"Who wrote ""Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, it isn't fit for humans now""?"
The Office (UK TV series) human behaviour, self-importance and conceit, frustration, desperation and fame. The success of the show led to a number of localised adaptations (based upon its basic story and themes) being produced for the television markets of other nations, resulting in an international "Office" franchise. The show is a mockumentary based in a branch of a large paper company called Wernham Hogg (where "life is stationery"), in the Slough Trading Estate in Berkshire. Slough is a large town immortalised for its lack of appeal by John Betjeman in his poem "Slough" ("Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough/It isn't fit for humans
Slough (poem) "Come Friendly Bombs", and an earlier song entitled "Swarm Over Death" (released on the band's 2005 demo) features the lyrics "Come friendly bombs/ And fall here now/ It isn't fit for humans now/ Swarm over death". Morrissey used a similar theme in relation to the decline of British coastal resorts in his song "Everyday Is Like Sunday". In the first series of "The Office", which is set in Slough, Ricky Gervais, in the character of David Brent, reads extracts of the poem interjected with comments such as "You don't solve town planning problems by dropping bombs all over the place."