Sign on you crazy Diamond

[Beebo]

It's The Sun headline for today (29th June), and quite a clever one it is too.

In the office we were discussing how many of the general public and/or The Sun readership would actually get the Pink Floyd quote? We thought about 20% of the population at most. Mostly men between 35 - 55.

What do you think?

 

[PaulB]

I think that anyone referring in any way to this unworthy bog-roll should have a word with himself.

And that phrase was first used in 1991 in the cycling song 'A Lilac Harry Quinn' by Half Man Half Biscuit so if it once was clever, it's been robbed.

 

[asterix]

I don't read the Sun. I never have read it and I don't intend to start reading it now. I hate the Sun. It is loathsome and stinks. If I ate ate my fish and chips from it I am sure I would die, albeit slowly. If my cat's litter tray was lined with the Sun there is no doubt whatsover the cat, being a creature of some discernment, would rather crap on the living room floor than go near it.

Who does read the Sun? What is wrong with them? Surely they must have been dropped on their heads as babies?

 

[Beebo]

Chill out guys.

I dont read The Sun either, a colleague and I just saw the headline as we were queueing for our sandwiches in Sainsbury's.

I only asked about the headline pun, I didnt ask for an essay on Rupert Murdoch and News International..

 

[PaulB]

Chill out guys.

I dont read The Sun either, a colleague and I just saw the headline as we were queueing for our sandwiches in Sainsbury's.

I only asked about the headline pun, I didnt ask for an essay on Rupert Murdoch and News International..

Whatever; it's like one of your kids bringing home an unsuitable friend you'd rather not have in the house.

 

[snorri]

What do you think?

I think the OP is incomprehensible.

 

[TheDoctor]

It's a great headline!!

 

[rollinstok]

The people who do sign on get sent down for long periods if they rob banks
If your a banker who gets found robbing other banks you might lose your bonus
Great headline by the way

 

[Herr-B]

It's a cracking headline, and a great song - all nine parts of it. In fact I'm going to put in on right now.

I am male, aged 37¾, not a Sun reader (these days), but a big Floyd fan, I have everything they've ever done including solo stiff apart from Gilmour's latest from a year or so ago. I became hooked when I bought The Wall Live (Is There Anybody Out There?) cheap in Singapore in 2000 and listened to it as I drifted off to sleep in every hot and sandy place I've been since to drown out the noise of fans or air-con.

 

[PaulB]

It's NOT a great headline! It's plagiarism, robbed from Nigel Blackwell and sang as long ago as 1991! What's so great about that? Now I'm not going to be so stupid as to filthy my hands with it but I am assuming Nigel doesn't get credited with it but the illiterate no-mark who came out with it wants people to think HE'S clever and some kind of genius for coming out with it. Yet more theft from the country's worst piece of filth.

 

[Herr-B]

Alright - I sit corrected, it's a good line, not headline.

 

[slowmotion]

Who does read the Sun?

7.6 million people a day apparently.

Edit: ... and me..! I just read it waiting for my bacon roll at the caff.

 

[Scoosh]

... , a colleague and I just saw the headline as we were queueing for our sandwiches in Sainsbury's.

I don't eat sandwiches from Sainsbury's. I never have eaten them and I don't intend to start eating them now. I hate Sainsbury's**. It is loathsome and stinks. If I ate ate my fish and chips from them I am sure I would die, albeit slowly. If my cat's litter tray was lined with a Sainsbury's bag there is no doubt whatsover the cat, being a creature of some discernment, would rather crap on the living room floor than go near it.

Who does eat Sainsbury's sandwiches? What is wrong with them? Surely they must have been dropped on their heads as babies?

**other supermarket s are available

 

[Lurpak]

Wish You Were Not Here

 

[asterix]

Chill out guys.

I dont read The Sun either, a colleague and I just saw the headline as we were queueing for our sandwiches in Sainsbury's.

I only asked about the headline pun, I didnt ask for an essay on Rupert Murdoch and News International..

Just kidding (I don't read any newspapers). It is a good line.