the Romans to take a hike.
They didn’t.” – Art Deco
The Brits didn’t ask, or the Romans didn’t hike?
Obviously, there are nuances.
The process of removing Roman troops from British lands apparently began earlier, but 410 was indeed a pivotal date.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Roman_rule_in_Britain#Background
(overview)
The end of Roman rule in Britain was the transition from Roman Britain to post-Roman Britain. Roman rule ended in different parts of Britain at different times, and under different circumstances.
In 383, the usurper Magnus Maximus withdrew troops from northern and western Britain, probably leaving local warlords in charge. Around 410, the Romano-British expelled the magistrates of the usurper Constantine III.
….(details)
Britain, now without any troops for protection and having suffered particularly severe Saxon raids in 408 and 409, viewed the situation in Gaul with renewed alarm. Perhaps feeling they had no hope of relief under Constantine, both the Romano-Britons and some of the Gauls expelled Constantine’s magistrates in 409 or 410.[29][30][31] The Byzantine historian Zosimus (fl. 490s – 510s) directly blamed Constantine for the expulsion, saying that he had allowed the Saxons to raid, and that the Britons and Gauls were reduced to such straits that they revolted from the Roman Empire, ‘rejected Roman law, reverted to their native customs, and armed themselves to ensure their own safety’.
“… entry of the adenoviral DNA into the nucleus, and subsequently gene transcription by the host transcription machinery, … is not optimized to be transcribed inside of the nucleus.” [almost helpful]
—
Johnson & Johnson “is trying to optimize its vaccine now,” he [Rolf Marschalek of Goethe Univ.] told the Financial Times. “With the data we have in our hands we can tell the companies how to mutate these sequences, coding for the spike protein in a way that prevents unintended splice reactions.”
Ah, “unintended splice reactions.” Nice.
The Brits didn’t ask, or the Romans didn’t hike?
The Brits did not ask. The Roman legions were withdrawn because the government was over-extended and they were needed elsewhere.
There seems to be a disturbance in the force, AesopFan cites Wickedmedia and Art Deco cites, well, Art. 🙂
Try as me might to be distance mesef frum Zaphod en all he be say and he do, sometime it seem eben him bom trowen aint nuff to match da reel ting.
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“Sasha Johnson: Police investigation reveal who shoot Black lives matter activist Sasha Johnson in UK”
“Met police don reveal say na one group of four black men shoot prominent Black Lives Matter activist for one party for south London.
Sasha Johnson dey critically ill for hospital afta dem shoot her for head for one property for Peckham on Sunday.
Met Commander Alison Heydari say di men bin “enter di garden of di property and discharge a firearm”.
Ms Johnson party say she bin previously receive death threats but police say “nothing to suggest” say na “targeted attack”.
Cdr Heydari add say detectives “no dey aware of any reports of threats wey dem make against her before dis incident”.”
“no dey aware of any reports of threats wey dem make against her before dis incident” ?
Well, I rather doubt that he actually said that exactly.
A note that “dis be translate” might be nice.
Well, I swan. Cain’t hardly wait til them there British ponces commence to talkin’ real American.
If they ken jabber like they do there, right cross the board, might be they ken talk proper too.
But, truth be told, I reckon not.
@DNW:
Hate to break it to you but your sorry fate will be to live and prosper long enough to end up despising me as a milquetoast fence-sitting pussy 😀
Not that I’m keen to see what Nemesis has in store for me, mind you.
As for the BBC going all Mistah Kurtz he Dead, well the Thing Speaks for Itself.
Today I went, for the first time since the mask mandate was cancelled, to Whole Foods in Raleigh. Before entering, I carefully checked for signs about masks. Nothing. So I proceeded, bare-faced, into the store. I was the only person in there without a mask. No one bothered me about it. But it was bizarre to see all the customers, like good lemmings, clinging to their face diapers when they didn’t have to.
“The author is a fourth-generation South African and a specialist in the politics of agriculture, food production, and the plight of South Africa’s 35,000 commercial farmers.”
I wonder if the Hippopotamus Song would pass muster today? It could be construed as implying existence of only two genders.
Have some Madeira M’dear gets them cancelled anyway.
Grew up with the albums. Parents and one set of grandparents saw them live in London.
https://www.thefire.org/email-from-rutgers-university-camden-student-bar-association-may-23-2021/
One of the karenwaffe responsible is this dame:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elena-sassaman-2b9a74a3
Neo: thanks very much for the laugh. I too was raised on Flanders & Swann, a regular diet of “At The Drop Of A Hat,” but I had not previously heard this excellent piece. And as one with Welsh heritage, I laughed all the harder at their send-up of “my people.”
IMHO a sign of a healthy society is the ability to poke fun at itself; to not take itself too seriously. That way lies fanaticism and a culture of fear. As you say, that song would never be permitted today.
Back when humor was funny !
I imagine they would have been shocked about the European Union, but happy about Brexit. Of course Brexit was only the second of its kind. The first was in 410 AD when Brits asked the Romans to take a hike.
