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Word Humour and musical names.

Word counting.

• xerophyte
• wonderful
• Tutankhamen
• tree squirrels
• fortune
• fife and drum
• sycophant
• Severn bridge
• ate ’im up
• nigh’n impossible
• tentative
• elven kind
• Are t’well, Vera?

And centwopede, milltwopede (because they have pairs of legs, and the famous but overdone ninetwopus.

Seen in the Radio Times:

“Live Darts”. Do they fly to the board on their own? Or are they anaesthetised before throwing?

Seen on a wrapper:

“Cooking bacon”. What did they think I’d do with it - wrap it round my toes and make little piggies in blankets? More bacon thoughts. Back bacon - to be eaten while reversing. Steaky bacon - I leave it to your imagination!

How much music can you think of that is named after insects? From memory I got:

• La Cucaracha (the cockroach)
• the tarantella (a small spider - sorry, not an insect)
• the Bum of the Flightle Bee/ Bite of the Fumble Bee
• The Spider in the Bath by Flanders and Swan
• The Wasps by Ralph Vaughan Williams
• ‘If I were a Butterfly’ and ‘Buterflies’
• and I looked up - The Cricket by Josquin Des Prez
• Song of the Flea by Mussorsky
• The Gadfly by Schostakovich
• The March of the Fire Ants by ‘Mastodon’ (heavy metal)
• and in country music I found songs about - Ticks by Brad Paisley

Does anyone know a song or theme about a centipede?

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