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Parishioner Jonathan Wadman: I don't want to interrupt your preparations for Evensong, except to pointout that Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terell were woefully misguided in claiming that 'the world is just a great big onion'. Parishioner Andrew Shilcock: From Tomorrow's 'My White Bicycle': See that man, he's all alone Looks so happy but he's far from home Ring my bell, smile at him Better kick over his rubbish bin Eh? He's far from home, with his bin? Unless he's a binman, of course. Could be why he's so happy.

Parishioner Magnus: Lenny Kravitz - " I wish that we could fly / Into the sky / Just like a dragonfly." I'm no zoologist, but don't dragonflies just hover a few inches above stagnant water? Nowhere near the sky, I think you'll find Lenny ...

Parishioner Chris Diamond: Further to the mention of Sandi Thom's useless and hopelessly inaccurate lyrics for "I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker", on actually finding myself listening to the first few lines of the track I noticed her bemoaning the fact that she wasn't born in a time (it is indeed a tragedy she wasn't born in the 17th century or another similar period when she would have been unable to get her benighted message across) when "the Head of State didn't play guitar". Clearly this is an allusion to Fingers Tony Blair and his predeliction for said instrument but of course, Tony Blair isn't Head of State - regardless of what he prefers to believe - but is only Head of Government. Perhaps Miss Thom knows something about the musical disposition of Her Maj that the rest of us don't? Does Our Own Dear Queen like to pick up her Strat after a long day's shaking hands and pointing in order to while away a few hours in the Buck House basement riffing with some specially selected musical flunkeys?

Or has Thom just got that wrong an' all? In fact I have some sympathy with Miss Thom's plea. If she were a punk rocker with flowers in her hair she'd at least never be seen or heard in the mass media, then she could spend her time wistfully pondering appearing on Revolver with a corsage strapped to her forehead without bothering any of the rest of us in the process.

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