3 Dec 2008
Some blokes don’t take apart valve amps for fun
Just in case anyone was beginning to think they could spot a pattern in the lyrics going on this site, I’ll prove it’s all random with I, Trog, an obscurity hidden away towards the end of Some Call It Godcore. Another song about misfits. Thanks to Jon F, gNick and Martin
13 Letters Sent:
s.g.d.,a Shropshire lad
owdo mon,
I think that it is “mad sideys” as in sideburns.
s.g.d.,a Shropshire lad.
Dec 3rd, 2008
Chris The Siteowner
I like that – in fact it’s what I thought myself. But all three people who sent in the lyrics for this one went independently for “my tidies” so I accepted the majority verdict, good citizen that I am, even though I didn’t really get it. So the debate opens!
Dec 3rd, 2008
Carstairs
It is definitely mad sideys.
Take it from me I’m a trog
Dec 3rd, 2008
Neil G
I’m in the Mad Sidies camp. There is a grammatical clue in the second verse where the subject of the sentence is the second person (i.e. you). “When you’re a trog and you’ve got… ” surely would be followed by ‘your tidies’ if it were tidies. Quite apart from that, I don’t know what tidies are, sidies makes sense and it sounds like sidies to me. And that’s all I want to say about that.
Dec 4th, 2008
Chris The Siteowner
OK, I suppose all we need to agree on is the spelling.
Dec 4th, 2008
grim
Mad sidies for me as well, or sideys if you prefer; although I admit I heard it as “my tidies” for a number of baffled years before finally working it out.
Dec 4th, 2008
Steve Malkmoose
Given that the a lone sideburn would be a “sidey”- as opposed to a “sidie” (which just doesnt look right!); the plural must be “sideys” rather than “sidies” unless of course I’m a rank buffoon.
Dec 12th, 2008
Chris The Siteowner
Yes, it’s more akin to “monkey/monkeys” than “tidy/tidies”, I guess. And indeed, a lone sideburn wouldn’t look right.
Dec 12th, 2008
Dave F.
The lyric book has it as sideys. Capitalized for some reason.
May 4th, 2009
Ben
Sounds like “and in my dreams….I’ve taken you to Falkirk!” which I think is an even better lyric *blows on fingers*
Feb 25th, 2010
Charles Exford
A post in another thread prompts me to confess that, after about two decades or something, I’ve only just realised that OMNI is a magazine.
I had previously thought either his Sven Hassel Omni(bus) was stacked there, or that Omni-Stacking was some kind of self-assembly under-bed shelving system favoured by Trogs that I’d never heard of. Or possibly both.
Not that I’d ever thought about it that much really.
Jan 9th, 2012
Vendor of Quack Nostrums
I’d always fancied that it might be a gun, but due to my ignorance of all things military had never really been motivated to check. (Omni? – Uzi? Stacked? – err, as in packing an Uzi – stacking an Omni perhaps. Tenfold? – ummm, he had 10 of them?) Ok, in the cold light of day that doesn’t make much sense does it?
Nevermind. It’s always nice to learn something new. Apparently Omni was a stablemate of Penthouse and was originally going to be called Nova. Super.
Jan 9th, 2012
John Burscough
There were 200 issues in all, which stacked tenfold under a (presumably) single bed wouldn’t have left much room for Penthouses.
Jan 10th, 2012
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