The Song Remains the Same No1: Only Losers Take the Bus

Have been thinking recently about songs from previous eras (particularly the 80s, but not only) that seem to have taken on a renewed relevance, piquancy and poignancy now. The obscene 'Wacky Races' scenario of 'Only Losers Take the Bus' - "Get these dead bodies off my race track!" - was inspired by a quote attributed (perhaps misattributed) to Thatcher: "A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure." There are echos if this in IDS's recent suggestion that the people of Merthyr Tydfil should "get on a bus" to find work. Now this sounds more like a recommendation for public transport than the first quote, but the suggestion is still that the bus is the mode of transport best suited to society's 'failures'.