Riding the MUni around the edge of a quarry and visitor centre near MATLOCK, I heard a child say, ‘He looks like a clown!’ A bit later I passed the same child and he was loudly ‘Dee dee dee’-ing a very inaccurate rendition of the famous circus tune.
I stopped and said, ‘Look, what if you do the riding and I do the singing?’ his parents laughed. Thus encouraged, I remarked, ‘The times I’ve heard that tune over the years!’
To which his dad replied, ‘Well, it is the anthem of Matlock Town Football Club.’
Second incident, later in the day, and perhaps a kind of compliment…
I was riding my 20 incher one footed along a tarmac path. My top score is 125 revs., but my average is nearer 25, so it was slow progress. A little brat aged about 6 or 8 roared up alongside on a 50cc 2 stroke quad and shouted, ‘Want a race?’
You should find out where the kid lives and then cut the brakes to his bike and then offer to race him downhill and then off a cliff. HA HA HA, that’ll show him.
What you’re starting to get a glimpse of is the result of years of work that P.T. Barnum, Burt Lancaster,
Victor Mature, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Russell Crowe and I have put into embedding this tune into
the mind(s) of the general public!
