Slough

:For slough (In the UK, pronounced {{IPA|}}; In the U.S., pronounced {{IPA|}}) as a type of aquatic feature, see Slough (wetland).

Sense of Humour

The poet John Betjeman wrote, in his 1937 poem Slough as a protest against the 850 factories and a new town in what had been formerly a rural area:

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John Betjeman - 1937

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:Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough

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:It isn't fit for humans now

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:There is not grass to feed a cow

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:Swarm over, death!

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As a joke, the comedian Spike Milligan presented Slough on TV as a holiday resort. In a possible reference to this, the 1998 song "Costa del Slough" by the rock band Marillion posits the town as a post-global warming coastal resort.

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Spike Milligan - 1998 - Marillion - Global warming

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The BBC comedy series The Office is set in Slough, reiterating Betjeman's view of the place as a depressing industrial wasteland. In fact the character David Brent comments on Betjeman's poem in the series, and it also appears on the inside sleeve of the video and DVD of Series 1.

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BBC - The Office

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