BS: Obit?: Blinkin'

Subject: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: GUEST,OBIT?: Blinkin'
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 08:46 AM

Reports are circulating that Blinkin', of the well-known trio "Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod", has passed away after a brief illness. The reports have not been confirmed as of this writing. Has anyone else heard anything about this?

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 08:48 AM

No.

Was Blinkin' related to Bee-dubya-ell? Should I send a sympathy card? Flowers? Liquor?

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: GUEST,Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 08:49 AM

Shit! It's too damned early to start threads on the backdoor server.
I have gone and made a mess of things. I shall now go hang my head.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 08:49 AM

Not true their wooden shoe has developed a hole, and they keep getting wet feet from all the dew, so they've gone to Holland to get a new extra large clog.
G..

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 08:51 AM

I knew a guy with an extra large clog once. Envy of the locker room.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: GUEST,gnu
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 08:58 AM

I heard that the death was suspicious. Nod-Nod Wink-Wink.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 09:02 AM

I've just done some checking on this. Seems like the Authorities found that there were termites introduced into the sole which ate their way around the section that held up B's bed. It fell into the water and he drowned.

This would normally be considered an acceptable hazard of the transportation mode select, except that the termites were of a species found only in Australia and only in the desert there.

It's considered a "Highly Suspicious Death" by Interpol.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: GUEST,Azizi
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 09:16 AM

I hope that the rumor about Winkin's demise is unfounded.

Could it be that the same person who started that rumor was also responsible for spreading the malicious tale that Bert [longtime live in partner to Ernie] died of AIDS?

And who was it that felt the need to spread the report that Batman and Robin have a 'special relationship'? Even if this is true-and I'm not sayin that it is-it's nobody's business but theirs.

Some people like to upset people by sharing made up stories.

I guess they don't have anything better to do with their time.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: GUEST,Amos
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 09:19 AM

Hell, we all got bugs eatin' away at our souls. Just 'cause theirs was Aussie bugs is nothin' special. Souls is flexible though, so I wouldn' worry about ole Blinken,. Now, Bee Dubya, as he began this concatenation of vapid caterwauling, him I would worry about. The state of his soul is deterioratin' dramatically!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: GUEST,Azizi
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 09:48 AM

Oh, was it Blinkin instead of Winkin that went to the Great Beyond?

Sorry. I got them confused.

See, that's how rumors start.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 12:07 PM

Another theory is that Blinkin' was caught winkin' at Nod, who was usually wankin' Winkin', who fixed Blinkin's wagon.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: Peace
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 12:28 PM

I thought he'd been elected to the Executive Office.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: John Hardly
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 01:03 PM

nothing like a bottle of screw-cap wine for breakfast, eh BWL?

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: Davetnova
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 01:09 PM

\i'm glad we've nothing like this in the old UK.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 01:32 PM

Well, if you don't have "Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod" in the old UK, do you have "Snap, Crackle, and Pop"?

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 01:42 PM

We've got Snap and Crackle, but some bastard's lost Pop.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 01:45 PM

Cute.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 02:26 PM

I've heard that Crackle has been offed in the same way that Blinkin' got it. The cops are rounding up the usual suspects.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 02:39 PM

Oh woe is me! Woe is me!

Not Crackle too?!

What is the world coming to???

The usual suspects?! Who in the world would do such things?!

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: gnu
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 02:46 PM

Captain Crunch, in the kitchen, with a spoon.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: GUEST,Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 02:53 PM

No, it wasn't a bottle of Mad Dog, John. Mudcat.org was down when I started the thread, so I had to use the no-log-in backdoor server. I was in a hurry and put my name in the thread name field and vice-versa. It was a dumbass mistake, but I've never claimed to be the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree anyway. I have begged the Omnipotent Ones to fix it.

