Comments on: Some blokes don’t take apart valve amps for fun

By: John Burscough

John Burscough — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:53:47 +0000

There were 200 issues in all, which stacked tenfold under a (presumably) single bed wouldn’t have left much room for Penthouses.

By: Vendor of Quack Nostrums

Vendor of Quack Nostrums — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:13:24 +0000

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.

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:14:28 +0000

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.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:55:01 +0000

Sounds like “and in my dreams….I’ve taken you to Falkirk!” which I think is an even better lyric *blows on fingers*

By: Dave F.

Dave F. — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:06:00 +0000

The lyric book has it as sideys. Capitalized for some reason.

By: Chris The Siteowner

Chris The Siteowner — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:25:15 +0000

Yes, it’s more akin to “monkey/monkeys” than “tidy/tidies”, I guess. And indeed, a lone sideburn wouldn’t look right.

By: Steve Malkmoose

Steve Malkmoose — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:57:03 +0000

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.

By: grim

grim — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:37:33 +0000

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.

By: Chris The Siteowner

Chris The Siteowner — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:51:33 +0000

OK, I suppose all we need to agree on is the spelling.

By: Neil G

Neil G — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:47:47 +0000

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.