plus ça change

[susie_flo]

As I was leaving work this evening I overheard some students lamenting the latest influx of "Rahs in their red jeans" and was instantly jettisoned back to the early '90s.

I wrote this silly poem 20 years ago, to amuse my university flatmates...


An Ode To Rahs

Rahs are always close at hand
In quadrangles across the land

With coloured jeans and scarves galore

They're never easy to ignore

As high-pitched gangs of girls hold hands
And chaps tie up their Timberlands

But if you fail to spot this clique
Fear not, for soon you'll hear a shriek

Of "Darling!" "Sweetie!" "Oh, what rot!
Your skiing tan has gone to pot!"

And, kissing, they will then proceed
To moan about the lives they lead.

"Oh, Moo Moo, I just can't survive
With this old scummy 205"

"And thanks to Daddy's failing health
We almost missed the Glorious Twelfth"

Then off they trot to squander cash
On clothes to wear at Lucy's bash

But trauma still awaits them there
As dwindling Pimms creates despair

"Oh god, it's only half past three!
I'll have to have a G&T"

So ends another stressful day
As our poor chums go on their way

For here you have it in the bag
Life is such an utter drag

(Picture courtesy of the Durham University Red Trousers Club, on http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.co.uk/) 

Comments

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I bought a red pair of jeans recently... and I love it!

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I salute you!
My toddler has red jeans too :-)

[inbetween-girl.livejournal.com]

Fabulous! Though I did own a pair of red jeans in 1993...

[whatifoundthere.livejournal.com]

I dug this post even though I don't know what a Rah is. Google didn't help -- are you looking for red rash?, it suggested politely.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! I think the term "rah" gained popularity thanks to an episode of the early '80s comedy The Young Ones, in which a team of students from Scumbag College compete on University Challenge against a team of Oxbridge toffs, whose team cry is "Rah! Rah! Rah!" http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/z3HvchF49AM/hqdefault.jpg

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

APPLAUSE

I'm not sure if I'd find being locked in a room with members of this social tribe more terrifying than being locked in a a room with members of the lumpen proletariat...tis a close run thing.