Lego. Gasman. Cometh.

[desperance]

By the courtesy of kevin_standlee, from whom I ganked it:

I need to point out that I watched this in Total Silence, on account of having no sound on this machine, and I laughed out loud anyway. This may say that I know the song too well? But anyway: "The Gasman Cometh". Flanders & Swann. & Lego.

[It's YouTube, and smart people embed these things, I know, but I don't know how. So it's just a link, 'k?]

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[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

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[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Heee!

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Goodness, I haven't heard any Flanders & Swann since I was a child. Of course when I was little I particularly liked "Pee po belly bum drawers", but that's ebcasue I was a wicked child.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

In high school, my friends and I memorized "At the Drop of a Hat" and "At the Drop of Another Hat."

I mean, Charles and I could do both albums straight through word-for-word. And we're Americans . . . .

It's been disconcerting -- the version on the CDs we have now is slightly different than the version that our library had -- and it always throws me.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yup, me too and me too: my first encounter (at the same sort of age) was my stepmother's records, which were the originals: which meant that "At the Drop of a Hat" was a mono recording. Later in the run they recorded it again in stereo, which is the one you tend to get these days, and it's different. Only a little, but sometimes he says different words. It's all wrong.

[euphoricstimuli.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of that, or them before. But for me, given a new element for our imersion heater has resulted in a new heater/water tank & has taken over a week longer than planned, thats made me laugh a lot. In a fairly ironic, hollow way.

[markdeniz.livejournal.com]

Excellent - a bit of Lego always cheers me up!

[tychist.livejournal.com]

Now that's the way to cheer up a dismal December day

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Glad I could brighten up people's days. In fact, the situation here at my apartment hasn't been quite as dire as the one described in the song, but I have grown rather tired of having so much of my furniture out of place (in particular, bookshelves displaced) while we waited for the series of repairs to be completed. Now the paint is try on the final repair -- without painting over the gas tap -- and tonight I can put the bookshelves back and restore the rest of the furniture to their rightful places.