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what is the meaning of this sentence?

I COOKED THE FOOD FOR YOU






THANKS IN ADVANCE
HAFEZ

It means I made the food so you can eat it.

What does the expression

brimful of asha on the forty-five

refer to?

It's actually from a song that a friend of mine likes, and I cannot make head nor tails of the lyrics.

You'll find the full lyrics at http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Ba ... _Asha.html

From the context of the rest of the song, "Brimful of Asha" appears to be the name of a (possibly fictional) Indian pop group. "The 45" refers to the old type of record that yours truly can still remember. "Singles" were played at a speed of 45 revolutions per minute and Long players (albums) at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute. So presumably someone is singing about the single that they are playing and thinking how great other Indian pop music and the Bollywood film industry is, while saying they find the newsreals in the cinema boring. I'm afraid that I don't know what "asha" is, but presumably a brimful would be a lot of it. If you fill sth "to the brim", you fill it to the top.

The line, "everyone needs a bosom for a pillow," should speak for itself.

You seem to be right on the button, Andrew, with your intuition about Asha.

I googled 'Asha' and found an Asha Bhosle, Bollywood's Golden Voice, and a list of her recordings. They appeared to be on CD and DVD however, which does not mean they weren't originally issued on 45's.

You can remember 45's, but I can go one better and remember 78's, sob!, but mercifully not cylinders.

Harzer

My friend suspected that it was something connected to music, but we thought Asha was some slang-term for a certain type of house-beat or something.

I'm afraid I lost all of my prestige as an expert for the English language from the looks he gave me - sort of "don't they teach you that at university?" incredulance.

Ah well.

I can't believe somebody would actually ask about the group Cornershop on this forum. Amazing!

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Not merely ask... in fact, we're having a tri-continental discussion about their lyrics here! That's the global village for you!

How did you come across them?

I first heard that song about 7 years ago from their album "When I was born for the 7th Time". It was actually a fairly big hit in N.America. But seing as the band is British, they were always a much bigger success in the UK. Since then, they've come out with other albums but never came up with another hit like "Brimfull of Asha".

Well,

"Brimfull of Asha" was a song of a compilation that one of the waiters at a mountain hut, a young Czech, had compiled. He would treat us to his musical jems from dusk till dawn, until someone stepped up and pulled the plug....