ANSWER ME!

[slemslempike]

[Poll #573296]


Yes, of course I've done my presentation.
Some of it.
In my MIND.
Look, a pterodactyl is making off with Margaret Thatcher's wig! *runs*
(BBC news reported the break up of Mark Thatcher's marriage, and included this paragraph:

"Educated at Harrow, he left in 1971 with just three O-levels. He did not go to university, and failed his accountancy exams three times."

And then they begrudgingly admit that he's actually quite successful.

Comments

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Oh, the happy-clappy hymns! Welcome to my primary school experience.

[hope]

SHEEP ARE CUTE
SHEEP ARE BEAUT
SHEEP ARE SOFT AND CURLY
BUT WHEN I TAKE 'EM INTO TOWN
I HAVETA START OFF EARLY
CAUSE
THEY NEVER GO THE WAY I WANT
AND I NEED SOMEONE TO HELP ME
I JUST GIVE A WHISTLE
AND I CALL FOR BOB THE KELPIE!


i don't know any of those hymns, but i did sing 'bob the kelpie' constantly for one 8-hour roadtrip in a small call with 5 slightly over-sized fangirls.

WHEEEEEEE!

[hope]

a small car, even.

sorry, the memories overwhelmed me and i couldn't see my brain the keyboard for a moment.

[peeeeeeet.livejournal.com]

Also, Colours of day dawn into the mind, the sun has come up, the night is behind, go down in the ciiiiity into the street, and let's give the message to the people we meet. Etc.

Hymn writers are so lazy. That one doesn't even really have a melody, the notes just go upwards for a bit then downwards for a bit then upwards again. It's very wrong.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

I think anything up to 20,000 words is a dissertation and most theses are around 50,000-100,000 words. But I don't what comes in between.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

And we used to sing hymns written to the theme tunes of Eastenders and Van Der Valk. 'Way long ago in the days of the prophets, they told of a king to beeeeeeee,/ Called by the name of Wonderful Counsellor, coming to set men freeeeeeee.' Etc.

[peeeeeeet.livejournal.com]

OMG!!!!!! We used to play "Eye Level", which is the rather odd name for the Van Der Valk tune, in my high school band. We never sung no words to it though.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

'For in the city of Bethlehem, people were crowded at Caesar's express decreeeeeeee. / In their midst were a man and a woman from Nazareth in Galileeeeeeee.....'

Catchy, isn't it?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

alicamel is deprived! She was forced to sing proper hymns, and doesn't know the ones from Come and Praise! They are very singable, especially for car journeys.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what the tune is for that. Or I would try to emulate you. I did make up a song with my sister about Spot the Dog which we were banned from singing by my parents.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I think that's what I think. Generally there isn't anything in the middle, you either write up to 20 or over 50. Which is a little odd.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what you're singing.

[hope]

i wish i could sing it for you. i would offer to record myself singing it and send it to you, but i'm not quite sure i could bring myself to do that.

i love banned songs, especially when they're made up ones. they're always the best. ah, the power of music. *happy sigh*

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

You don't know 'Autumn Days'? With the highly religious line "jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled"? You are also deprived.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

PHONE POST!

[whatho.livejournal.com]

That's the one to the tune of Van der Valk. I think it's very possible that the words were written by our crazy music teacher because I've not come across them anywhere else. The Eastenders one was about Papa Panov. A shoemaker. ::Drum roll thing:: 'Papa Panov dreamed a dream. In his dream he saw...the Christ Child before him....' It sort of fits.

[hope]

i ain't in the states, there isn't an australian number service for it, unfortunately. let me limewire it for ya.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I don't know what Van der Valk is either!

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

You didn't mention 'Cucumber, My Lord, Cucumber'!

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that actually does rind a vague bell now you mention it. You forget, though, how long ago my primary school days were.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Limewire? Vot is zees limewire of vich you spik?

[whatho.livejournal.com]

To the Internet Movie Database with you this instant. It's a detective thing set in Amsterdam. 1972. I've never seen it.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

But you can't ever forget Autumn Days. Ever.

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

When I say "rind" I of course mean "ring". There wasn't some appalling "peal"-based pun intended there.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

I couldn't stand that 'great big thank you' line. Mumbled it every time.