# Re: Chunky Bacon **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 26, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-chunky-bacon/73723 "2006-10-26T17:40:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CameronS_Gemma_SUK)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-chunky-bacon/73723/1 "2006-10-26T17:40:14Z")
Am I too british or too young to understand? =Þ Gem ---
**Author:** ![CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CameronS_Gemma_SUK)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-chunky-bacon/73723/2 "2006-10-26T18:02:17Z")
I don’t get it either. It’s quite a mental image though! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CameronS_Gemma_SUK)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-chunky-bacon/73723/3 "2006-10-26T18:08:17Z")
Ok this was mainly to satisfy my own curiosity but… Traveling in a fried-out combie On a hippie trail, head full of zombie I met a strange lady, she made me nervous She took me in and gave me breakfast And she said, “Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder? Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.” Buying bread from a man in Brussels He was six foot four and full of muscles I said, “Do you speak-a my language?” He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich And he said, “I come from a land down under Where beer does flow and men chunder Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.” Lying in a den in Bombay With a slack jaw, and not much to say I said to the man, “Are you trying to tempt me Because I come from the land of plenty?” And he said, “Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah) Where women glow and men plunder? Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.” ---
**Author:** ![CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CameronS_Gemma_SUK)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-chunky-bacon/73723/4 "2006-10-26T18:44:20Z")
On 26 Oct 2006, at 16:38, Cameron, Gemma (UK) wrote: > Am I too british or too young to understand? Probably too young; the Ruby community is not ageist :-). Men At Work was not a recent band at all. Same era as Saturday Night Fever, as far as I recall. ---
**Author:** ![CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CameronS_Gemma_SUK)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 8:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-chunky-bacon/73723/5 "2006-10-26T20:03:28Z")
David J. wrote: > Traveling in a fried-out combie > On a hippie trail, head full of zombie > I met a strange lady, she made me nervous > She took me in and gave me breakfast > And she said, > > Just seeing those lyrics brings to mind the MTV video that was produced > for that track. Gawd, that was _too_ long ago! ---
**Author:** ![CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CameronS_Gemma_SUK)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-chunky-bacon/73723/6 "2006-10-26T18:10:17Z")
or for the more visually stimulated: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd1AT7V4-E8) ---
**Author:** ![CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CameronS_Gemma_SUK)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-chunky-bacon/73723/7 "2006-10-27T01:59:15Z")
Cameron, Gemma (UK) wrote: > Am I too british or too young to understand? I don’t know. How old are you, and how British are you? 😉 As for Rick’s reference, I do remember the Men at Work song, from 1983 or so. (Gack, that was 23 years ago. Who permitted that to happen?) As for the reply by J2M, I think that was just surrealism. Hal ---
**Author:** ![CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@CameronS\_Gemma\_SUK](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CameronS_Gemma_SUK)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-chunky-bacon/73723/8 "2006-10-27T11:25:19Z")
Hal F. wrote: > Cameron, Gemma (UK) wrote: > > > Am I too british or too young to understand? > > I don’t know. How old are you, and how British are you? 😉 Age may as yet be indeterminate but I think we can resolve that Britishness: [http://www.britishness-test.co.uk/](http://www.britishness-test.co.uk/) > As for Rick’s reference, I do remember the Men at Work song, > from 1983 or so. (Gack, that was 23 years ago. Who permitted > that to happen?) Gulp… pregnant (geddit) pause for reflection 😉 I have already started work on a web development framework for those of us who remember this song from the first time round; Ruby on Stabilizers (and a speed limiter plugin) > As for the reply by J2M, I think that was just surrealism. Have you every worked for a large American multinational corporation… as close to old communist China as I would like to get. I must now go and code this application… I know it is pointless, but the chairman demands it! 😉