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Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: Liz the Squeak Date: 06 Aug 01 - 05:56 PM And I thought he was fixing the line return thing so we wouldn't need < B R > any longer.... LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: Bill D Date: 06 Aug 01 - 05:33 PM (traditionally spelled with 'oi', Liz...*grin*...'boid', etc..)...but nice... |
Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: Liz the Squeak Date: 06 Aug 01 - 05:20 PM Der spring is sprung, der grass is riz, I wonder where dem boydies is? The little boyds is on der wing, But dat's absoyd, der wings Is on der boyd. (OK, so I can't do Location Specific American Accents.... just pretend you're from Queens....) LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: Bill D Date: 06 Aug 01 - 05:12 PM I wish I loved the human race. I wish I loved it's silly face. I wish I loved the way it walks, I wish I loved the way it talks- And when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought, "What jolly fun".
A man fell into a septic tank;
A Glossina morsitans bit rich Aunt Betsy..
...Infant Innocence
Short poem and sea story |
Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 06 Aug 01 - 04:59 PM Guest, why would he spell it like that? As far as I can tell, he was pretty well-educated. Dave Oesterreich |
Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 06 Aug 01 - 04:55 PM I remember these from my misspent youth:
The gum-chewing girl and the cud-chewing cow OR Moses supposes his toeses are roses OR The breezes, the breezes, Dave Oesterreich
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Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: Liz the Squeak Date: 06 Aug 01 - 04:47 PM Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker... Good old Ogden. Poem for everything. LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: Peter T. Date: 06 Aug 01 - 04:45 PM My favourite, a perfect Nash poem: Shake and shake the ketchup bottle, None'll come, and then a lot'l. |
Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: Noreen Date: 06 Aug 01 - 04:23 PM A baby sardine saw his first submarine, He cried as he watched through a peephole. "Oh come, come, come!" Said the sardine's mum, "It's only a tin full of people." Spike Milligna, |
Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: katlaughing Date: 06 Aug 01 - 04:22 PM My dad, who is 84, recently told me this one. He'd seen it, as a boy of about 7 or 8, on the last covered wagon to pass through the town he grew up in, in Colorado:
"California - Starvation |
Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: Jacob B Date: 06 Aug 01 - 04:11 PM Stopping By Woods While It's Snowing, Even Whose woods these are I know, I think His house is in the village though He will not see to raise a stink If I stop here to watch the snow My horse must think my mind is gone To stop without a farmhouse near In another hour it will be dawn He thinks we should get out of here He gives his harness bells a ring To ask if there is some mistake And in my face I feel the sting Of hard wind driving frozen flake And so I snap the reins on down For I have promises to keep I have to take this horse to town And trade the nag in for a Jeep. |
Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: GUEST,Karen Date: 06 Aug 01 - 04:06 PM Supposedly the shortest poem: FLEAS Adam had 'em. |
Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: GUEST,Willa Date: 06 Aug 01 - 04:04 PM Oh dear! Penultimate line should be 'How the Hell can he drink when he's dead?'
fixed it |
Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: GUEST,Willa Date: 06 Aug 01 - 04:02 PM Early to bed and early to rise Is the way to feel stupid and have red eyes. Shirley Hughes Remarkable Truly is art See-elliptical wheels on a cart! It looks very fair In the picture, up there, But imagine the Ride when you start. Gelett Burgess Oh cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice? State the alternative preferred, With reasons for your choice. F. H. Townsend The Wife's Epitaph To follow you I'm not content. How do I know which way you went? Anon Inscribed On a Pint Pot There are several reasons for drinking, And one has just entered my head; If a man cannot drink when he's living, How the Hell can he drink when he's dead? (Last one suitable for Micca's mug?)
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Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: Kim C Date: 06 Aug 01 - 03:44 PM Someone posted this on the Cat a long time ago - I'm sorry I don't remember who - and I have enjoyed it ever since:
An accident happened to my brother Jim Also here's one Mister says now and then; I think he said an old friend of his made it up, or claimed to:
A bear sleeps in a bearskin, I suppose |
Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: GUEST,Willa Date: 06 Aug 01 - 03:41 PM Early to bed and early to rise Is the way to feel stupid and have red eyes |
Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: GUEST,Guest Date: 06 Aug 01 - 03:33 PM String Is a very important thing. Rope is thicker but string is quicker Spike Milligan |
Subject: RE: BS: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: GUEST Date: 06 Aug 01 - 03:27 PM Ogden would surely have spelt 'parlor' with a 'u' No? |
Subject: REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT POEM From: LR Mole Date: 06 Aug 01 - 03:16 PM No, it isn't.Too hot to be anything but silly. This from Ogden Nash: A primal termite knocked on wood And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today. (Anyone else know some good, tiny, amusing poems?) |
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