Monday, February 07, 2005

My Perfect Cousin

Paying quarter attention to Radio 1, which I'm sure is the most most people can muster, they seem to be playing old songs, including at least two plays of The Housemartin's 'Happy Hour'. It's like Virgin Radio, in other words.

However, this gives me a good hook on which to hang one of my hobbyhorses (RSPCA please note: this is just a metaphor. I do not condone in any way the mismaltreatmentisation of animals). One of my favourite couplets ever comes from The Undertones' 'My Perfect Cousin'

His ma bought him a synthesiser/
Got the Human League in to adviser her
Has a pop reference in a pop lyric ever been as good as this?

No. It hasn't.

Posted by Bill Murray's Moustache at 2:46 pm

6 comments:

  1. Bill Murray's Moustache7 February 2005 at 18:15

    Is it a story about two signwriters, perhaps? Writing a pub sign?

    I'll let you take it if you want to...

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  2. Anonymous8 February 2005 at 10:33

    Quite true. At the moment I'm engaged in a lecture tour of nurseries on the subject of Father Christmas is Just Your Mum and Dad Laughing at How Stupid You Are.

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  3. Bill Murray's Moustache8 February 2005 at 10:34

    Oops. Now I've started posting anonymously. Never can be too careful.

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  4. Anonymous8 February 2005 at 14:11

    Can one of you actually write the sentence, because despite my better judgement, I am actually intrigued.

    I seem to be doing more and more things against my better judgement, sometimes I wonder why I have judgement at all, if all I am going to do is go and ignore it...

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  5. Bill Murray's Moustache8 February 2005 at 14:23

    Far be it from me to steal Keri's thunder, but I can't let a person suffer under the burden of not knowing something as important as this:

    A sign-painter is working at his local pub The Chas and Dave, painting them a new sign. The landlord, a noted stickler for typographic clarity, comes up to him and says:

    "I don't think there's enough space in the sign, particluarly not between the 'Chas' and 'and' and 'and' and 'Dave'. Repaint it! Bloody signwriters, swan in here, steal my daughters, etc."

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  6. Bill Murray's Moustache10 February 2005 at 14:08

    Pedantically correcting someone about the way 'Chas and Dave' is written is nothing to be proud of. And now there's so many references to Chas 'n' Dave on this webpage that it's bound to be visited by hoardes of Chas and Dave afficionados, desperate for fresh news about the cockney couple's career. Will they ever have a hit as big as 'Rabbit'? We can only hope and pray not.

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