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We always used to sing 'fishes of men' until we got told otherwise. I know that song 'and if you fol-low-me...' Spose you used to play for all of those restless kids trying to sing with their fingers up their 'ooters.Gill the Piano wrote:When I taught in Sunday skool, one brat misinterpreted 'I will make you fishers of men' as 'I will make you tissues for men'.
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I am British, so my natural evolved focus is towards toilet humour. From the Monster Mash: 'I was working in the lav late one night, when my eyes beheld an eerie sight....'
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFnzSmTzgt4
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'Yah mo beeeee there.....up an' ooo-eee'
Here's a corker from Michael McDonald, It Keeps You Running (no misheard lyrics):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BsTF22SPyM
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Just like the Proclaimers 'When I get drunk, and I know I'm gonna pee.....' etc.Gill the Piano wrote:From 'Sway' sung by Dean Martin; " Other dancers may pee on the floor...". And however many times you hear it, it still sounds like it...
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Why isn't it pronounced 'farridge' like 'garridge'? I spose he's posh, with a garAAAAAAAAAAAAHje.dave brum wrote:' caught in a Farage'.
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One of my fave leftie comedians, Mark Thomas talked in the Birmingham Post a few weeks ago about this and at every comedy gig he does, he tries, with the help of the audience, to offer a dictionary definition for the word 'farage'. Apparently, it is pronounced 'farridge' and it's what you do after your dog has been in the bush and done his toilet to retrieve it in a plastic bag and dispose of it accordingly. As in 'I faraged around for half an hour but I still couldn't find it'.Gill the Piano wrote:Why isn't it pronounced 'farridge' like 'garridge'? I spose he's posh, with a garAAAAAAAAAAAAHje.dave brum wrote:' caught in a Farage'.
How about one from old Scottish band Deacon Blue: Oh, Sid James, my biggest influence ('Fergus Sings The Blues')
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That's the one. I think Amersham (a town near me, where I go to be beaten by an osteopath) was defined as the feeling you get from sitting on a warm toilet seat...dave brum wrote:Isn't that the book that 'defines' British town names, like 'exeter' (a surplus or spare piece of furniture assembly equipment), 'ludlow' (a block of wood put under a short table leg to stop the table from wobbling) and 'bootle' (the stuff you carry around with you in the back of your car, such as a spare wheel, tyre repair kit, de-icer etc.)?
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I wish I knew......do you remember a sketch on 'Three Of A Kind' with Lenny Henry, Tracey Ullman and David Copperfield where all three of them are sat on a park bench with their newspapers and Lenny exclaims 'Says here, 40% of adults have trouble Reading'. 'Where's Reading?' 'Near 'Sluff'.Gill the Piano wrote:But what's a bromsgrove...?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA-aFWOZOw&feature=kp
The Distillers 'Drain The Blood'. All my friends are mullahs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yU4oY0ayl4
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In the middle there was a line "Jesus' little ones are we"
I sang it, without really understanding why Jesus, little, wants a wee.
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I often wondered why, if the Gospels were a true account of the life of the messiah, that it wasn't mentioned that he ever went for a piddle behind a cactus or a temple. Is the reader to assume that this god in human form had a knot tied in it for the 35 years of his ministry, with no mention of the actual culprit in the Gospels?? John the Knot-Tier???gizzy wrote:When I was about 5 we used to sing a hymn in assembly, tune now usually called Lightly Row, but the words were Little Bird I have heard
In the middle there was a line "Jesus' little ones are we"
I sang it, without really understanding why Jesus, little, wants a wee.
'Derek and Clive' only scratched the surface on this one.
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There's certainly a reference to it somewhere in the OT. About Saul going into a cave to - as the King James version, I think, puts it - "cover his feet" God, he wasn't a very good aimer, was he?Gill the Piano wrote:There's been a lot cut out of the Bible. There may be a reference to widdling in the Apocrypha...
But they didn't put toilet functions in other books - Nobody has a slash in Pride & Prejudice, and as far as I know (haven't read them all) in the entire canon of Charles Dickens there's not one pee.
Even in the 1950s, my brother wrote in a story "when they got to the house, John said he wanted to go to the toilet". His teacher was incensed. "MARTYN!" she said sternly "people NEVER go to the toilet in stories!"
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Maybe in the capacity of Mrs Windsor, as head of the church of Britain, and Francis, head of the church in Rome, they follow the biblical example and refrain from going to the larpom, She doesn't go to the toilet, She is The Queen! is the rallying cry of those who believe there is an actual place in Lancashire called Weatherfield.
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From what my friends with sons and/or slovenly husbands have said, he seems reasonably typical...gizzy wrote: There's certainly a reference to it somewhere in the OT. About Saul going into a cave to - as the King James version, I think, puts it - "cover his feet" God, he wasn't a very good aimer, was he?
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My favourite is 'going to the brown cafe'.Gill the Piano wrote:Round here the men say they're 'going to turn their bike round'.
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My grandmother always used to listen to BRMB and their travel jingle used to go something like: BECAUSE...you're on the moon. You're On The Mo-ooo-ooooon, BRMB because you're on the moon. Then again, she always used to listen on an old transistor radio on medium wave. When I first heard it on my ghetto blaster on 94.8 FM as it was then, it actually sounded more like 'move'.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3k6m057Zro
Watched this earlier on. It's bostin. The Hoochie Coochie Man from Kingstanding (Kingstanding being a gargantuan post war slum clearance estate in the north of Birmingham):-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlJVtFS6xDE
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(one of C*ck Aching and Waterman's finest pieces of art)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZSBP5CgpI
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