BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing

Subject: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 06:43 PM

A hypothetical:

When the 10 meter asteroid struck west of Beijing
it registered 6 on the Richter scale
China armed its nuclear weapons
for an enemy to no avail.

Their urgent message to the White House;
"Do you know who started this attack?"
We replied "make no mistake about it,
this is a surprise to us, your continued messages are important to us. A follow up response should be expected soon... We'll show you with everthing we got tracking your space today"

Within fifteen minutes China launched against the US.
It was clear to thieir Automatic Translator by our reply;
"Make no mistake about it. This is a surprise
To us your continued messages are impotent to USA
Follow up response should be expected soon...
We'll show you
with everthing we got
tricking your space today"

Microsoft had created bugs
just in case their software
was bootlegged.
But who on Earth
thought George Bush
should speak in an emergency
in the first place?

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: DougR
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 06:50 PM

Donuel: that is intended as humor, right?

DougR

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 06:56 PM

If Donuel had been a British Mudcatter, I would have assumed he had just returned from the pub (11.45 pm here)

Since he is American, he does not have that excuse. It is all very disturbing ...

Murray

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 07:04 PM

he might have just started drinking early, Murray?

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 07:35 PM

Donuel's previous posts are very illuminating about his slant on things in general.

~Susan

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 07:40 PM

Doug, humor in the form of a hypothetical can still be seriously funny stuff.

How dangerous may one be in the growing repression on the cat?
I would rather people answer the first Bush question but here is another piece with a catchy tune;


Born in the USA
But Ashcroft decided that I can't stay
I was trucked to an army base and put away
I tell em I was

Born in the USA

Here in New Jersey behind bars of rust
No lawyers or families can visit us
Our names are a secret there is no trust
The press guess our numbers
and say whats the fuss

cuz I was Born in the USA

The tribunals refusal
for bail or judge
makes me think they'll kill us
for their giant grudge
We can't all be guilty
in this filthy cell cuz I was

Born in the USA

Some lost thier visa on that fateful day
Some were in a Mosque
cuz they wanted to pray
We can't all be a crazy member of the way
Bein a citizen just doesn't pay

cuz I was

Born in the USA

-Shaduup you filthy rag heads-

(whispering) i was born in the usa

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/usa.jpg






for the spaced out UK folks obsessed with drinking I offer a Cosmic Irish Drinking Song:(I understand the effect of Irish music on many of them is painful


They say their home exploded

While they were on thier moon

When their moon was shattered

For years they were marooned

With courage and luck and grace of God

Repairs were finally done

They came to Earth in a mighty ship

a paradise fierce and fun

Common chords of DNA

joined the orphans and Earth people

We both survived through great deaths

like the Scarab beetle

When we became quite unlike

our former combinate selves

the new survivors then arrived

So small we all called them elves.

Extremely wise with compromise

Our race combined as three

With the universe expanding

The pure bred elves flew free

Of all the people on the Earth

the ones we see today

are again unlike our former selves

We are predator and prey

History left a monument

We built the Pyramid

Of all our former combinations

They're the most lucid





(oh and yes I am published - doesn't that just burn you up? ;) )

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 07:49 PM

Donuel, you appear to have rhymed "people" with "beetle", as well as "lucid" with "pyramid".

God may forgive you. I never can.

Murray

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:06 PM

Oh Murray, don't let it get you. I once rhymed "stromboli" with "fuckoff" and no one complained................

Spaw

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:26 PM

Like Castle with ass hole

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:30 PM

Or "Donuel" with "Manuel". (For "Fawlty Towers" devotees only)

Murray

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:30 PM

Most of the time
people run into rhyme
like a wall
incredibly tall.

Incomprehensible
mysteries
that show you
more than words

There are long and short
skinny and port
haiku
and those that don't matter.

limerick and parody.
are fun when mixed with booze
There is fantasy and Clerihue
written to light a fuse.

There are
Songs that repeat everything
shouting from here to high heaven
and love songs that simply sing lyrically
or hate that wants to get even.

