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Malcy
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 Re:Pipped to the post - 2004/11/24 14:30 I have a recording off the radio of Jake doing "Our Dog" and he sings "You bark at 'The Archers', you fart at our parties" which I have always preferred and found funnier - although now, there is a rock band called "The Darkness" and Jake's original lyric is more topical, again !

p.s. I bet your Jake never did as many variations of any one song as Ian and I have achieved with "I stayed off work today"...

...possibly even when only considering the Jake's Wake rendition... Eranu !
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KeithD
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 Re:Pipped to the post - 2004/11/24 16:33 Malcy wrote:
I have a recording off the radio of Jake doing "Our Dog" and he sings "You bark at 'The Archers', you fart at our parties"
That's the one where he listens to the gramophone, too, I think, and memory insists there are a few more minor differences. These are probably deliberate evolutionary changes, on the same level as Big Bad Wotsischangingname.

Any sensible dog would howl at (really: along with) 'The Darkness' - as I do, until my son eventually turns them off.
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SJosephine
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 Re:Pipped to the post - 2004/12/27 20:47 Although this is wild speculation, I wonder if there would have been any link in Jake's mind with the expression, 'I should cocoa!' meaning, 'it's not likely mate'.


Example: "Will you sell me that guitar for $20?"
"I should cocoa!"

I've often heard it abbreviated to just 'cocoa' - almost as one might say, 'Huh!' or 'Push off" (I'm being polite here) as a response to a foolish request.

So, taken down the line, it sometimes means, 'Rubbish!' or something not worth bothering with (in meaning if not in literal sense).

So did he mean that if he were into all that rubbish with philosophers, he wouldn't have owt to do with her?


Well, it fills up an idle moment doesn't it?
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aberoy
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 Re:Pipped to the post - 2005/05/24 15:58 I've always thought that the line in question was a play on Kant/Cant. The latter works well for me and the ambiguity adds to the line.
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aberoy
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 Re:Pipped to the post - 2005/05/24 15:58 I've always thought that the line in question was a play on Kant/Cant. The latter works well for me and the ambiguity adds to the line.
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