What I regret about the error is that it has distracted us from the very real and serious subject of the thread. Blinkin' is, in fact, dead as a mackerel. Winkin' is under heavy sedation. Nod has gone into complete denial and gone fishing along with his good buddy Jack Daniels. It is a sorry state of affairs and, unfortunately, it's probably going to get much worse before it gets better.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: John Hardly
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 03:22 PM

Y'know, one of those old folk ballads with a zillion verses talks about a guy who swims beneath a wooden boat, drills a hole in the bottom and sinks it. Find that ballad and you've got your perp.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 04:15 PM

A clog called the Golden Vanity, that might work!
G..

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 04:24 PM

So! It was the Cabin Boy, with his little boring tool, on the ocean sea.

Or should that be his boring little tool?

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: GUEST,Winkin'
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 04:42 PM

Lies! It's all a load of tripe! Why, I just saw Blinkin' this morning and he was doing quite well, thank you. I don't know why anyone would spread such a pack of vicious rumours. But I wouldn't be surprised to find that Nod has something to do with it. He and Blinkin' have been on the outs ever since Blinkin' found Nod's stash and flushed it.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: John Hardly
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 05:02 PM

If Winken is looking off to his left and up he's lying. If he's looking down and to the right it means he's remembering an actual event and, therefore, telling the truth.

I have this on the best authority. I saw it on a cop show once. Or maybe it was a dime novel. Anyway, I believe it and that's what matters. Or not.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 05:04 PM

Look, I have it on the best authority.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 05:57 PM

When I Nod my head, you hit it!
G..

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 06:07 PM

I saw we bring in Winkin' and Nod and "sweat" 'em good. Nothin' that'd leave marks, but otherwise really work 'em over and get the truth outa 'em. This kinda thing can't continue.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: GUEST,harpgirl
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 08:44 PM

it ain't screw cap wine, John. Bruce sniffs georgia red clay...but he don't drink!

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 08:54 PM

Yeah. He's a man with feet, hands, nose, and other appendages of clay. He's even got a dirty mind. And now and then he probably gives folks the slip, too, only nowadays he's really gone to pot.

Subject: RE: BS: Bee-dubya-ell
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 09:12 PM

Who done it? And what did he do?

[I figure it's a he].

And if this ever goes to trial you must remember that

"If the glove don't fit, you must acquit".

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 09:31 PM

How wonderful! Thr thread name is correct now!

Look, I personally am not in the least convinced that Blinkin' has met his demise. Where's the body? Has anybody seen it? No!

We must ask, "Who has something to gain by faking Blinkin's death?"

And the only logical answer is, "I have no frigging idea, but there's gotta be an accordion involved somewhere!"

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 09:38 PM

Winken and Blinken are two little eyes...so if one of them is dead, they can be a pirate.

Being a pirate is all fun and games 'til somebody loses an eye
It hurts like the blazes; it makes you make faces
You can't let your mates see you cry.
A dashing black patch will cover the hatch and make sure the socket stays dry.
Being a pirate is all fun and games 'til somebody loses an eye.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 10:04 PM

Photographic evidence ! If you look closely, you will see that not only is Blinken's one eye missing, Blinken his or her own self has become petrified! This is obviously the work of the Mafia or the Black Hand or the Cosa Nostra, who have been known to put people's feet into cement -- only this time the guys got carried away!

The missing eye provides absolute identification, as does fingerprint and DNA matching.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 10:25 PM

Fingerprints? What fingerprints? To have fingerprints, ya gotta have fingers. To have fingers, ya gotta have hands. To have hands, ya gotta have arms. That little guy/girl/whatever has no arms! So, it can't be Blinkin' 'cause ya can't play an accordion with no arms! Yeah, I know, that's the upside of havin' no arms -- nobody'll ever be able to make ya play an accordion -- but we've already deduced* that an accordion is going to come into play in this mystery in some fashion.


* Deduce: Make up stupid shit and pretend it makes sense.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: beardedbruce
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 10:31 PM

so, what does "duced" mean, in the first place?

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 08:16 AM

It means ya got TWO accordions! "Deduced" means that you've had one of 'em taken away -- like "DEducted" means that you used to have something ducted, but it got took, probably by the government. Could even mean that you've had both accordions taken away. Or more. You could owe the government accordions.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 08:38 AM

Socket to them Blinkin, and I'll keep an eye open for the cops.
Has anybody asked the old moon BTW, he saw them last?
G..

