Cloth ears r us

[lexin]

It's amazing what you overhear in the Ministry of Magic's canteen – or rather, what becomes mangled between someone saying it and my ear. I was minding my own business trying to cope with spaghetti bolognese when I overheard two blokes at the next table, one of whom was saying to the other, "He was in a band call the Gelatinous Poodles."

A quick google search shows up that there is no known band of that name, so what on earth can he have actually said?

Somewhat similarly, I'm convinced that I once saw a band called "Careful with that axe, Eugene". It was in a pub, in a back street in Birmingham in the mid-to-late 1970s – the best I can say is that it was before I left school, but only just before. I know that there's a Pink Floyd song of that name, but as far as I'm aware there's no band.

Now, I could have misremembered or misunderstood - perhaps they did that track and I've remembered the track as the band name, or something like that. Or perhaps they did just one gig and never played again. I'll never know.

Comments

[oursin]

There was a 70s band called the Fabulous Poodles. I am not sure whether that would mondegreen to Gelatinous, though (and if there isn't a band called the Gelatinous Poodles, I think somebody should start one).

[lexin]

That makes total sense, though looking up the Fabulous Poodles on Wikipedia, I can't say which member of the band they'd be talking about. Even if my attention wasn't 99% on my dinner.

[briarwood]

Not every band would be google-able, especially the ones from pre-internet days, if they were never signed by a label. The bands my dad and uncle were involved in never existed, according to Google. Nor that of my ex, and they were gigging in the early '90s.

Gelatinous Poodles - awesome name *g*

[lexin]

It is brilliant, isn't it? There really ought to be a band called that.

[highstone.livejournal.com]

Not The Poodle used to sing "All the Young Prudes Google You Tube."

[lexin.livejournal.com]

So I need not have misheard "poodles". That's comforting.

[highstone.livejournal.com]

Now I come to think of it, there *was* a band called 'The Fabulous Poodles' - witness this Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Poodles

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest the fabulous poodles. nod nod

[lexin.livejournal.com]

That's the most likely answer, though I can't say which of the members of the band they were talking about. My dinner had 99.9% of my attention - for some reason the spaghetti was in really short bits.

[aunty_marion]

I once *twice* in a week (mis)heard news items on the radio referring to various activities of lobsters.

It made a lot more sense when I realised they were mobsters.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can see how that would be so.

[lydia-petze.livejournal.com]

Mott the Hoople, maybe?

And "Careful with that axe, Eugene" is a line from Red Dwarf.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

Yes, could easily be. My ears can be very clothy, sometimes.

I didn't know that about Red Dwarf, you learn something new every day. I wonder if they knew it was a song by Pink Floyd - I suppose they must have done.