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Katharine wrote:Anybody know why I should think of the word fishslice when I hear the expression word in edgeways?

Flanders & Swan

marty wrote:

Katharine wrote:Anybody know why I should think of the word fishslice when I hear the expression word in edgeways?

Flanders & Swan

Thanks Marty - I have been wondering for a long time!
I went to see them in London one Christmas - it must have been 1959 or 1960, we had a box and felt very superior! My OB father laughed loudly at a joke that nobody else appreciated (Boy was I embarrassed!!! ) Michael Flanders looked up at us and said "It's good to have an educated gentleman in the audience tonight!", made my Dad's day!

Katharine wrote:

marty wrote:

Katharine wrote:Anybody know why I should think of the word fishslice when I hear the expression word in edgeways?

Flanders & Swan

Thanks Marty - I have been wondering for a long time!
I went to see them in London one Christmas - it must have been 1959 or 1960, we had a box and felt very superior! My OB father laughed loudly at a joke that nobody else appreciated (Boy was I embarrassed!!! ) Michael Flanders looked up at us and said "It's good to have an educated gentleman in the audience tonight!", made my Dad's day!

Flanders and Swan were geniuses, Katherine! Although their stuff is very dated it's still very funny and clever. I grew up listening to them as my parents always used to play their songs in the car.

I am going to have to try and get some of their stuff from the net. You have mentioned them several times. You have got me curious now

marty wrote:

Katharine wrote:

marty wrote: Flanders & Swan

Thanks Marty - I have been wondering for a long time!
I went to see them in London one Christmas - it must have been 1959 or 1960, we had a box and felt very superior! My OB father laughed loudly at a joke that nobody else appreciated (Boy was I embarrassed!!! ) Michael Flanders looked up at us and said "It's good to have an educated gentleman in the audience tonight!", made my Dad's day!

Flanders and Swan were geniuses, Katherine! Although their stuff is very dated it's still very funny and clever. I grew up listening to them as my parents always used to play their songs in the car.

Think you got me into them at CH Marty!

Please no one take that comment the wrong way

Jonathan and Tom Rheinhold sang a selection of Flanders and Swan at a Courtroom do for old people a few weeks ago. He also sang "Philological Waltz" and the "Hippopotamus Song" (complete with the chorus in the Cornish Language) at the Peele Arts festival last term.

Jonathan and Tom can be seen fooling around miming in Jonathan's room in Peele A last term on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrazKExUaME

I believe the video recording was made well after midnight when the chances of being disturbed were minimal. Jonathan's copy of the Flanders and Swan songs makes a subliminal appearance when Tom drops it to flatten the "spider".

... and for those who like this sort of thing (does anybody???) there is, alas!, more misuse of Jonathan's sleeping time in his room on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAAy-Kkx ... er&search=