Whiteness Thy Name Is Meltonian has two or three individual lines in it which I know are amongst the favourites of several people. And that coda – it’s almost pop music… Meltonian, by the way, still exists. It’s a brand which, despite being sold to the Americans, is so achingly traditional it apparently doesn’t need a proper website – and you won’t see much of a mention of it anywhere from its current owner, the mighty Sara Lee Corporation. Thanks to Grim, Jon A, Jon F and gNick
See lyrics to Whiteness Thy Name Is Meltonian
Ben
tyre ’round’ a lampost Shirley?
21 November 2009
Chris The Siteowner
Indeed, no idea what I was doing there. And don’t call me…
21 November 2009
Dave F.
Should Duck Stab have an exclamation mark after it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Stab!
21 November 2009
dagenham dave
I think it should be ‘I wanna live….” rather than ‘I want to…”
and on a slightly less pedantic point I always heard ‘you’ rather than ‘youth’. However I have just listened to it on a rather poor sounding stereo so will listen to it again on something better and come back to you.
22 February 2010
dagenham dave
I’m now sure it’s ‘you’ rather than ‘youth’.
24 February 2010
Peter Gandy
I’m in the ‘youth’ camp. I think Nigel would use assonance rather than rhyme you with you, and have just listened through good quality headphones and am sure of it. I agree with wanna live though.
I love the pronunciation of directions emphasising the t.
24 February 2010
Dave F.
Again, from the lyric page it’s ‘youth’ & ‘want to’ but it’s definitely sung as ‘wanna’.
24 February 2010
dagenham dave
‘you’ is rhymed with ‘you’ in Corgi Registered Friends.
Doesn’t strengthen my argument one jot, just thought I’d share this vital piece of information with you all.
27 February 2010
Peter Gandy
Probably more repetition than rhyme, but I take your point.
28 February 2010
steve nicholls
Chris, I’m most impressed at how carefully you noted down all the ba ba bas and la la las
5 May 2010
ACIDIC REGULATOR
“Frailty, thy name is woman”, Hamlet.
4 August 2012
Dr Desperate
“The graveyards are full of boys who were very young, and very proud.”
Chris (Yul Brynner), The Magnificent Seven.
19 June 2013
Paul s
The distinguished lady whipping the top of an egg is just the best line ever
30 August 2014
Dr Desperate
The ‘cemeteries are full…’ quote apparently goes back, in various forms, to 1907.
9 September 2014
JUST MARK
I’ve never seen a tyre around a lampost around here, plenty of trainers dangling from phone wires though.
22 September 2014
toastkid
Just Mark – there’s an urban legend that trainers on the phone wires mark the location of a drug dealer’s house.
23 September 2014
JUST MARK
@Toastkid – An update on the travelling salesman / gypsy / burglar ‘marks on your house’ legend? It could be true but I would expect to see phone lines sagging under the weight of footwear in some parts of Manchester. You’d have to be a fairly accurate shot as well if you didn’t want your neighbours to be knocked up in the small hours.
23 September 2014
JUST MARK
Can’t believe the ‘Slough of Despond’ Wikipedia page has no reference to this song. I prefer ‘slough of inanity’ from Dickens’s Hard Times but it doesn’t scan.
8 October 2014
dickhead in quicksand
Frank Sinatra – I’m gonna live till I die – any takers?
2 April 2015
Dr Desperate
OK, I’ll see your Frank Sinatra, and I’ll raise you The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem’s ‘The Moonshiner’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcAmrVQjleE
2 April 2015
dickhead in quicksand
I’ll reraise with Roscoe Holcomb, purely from general principles.
2 April 2015
dickhead in quicksand
@@Just Mark – “Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.” I just did, it must have taken all of 30 seconds to add WTNIM to the SoD article.
2 April 2015
JUST MARK
@DiQ – Ah, but I consider myself a someone. Anyway, I only had to wait ½ a year. Point taken though, I’ll do some WikiEditing.
3 April 2015
JUST MARK
‘Slough of Despond’ appears in Dickens’ ‘Little Dorrit’. It’s a rubbish novel so far but that cheered me up.
13 April 2015
Dr Desperate
“This miry Slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore is it called the Slough of Despond.”
(Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress)
14 April 2015
JUST MARK
@DD – You could have posted that under ‘Harpurhey’.
14 April 2015
dr desperate
Or Goole.
14 April 2015
EXXO
Can’t we bring forward the Mansfield thread, just for tonight?
Last chance for them and Carlisle to get dragged into it tonight. And if that happens Peter Mc and myself can dream on in solidarity. If not it starts to get a bit dog-eat-monkey-hanger in the trapdoor area.
Meanwhile…
“Shit on the scabbers, shit on the scabbers tonight…”
14 April 2015
peter mcornithologist
Indeed Exxo. 30 years later and still the Mansfield miners are recalled with much loathing in County Durham.
14 April 2015
Bobby SVARC
Leicestershire pits hated Scargill as well as Notts, My mate was trying to get to Bagworth to start his shift when he confronted by a load of Barnsley miners picketing the gate, “I’ve carried this banner for 90 miles for you” one said, My mate, Cammy pipes up “Why? I don’t want the fucker”
14 April 2015
Transit full of keith
12 days into the Pyeongchang Winter Games and still a no gold-medal situation for the Olympic Athletes of Russia. “My, my Meldonium, what would I do without you …?”
21 February 2018
Featureless tv producer steve
Everything’s not OAR.
22 February 2018
MISTER TUBBS
My mum often wonders how many full houses she might’ve got, if they’d had out of competition testing when she used to do the bingo
22 February 2018
Bad loser
Guardian MBM on the Liverpool v Real Madrid game last night:
‘72 Min Liverpool, understandably, look like they’re in the slough of despond’
22 February 2023