tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258082.post115680685095882689..comments2024-01-12T08:44:54.145+00:00Comments on While looking for something else...: On not being able to say something.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258082.post-1157092393201202842006-09-01T07:33:00.000+01:002006-09-01T07:33:00.000+01:00I quite like Betjeman. Hated him in school but som...I quite like Betjeman. Hated him in school but something 'clicked' later on. It's like watching Frasier, I think - you don't get it and then one day you wake up and start laughting.<BR/>Anyway, a simple Google search shows that 'Slough' was written in 2004.<BR/>Erm... that can't be right, but Google clearly can't be wrong.<BR/><BR/>Here's what David Brent had to say about it in the BBC documentary series "The Office"<BR/>“This is the poem Slough, by Sir John Betjemen,<BR/>probably never been here in his life. ‘Come friendly<BR/>bombs and fall on Slough, it isn’t fit for humans<BR/>now.’ Right, I don’t think you solve town planning<BR/>problems by dropping bombs all over the place, he’s<BR/>embarrassed himself there. Next ‘In labour saving<BR/>homes with care, their wives frizz out peroxide hair,<BR/>and dry it in synthetic air, and paint their nails-’<BR/>they wanna look nice, what’s the matter, doesn’t he<BR/>like girls? ‘And talks of sports and makes of cars,<BR/>and various bogus Tudor bars, and daren’t look up and see the stars, but belch instead.’ What's he on about?<BR/>What, has he never burped? ‘Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, to get it ready for the plough. The cabbages are coming now, the earth exhales-’ He’s the only cabbage round here. And they made him a knight of the realm. Overrated.”Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04982088638354238795noreply@blogger.com