Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'

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The Modern British Halfbaker
Wot's i' all about then?
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‘Baker:
I am the very model of a modern British Halfbaker,
I've information quite obscure on DrBob the pisstaker,
I saw the fall of sealybot, and I can quote the Monty Python boys
From Parrot Sketch to Hollywood, with effects of music, sound and noise;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters astronomical,
I remember two thousand and one, and Red Dwarf Oh! so comical,
About newbies real identities I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
Is 8th of 7 really the full length of the hypotenuse?

ALL:
Is 8th of 7 really the full length of the hypotenuse?
Is 8th of 7 really the full length of the hypotenuse?
Is 8th of 7 really the full length of the hypotenuse?

‘Baker:
I'm very good at coming up with ideas like the wind chime thing,
I call up blissmiss late at night, just to set her ‘phone a-ring,
In short, in matters pointless, dull and really quite obscure,
I am the very model of a modern British halfbaker.

ALL:
In short, in matters pointless, dull and really quite obscure,
She is the very model of a modern British halfbaker.

‘Baker:
I know 1/2bakery history, ‘bout Buxton/Cornish, MrT;
I can hold my own on pretty things, like crenellated cleavages
I quote in Elizabethan prose, the works of Will the Serious,
In comic moments I can keep the bloody place delirious,
I can pick a dodgy Google search from knowledge known previous,
I can even understand some jokes in Latin, for the devious
Then I can strum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And strike up with the Geordie band a tune or two from Pinafore.

ALL:
And strike up with the Geordie band a tune or two from Pinafore.
And strike up with the Geordie band a tune or two from Pinafore.
And strike up with the Geordie band a tune or two from Pinafore.

‘Baker:
I can even set a washing machine for transgalactic travel,
Provided (Relativically) the left socks don’t unravel:
In short, in matters pointless, dull and really quite obscure,
I am the very model of a modern British halfbaker.

ALL:
In short, in matters pointless, dull and really quite obscure,
He is the very model of a modern British halfbaker.

‘Baker:
In fact, I know the difference ‘twixt "Pannikin" and "Piccaninn",
I can even quote the episode where MacGyver made a rubber javelin,
In such affairs as mobile ‘phones and inflatables I know a lot,
I’m not afraid to let my nuclear physics background show a lot,
I know enough of battleships to quote stats on their gunnery,
I can pull lines out of Hamlet, such as “Get thee to a nunnery!”
In short, though I’ve a talent for surrealistic punnery,
I’ll sometimes stay, for weeks, away from Jutta’s lovely bunnery.

ALL:
He’ll sometimes stay, for weeks, away from Jutta’s lovely bunnery.
He’ll sometimes stay, for weeks, away from Jutta’s lovely bunnery.
He’ll sometimes stay, for weeks, away from Jutta’s lovely bunnery.

‘Baker:
Despite my breadth of knowledge, charm and wit and pedantry,
I’ll sometimes stoop to stir the pot and rile the Yankee peasantry
In short, in matters pointless, dull and really quite obscure,
I am the very model of a modern British halfbaker.

ALL:
In short, in matters pointless, dull and really quite obscure,
They are the very models of the modern British halfbakers.


UnaBubba, Jul 03 2002

where are bakers from? http://www.neilphillips.com/halfbakers/
they're from Lewes. [neilp, Jan 20 2006]

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       a compliment to our British friends? croissant for the line "Jutta’s lovely bunnery"....I'm still laughing at that!

runforrestrun, Jul 03 2002
  

       Thanks runf. I had to fit it in somewhere.

UnaBubba, Jul 03 2002
  

      

:::::::::::::applause::::::::::::::::


sappho, Jul 03 2002
  

       I await the Australian version with eager antici--   

       (Not to mention the New Zealand, Indian, Israeli, Dutch and Canadian, of course. Although many contributors would appear to be not from this planet.)   

       --pation.

pottedstu, Jul 03 2002
  

       Bravo, encore, encore!

FarmerJohn, Jul 03 2002
  

       "Ladies and gentlemen, that distant whirring noise you can hear is Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan rotating in their graves as they spin up to 3,600 RPM ...."   

       Superb. Well done !

8th of 7, Jul 03 2002
  

       Sir Arthur would be OK; his music is safe. He didn't really get on with Gilbert anyway.

angel, Jul 03 2002
  

       Ha! ha! Excellent! I like the 'bunnery' line too.

