Showing posts with label Mickey & Sylvia. Show all posts
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Thursday, 18 June 2026

Another Day #17: Don't Panic!

Lots of things to be aware of today! For a start, it's National Clean Air Day 2026...

The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe

Let's hope the air stays clean, because it's also International Picnic Day...

Mickey & Sylvia - Let's Have a Picnic

Suede - Picnic By The Motorway

Doubt you'll get much clean air if that's your picnic spot of choice, Bret.

Modest Mouse - It Always Rains On A Picnic

There always has to be someone who spoils it before we even get there, eh?

Let's not bother. We'll stay in and embrace some clean water instead, for National Clean Your Aquarium Day. Any excuse to play something from these guys... ooh, wait - looks like they've got a new song out!


Here's another way to clean the air. Today is also the International Day for Countering Hate Speech so this seems pretty appropriate...


Over in the USA, meanwhile, it is National Wanna Get Away Day. Who can blame them?

Here's a great bit of Memphis power pop from 1981...


And here's something a little heavier from one of Superman's arch-foes in 1993...


Finally though, and no prizes for guessing why I saved this one till last, Thursday the 18th of June is also International Panic Day. Enjoy.



Friday, 27 June 2025

Emergency Questions #9: New Laws


The Hives - The Hives Are Law, You Are Crime

Another conversation query from Richard Herring's book Emergency Questions...

If you could get a law named after you, what would it be?

Where do we begin? Perhaps by asking a couple of pop stars what laws they might institute...

There oughta be a law
Against you comin' around
You should be made
To wear earphones

Bob Dylan - Ballad Of A Thin Man

You know it doesn't make much sense
There ought to be a law against
Anyone who takes offense
At a day in your celebration

Stevie Wonder - Happy Birthday

As for myself...

Ian McNabb - There Oughta be a Law

The obvious one - a law banning Audi drivers. Or should I just ban Audis? No, no, guns don't kill people: people kill people. It's the people who want to own an Audi and drive it like a scumbag because they think they're better than everyone else... they're the real threat to society.

And there definitely ought to be a law against people who drive vehicles that break the sound barrier. You with your twin exhausts or your motorbike engines that sound like an angry road drill when you rev them up. At 11 o'clock at night. When decent folk are trying to sleep.

Wolves of Glendale - Loud Ass Car

How about a law forbidding you from having a nice long chat with your mates in the supermarket while blocking the aisle and preventing access to the frozen peas?

Or a law that forces bartenders to serve people in the actual order they got to the bar, not just the pushy / attractive ones first? (And I say this as someone who doesn't drink and therefore goes up to a bar about twice a year. This law is more for your benefit that mine.)

Kris Kristofferson - The Law Is For Protection Of The People

Better yet, a law that creates two separate queues in coffee shops. A slow queue for anyone ordering a mocha-choca-spocka-latte with whipped cream and sprinkles or any drink that involves crushed ice. And a fast track queue for people who just want coffee. Black coffee. We're not even pfaffing about with frothy steamed milk. We just want our drink. Fast.

Mickey & Sylvia - There Oughta Be A Law

And what about a law to outlaw anyone I can't stand? 

Bono. The Gallaghers. Michael McIntyre. 

When I am king, to quote Radiohead, you will be first against the wall...

Radiohead - Paranoid Android

Not to mention the ones for whom - I'm sorry - a firing squad is too good.

Donald Trump. Elon Musk. Nigel Farage. Andrew Tate.

I hope there's plenty of room in that Suffolk ditch...


If you could get a law named after you, what would it be?


Sunday, 7 April 2019

Saturday Snapshots #78 - The Answers


Hello.

It's Sunday morning. Whether you spent Saturday night Chasing Pavements or Rolling In The Deep, chances are you were also wondering about the answers to Saturday Snapshots.

Well, wonder no more... here they are! Someone Like You probably scored ten out of ten... but the prize this week has to be split between Charity Chic and Walter but both managed to score a solid three points. Alyson was a valiant runner up. Well done, guys. One message to you all though, from The Stranger...



10. Emperor found in centre of loch.


Welcome along to new player, Ramone666, who correctly identified the band. As to the Emperor...

Rosko?

Midlake - Roscoe 

9. Colour-changing muck monster.


This is a Swamp Thing.


The Chameleons - Swamp Thing

8. Too Loo, etc = devour them before they devour you!


It was an anagram!

I always like to ponder over which will be the first one answered each week. CC jumped straight in with this one yesterday, proving his superior knowledge of the Toto Coelo discography.

Toto Coelo - I Eat Cannibals

Saturday Snapshots - the quiz with no shame!

7. Firm of solicitors headed by an electrician win lottery.


Alyson guessed the obvious track - Fanfare For The Common Man.

CC bemoaned the fact that ELP had recorded more than one song. I actually prefer Lucky Man to Fanfare.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man

6. Backwards eel found in comic with burning bollocks. (Apologies to those of you who dislike foul language.)


A backwards eel would be Lee.

Jerry Lewis was a comic.

Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire

(Too easy.)

5. The Undertones sang it twice, on a stool, in cocktail town.


The Undertones sang Jimmy Jimmy.

A stool is another word for a buffet.

Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville

I do love that song.

4. Mouse & Bell Jar: Olev.


Mickey Mouse & Sylvia Plath (who wrote The Bell Jar).

Olev is love, strangely.

Mickey & Sylvia - Love Is Strange

Nobody puts Baby in the corner.

3. New York's finest love you and leave you.


Lynchie arrived late to save the day with this one.

This has got to be the saddest day of my life...

The Manhattans - Kiss & Say Goodbye

2. Shergar & Red Rum eat Elliott's burger.


Elliott Smith & a burger patty.

Patti Smith - Horses

9 minutes of utter mentalosity!

1. Number One profanity, Elton + Hugh.


Elton John.

Hugh Grant.

Too easy.

More profanities... but not quite as offensive as the one C suggested.



Remember: you could be laughing 65% more of the time!

Saturday Snapshots will return next week. (Add your own Skyfall pun here.)


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