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brightlywoven) wrote2007-09-10 12:29 pm
brightlywoven) wrote2007-09-10 12:29 pm
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Not in Kansas anymore
You know you're in England when (number 452)
- You're at a party in early September, and suddenly everybody stands up and sings during Pomp and Circumstance (though they don't know the words)
- This is followed shortly after by everybody standing up and singing Jerusalem (and they do know the words - and some actions)
- Late comers arriving at this point ask 'why we're singing Jerusalem so early?' (not knowing that it's last night of the proms, but thinking that singing Jerusalem is perfectly normal behaviour later on in any party).
To be fair, the whole thing was more rousing than the Australian equivalent (singing Cold Chisel's 'Khe Shan' "Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone/ In under seven flying hours and I'll be landing in Hong Kong/ And there ain't nothing like the kisses/ Of a jaded chinese princess...")
- You're at a party in early September, and suddenly everybody stands up and sings during Pomp and Circumstance (though they don't know the words)
- This is followed shortly after by everybody standing up and singing Jerusalem (and they do know the words - and some actions)
- Late comers arriving at this point ask 'why we're singing Jerusalem so early?' (not knowing that it's last night of the proms, but thinking that singing Jerusalem is perfectly normal behaviour later on in any party).
To be fair, the whole thing was more rousing than the Australian equivalent (singing Cold Chisel's 'Khe Shan' "Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone/ In under seven flying hours and I'll be landing in Hong Kong/ And there ain't nothing like the kisses/ Of a jaded chinese princess...")