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BS: Luscious Phrases
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Bert Date: 24 Jul 01 - 03:40 PM Your head is like a pumpkin Your belly's like a drum Your legs are like two fiddle sticks So run you bugger, run. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Mr Red Date: 24 Jul 01 - 03:35 PM I heard this about the innards of a military box of electrics but it is a nautical term about ropes untidily placed. like a snakes wedding |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: GUEST,Pete Peterson Date: 24 Jul 01 - 02:17 PM "And the air was filled with the smoke of burning bridges" (Larry Niven) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Steve Latimer Date: 24 Jul 01 - 07:55 AM Beauty walks a razor's edge, Someday I'll make it mine. Mona Lisa must of had the highway Blues, you could tell by the way that she smiled. Both Bob |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Brían Date: 24 Jul 01 - 07:27 AM Kim C: >br> Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connait pas. "The heart has its reasons that reason does not know" That's my best(bad) French. And I better get practicing. I'm going to Quebec this summer. One of my favorite lines is in A NOBLEMAN'S WEDDING: Oh Annie, lovely Annie, I knew you never loved me. For your love and my love could never agree I have separated you from your true lover And that seperated the bark from the tree Brían. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: bigchuck Date: 24 Jul 01 - 07:13 AM "Listen to the wind, it's Mother Nature's violin" from "The Old Double Diamond" by Garry McMahan. Sandy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Jim Cheydi Date: 24 Jul 01 - 07:00 AM 'Glaciers would, geologically speaking, continue to go up and down like window blinds' - Kurt Vonnegut.
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Ebbie Date: 23 Jul 01 - 10:53 PM Life is a thump-ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess How perfect. See the pyramids along the Nile, watch the sunrise from a tropic isle... See the marketplace in old Algiers, send me photographs and souvenirs... Fly the ocean in a silver plane, see the jungle when it's wet with rain... Some of my favorite lines from the Jo Stafford recording. Thanks for refreshing this, Wizzy; a person could live on these words and images. Ebbie
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Amos Date: 23 Jul 01 - 10:10 PM Eyes like the morning star Cheeks like the rose Laurie was a pretty girl, God almighty knows... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Allan C. Date: 23 Jul 01 - 09:12 PM "...when the wind is strummin' a sagebrush guitar" - from Along The Navajo Trail.
His gaze wandered through the canyons of the coals of the campfire... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: FriendlyFinny Date: 23 Jul 01 - 09:03 PM "...and it's a dark, dark sky holds the north star high, and guides us and bathes us in stillness and sameness and blue. Blue is the colour of my heart since you blew my senses apart, the feeling we're back in the start never ends as clusters of heavenly jewels gaze down on earth's lonely fools." - Roddy Frame I really love this. Finnabhair
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Amos Date: 23 Jul 01 - 08:47 PM Everyone is entitled to their own bad taste.... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 23 Jul 01 - 08:30 PM And all the flowers looked up at him, And all the stars looked down.
(That's from a carol by Chesterton - and I think I could fairly have put every line of it in this thread.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: SharonA Date: 23 Jul 01 - 05:24 PM From a Big Band-era song I heard over the weekend: I get sentimental over nothing. Imagine how I feel about you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Kim C Date: 23 Jul 01 - 05:04 PM To each his own bad gout? I know the first one, Amos, but please translate the second. C'est depuis un longtemps que j'etudie francais. (And that's probably wrong, too......) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: pattyClink Date: 23 Jul 01 - 04:45 PM from Loch Tay Boat Song: for my heart's a boat in tow |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Amos Date: 23 Jul 01 - 03:43 PM Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connait pas. Blaise Pascal. Chacun a son mauvais gout |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Kim C Date: 23 Jul 01 - 02:53 PM "It's a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Maryrrf Date: 23 Jul 01 - 02:52 PM One of my favorites describing the pain of a lost love from "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens" "If I had known when first I courted that love it was such a killing thing, I'd have locked my heart in a box of golden and fastened it up with a silver pin". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: dwditty Date: 23 Jul 01 - 01:19 PM Dave Van Ronk from "Another Time & Place" "I'd trade my time in heaven for a day with you my dear." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: GUEST Date: 23 Jul 01 - 12:14 PM ..from "Look Homeward, Angel" by Thomas Wolfe, in describing the coal tenders on a locomotive: "grimed [faces of] fire painted stokers." Just stuck, for no apparent reason.