With all the half-baked ditties needing to be done
To be done.
UnaBubba's lot is quite a busy one!
Busy one!

He makes out that he has a firm to run
Firm to run.
UnaBubba, try and pull the other one!
Other one!

DrBob, Jul 03 2002
  

       Thank you, DrBob. I wish it were the case.

UnaBubba, Jul 04 2002
  

       so.. I challenge you to write 'The Croissant-Spangled Idea' (to the tune of, uh, guess?!) as an ode to our USian friends today.

sappho, Jul 04 2002
  

       ...and I challenge you to write a "Seven Ages of Man" parody.

hippo, Jul 04 2002
  

       //challenge you to write 'The Croissant-Spangled Idea' (to the tune of, uh, guess?!) //   

       'Anacreon in Heaven' would be the correct tune.   

       Or you could do a take on 'My Country Tis of Thee', hte tune is the same as that of 'God Save The Queen'.

[ sctld ], Jul 04 2002
  

       I just couldn't spell it. I do know that Francis Scott Key wrote it, and I do know the verse about "Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution..."

sappho, Jul 04 2002
  

       The remarkable thing about it is how it documents British weapons. Rockets, particularly.

[ sctld ], Jul 04 2002
  

       that might be because they were rather pleased to have finally beaten us.

sappho, Jul 04 2002
  

       They didn't beat us. They bet drunken Hessiens, and took us from behind. Terribly unsporting. Poor form.

[ sctld ], Jul 04 2002
  

       ends and means, my dear, ends and means.

sappho, Jul 04 2002
  

       You did leave a few buildings as a memento.

UnaBubba, Jul 04 2002
  

       halfbakery: the musical

thumbwax, Jul 04 2002
  

       Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Plug in the PC, connect, and wait till up comes Home,
Silence the mp3, and with already numb bum
Refresh, refresh, refresh, let the 'bakers come.

Let emails travel continents and seas
Scribbling in the ether "bakery - is it down?",
Put crepe bows round the grey necks of the monitor screen,
Let the pedant policemen each wear a dark frown.

It was my North, my South, my East and West,
My "working" week and my so-called rest,
My noon, my midnight, my rant, UB's song;
I thought that site would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are all offline now: the disconnected ones;
Stuck on BBC news and browsing online 'fun';
For a while the virtual croissant was my only food.
But nothing now can ever come to any good.

sappho, Jul 04 2002
  

       No Audenary poet, that.

UnaBubba, Jul 04 2002
  

       And his recipe for "Duck A La Banana" will go with him, to his grave.

UnaBubba, Jul 04 2002
  

       I'm working on the seven ages of man, for hippo. But I'm going a bit slow. This is hard - much respect for your parodic productivity, UB.

sappho, Jul 04 2002
  

       Excellent "Stop all the clocks", [sappho].

hippo, Jul 04 2002
  

       Very good UB. Have been away for a while and only just seen this. Looks like I've got some catching up to do....

goff, Sep 20 2002
  

       I cannot stop this tune running through my mind.

UnaBubba, Apr 07 2004
  

       Churn churn churn...   

       :::::::applause:::::::   

       Well done, well done. Now I challenge anyone to write a parody of Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements'. Which, of course, uses this tune.

dbmag9, Jan 20 2006
  

       Everyone is from Lewes. It's a well known fact.

DrBob, Jan 20 2006
  

       there are a couple of people [DrBob] who, whilst being from Lewes, are currently living elsewhere (see google earth link).

neilp, Jan 20 2006
  

       That Google Earth link is amazing. It should be more popularised. But one bug - everyone appears twice, with the long/lat reversed. (So I appear at both 51.408,-0.2017 and -0.2017,51.408.

dbmag9, Jan 21 2006
  

       That map is V_E_R_Y wrong. Waugs is actually located 1/99th of a centimeter from me. At all times.

blissmiss, Jan 23 2006
  

       //But one bug - everyone appears twice, with the long/lat reversed. (So I appear at both 51.408,-0.2017 and -0.2017,51.408.//   

       That's the Halfbakenberg Uncertainty Principle at work. Cool, huh?

UnaBubba, Jan 23 2006
  

       Of course. I see it now. So, until someone bakes, they are simulaniously at both places, in a box with a cat (toasted) outside?

dbmag9, Jan 24 2006
  
      
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