Comments on: And is it home to sharks?

By: Chris The Siteowner

Chris The Siteowner — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:40:15 +0000

OK, no comma it is.

By: John Burscough

John Burscough — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:12:38 +0000

Anyway, moving on. Is it Palermo in Sicily (where the brothels have supposedly been shut down for decades and gives its name to the anti-human trafficking Palermo Protocol), or Palermo the red light district in Buenos Aires?
We really ought to know.

By: Rowan

Rowan — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:52:05 +0000

Unless he means that the police are the ones wearing fluorescent bibs. Anyway, in my humble, there should definitely not be a comma.

By: Rowan

Rowan — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:51:04 +0000

In my personal experience, there are no fluorescent bibs in brothels in Palermo. In my personal experience.

By: John Burscough

John Burscough — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:28:25 +0000

Could go either way. Here's a nice picture of a doggy.

By: Vendor of Quack Nostrums

Vendor of Quack Nostrums — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:40:30 +0000

No comma. No other comment.

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:22:43 +0000

Cheers Rowan for drawing our attention back to this one. When I previously read Matt’s comment above I assumed he was in a minority of one, and who was just someone who hadn’t come across the fairly common sight of police dogs in fluorescent bibs. But I hadn’t noticed that Chris had actually written the lyric in the highly debateable way that Matt suggested: ‘Fluorescent bibs’ surely can’t be a narrative development along the lines of ‘Police cars’. What do other readers think?

By: Rowan

Rowan — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:36:43 +0000

This is wildly late, but I’m certain that it’s the dogs that are in bibs – every sniffer dog I’ve ever seen working for the police wears one.

By: John Burscough

John Burscough — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:17:23 +0000

The twin town/suicide pact bit is probably a reference to the late Linda Smith, who used to say her home town of Erith in Bexley wasn’t twinned with anywhere, but it did have a suicide pact with Dagenham. When she was starting out in Sheffield in the 80′s the pact was apparently with Rotherham.
Goole is funnier (unless you live there).

By: Jitsu G

Jitsu G — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:46:07 +0000

My other half has just corrected me, you are right Neil, I shall clean my ears out before being so hasty in future