Quote from the Goon Show, Neddie Seagoon (played by Harry Secombe) speaking. Another character has just said something that sounds very upper-crust English, but containing no recognisable words, and Neddie replies with this sentence, which is taken from a sign common in British (and New Zealand) railway carriage toilets; something like "Please do not flush while the train is standing at a station." I use it in response to verbal communications I don't understand-foreign languages, highly technical utterances, or my older grandson talking gibberish for his own amusement.
Double take...pelliondanceJune 9 2008, 10:33:41 UTC
Whoa, Nelly! Folk band of/from/in Wales? I've heard Irish and Scots, Breton, Galician and even Asturian folk music. Welsh folk music is hardly on the radar. I've always assumed that this is because the Welsh are so big on choirs that folk music has never got a look-in.
Re: Double take...pelliondanceFebruary 19 2010, 07:10:34 UTC
It's getting on for two years since I made the above comment. Since then I have heard a Welsh folk duo (though I've forgotten their names), and learned that there is in fact quite a lively Welsh folk scene. Brit-born New Zealand folkie Martin Curtis has had a lot to do with the scene over there. My impression of Welsh folk music is that it is more like English folk music than like that of the other Celtic nations. This is not too surprising perhaps.
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In the words of one great Welshman: "Not while the train is standing at the station!"
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Quote from the Goon Show, Neddie Seagoon (played by Harry Secombe) speaking. Another character has just said something that sounds very upper-crust English, but containing no recognisable words, and Neddie replies with this sentence, which is taken from a sign common in British (and New Zealand) railway carriage toilets; something like "Please do not flush while the train is standing at a station." I use it in response to verbal communications I don't understand-foreign languages, highly technical utterances, or my older grandson talking gibberish for his own amusement.
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Whoa, Nelly! Folk band of/from/in Wales? I've heard Irish and Scots, Breton, Galician and even Asturian folk music. Welsh folk music is hardly on the radar. I've always assumed that this is because the Welsh are so big on choirs that folk music has never got a look-in.
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It's getting on for two years since I made the above comment. Since then I have heard a Welsh folk duo (though I've forgotten their names), and learned that there is in fact quite a lively Welsh folk scene. Brit-born New Zealand folkie Martin Curtis has had a lot to do with the scene over there. My impression of Welsh folk music is that it is more like English folk music than like that of the other Celtic nations. This is not too surprising perhaps.
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