There are poems
that guide a lifetime
and those
that end them too.

There is chilling and stark
feelings so dark
people don't speak of them
easily.

But my favorite so far
is the one not yet shared
So new
it may last an eternity.

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:34 PM

Donuel, that should be "Clerihew" ...

Murray

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:36 PM

To each their own frequency

To be a media pundit
you have to be loud
and obnoxious.
Without loudness
you can be Bill Will
or a GUEST on Mudcat.

The chain of command
from talking heads
to technicians
to the CEOs
(which is only 7 guys)
the giant hypnosis machine
is a pulsing serpent
of suggestions.

A jack hammer can be
a refreshing change
of frequency

When I turn off
all the machines
in my room
I am left with 42 standby LCD lights
that peacefully shine
green and grey at night
with an electronic glare.

or I can go outside
and see the universe.

Ahh the universe at my fingetips
the free quaint seas
of stars

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:48 PM

Donuel, I have never seen a LCD that shines with a grey light ....

Murray

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: DougR
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:48 PM

Hilarious. Such talent. Wow!

DougR

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 09:01 PM

My VCRs have a grey cast to the clock numbers.

I did strike out with this childrens book
http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/child.html
Here are some others .. http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/far.html

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 09:11 PM

End run
----------------------------------------------------------

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/enron.html

Past the accountants,
past the regulators
past the SEC and
their moderators
past the cabinate minister
and the staff residents
past the jounalists and
good'ole boy President

The CEO and top executives held on to the cash and scored.

Performing the biggest Enron around investors they abhored.

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: little john cameron
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 09:37 PM

Donny boy,ye're no' related tae McGonagall are ye??ljc

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 09:42 PM

With 7 half brothers and sisters you just never know.

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 09:45 PM

And back to the giant asteroid. Well, after 17 years, or whatever its been, that alcoholic Dubya, Jr. figured out that he is an alcoholic, he's sittin' around the White House with nothin' to do as per usual. Laura has gone to bed and there's Junior wonderin' what to do next. Normal, right. Well, he wonders what it would be like to just have a nip or two.... or seven. I mean, forget that wagon thing. "I'm the President!" and on about his 8 or 18th nip (who's countin) the call comes in from China. Hmmmmmmm? Now the Bobert is real scared. Junior forgets that he's not 'sposed to play with sharp objects or talk to asteroided Chinese folks. He forgets that his presidency is a rule by committe and corprate board rooms and, well, having just downed his 19th nip, or so, he's on the yellow phone talking with the asteroided Chinese folks who haven't had 19 nips, but one big asteroid ruin their night.... Hmmmmmmmm? Now the bobert's gettin' real scared. First of all, ya got an unelected drunk at the wheel, who has never really held down a job for more that a year or two and HE"S talking to the asteroided Chinese on the yellow phone.....

Danged, no make that double danged.

Bobert

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: GUEST,ozmacca
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 09:46 PM

Seven and a half brothers and sisters? Sounds like a statistics study based on a census up among the mountain folks.......

Subject: RE: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: DougR
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 10:01 PM

Wow, Bopert, you and Donuel would make a great vaudeville team! (if vaudeville still existed).

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: khandu
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 10:42 PM

What starts with an "F" and ends with an "off"? HINT: It rhymes with stromboli!

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 10:51 PM

I got it!!.....Emily Dickenson met Alan Ginzberg and they collaborated on political Zen verse while trying LSD laced with Geritol-...and had it translated by Wittgenstein.

and WE get to see the result!

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 11:22 PM

No, Ozmacca, he said seven half brothers and sisters. That means 3 1/2 sibs.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 11:27 PM

Is that an imperial sib or U.S. standard sib? And which is the one which is slightly smaller than the metric sib? And anyway, is Donuel aware that his family has been reduced in the interests of grammatical comprehension? Will this lead to more poetry?..... I'm sorry, that should have read "Will this lead to poetry?"

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 02:33 AM

Why is everyone so nasty to eachother these days? :>(

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 02:55 AM

Ain't nobody being nasty here, KB, just having fun! Unless I'm missing something...

