...well, hardly ever...

[ysobel]

So I was listening to an audiobook of Agatha Christie stories

and one character mentioned the "why and wherefore" of something

which *immediately* got "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore" from HMS Pinafore going through my head [https://youtu.be/fz00Ru9RXA8?si=_iW2jYRH-8RW_w49]

which of course meant I had no choice but to listen to the whole of HMS Pinafore [https://youtu.be/N6iNGprcxFI?si=B-vFtrypguIKurHv for example]

and now various of those songs keep popping up ... for at least week now ... only the lyrics are starting to scramble, which tends to happen when something is stuck in my head long enough.

("I am the captain of the minotaur~~" wait no)

Anyway my plan for dealing with this is to watch the 1983 film version of Pirates of Penzance, which is an extremely solid plan with no possible down sides.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

I heart Pirates and was lucky enough to see it in Chicago in the 1970s when Treat Williams was starring.

[vass]

Best of British luck.

I remember seeing Pirates performed live

[jesse_the_k]

when I was a kid. These lines have stuck in my head ever since...

deep breath in ....

Nevermind the why and wherefore love will level ranks and therefore love can level ranks, and therefore though his lordship's station's mighty though stupendous be his brain though her tastes are mean and flighty and her fortune poor and plain ....

gasping for air