The Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project

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110 pop songs picked over by pedants!

Writing on the sole of your slipper with a biro

Of course The Best Things In Life is best remembered for the refrain there is nothing better in life than writing on the sole of your slipper with a biro but I’m rather fond of we’ve seen the prices at the zoo as well. And send me back to art school if I’m wrong, but isn’t the painting of a bloke with an apple in front of his face by Magritte, not Dali? I’ll get me coat.

See lyrics of The Best Things In Life

4 Letters Sent:
  1. Neil G

    It was Magritte. I like the one of the bloke with his nose growing into his pipe, used as the cover for Alan Hull’s Pipedream album. Good album. Good picture.

    One small point: ’skeptical’ is usually an American spelling. The British version is ’sceptical’. I can’t tell the difference upon listening but…
    I’ll just skip wilfully off to pedant’s corner.

  2. SL Obispo

    Pedants’ Corner, shurely, Neil? ;)

  3. Neil G

    Not necessarily. It could be a corner specifically set aside for a single pedant who must remain there until the next pedant comes along to displace him. However, I take your point. (Exit left stewing surlily).

  4. Petrovic

    Or indeed Pedantry Corner, as Private Eye has given in and renamed its own after just this sort of demonstration of virtuoso anorakery.

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