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[Mumpo]

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I'll just hope no-one spotted it before.

[Various Artist]

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ad hoc wrote: Michael Jackson - You Arnott Alone
(one for the Aussies there)

Very good AH. And their greatest hit as producers:

Tim-Tam Dunk (Da Funk) – Five

[Various Artist]

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Am I the only person on this thread who's never heard of Peak Freans, by the way? What has been widely lauded as the best joke herein went clean over my head, in the sense that the reference means the square root of sod all to me...?

[Stumpy Pepys]

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I don't know how well-known Peek Freans are outside the UK.

Of course, their most famous line was the Trotsky Assortment.

[nmrfox]

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Duncan Gardner wrote: While passing through Birkenhead town center yesterday

Oh, the horror.

Say Hello, Wafer Goodbye

[Toby Gymshorts]

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Stumpy Pepys wrote: I don't know how well-known Peek Freans are outside the UK.

Of course, their most famous line was the Trotsky Assortment.

#Revolutionary biscuits of Italy,
Rise up out of your box...#

[Various Artist]

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Have now googled Peek Freans and caught up a bit – so, a manufacturer not a type of biscuit as I assumed. Am in the UK, but their heyday was a bit before my time, it would appear.
Next query: mentions of the Nice biscuit upthread reminds me, can anyone clear up whether it's "nice" to rhyme with rice, or Nice as in the town in southern France? I've always pronounced it the latter way, but wonder if that's mainly because calling a biscuit merely "nice" seems both unimaginatively prosaic and rather presumptive.

On that subject, can I add the bet-hedging double whammy of The Stranglers' Nice In Nice?

Also, anything by the Afghan Whigs – perhaps Royal Cream off their 2014 comeback album

Foxes – Echo.
Sadly nothing to do with this much-missed favourite of mine:

[Jah Womble]

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Biscuit Case - Green Day
We Built McVitie's - Starship
Sgt Pepperidge Farm's Lonely Hearts Club Biscuit - The Beatles (Apologies for that excruciating double...)

Anything by Biscuit Tin Machine

Mumpo wrote: Keep On Loving You - OREO Speedwagon

I'll just hope no-one spotted it before.

Nice try. But unsuccessful.

[Jah Womble]

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The Irish Rover Assortment - Pogues/Dubliners
Hello Maryland - Ricky Nelson
Nabisco Inferno - Trammps

Various Artists wrote:
Next query: mentions of the Nice biscuit upthread reminds me, can anyone clear up whether it's "nice" to rhyme with rice, or Nice as in the town in southern France? I've always pronounced it the latter way, but wonder if that's mainly because calling a biscuit merely "nice" seems both unimaginatively prosaic and rather presumptive.

On that subject, can I add the bet-hedging double whammy of The Stranglers' Nice In Nice?

Yes, it's pronounced like 'niece', therefore that ol' Stranglers number should really have been the only submission (ie, rather than the same gag repeated over and over with different song titles).

[Mr Cogito]

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Pepparkakorlife - Blur

[IronSeaPower]

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Ruby Shrewsbury - Rolling Stones

[Andy C]

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Cookie's In Love. By Biccie Lee Jones.

[3 Colours Red]

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Jah Womble wrote: Yes, it's pronounced like 'niece', therefore that ol' Stranglers number should really have been the only submission (ie, rather than the same gag repeated over and over with different song titles).

My most profuse apologies but I can't have been alone in pronouncing them like the word synonymous with "pleasant" when I was a young 'un.

And the Stereophonics one still counts as the spelling's the same.

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

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Andy C wrote: Cookie's In Love. By Biccie Lee Jones.

Heh.

[Jah Womble]

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Trois Fois Un Rouge wrote:

Yes, it's pronounced like 'niece', therefore that ol' Stranglers number should really have been the only submission (ie, rather than the same gag repeated over and over with different song titles).

My most profuse apologies but I can't have been alone in pronouncing them like the word synonymous with "pleasant" when I was a young 'un.

And the Stereophonics one still counts as the spelling's the same.

Well, by that judgment, all songs with the word 'nice' in the title would count, no?

But you're right in that almost everyone pronounced the biscuit that way when I was a sprog.

[Sits]

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Not with my Mum running the show. But she has a silent "h" in "hotel" and a silent "t" at the end of "trait".

Bless her - 86 next week.

As you were.

[Sits]

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(Looking Through) Garibaldi's Eyes - The Adverts

[nmrfox]

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Irk the puritz - Half Man Half Biscuit

[beak]

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Sits wrote: Someone will mention Jaffa cakes in a minute. .

Jaffa Stafari

[Jah Womble]

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Sits wrote: Not with my Mum running the show. But she has a silent "h" in "hotel" and a silent "t" at the end of "trait".

Bless her - 86 next week.

As you were.

Good on her - clearly a lady of standards.

[Various Artist]

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Jah Womble wrote:

Next query: mentions of the Nice biscuit upthread reminds me, can anyone clear up whether it's "nice" to rhyme with rice, or Nice as in the town in southern France? I've always pronounced it the latter way, but wonder if that's mainly because calling a biscuit merely "nice" seems both unimaginatively prosaic and rather presumptive.
On that subject, can I add the bet-hedging double whammy of The Stranglers' Nice In Nice?

Yes, it's pronounced like 'niece', therefore that ol' Stranglers number should really have been the only submission (ie, rather than the same gag repeated over and over with different song titles).

Brilliant, always good to feel vindicated after doubting yourself for a bit. Thanks Jah.

Bourbon The Wild Side – Lou Reed

Dunk On Ah [Fig] Roll – James Brown
Uptown Dunk – Mark Ronson
Uptown Top Dunking – Althea & Donna
Too Dunky – George Michael
(leading inevitably to: Soggy Seems To Be The Hardest Word – Elton John)

The Biscuit's Back – Elton John
Honkit Kat – Elton John
Bit of a shame that only one half of Elton's double A-side (from the Sleeping With The Past era, as I recall) counts: Club At The End Of The Street/Wispas

Anything by F.K.A. Twix

Malted Milk And Alcohol – Dr Feelgood

Jammiedodger (Jam In) – Stevie Wonder