Grocer Jack, Grocer Jack...

[Paulus]

Does anyody actually know if the teenage opera was just a thought, a song title or if it was really planned?

 

[TheDoctor]

I heard it on R2 earlier as well.
*batters head repeatedly on brick wall*
For.
The.
Love.
Of.
God.
Make.
IT.
STOP!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Does anyody actually know if the teenage opera was just a thought, a song title or if it was really planned?

Now a few months ago we had a debate about this... and Wiki is your friend...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Teenage_Opera

 

[Fab Foodie]

It has been rattling around in my head today since its airing on R2 this morning.

OK it is cheesy crap in one way but you have to take your hat off to him for making a pop song about an old bloke who delivers groceries and dies! Takes a bit of guts to go with that for a song.

Also finding a rhyme for breakfast tables - marmalade labels! Just brill.

Good man, it's a cheesy song of Stilton-like genius.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Also finding a rhyme for breakfast tables - marmalade labels! Just brill.

Almost on a par with the great Roger Miller who in his song 'Dang Me' came up with the following bit of rhyming genius...

They say roses are red and violets are purple.
Sugar is sweet and so is maple syruple.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Almost on a par with the great Roger Miller who in his song 'Dang Me' came up with the following bit of rhyming genius...

They say roses are red and violets are purple.
Sugar is sweet and so is maple syruple.

LOL, p'rhaps we need an amazing rhyming thread...

 

[Bromptonaut]

Aaagh

Johnnie Walker played Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep on Sunday's Sounds of the 70's.

Been echoing round my bonce ever since.

Soley Soley wasn't quite such a bad track though!!

 

[TheDoctor]

Amazing rhymes? Tom Lehrer is the man here

When you attend a funeral,
It's sad to think that sooner or l
Ater those you love will do the same for you.
And you may think it tragic,
Not to mention other adjec
Tives to think of all the grieving that they'll do!

Guy's a genius.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Amazing rhymes? Tom Lehrer is the man here

When you attend a funeral,
It's sad to think that sooner or l
Ater those you love will do the same for you.
And you may think it tragic,
Not to mention other adjec
Tives to think of all the grieving that they'll do!

Guy's a genius.

Oh yes. My personal favourite ...

Since I still appreciate you,
Let's find love while we may.
Because I know I'll hate you
When you are old and gray.

So say you love me here and now,
I'll make the most of that.
Say you love and trust me,
For I know you'll disgust me
When you're old and getting fat.

An awful debility,
A lessened utility,
A loss of mobility
Is a strong possibility.
In all probability
I'll lose my virility
And you your fertility
And desirability,
And this liability
Of total sterility
Will lead to hostility
And a sense of futility,
So let's act with agility
While we still have facility,
For we'll soon reach senility
And lose the ability.

Your teeth will start to go, dear,
Your waist will start to spread.
In twenty years or so, dear,
I'll wish that you were dead.

I'll never love you then at all
The way I do today.
So please remember,
When I leave in December,
I told you so in May.

 

[swee'pea99]

Lehrer is a genius. Noel Coward could also do wonderful things with words. Bronxville darby and joan...

We're a dear old couple
And we hate one another
And we've hated one another
For a long long time

From the day that we first met up to the present
Our lives we must confess
Have been progressively more unpleasant

...and so on. Wonderful stuff.

 

[rich p]

Similarly, some of Alan Shermans


All the counselors hate the waiters
And the lake has alligators
And the head coach wants no sissies
So he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

Now I don't want this should scare ya
But my bunkmate has malaria
You remember Jeffrey Hardy
They're about to organize a searching party.

Take me home, oh muddah fadduh, take me home, I hate Grenada
Don't leave me out in the forest where I might get eaten by a bear.
Take me home, I promise I will not make noise or mess the house with
other boys, oh please don't make me stay, I've been here one whole day

 

[dmoan]

LOL, p'rhaps we need an amazing rhyming thread...

If we're doing 'amazing' rhymes:

'I'm as serious as cancer
When I say rhythm is a dancer'

That deserves extreme punishment - preferably involving flamethrowers...