Lyrics quiz (with a twist)

[EFM's Librarian]

"You have a right to ask me what I believe in, I who am so anti-everything. I'll tell you. I believe in nihilism, in the sense that I believe in the absence of ism. I know that I don't know and I believe in not believing. For every man who believes something there's a man who believes the opposite. How many wars would be fought, how many men would have been tortured in this world, if nobody had ever believed in anything?

'But that would be awful,' I hear you cry. Well actually I don't, but that's what you would cry if you were listening. I deny it. Would the sun shine less brightly if there was no purpose in life? Would the nightingale sing less sweetly? Would we love each other less deeply? Man's the only species neurotic enough to need a purpose in life."

 

Twist is, that this is not from a song. It's still not as difficult as GHA's lyrics quiz of past days.

I heard it again today, but can anybody say who originally said it?

 

(A hint - it wasn't that phantom 'ATFC W'LLARD' <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> )

[YELLOW]

I've heard this before but I can't think where.

Give us a clue EFML.

[GHA EFM]

I am in the Army of the Yellow of the same name, in that collectively we both (or so he professes, I know I have) have heard the aforementioned words written above, but cannot remember who spoke said (excuse the pun) words.

[The Invisible Man]

Dot Cotton?

[GHA EFM]

It wasn't Chomsky, was it?

[GHA EFM]

AFF: Bertrand Russell?

[Rob_the_Saint]

I think I know, but I cheated (just a little) so I'll just give you a clue: popular british comedy sitcom, late 70's early 80's.

[Chubbhead EFM]

That bloke out of Rising Damp.

[Rob_the_Saint]

Hmm, sort of right, but not the answer I was looking for. Sorry, gotta go and see the last of Barca v Juve extra time.

[EFM's Librarian]

RTS - how did you do that?

Chubby is right (in a roundabout kind of way)

 

[Rob_the_Saint]

I just put the last line 'man's a neurotic species...' into a search engine (google) and there it was.

 

Don't think Chubbo will like you calling her a roundabout though!

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Reggie Perrin

 

 

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Spoken at the end of "Skywest and Crooked" by Carter, with a wonderful piano bit behind it - taken from the book Don Quixote by Cervantes

 

I have lived almost fifty years, and I've seen life as it is: pain, misery, hunger, cruelty beyond belief, I have heard the singing from taverns and moans from the bundles of filth in the streets. I've been a soldier, and seen my comrades fall in battle, or die more slowly under the lash in Africa. I've held them in my arms at the final moment. These were men who saw life as it is, yet they died, despairing - no glory, no gallant last words, only their eyes filled with confusion, wimpering, questioning. Why? I do not think they asked why they were dying, but why they had ever lived."

 

Bring's a tear to your eye!

[GHA EFM]

AFF. Tell 'em the Boss one, just before the River. You know what I'm talking about.

[Chubbhead EFM]

I like all these different variations of my (nick)name. Chubbo, chubby, chubbster, chubbmeister to name but a few !

[YELLOW]

Blimey Chubbmistress (that's a new one) you're up late. I take it you just got home from Paris then. How was it ? Did you have a good day?

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

12.50AM ain't late!

 

What time do you go to bed YELLOW boy?

[CANV EFM]

12.50am is still aperitif time..

[Chubbhead EFM]

I had a brilliant day Yellow, I did all the usual things-complained about the smell, tried to speak French and got laughed at, waited in big queues to go on the Eiffel Tower. My brother pissed off loads of French people. He said that he was gonna take how rude the french were, times it by 10 and be as rude as that to them. I was so embarrsed-he kept swearing at people!

[YELLOW]

Oh dear! Bet that was funny though. That was like the time I was in France and there was a French guy in an Arsenal shirt with Henry on the back. Me and my mate were singing anti Arsenal songs and getting funny looks. It might have been because I had my Canvey shirt on at the time!!