It's SWEATER, mon, always SWEATER. As in -- 'Where's your sweater?': prounounced 'sweader'. THE BUTCHER, THE BAKER, THE BANKER, THE CLERK

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What would Irving Berlin say (I poured my heart into you, son)?

I guess he'd say: so *this* is what you do when your songs have dried up: you a) start actually playing them to people and b) use mine. What would Harold Arlen say? That's the question Michael Feinstein has been raising on the radio. I don't know HA too well, but Fitzgerald did do a songbook of his work: come to think of it I have her 'Devil & The Deep Blue Sea'. Correction, it was a *double* song-book. It's funny how she uses the words 'so-and-so', isn't it? CHOCOLATE FIRM

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I wouldn't have eaten seventeen advent calendar chocolates at once, I think.

Even if it was a RANGERS advent calendar? This is not a mere frippery, you know.

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In fact, I know.

Oh, OK. NIL BY WALLET

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I got a zip. Check: zip.

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Always meet your heroes though - they say things

Is this meant to carry the secondary connotation of 'a cheque for zilch'? Or am I... reading too much into it? YET AGAIN THAT WOOLLY THING like 'I like your jumper'. It's SWEADER, mon, I keep tellin ye. KING COLE

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'Brand New Friend'. !!

Here's a reciprocal tale: not long ago I was in a bookshop, and in the mid-morning street outside a vehicle passed playing... some brassy 80s noise. I heard it distantly, affectionately, felt it meant something slight to me. Those deep-coded reactions. Then I realized it was 'Lost Weekend'. Another: I heard the same track on the Janice Long show, after midnight. What's going on? As for 'BNF' itself: try the version on LOADED. I think Quine is playing the whammy bar. And eating a, um, MOUND bar in between whams. KICK

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Have you ever tried to write a song based around only one major rhyming sound? It's not SO easy. What WOULD he say? (..looking for the tune..).

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