predictably NB57 said my theory was wrong that he was thinking about the Thelma in “T for Texas, T for Tennessee, T for Thelma” He just likes those old-fashioned names, e.g. Thelma, Joyce, Phyllis, Maud, etc.

As for ‘karmic’ he said he intended it in the sense of ‘mantric’
(pehaps like a long drawn-out ‘om’ sort of sound ?)

On the calming/karmic issue. Firstly it sounds like ‘karmic’ and secondly I’ve always thought it describes the rambling conversations that go from one topic seamlessly into another favoured by old folks

Thelma’s the ex who’s recently gone, for the reasons stated above – if NB had to choose a name to break up from, it would surley be Jimmie Rodgers’ Thelma. ‘They’ are partly coming round to try and cheer him up with pleasantries (plenty more fish/Amoco Cadiz type routine).

I’d like to think that certain scenes in early episodes of the brilliant TV series “Pulling” were written under influence of this song, though obviously they probably weren’t.

‘Thelma’ is one of the “they’re” coming round to look at Nige’s decorating, she’s said ‘it’ makes the room look bigger, after ‘they’ (thelma and her other half) have gone, Nigel looks at his handiwork and concedes that indeed Thelma was right, his decorating has made the room look bigger.

The answers are always in the clues people.

Korn spell their name with the Cyrillic letter ‘ya’, but I don’t suppose you have a Cyrillic keyboard. It’s a minor bugbear of mine that whenever a Russian word with an R in it is used in, for example, an advert, the R is written backwards. In the Cyrillic alphabet, the R sound is represented as a P, so Russia would be spelled as POCCNA (with the N rotated through 180 degrees). Although rotation through 180 degrees would still make it an N (doh).