Never seen death yet, Dickie ?

[venta]

Well... every so often I spit out a lyrics quiz. But I thought for a change we'd have a poetry quiz.

Disclaimer: my taste in poems runs towards the old-fashioned and I've tried to stick to poems I expect to be well-known. This quiz is drawn from things which spring immediately to my mind, which mostly means things I learned by heart when I was little. exspelunca is not barred from entering, but she is barred from winning on the grounds she has an unfair advantage, having taught me most of them :)


[Poll #1542458]

Comments

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Admit it, you were actually brought up during the 1950s ;-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Morally, yes. I'm also good on The Goon Show, The Navy Lark, and ways to make a nutrtious meal out of a tin of corned beef :)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Mm, corned beef and potato pie.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Corned beef fritters!

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Sweet and sour corned beef balls!

[venta.livejournal.com]

OK, now you're scaring me.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Is corned beef balls what you get when you get into too hot a bath on a cold day?

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Left hand down a bit.

[venta.livejournal.com]

:)

Do you also say "the wick in the engine's gone out" when someone stalls a car?

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I have 'twinging screws' and 'umgrummits' as tags on my LJ. :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

The result of googling for "umgrummits" is slightly surprising.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Ha! That is a thread from alt.usage.english, in a very strange format. (It's a running joke in aue that I am about 30 years older than I really am, thanks to my love of things like Round the Horne and The Navy Lark, among others.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

You're not alone. A while ago a friend of mine looked most surprised at my laughing at one of his jokes, and complained that my sense of humour was at least forty years older than I am.

He's one of the few people I know who, without affectation, still refers to "the wireless".

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, no, but I will start immediately!

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Do any of them involve throwing the corned beef away and eating the tin?

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Where do you stand on Kenneth Horne? (Preferably not on him.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Less familiar, but still pro. Mostly he's left me with a total inability to keep a straight face if someone introduces themselves as Julian.

[shui-long.livejournal.com]

I have the same problem. Though all the Sandys I know are female.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

What a nice idea! You have similar taste to me, though we have different favourites (as will be obvious from how many I get wrong).

[venta.livejournal.com]

Actually, I thought of you when I was writing it as I was wondering whether I ought to put a Tennyson poem in. Couldn't bring myself to, though, as I've still not met one I like much. Which is bad of me, because I'm sure you recommended some reading last time we had a poetry-related thread and I haven't gone and investigated.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I thought I wasn't going to get any of them, but lathany's a big fan of the last so I know it quite well.

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

I have a bunch of nagging familiarity and not much else. I ought to know at least three more than I have answered, and I'm not convinced the one I answered is right. On the other hand, I thoroughly approve of this effort of yours.

poetry and such

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

Glad something I taught you stuck! I like your choices. I'm just amazed you haven't also picked up on e.g. "I go, I come back" from the 1940s radio shows we also remember (and have on cassette).

Re: poetry and such

[venta.livejournal.com]

Is that a quote from something? I thought it was just something Dad said when he went out!

Re: poetry and such

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

ITMA! My mum says that one a lot too.

So far this year I've read three books about Light Entertainment in the UK, and now I will have to go and re-read my embarrassingly large collection of LE auto/biographies... :)

Re: poetry and such

[(Anonymous)]

That, along with "Can I do you now, Sir?", "After you Cecil", "Can I peddle on your pier?" etc are from ITMA/Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh.

[keris.livejournal.com]

I may not have taken this entirely seriously...