Matthew Quinn is metting his mixaphors:
"There's a faint ticking that I can hear and it's getting louder," he said in a speech yesterday. "The fuse is burning, and current metropolitan planning strategies are inadequate for our growing and ageing population."
Do you click the fuse or light the timer?
Posted by: Tony | 17 March 2010 at 11:26
Typically the ageing population shrink rather than grow.
Posted by: TimT | 17 March 2010 at 11:48
And since when to ticking time bombs get louder as detonation approaches?
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 17 March 2010 at 18:28
Boom shake shake shake the room. Boom shake shake shake the room. Boom shake shake shake the room. Tick tick tick tick boom!!
Y'all better recognise.
Posted by: DJ Jiizy Jeff's mate | 17 March 2010 at 18:32
Well whaddya expect when you lead a horse to smoke without fire?
Posted by: Nabakov | 17 March 2010 at 21:58
DJ Jiizy Jeff's mate's comment has just reminded me of another great weird disco song.
"I like to do the things you like to do. So push, push in the bush.'
Posted by: Nabakov | 17 March 2010 at 22:09
And while we're cheerfully mixing metaphors and song stylings, here's some blasts from the past.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JZ4aLBjzFI - the best ever Israeli style sixties trad jazz revival song.
Which leads inevitably to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkIJQxzuc8A - written by the same guy who also wrote "The Crying Game" and "There's A Kind of Hush (all over the world tonight)"
and then to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxzg_iM-T4E
Yeah, on yer bike sonny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOMIJUwbGb8
Posted by: Nabakov | 17 March 2010 at 22:54
Uncanny similaritaneousness. Watching Cinderella Rockefella I was also reminded of Winchester Cathedral which reminded me of... Love is Blue, which reminded me of Those Were The Days, which would have reminded me of In the Year 2525 if I hadn't already been reminded of it at trivia on Tuesday night.
Posted by: Tony | 18 March 2010 at 11:08
None of those reminded me of this.
Posted by: Tony | 18 March 2010 at 11:10
Got anything to remind me to take out the bins Tuesday night?
Always something there to remind me - yeah the bin
Posted by: Francis Xavier Holden | 21 March 2010 at 14:03
I'm often reminded to take the bins out on a Tuesday night. I go to put something in them and they are full. Of course, my bins go out on Sunday night, so this is less useful a reminder than you'd think.
Posted by: Russ | 23 March 2010 at 16:48
Was so tired when I got home Sunday night that I forgot to put the bins out. Now I will have a full bin for a week and miss out on that strange feeling - call it a "bin high" - you get when you successfully get rid of a week's load of rubbish. I love that empty bin feeling.
Posted by: Tony | 23 March 2010 at 17:15
Bin there, done that.
Posted by: Nabakov | 24 March 2010 at 12:07