Hmm. Just opened my first bottle, ever, of Madeira.

[JanMichael]

Don't rightly know what to make of this rather sweet, and fortified, wine.

Kind of reminds me of the Hungarian Tokaji.

Any Madeira experts in the haunted house?

[qwertyMike]

1. Reminds me of an old English song

HAVE SOME MADEIRA M'DEAR

She was young, she was pure, she was new, she was nice,
She was fair, she was sweet seventeen.
He was old, he was vile, and no stranger to vice,
He was base, he was bad, he was mean.
He had slyly inveigled her up to his flat
To view his collection of stamps
And he said as he hastened to put out the cat,
the wine, his cigar and the lamps:
'Have some madeira, M'dear
You really have nothing to fear
I'm not trying to tempt you, that wouldn't be right
You shouldn't drink spirits at this time of night
Have some madeira, M'dear
It's very much nicer than beer
I don't care for sherry, one cannot drink stout
and port is a wine I can well do without
It's simply a case of Chacun à son gout
Have some madeira, M'dear!'


etc.,
by Flaners & Swann
http://www.creekcats.com/pnprice/Madeira.html

[JanMichael]

2. Very cool!

Where on earth did you drag that song from, can you tell us?

Or was it in a play or musical that I ought to recognise?

[Another Bill C.]

3. The Limelighters

back in the '60s

[JanMichael]

4. Thanks!

Learn something new everday.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. The song was written by

Flanders and Swann, a British comedy team of the late 1950s, early 1960s. I know this because I once dated someone who was a fan. He had one of their albums, and it had all sorts of songs in that vein.

They had an anti-war song about a young cannibal who decides that he will no longer eat people, and all the older cannibals use the usual justifications for war to try to talk him out of it.

Then there's one about two hippopotami in love, which has the refrain:

Mud, mud, glorious mud
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood
So follow me, follow
Down to the hollow
And there let us wallow
In gloooorious mud.

I'm rather horrifed that I remember that.

[qwertyMike]

5. Flanders & Swann

Brit. hi-brow musical revue act. Classically trained.
Fun songs for the intelligensia - sort of.
A la Noel Coward

http://www.johnbarber.com/flanders.html

[qwertyMike]

6. They also did the Hippopotomas Song

Choruis:
"Mud, mud. glorious mud
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood
So follow me, follow, down to the hollow
And there let us wallow in glorious mud."


Went #1 in Britain
You gotta hear their stuff

[Philostopher]

9. Oh, hell.

I have an indelible memory of Anthony Newley performing this song on Johnny Carson's 'Tonight Show' back in the seventies. The Malbec is creeping up the back of my throat -- gotta go!

[Snow]

7. Hmmm. What were you expecting, one wonders....

It's from Portugal, right? Home of port wine, often made by the same folks. Intended for dessert, very much like cream sherry. Very nice if you get a good one....but if it's made by the same company that makes thunderbird wine, you may be in for a disappointment.

[JanMichael]

10. Ouch! I'm not that familiar with Ports either, sheesh. It's Blandy's.

And it's growing on me...

[Cooley Hurd]

8. Captain Morgan just boarded my Coke!

My girlfriend just dumped me so it wasn't much of a battle... Piping aboard the Captain!

[JanMichael]

11. Taking it well?

I certainly hope so:toast:

[Cooley Hurd]

12. Ol' Captain helping keep it all in perspective...

...although I'm perplexed about what happened to Tenille...

Do I win an award for LAMEST joke of the evening?

[JanMichael]

13. Yes. You win.

That was incredibly lame.

But only for the evening...I hold the SE USA Leftist Lame Joke Teller 1986-2003 championship.

[HuckleB]

15. Hope you were playing the Pogues' "Fiesta" at the time.

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