The first was in 410 AD when Brits asked the Romans to take a hike.
They didn’t.
I must have lived a sheltered life: never heard of Flanders & Swann. Funny, but the piano kind of drowned out the song. (Bad ears.)
I totally remember “glorious mud” which I’m assuming was the Hippopotamus Song referenced above and “have some madeira, m’dear.” The kind of stuff a little kid would store away in the memory. The rest would probably come back to me if I heard it.
AMartel:
The Reluctant Cannibal, In the Bath, the Wom Pom song, Misalliance, I’m a Gnu.
Back when humor was funny ! — LeClerc
And it was OK to offend the humorless.
Zaphod:
I saw them live in NY when I was pretty young.
Little before my time. I remember Tom Lehrer. He did some really funny and irreverent stuff, for which would be lynched today.
In any case, you are one hundred percent right. We don’t laugh at ourselves like before.
A Tom Lehrer classic…
National Brotherhood Week https://g.co/kgs/VT1BHH
Neo,
Were you also exposed to Anna Russell? Her take on Wagner’s Ring Cycle was a classic.
Flanders and Swann’s send-up of the Scots and the Irish– and of us former colonials– reminded me of Rex Harrison’s patter song in My Fair Lady:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAYUuspQ6BY&ab_channel=shanmugamlakshmanan
“The first was in 410 AD when Brits asked the Romans to take a hike.
They didn’t.” – Art Deco
The Brits didn’t ask, or the Romans didn’t hike?
Obviously, there are nuances.
The process of removing Roman troops from British lands apparently began earlier, but 410 was indeed a pivotal date.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Roman_rule_in_Britain#Background
(overview)
The end of Roman rule in Britain was the transition from Roman Britain to post-Roman Britain. Roman rule ended in different parts of Britain at different times, and under different circumstances.
In 383, the usurper Magnus Maximus withdrew troops from northern and western Britain, probably leaving local warlords in charge. Around 410, the Romano-British expelled the magistrates of the usurper Constantine III.
….(details)
Britain, now without any troops for protection and having suffered particularly severe Saxon raids in 408 and 409, viewed the situation in Gaul with renewed alarm. Perhaps feeling they had no hope of relief under Constantine, both the Romano-Britons and some of the Gauls expelled Constantine’s magistrates in 409 or 410.[29][30][31] The Byzantine historian Zosimus (fl. 490s – 510s) directly blamed Constantine for the expulsion, saying that he had allowed the Saxons to raid, and that the Britons and Gauls were reduced to such straits that they revolted from the Roman Empire, ‘rejected Roman law, reverted to their native customs, and armed themselves to ensure their own safety’.
A little more clarity on severe AstraZeneca vaccine side effects here.
Ah, “unintended splice reactions.” Nice.
The Brits didn’t ask, or the Romans didn’t hike?
The Brits did not ask. The Roman legions were withdrawn because the government was over-extended and they were needed elsewhere.
There seems to be a disturbance in the force, AesopFan cites Wickedmedia and Art Deco cites, well, Art. 🙂
Try as me might to be distance mesef frum Zaphod en all he be say and he do, sometime it seem eben him bom trowen aint nuff to match da reel ting.
Frum Da BBC https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-57242748
“no dey aware of any reports of threats wey dem make against her before dis incident” ?
Well, I rather doubt that he actually said that exactly.
A note that “dis be translate” might be nice.
Well, I swan. Cain’t hardly wait til them there British ponces commence to talkin’ real American.
If they ken jabber like they do there, right cross the board, might be they ken talk proper too.
But, truth be told, I reckon not.
@DNW:
Hate to break it to you but your sorry fate will be to live and prosper long enough to end up despising me as a milquetoast fence-sitting pussy 😀
Not that I’m keen to see what Nemesis has in store for me, mind you.
As for the BBC going all Mistah Kurtz he Dead, well the Thing Speaks for Itself.
Today I went, for the first time since the mask mandate was cancelled, to Whole Foods in Raleigh. Before entering, I carefully checked for signs about masks. Nothing. So I proceeded, bare-faced, into the store. I was the only person in there without a mask. No one bothered me about it. But it was bizarre to see all the customers, like good lemmings, clinging to their face diapers when they didn’t have to.
Black Tax ™ Post of the Day:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/another-massive-brawl-breaks-miami-international-airport-video
The Fifty Most Violent Cities in the World:
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/075/324/145/original/882d3f8c57834b5e.jpeg
Not sure this is very accurate as much of Africa would be totally incapable of collecting crime statistics.
So much for my retirement plan of becoming an Opera Impresario in Manaus.
All you Bill Kristol fans will love hearing the man himself speaking candidly from the heart about his deep and abiding love for the American People:
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/074/885/677/original/bada8092722c6b4c.mp4
All part of the service, Folks.
“The author is a fourth-generation South African and a specialist in the politics of agriculture, food production, and the plight of South Africa’s 35,000 commercial farmers.”
https://www.amren.com/features/2021/05/a-letter-to-white-americans/
I like this Timelab film about St. Petersburg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJiCEDweLl8