Obscure prophecies from scripture no. 4019: Trio

"May those who say to me, 'Aha! Aha!'
turn back because of their shame."
- Psalm 70 v. 3

It may seem a little thin-skinned to complain of people coming up to you and saying "Aha! Aha!" until you remember Trio - the obscurely named trio of German minimalist synth pop artists, whose song "Da Da Da" did just that. This little number, Germany's most annoying musical export since Marlene Dietrich, bored its way up the UK charts in the early 1980s, and thanks to the psalmist it's back in my head again.

For those whose years are still too tender to remember, try a mental exercise. Picture Schwarzenegger putting all his famed acting and emoting skills into the words 'aha aha aha'.

Now imagine him saying 'ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht'.

And now, 'da da da'.

You have the song.

Quite clearly, the psalmist had a word of prophecy about this dire event some 3000 years in advance. How sad that no one paid any attention.

Possible reasons for this oversight:

• on the great Venn diagram of humanity, the circles of biblical scholars and synth pop fans don't overlap very much.
• we were still reeling from Joe Dolce's 'Shaddup your face' and Jona Lewie's 'Stop the cavalry'.

The latter is a reason, but not an excuse.