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 05:07 AM

Murray: I can't see what you are referring to as "should have been a Clerihew".
Just as a sonnet has 14 lines, a limerick 5, a Clerihew is a verse form describing some particular person in 4 lines.
For an overview of a Clerihew (and how's that for an internal rhyme?) see This Page

Cheers Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 08:17 AM

Ashcroft Clerihew:

The man that ran against a dead opponent was Ashcroft
Some were not surprised he lost
Now senators fear to challenge this hater
If they honor the constitution he calls them a traitor.

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 08:35 AM

(Emily Ginzberg writes politico-zen on acid)

DO NOT WORSHIP CHRIST OR ALLAH

If ya don't find Christ inside
yer not gonna find him
If ya don't know the Budda's you
You'll never meet him
If ya have no idea you are a creator
Creations not for you
If ya don't know you are the merciful
Ya missed Allah too
If ya don't become the Santa
Your presents will be few.
If this somehow offends ya
Let me tell ya what to do

Look inside and ask yourself
Is it words that you believe
Have you confused the metaphor
and worship Christmas Eve?

Some may think this sacriledge
because they missed the point
they listened to a guy "in charge"
That God did not appoint

The hero is inside you
When you follow dreams
Worship the God in everyone
it's easier than it seems

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: mack/misophist
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 11:27 AM

For those who love pronunciation for it's own sweet sake, may I introduce the double dactyl? :
Higglety pigglety
John Cantacuzene
Swaddled in Byzantine
Pearl seeded robes,
Put out the eyes of his
Iconophantical
Prelate
For piercing
His priestly
Ear lobes.

There! Wasn't that bracing? Historical, too.

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: mousethief
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 11:43 AM

Show-off.

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 12:30 PM

Double didactic couplets with a full twist ;)

9 iron shots with a friend
ended my fascination.
The doc took a look at the rend
and stitched the laceration.

With a scar under my stach
I watch the golfers stewin
I probably saved alot of cash
and my walks are seldom ruined

But with that lip I had to quit
a career for which I was born
I switched to cello but had a fit
that I was never to play French Horn.

....................................................

I got pretty good on cello
Scholarships I began to land
I was a pretty happy fellow
In a canoe I slashed my hand

I became a hypnotist.
I did it with all my heart.
For others I tried to assist.
There was more I had to impart.

I've changed careers 8 times since
and really had fun with each one.
What if I'd played the horn hence?
I bet I'd be in a pit feeling glum.

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 12:32 PM

I like the Christ or Allah one, Don. Keep it up. Screw the critics! DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT!!

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 01:18 PM

..hey, yer gittin' better, Donuel..*grin*

Emily Ginsberg has a future...as long as the drugs hold out!

meself, I cannot even approach double dactyls!

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 01:22 PM

I had a pet Pterydactil but it died a long time ago.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 05:25 PM

The Middle East goes to Broadway

Airplanes and buildings and girls with explosives
Bull dozers dozing old houses with roses
Bethlehem burning as fire rains down
Peace loving people now litter the ground

When the bus blows
when free speech goes
when peace is hard to find

these are a few of the hideous things
when hatred is seen as blind

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 06:23 PM

Nigel, Murray was just making a spelling correction. But thanks for enlightening me about clerihews! That was a lacuna in my own literary lore.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Gray D
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 07:15 PM

Terror dactyls, surely?

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 07:18 PM

Nigel,

Donuel wrote
"There is fantasy and Clerihue".

I replied
"Donuel, that should be "Clerihew" ...

Does that clarify things?

I have actually been taken to task before for correcting spelling mistakes in public, that it is bad "netiquette" , but, needless to say, I totally disagree.

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 11:33 PM

My artistic license clearly states that creative spelling is allowed.

I did this one this morning. I had a buyer by noon.

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/rollercoast.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: When Bush becomes more than embarrassing
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 12:38 AM

Thank you one and all for this very entertaining and informative thread. Spawman and Khundu... once again you have made me laugh......thanx.

LL