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Sunday is a funday

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Re: Sunday is a funday

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Postby AleisterCrowley » February 16th, 2018, 3:36 pm

Do ice cream vans have bells ? The ones back home when I were a lad played a distorted version of the 'Match of the Day' theme.

Anyway, obligatory Housman

Here of a Sunday morning
My love and I would lie,
And see the coloured counties,
And hear the larks so high
About us in the sky.

The bells would ring to call her
In valleys miles away:
‘Come all to church, good people;
Good people, come and pray.’
But here my love would stay.

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Re: Sunday is a funday

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Postby bungeejumper » February 17th, 2018, 10:46 am

When I were a lad in the fifties, the local Italian ice cream vendor (much loved) had proper bells on his van. But eventually ice cream vans went over to playing recordings of (mostly boring) bell sounds. I don't know how it was in some parts of Scotland, where as I remember it, the preferred accompaniment in the 1980s was the sound of shotguns and breaking glass (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars) .

More innocently, Housman's poem (as extemporised by private Eye), went:

"The bells that sound on Bredon
Are cracked as Busby's mum.
Oh sodding bells, be dumb!
The week is still to come."

BJ

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Re: Sunday is a funday

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Postby stewamax » February 17th, 2018, 4:01 pm

I had always thought the repeated phrase The Bells was from Charles Laughton a.k.a. Hunchback Quasimodo.
Until that is I read EA Poe's eponymous poem: not quite The Raven (his best known poem) or Helen (perhaps his best) but wonderful to recite. The first few lines are my favourite description of a cold clear night in winter.

So herewith the obligatory Poe:

Hear the sledges with the bells-
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
etc

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Re: Sunday is a funday

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Postby TUK020 » February 17th, 2018, 4:18 pm

While on the subject of bells.......

As a kid, did you enjoy ringing people's doorbells? And then running away, to leave them bewildered and frustrated?

If so, Parcelforce are recruiting in your area.

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Re: Sunday is a funday

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Postby AndyPandy » February 18th, 2018, 5:31 pm

Eric Morecambe's take on it

https://youtu.be/sedG1kBtn1M


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