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: John Hardly
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 09:12 AM

Have you ever been de-ducted?! It hurts like hell .... even if they rip it off fast it still pulls your beard out by the roots. Might as well have your face waxed.

Stick a sock in it.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Azizi
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 09:35 AM

May we please pause for a station break so I can make these comments from the peanut gallery? Thanks.

I LOVE these play on words:

"Socket to them Blinkin, and I'll keep an eye open for the cops."
John 'Giok' MacKenzie

and

"Stick a sock in it."
John Hardly

But I suspect that in years to come most people won't know what "Stick a sock in it" means. And even fewer will remember the slang saying "Sock it to me" that was frequently used in R&B songs in the 1960s.

Of course, "Sock it to me" meant the same thing as "Let's rock & roll" which means the same thing as the contemporary Reggae saying "
"Let's get jiggy".

But I suppose most urban dance songs are so explicit nowadays that they don't need a coded phrase like "rock & roll", "sock it to me" and "let's get jiggy" when they want to say let's have sex.

Just wanted to give the posters I specifically mentioned and others on this thread some well deserved PROPS for your way with words..

Okay..Back to the program. On with the show...

Who offed Cock Robin? Sorry, wrong show..

Who killed Blinkin'- if he/she/it really was killed?

Inquiring minds want to know...

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 11:03 AM

Sock it to me means only one thing to this Goldie Hawn fixated saddo.
Rowan & Martin
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Azizi
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 11:53 AM

Are we still in a commercial break?

Okay-then check this out:

Sock it to me cake

and

Monkey Business

and

More!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Azizi
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 12:06 PM

And since many commercials use R&B music for accompaniment,
we got some vintage Aretha here:

R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Find out what it means to me
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Take care, TCB
Oh, sock it to me, sock it to me [etc.]

And for those with an interest in words, here's
the origin & meaning of "Sock it to me."

But you best be believin that when Aretha was demandin R-E-S-P-E-C-T,
she wasn't begging to be hit in the jaw...

But she was sayin "Give it to me".. And you know what she meant by 'it'..

****

So that's all folks!

Now what is really goin on with these Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod characters?

Did someone pull a fast one?

Nod your head if you think Winkin done done away with Blinkin'.

Wink if you love Winkin.

Blink if you don't.

Clap your hands if you believe in Tweety bird..

What? I got my stories all mixed up??!

Well then- you tell me how it goes.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 12:28 PM

Wynken was offed by a conspiracy between the soldier all covered with rust (his musket molds in his hands) and the little peach (of an emerald hue). It didn't have a thing to do with termites.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: John Hardly
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 02:01 PM

hmmmm. toimites.

nyuk nyuk nyuk

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: gnu
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 02:34 PM

What about the Tetley Tea elves? Not that they acually did the dirty deed, but, rather, maybe they drove Blinkin' to take his own life with their incessant dancing. I'd like to teach the little blighters a new dance - one involving a new pair of sharpened football cleats. And their tea sucks.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:02 PM

I reckon he's run off with the nets of silver and gold, he's going to sell them and set himself up as a crackle dealer. Dig the rocks bro!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 09:59 PM

Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod one night
Sailed off in a garbage scow,
Sailed down the river a floating blight
With coffee grounds on the prow.

Wish I could remember the rest of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 10:19 PM

Damn Rapaire!

Now you've turned this into a music thread!

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 01:33 AM

source

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
   Sailed off in a wooden shoe---
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
   Into a sea of dew.
"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"
   The old moon asked the three.
"We have come to fish for the herring fish
   That live in this beautiful sea;
   Nets of silver and gold have we!"
                     Said Wynken,
                     Blynken,
                     And Nod.

The old moon laughed and sang a song,
   As they rocked in the wooden shoe,
And the wind that sped them all night long
   Ruffled the waves of dew.
The little stars were the herring fish
   That lived in that beautiful sea---
"Now cast your nets wherever you wish---
   Never afeard are we";
   So cried the stars to the fishermen three:
                     Wynken,
                     Blynken,
                     And Nod.

