Wednesday on the green
Oct. 25th, 2006 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithSo I've been reading a little about the maybe-it-isn't-a-ban-after-all Vegemite kerfuffle, and realized that I wasn't sure what exactly Vegemite was. Stopped by Wikipedia, because it's become one of the places to go for things like this, and read the article. Decided that it would likely be a very long time before I ever sampled Vegemite. Read further, and tripped over this:
Vegemite came to the attention of many people outside the region in the lyrics of the 1982 worldwide hit song Down Under by Men At Work:
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
which took me aback a bit, because I remember those days when Men at Work seemed to turn up on the radio every 6.3 minutes, and I remembered that song, and always thought the line went:
He just smiled and gave me a bit of my sandwich
which given that the guy was "six foot four and full of muscle", well, I thought he had stolen the singer's lunch, then deigned to give him back a little of it. A mondegreen, ok?
As a bonus, finally learned was Bovril was.
Vegemite came to the attention of many people outside the region in the lyrics of the 1982 worldwide hit song Down Under by Men At Work:
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
which took me aback a bit, because I remember those days when Men at Work seemed to turn up on the radio every 6.3 minutes, and I remembered that song, and always thought the line went:
He just smiled and gave me a bit of my sandwich
which given that the guy was "six foot four and full of muscle", well, I thought he had stolen the singer's lunch, then deigned to give him back a little of it. A mondegreen, ok?
As a bonus, finally learned was Bovril was.