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Bat Goddess Date: 23 Jul 01 - 11:12 AM There are two slate gravestones in a small graveyard in York, Maine. Both are for women, and with a number of years in between, but I believe both markers are from the hand of the same stone cutter. On each it was said: "She lived desired and died lamented." What more is there to aspire to? Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: GUEST,Bigchuck, whose cookie has crumbled Date: 23 Jul 01 - 10:46 AM "Rachel was a watermelon, ripe and freshly stole" from Rachel, by Jim Ringer, which also has the line "a skinny dippin sight to see, with freckles every where, a queen in faded hand-me-downs, wildflowers in her hair. Sandy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: wysiwyg Date: 23 Jul 01 - 10:27 AM refresh |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Trapper Date: 25 May 01 - 03:44 PM Here's one from "Rexroth's Daughter" by Greg Brown... "Life is a thump-ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.... - Al |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: SINSULL Date: 24 May 01 - 04:40 PM tintinnabulation of the bells... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Stevangelist Date: 24 May 01 - 04:32 PM In honor of the man's birthday: Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free; Silhouetted by the sea, Circled by the circus sands With all memory and fate Driven deep beneath the waves Let me forget about today until tomorrow." -Dylan, "Mr. Tambourine Man"
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Jeremiah McCaw Date: 24 May 01 - 02:37 PM From Scott Cameron Smith's song "Greentown", he describes his young self as: "Living a life I was born for in truth, Unfettered by wisdom, and fueled by youth." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Matt_R Date: 24 May 01 - 02:37 PM Love is better than a warm trombone when played by a two-tone brother... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Jeremiah McCaw Date: 24 May 01 - 02:34 PM Lord Byron: "And if I laugh at any mortal thing; 'Tis that I may not weep." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: mousethief Date: 24 May 01 - 02:28 PM Sunset is an angel weeping, holding out a bloody sword |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Jim Krause Date: 24 May 01 - 02:13 PM "He used to take acid But now he loves God, But he's still got that look in his eyes. Jim Ringer Oh stars that shine on Bethlehem Jim |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: rube1 Date: 24 May 01 - 06:47 AM All things are a flowing Sage Heraclitus says But a tawdry cheapness Shall outlast our days
-Ezra Pound |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Matt_R Date: 23 May 01 - 11:30 PM And I know, that a drop of your existence everyday has changed me, and your smile could drive the cold winter away... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Mudlark Date: 23 May 01 - 10:50 PM Haha...bobom.....right! Make that bosom!!! Mudlark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Mudlark Date: 23 May 01 - 10:11 PM I collect these...the covers of my journals are filled with them.... From a poem by Francis Thomas... "Angels keep their ancient places, turn but a stone and start a wing..." From Richard II, I think... "Make dust our paper And with rainy eyes write sorrow On the bobom of the earth." "The distant, disengaged eyes of the perennial wanderer." S. Morgan "Holding on to resentment is like taking rat poison...and then waiting for the rat to die." A. Lamott And from the incomparable Tom Waits... "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy." Hmmmm...very hard to stop, once I get started....
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: John Hardly Date: 23 May 01 - 08:41 PM "..and though she tried to keep from crying....it was like carrying a too full bowl of water." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Bill D Date: 23 May 01 - 07:46 PM "since it is no better, I'm glad that it is no worse.. brandy in my bottle, and money in my purse" from "I've Rambled This Country, Both Earlye and Late" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: GUEST,mkebenn@work Date: 23 May 01 - 03:55 PM Kristopherson.. And he stumbles as he's leavin' and he wonders if the reason is the beer that's in his belly, or the tear that's in his eye. "Casey's Last Ride" Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Robby Date: 23 May 01 - 03:52 PM I'm kinda partial to lines by W.B. Yeats: And I shall pluck til times and time are done, The silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun. Robby |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: CarolC Date: 23 May 01 - 03:07 PM Thanks kat/katlaughing. I actually like the phrase 'luscious phrases' quite a lot. Sounds like a word pillow. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Ebbie Date: 23 May 01 - 03:02 PM Wow |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: LR Mole Date: 23 May 01 - 11:06 AM Trickett's line is from D.H. Lawrence, I believe: "Piano".How 'bout this, also from D. Thomas: "...and I rose in rainy autumn and walked abroad in a shower of all my days." It's always my birthday sentence. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: UB Ed Date: 23 May 01 - 11:05 AM Mr. Prine: "We lost Davy in the Korean War, still don't know what for, don't matter anymore." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Mrrzy Date: 23 May 01 - 11:05 AM And here I thought this would be another food thread... AAMilne and Edward Lear Or from Les Djinns: ...comme un bruit de foule / qui tourne et qui roule / et tantôt s'écroule et tantôt grandit... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Matt_R Date: 23 May 01 - 10:44 AM "...it shone like silver in the firelight, like water in the sun, like snow under the stars, like rain upon the moon..." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Snuffy Date: 23 May 01 - 09:05 AM She made her way homeward with one star awake |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: kendall Date: 23 May 01 - 07:36 AM Ed Trickett sings a song about a man who looks back on the past when he was a small boy listening to his Mother play the piano and sing. The line that gets me is:..and my manhood is cast down in a flood of remembrance, and I weep like a child for the past. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Lyndi-loo Date: 23 May 01 - 06:55 AM "The slow black,sloe-black,crow-black fishing-boat -bobbing sea" "The sun declared war on the butter and the butter ran" Both Dylan Thomas |
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Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: GUEST,micca at work Date: 23 May 01 - 06:45 AM Kat, as you probably know, the "Blue rembered hills" is from A E Housemans " a Shropshire Lad" the poem is full of the most wonderfully wistful lines, here it is complete. BLUE REMEMBERED HILLS By A.E. HOUSMAN (1859-19336 Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
This is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain.
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
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