A link has been posted in the comments section of my first post that I just have to flag up here in a post of its own. Dave Corey disects all the cultural references in the great, great Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg song Lydia the Tattooed Lady. For years I have listened to the song without questioning who Nijinsky was and now I know! Well worth checking out.
http://davecory2.blogspot.com/2008/06/lydia-tattooed-lady-revealed.html
