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* ParkingProblems: "Parking the Car" is about this. "You feel like Noah in the ark/Afloat o'er what is now Iraq/Trying to find/A place to park."
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-->''When it's Ladies' Night at the Carlton Club,\\
And a young woman comes in.\\
Smoking a six-inch Burma cheroot,\\
And playing a violin.''
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* UnableToSupportAWife: The singer in "The Youth of the Heart" wouldn't marry his sweetheart until he'd earned enough to support her... by which time, she'd married someone else.
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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: The last line of "The Ostrich".
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* AffectionateParody: Many of their songs use this trope, and recently they have become subject to one themselves by ArmstrongAndMiller.

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* AffectionateParody: Many of their songs use this trope, and recently they have become subject to one themselves by ArmstrongAndMiller.Series/TheArmstrongAndMillerShow.
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* VanityLicensePlate: In "Sounding Brass":
-->My car registration number's 1111 VIP.
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* KilledMidSentence: The title character of [[spoiler:"The Ostrich"]].


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* OstrichHeadHiding: The chorus of "The Ostrich".
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* ThriftyScot: Possibly the least insulting stereotype used in "A Song of Patriotic Prejudice" (although the word they use is 'cheap').

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* ThriftyScot: Possibly the least insulting stereotype used in "A Song of Patriotic Prejudice" (although the word they use is 'cheap').'mean').
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* ListingCities: "Slow Train", which specifically lists British cities whose rail services and lines had been closed by the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_Axe Beeching Axe]] starting in 1963, to cut the heavy financial losses incurred by the UK's railways.

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* ListingCities: "Slow Train", which specifically lists British cities settlements whose rail services and lines had been closed by the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_Axe Beeching Axe]] starting in 1963, to cut the heavy financial losses incurred by the UK's railways.
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Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who co-wrote and performed comic songs in the 1950s and 1960s. Unusually for the time neither performer stood during their shows, Swann being seated at the piano and Flanders confined to a wheelchair by polio (contracted in service during WorldWar2).

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Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who co-wrote and performed comic songs in the 1950s and 1960s. Unusually for the time neither performer stood during their shows, Swann being seated at the piano and Flanders confined to a wheelchair by polio (contracted in service during WorldWar2).
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*BilingualBonus: "Je suis le Tenebreux" sung by Swann, is a genuinely moving French poem set to music with none of the comedy that the performance implied from the reaction to the line "I think translation rather spoils it."
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* AllAreEqualInDeath: "Twenty Tons of TNT"
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added additional example of \"here we go again\"


* HereWeGoAgain: "The Gasman Cometh"

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* HereWeGoAgain: "The Gasman Cometh"Cometh" and "A Song of the Weather"
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* TheBore: "[[PunBasedTitle The Boar]]"
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* DaysOftheWeekSong: "The Gasman Cometh"

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* DaysOftheWeekSong: DaysOfTheWeekSong: "The Gasman Cometh"
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* BathsAreFun: "In the Bath"

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* ListingCities: "Slow Train"

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* ListingCities: "Slow Train"Train", which specifically lists British cities whose rail services and lines had been closed by the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_Axe Beeching Axe]] starting in 1963, to cut the heavy financial losses incurred by the UK's railways.
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* ThriftyScot: Possibly the least insulting stereotype used in "A Song of Patriotic Prejudice" (although the word they use is 'cheap').
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* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: From "Greensleeves":
-->He sent for a playwright friend of his and he said to him "Look, kid.." ''(audience laughs)'' That was his name: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kyd Kyd]].
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* MultipurposedMonoculturedCrop: "The Wompom" is about the world's most miraculous, all-purpose plant.

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* MultipurposedMonoculturedCrop: MultipurposeMonoculturedCrop: "The Wompom" is about the world's most miraculous, all-purpose plant.
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* MultipurposedMonoculturedCrop: "The Wompom" is about the world's most miraculous, all-purpose plant.

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Rape As Comedy to Black Comedy Rape per the Rape Tropes Special Efforts thread


* BlackComedyRape: "Madeira, M'Dear" and "Philological Waltz"



* RapeAsComedy: "Madeira, M'Dear" and "Philological Waltz"
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* HeAlsoDid: Donald Swann, working alone, produced an album of music from JRRTolkien's ''TheLordOfTheRings'' and became good friends with Tolkien himself.

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* HeAlsoDid: Donald Swann, working alone, produced an album of music from JRRTolkien's ''TheLordOfTheRings'' Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and became good friends with Tolkien himself.
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* LeastRhymableWord:
-->We were never able to come up with a rhyme for "Khrushchev" until he'd gone: "Did he fall, or was he pusch off?"
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* StarCrossedLovers: "Misalliance" (The tragic tale of the right-handed Honeysuckle and the left-handed Bindweed.)
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* [=~I'm A Humanitarian~=]: "The Reluctant Cannibal"

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* [=~I'm A Humanitarian~=]: ImAHumanitarian: "The Reluctant Cannibal"
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* AffectionateParody: Many of their songs use this trope, and recently they have become subject to one themselves by ArmstrongAndMiller.

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* HeAlsoDid: Donald Swann, working alone, produced an album of music from JRRTolkien's ''TheLordOfTheRings'' and became good friends with Tolkien himself.



* PatrioticFervour: "A Song of Patriotic Prejudice" is an AffectionateParody.
* RapeAsComedy: "Madeira, M'Dear" and "Philological Waltz"



* RapeAsComedy: "Madeira, M'Dear" and "Philological Waltz"
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* WeirdTradeUnion: "Bedstead Men" (or possibly its a Weird Secret Society)

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* WeirdTradeUnion: "Bedstead Men" (or possibly its it's a Weird Secret Society)

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