h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

love it

You have captured a "Manilow in space" moment for me, that I'm going to gleely pass on to my grown-up children (we are all closet Barry Manilow fans, but we don't discuss it on Facebook)


I'm also reminded of Norman "Hurricane" Smith who wrote and sang one of my all-time favourite tracks, "Don't Let It Die", (singing wasn't his day job but that single is a classic)
here's a video with the song, be warned, some of the images aren't pretty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32IBF_RHAV8



GB

Alas, that video was blocked here on copyright grounds.

But I'm glad you liked the singers.

Manilow's got his good points. Not least of which is that he inspired my favourite parody, by Ray Stevens:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wyJg3mqjrE

I'm sure there were others

Well, I never heard that before, or if I did, I'd forgotten it! When I hear the name Ray Stevens I think of "The Streak" in fact a line from that song has permeated British culture (obviously with people of a certain age) although my grown-up kids say it too, because they picked it up from me. I actually wrote the entry "Streakers and Streaking" because of my fondness for it.

The line is "Don't look Ethel!" and we almost fell about laughing when Ian and I both said the same (when one elderly lady at his Mum's Old Folks Home got out of her chair, lifted her skirt and attempted to remove her knickers). Ian turned his head and I to find a carer to take care of business.

Oh, dear.

Yeah, people remember that line. I think that was Steven's most popular hit.

And I remember when I looked up from my medieval research one day in the 70s, and saw the riot out my dorm window...down in the Quad, they were streaking...laughed my head off.

alien weather I missed that one, I'm slipping up


to look for some weather