Comments on: Rule number one – carry on walking

By: Daryl

Daryl — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:22:43 +0000

I wonder if anyone was listening to this song on their Ipod at the precise moment when they had to put the ‘acknowledgement without breaking stride manoeuvre’ into operation?

By: SPENCER THE HALFWIT

SPENCER THE HALFWIT — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:31:44 +0000

Apparently all that took place in Littlehampton.

By: Rowan

Rowan — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:54:08 +0000

Fair enough

By: Vendor of Quack Nostrums

Vendor of Quack Nostrums — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:22:25 +0000

‘Soft Verges’ a double entendre indeed. Poppycock. Next someone’ll be claiming that ‘Prick Barriers’ should be considered a form of contraception rather than a reasonable measure to keep out undesirable chaps. What’s your beef?, whistle if you want to. Society is in turmoil; I read recently that a Bishop got bashed last week. They sent up a chopper to search for the culprit. It shone its light onto a guy with a large dagger. Took an officer with a massive fire-hose to ferret him out. Arrested him, John Thomas by name, only his friends call him Little Elvis. Claimed to be in love, ‘muscle in on my patch at your peril’ he said. ‘Keep your pecker up’ we said to him. What a tool. Musician by trade, played a pink oboe.

I’m getting bored now. Suffice to say that words is sometimes just words and not everything has hidden meaning. As Harry Carpenter said at the end of the 1977 boat race “Ah, isn’t that nice? The wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.” Now that’s double entendre; leave our soft verges alone.

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:18:52 +0000

So having agreed with you (Rowan) in the San Antonio FP thread, I have to say here that I can’t find any relevance myself in the information supplied to Gez’s site by the said Larry Duffy. Such double entendre seems to me quite out of place in the title of one of NB57′s most personal and serious songs.

Incidentally, I’d also like to take issue with Gez when he says “tales of an out-of-work actor” as if that sums up the whole song, rather than just one third of it, the stuff that the alienated narrator reads in the Radio Times. The other two thirds is set firmly in Birkenhead amongst a very different sector of the unemployed.

By: Rowan

Rowan — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:00:51 +0000

Ah yes. I’m annoyed at myself for not checking there first.

By: John Burscough

John Burscough — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:31:57 +0000

You probably read it on Gez’s HMHB website, courtesy of Dr Larry Duffy http://cobweb.businesscollaborator.com/hmhb/records/Wirral.htm , where he also quotes an Adrian Henri poem suggesting an entirely different possible meaning.

By: Rowan

Rowan — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:34:06 +0000

I swear I read on here, but apparently didn’t, that ‘verge’ here might refer the French use of that word, meaning ‘rod’, or more vulgarly, ‘penis’.

Soft Verges obviously gains new meaning with that reading…

By: graham mccavish

graham mccavish — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:06:11 +0000

yeah..unfourtunatly still drink in the swan..corner of woodchurch road and holm lane , prenton, birkenhead

By: Hagerty F.

Hagerty F. — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:01:27 +0000

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11635125