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... sing if you're happy that way,
Hey,
Siiiing if you're glad to be gay.
Sing if you're happy that way.

Aaah, Tom Robinson, always my favourite protest singer. I still have the original 'Power in the Darkness' LP with its clenched fist stencil.

Thanks Member, you've reminded me I need to get it out, dust it off, and transfer it to CD .

Blessings,
Matholwch /|\.

Do you think Justin can carry a tune?

I'd rather see him carrying a cross

Blessings,
Matholwch /|\.

I think we can agree he certainly has a cross to bear...

And there was me thinking that he was the cross we bore....

No, he is the bore who makes us cross.

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az

My personal favourite protest song is called "Protest Song", by Neil Innes, sung to an acoustic guitar and harmonicky in a nasal style that is completely nothing to do with anyone called Zimmerman, honest:

Introduced with the words "Ladies and gentlemen I've suffered for my music... now it's your turn."

"All the prophets of doom,
Can always find room,
In a world full of worry, and fear,
Tipped cigarettes,
And chemistry sets
And Rudolph, the rednosed reindeer...

So I'm going back
To ma little ol' shack
And drink
A Bottle
Of Wine
That was mis-en-bouteille
Before my birthday
And have me
A f**kin
good time...

RAIIIIIIIIN on a tin roof,
Sounds like a drum
They're marching for freedom today
(yay)
Turn on your headlights
And sound your horn
If people
Get in
The way"

etc.

My personal favourite protest song is called "Protest Song", by Neil Innes, sung to an acoustic guitar and harmonicky in a nasal style that is completely nothing to do with anyone called Zimmerman, honest:

Introduced with the words "Ladies and gentlemen I've suffered for my music... now it's your turn."

"All the prophets of doom,
Can always find room,
In a world full of worry, and fear,
Tipped cigarettes,
And chemistry sets
And Rudolph, the rednosed reindeer...

So I'm going back
To ma little ol' shack
And drink me
A Bottle
Of Wine
That was mis-en-bouteille
Before my birthday
And have me
A f**kin
good time...

RAIIIIIIIIN on a tin roof,
Sounds like a drum
They're marching for freedom today
(yay)
Turn on your headlights
And sound your horn
If people
Get in
The way"

etc.

And speaking of songs, Member, your latest name change has left me with a constant ear worm of THAT SONG! Aaaaaargh!

az

speaking of which, does member mean the same thing in the colloquial in the UK as it does in the US?

well, it does in Spanish . . .

It certainly has that meaning here in Oz, but we have a wide range of more earthy terms for the item in question so 'member' isn't often used. (I wish there was a better way of phrasing that)

Ivan.

That's true everywhere I think, Ivan. I mean, is that term ever used 'that way' other than in the worst of romantic novels?

az

I think I stumbled across it once in some faux-mediaeval thing set in a monastery. I try not to read the worst romantic novels, so I can't comment on the prevalence of the term in that setting.

My mother used to read them and when I was a kid I had a peek. I also recall rather obscure adjectives and verbs used with this term.

az