Black Velvet is the name of a song that was popular a while back, when I was younger.* Apparently, it was about Elvis. "Mama's baby's in the heart of every school girl // "Love me tender" leaves 'em cryin' in the aisle"
"Black velvet," as it turns out, is apparently also a term used in Australia to refer to, shall we say, the proclivities of well-situated Caucasian males in the field of Aboriginal extracurricular activities, or possibly to those "
activities" themselves. Ahem.
A "black velvet" is also a drink made from Guinness and champagne, which to me at least, sounds completely wretched. What a horrible thing to do to champagne. It was
created in honor of the death of Britain's Prince Albert.
Finally, it is, of course, the material of choice for paintings of sad clowns and unicorns.
I am reasonably certain that these things are essentially unrelated, with the possible exception of black velvet paintings of Elvis. At the very least, we can hope so.
*Yes, I'm aware that that statement is semantically somewhat redundant, or at the very least extremely unhelpful.
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