Hints and tips:
...Some readers will recall the 1982 John Mellencamp hit, Jack and Diane — “two American kids from the heartland”. That is how Roseanne marketed herself and her wildly successful sitcom....
...Outside London you’re aware there are a lot of Brexit posters and Union Jacks....
...He wrote strange books, often on Scottish subjects and, as evidenced here, funny letters, ditties, squibs and poems which are full of life....
...Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang — who else got casts like that in the penurious prime of European art cinema?...
...The above little ditty could serve as a modern day NFL domestic playbook, I suppose, while a century ago it was but one of many “lesson plans” on what not to do when you grow up....
...Young minstrels supply a musical commentary with pastoral ditties sung doo-wop style. Characters wear tights and puffy tunics, “olde” hats and satin slippers. It’s hackneyed fare....
...Larner first came to notice in the 1990s, writing whimsical ditties for comedy duo The Right Size; more recently he has co-penned surreal musicals The Translucent Frogs Of Quuup and On The Island Of Aars...
...Lately I keep on finding myself humming the following little musical ditty: “Jeepers creepers, where’d you get those peepers? Jeepers creepers, where’d you get those eyes?”...
...My mum has the X factor, but she has it in an entirely different way to that of Jack Welch, Sir Clive Woodward, Clark Kent, Kurt Cobain and Morrissey....
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