Alfred001 Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 There's the Robbie Williams song Road to Mandalay, there's the Kipling poem which got turned into a Sinatra song "Mandalay," there's the casino Mandalay Bay. Wtf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Easy to rhyme, perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 I handle May Sandal Day on Vandal Way in Mandalay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred001 Posted June 24, 2017 Author Share Posted June 24, 2017 As for Theresa May, Mandalay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrKrettin Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 I don't think it is necessarily more popular than other names of places which are foreign and obscure, such as Katmandu or Timbuktu. Also, easier to rhyme than (say) Stoke-on-Trent, and slightly more exotic.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imatfaal Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 There is the Kipling Poem - and most of the rest flows from that. Kipling was incredibly important - trying not to sound too pompous - in the maintenance of the zietgeist of British Imperial/Colonial rule and a major apologist for Empire in general; even though, maybe perhaps because, he was late in its period. His works were canonical and reference to something in Kipling's oeuvre guaranteed recognition and understanding (even if this was only of the Ersatz/Kipling version). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Art Vandalay likes to go to Mandalay. On his way, though the skies are gray. Don't block his way, 'cause he'll make you pay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred001 Posted June 24, 2017 Author Share Posted June 24, 2017 Incidentally, the Sinatra song is dynamite, though this is not my favorite version Art Vandalay likes to go to Mandalay. On his way, though the skies are gray. Don't block his way, 'cause he'll make you pay. golf clap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Also, easier to rhyme than (say) Stoke-on-Trent, and slightly more exotic.. A bloke gone bent, from Stoke-on-Trent, once spoke on Lent and woke swansent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 A bloke gone bent, from Stoke-on-Trent, once spoke on Lent and woke swansent. ...Got the message That swan sent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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