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

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[highstone]

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

[lexin]

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

[highstone]

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]

I was going to suggest the fabulous poodles. nod nod

[lexin]

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]

Yes, I can see how that would be so.

[lydia_petze]

Mott the Hoople, maybe?

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

[lexin]

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.