Heaven’s Band

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

Got it wrong there, mate. The correct term is 'POHM' = Prisoner of His Majesty, i.e. the convicts shipped off down under centuries ago. So the POHMs are Aussies, born and bred...

This is the accepted derivation of the term Pom;

pom

A British person, especially one from England. (Originally applied to an immigrant from the British Isles.) The word pom has its origin in wordplay. An early, derisory term for an immigrant in Australia was the rhyming slang jimmygrant (sometimes written as Jimmy Grant), recorded in 1844. Jimmygrant was further abbreviated in the 1870s to jimmy:

1878 Australian Town & Country Journal (Sydney) 6 July: The country was worth living in, not like it is now, overstocked with ‘jimmies’—a lot of useless trash.

By 1912 another rhyming slang term for ‘immigrant’ had appeared: pomegranate (also written as pommygranate and Pommy Grant). In the same year the first evidence for two abbreviations of pomegranate—pom and pommy—can also be found. Pomegranate (along with its variants) and jimmygrant coexisted for some time:

1912 Truth (Sydney) 22 December: Now they call ’em ‘Pomegranates’ and the Jimmygrants don’t like it.
1916 W.C. Watson The Memoirs of a Ship’s Fireman: As I hailed from the Old Dart, I of course, in their estimation, was an immigrant, hence the curl up of the lip. But ‘pommygrant’ or ‘jimmygrant’, they always had a helping hand for me.

Eventually the term pomegranate replaced jimmygrant, and later was itself replaced by the abbreviations pom and pommy.

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

I'm going to go for a front three.

Frank Sinatra

Aretha Franklin

Freddie Mercury

Nah, never heard of any of these.

 

[Groucho]

RIP Dusty Hill

A musician I’ve seen play a couple of times, once in Liverpool.

Does he dislodge Cliff Burton? No, probably not but does he earn a place as whatever he wanted to play? Absolutely.

He was ace.