Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On Oct 22, 8:56 am, ca...@wrhpv.com (Carol Hague) wrote:
>> Lesley Weston <brightly_coloured_b...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Carol Hague wrote:
>>>> Lesley Weston <brightly_coloured_b...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> Carol Hague wrote:
>>>>>> Lesley Weston <brightly_coloured_b...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>> Carol Hague wrote:
>>>>>>>> He informed me that it was by a country group called the Highwaymen, who
>>>>>>>> appeared to consist of Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson
>>>>>>>> and some other bloke he'd never heard of.
>>>>>>>> The identity of this obscure country artist?   Waylon Jennings.... :-)
>>>>>>> Who?
>>>>>> A member of a beat combo formerly popular with the youth m'lud :-)
>>>>>> He was pretty well known by a lot of folk, such that I was surprised Rob
>>>>>> had never heard of him .
>>>>> I really must start using smilies...
>>>> Sorry Lesley - being acquainted in another group with a lady of your
>>>> generation who claims never to have heard anything by the Beatles, I
>>>> thought you might be serious....
>>> I liked your "a popular group, m'lud" line, though.
>> I pinched that from somewhere, but having a brain like a wossname (you
>> know, bowl shaped, holes in ...) I can't remember where. Possibly "Not
>> The Nine O'Clock News" although it sounds a tad sedate for them.

> There's a sketch by some or all of those guys where a lawyer is
> getting words wrong, could be the same one, the same studio at least.
> I think one part of it goes something like:

> PROSECUTION:  The defendant has no aleeby.
> DEFENCE: What!
> PROSECUTION: No aleeby.  He has no aleeby.
> DEFENCE: ALIBI!  The word is alibi!  He has no alibi!  ...er...

Richard Bos wrote:
> Nigel Stapley <u...@judgemental.plus.com> wrote:

>> Rgemini wrote:

>>> # For Tell! And Switzerland! #
>> Must be one of the most unchilling battle cries in history, that...

> There speaks a man who does not know that the Dutch language has a
> proverb "No money, no Switzers". The banks and the mountains are not the
> only reasons why Switzerland managed to stay neutral through two world
> wars. They may seem relatively innocent now, but for many centuries the
> Swiss were some of the most feared hirelings in Europe. It all started
> in the first couple of paragraphs of Caesar's De Bello Gallico, and
> there's still a remnant of it in the Pope's Swiss Guard. We may now look
> on the latter's costume as clownish, but in Michelangelo's day it would
> have been the human equivalent of a wasp's stripes.

Robert Carnegie wrote:
> Sabremeister Brian wrote:
>> After first reading about the Lady Chatterly case, I considered
>> that maybe the prosecution /were/ with the times - they recognised
>> that the law was out of date, and inflicting a crushing defeat on
>> the censor's office would be one of the quickest and surest ways
>> of getting the law changed.

> But the prosecution is The Crown - the monarch and/or the government.
> Changing the law /that/ way would be quite odd.  And according to
> Wikipedia the law had just /been/ changed so that if a work was of
> literary merit it was okay.  Apparently this case was treated as a
> test of what that phrase actually meant.

> And if you've seen obscene literature without literary merit and also
> with literary merit, which do you prefer?

Ferd Burfle wrote:
> Robert Carnegie wrote:
> > Sabremeister Brian wrote:
> >> After first reading about the Lady Chatterly case, I considered
> >> that maybe the prosecution /were/ with the times - they recognised
> >> that the law was out of date, and inflicting a crushing defeat on
> >> the censor's office would be one of the quickest and surest ways
> >> of getting the law changed.

> > But the prosecution is The Crown - the monarch and/or the government.
> > Changing the law /that/ way would be quite odd.  And according to
> > Wikipedia the law had just /been/ changed so that if a work was of
> > literary merit it was okay.  Apparently this case was treated as a
> > test of what that phrase actually meant.

> > And if you've seen obscene literature without literary merit and also
> > with literary merit, which do you prefer?

> "The one with the big tits."

"redtiger" <redtigeriiS...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I need the name and composer of a piece of music. This being a text
> medium it will be hard for me to get my idea across but here goes.
> The music is most often used to accompany horse races (cartoons etc.).
> For those who have been to variety theatre they may know it as the
> titty bum song.

Sofia wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:55:11 +1000
> "redtiger" <redtigeriiS...@iinet.net.au> wrote:

> > I need the name and composer of a piece of music. This being a text
> > medium it will be hard for me to get my idea across but here goes.
> > The music is most often used to accompany horse races (cartoons etc.).
> > For those who have been to variety theatre they may know it as the
> > titty bum song.

> Hello Redtiger

> I'm not sure about cartoons, but if you're talking about "Horse riding"
> I remember Mozart's "A Musical Joke" used to be the theme tune of the
> BBC's "Horse of the Year Show".

> Hope that's helped

> Sofie