Comments on: “Equus On The Buses”, starring Mr Ed

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:56:40 +0000

While pursuing my life’s goal of completing the entire works of PG Wodehouse (I am nothing if not ambitious), I came across the following in Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend, one of the short stories in the Blandings Castle collection:

“A function like the Blandings Parva School Treat blurred his conception of Man as Nature’s Final Word.”

By: Norbert D

Norbert D — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:41:12 +0000

Yeah, I always assumed it was “maize”, thinking “maze in the shape of a sled? That can’t be right.” Just reread the lyrics, changed my mind, and slapped my forehead with my palm.

I was hearing it as “pleasure grounds…. with maize in the shape of a sled”. But in fact, surely it’s “pleasure grounds with maze… in the shape of a sled.” I.E. the pleasure grounds are in the shape of a sled, and they have a maze. Or to put it another way, “pleasure grounds (with maze), in the shape of a sled.” If you see what I mean.

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:09:17 +0000

Oh yeah, anyway I only came on to say it’s confirmed as “maze”.

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:06:37 +0000

I asked about the “hath/had” thing and NB57 said no, all “has”. Might be ‘cos of double tracking on the vocals again.

I forgot to ask about my theory that the Behemoth & “seven score and nine” refers to “Cloud 149″, a seminal song by Pere Ubu, AKA David Thomas who used to be known as Crocus Behemoth. Probably one of me more bollocks theories to be fair though.

But anyway, look at this for sheer value for money in Snowdonia, very tempting.

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:42:45 +0000

Blimey you go off at a tangent and end up on a bit of a learning curve.

Anyway two more parabolic thoughts.

1. should we open up the whole “had”/”hath”/”has” debate or not bother ?

2. anyone else noticed the Pere Ubu reference in this song ? Anyone know of any other Pere Ubu references in the works ? It’s a band I’ve always wanted to know more about so maybe this is my cue.

By: Asymptote

Asymptote — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:24:55 +0000

His light show is excellent though.

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:08:36 +0000

Revisiting this thread to see what sort of nonsense I babbled whilst in my cups the other night, I happen to read the rest of the above comments for the first time.

Chris I can’t agree with your contentious point that it would need to be “a maze”. The sort of guidebook/leaflet/estate agent blurb that is being parodied would rarely have an indefinite article. Notice how few there are in, for example, a list like this one from a veritable doyen of topiary:

http://www.maze-world.com/BritainHedge.htm

Meanwhile, off at an entirely different tangent, I noticed some fairly obvious common ground between the idea of an “evening of swing” and the image of “a real rat pack” when I happened upon various websites mentioning this particular tribute artist.

http://www.monitormusic.com/other_bands/robbie.html

Can definitely imagine the sort of people that would book him, or indeed he himself, in a stretch limo, preferably at the bottom of a very deep ravine indeed.

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:03:27 +0000

Now this is what I call quite tasteful, with the towering pomp of EoS in the top 15 not of the year but of the decade:
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/now-hear

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:24:55 +0000

Just in case you would like to see what it looks like between Glyder Fach and Glyder Fawr… http://www.flickr.com/photos/simon_holt/2572574105/

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:51:07 +0000

As a postscript to my comments in the National Shite Day Thread, I notice that the only other Biscuits number in dandelionradio.com's Festive Fifty for 2008 is 'Problem Chimp' at number 35. Hmm. Again, had there been a year of proper Peel shows, the results would surely have featured the immense, the TOWERING "Evening of Swing", somewhere in the Top ten or fifteen, behind NSD in its rightful spot at number one ?