All night long their nets they threw
   To the stars in the twinkling foam---
Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe,
   Bringing the fishermen home;
'T was all so pretty a sail it seemed
   As if it could not be,
And some folks thought 't was a dream they 'd dreamed
   Of sailing that beautiful sea---
   But I shall name you the fishermen three:
                     Wynken,
                     Blynken,
                     And Nod.

Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,
   And Nod is a little head,
And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
   Is a wee one's trundle-bed.
So shut your eyes while mother sings
   Of wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
   As you rock in the misty sea,
   Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three:
                     Wynken,
                     Blynken,
                     And Nod.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Azizi
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 06:49 AM

And? So?

So what if they have a poem named after them.   

If you're famous, poems get written about you.

There's no poem with my name in it, but that just means that there's never been anybody famous who had my name...

So you tell me that Winken', Blinken', and Nod' have a poem with their names in it. Okay, yeah. I remember some teacher teachin it in school. Or some of it anyway.

[There's no poem with my name in it, but that just means that there's never been anybody famous who had my name] YET...

And anyway that poem may be named AFTER them. Whoever wrote it could have heard about there adventures, taken their names, and put'em in that there poem. I hope they got some money from it. If not, they should sue that writer's you know what off.

But I don't really care about that poem.

Why? Why you ask??   Well, I'ma tell you why.

The reason I don't care about that poem or song or whatever the heck it is is because it has NOTHIN to do with the fact that a CRIME has been committed.

It's been TWO whole days and if Blinkin was alive, he'da showed up by now or called in or emailed somebody. But has he done that?

NO!

Not to mention that we got his running partners Winkin and Nod say they don't know where he is. They say that they haven't seen him an they haven't heard from him. Some best friends they are.

I think that's kinda strange. Don't you?

Yeah, I know THEY'RE strange, but come on, they been actin mighty suspicious about this whole thing, don't you think?

Has anyone seen or heard from Blinkin??!!

That's what I wanna know.

Well, I'm waitin.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Azizi
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 07:15 AM

I repeat. There's no poem with my name in it YET.

I'm just sayin...

Not that I want one.

You know I'm here 'cause I really wanna know what happened to Blinkin..

That's the ONLY reason why I'm hangin around here. 'Cause I want to help out in anyway I can.

But since folks are running around spouting off poems that don't have doodlely squat to do with the Blinkin we're talkin about 'cept the poem has his name and his buddies' names in it, that started me to wonderin.

Why isn't there a poem with MY name in it?

I mean, the name 'Azizi' has a musical ring to it..

"ah-ZEE-zee".

That's sounds real musical to me. Okay, you're right. I am kinda partial to it being that it's my name..

But I figure chances are that somebody sometime is gonna write a song or a poem about somebody named Azizi. So it might as well be about me-not me writing it you understand.

I would if I could but I can't so I won't.

But anyway, it feels better if somebody else does it for you-especially if it's nice and good. Write a poem I mean. That's what I'm talkin about.

Not that any of this is more important than findin out what happen to good ole Blinkin. That is why we're here, ain't it

But since we just sittin around here, what about it?

Can anybody write a poem with my name in it??

Come on-hit me with it!

[You notice that I didn't say "Sock it to me". HA! HA!
You won't catch me sayin none of that double tendra stuff that folks can take and run with the wrong way . My mother didn't raise no dummy].

Okay, I'm waitin.

If Blinkin were here maybe I coulda asked him to write me a poem.
But since he ain't, is anybody game?

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 09:11 AM

He has had a lobotomy and is now appearing here as our friend M.G.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: GUEST,Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 10:17 AM

A lobotomy wouldn't change his elemental character so drastically. And the change that does occur tends toward the mild and bland.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Azizi
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 05:20 PM

Okay Okay.

I withdraw my request for a song with my name in it.

Now can we get on with the show?

What happened to Blinkin'???

Doesn't anybody care?

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 07:31 PM

... perhaps a robotomy instead?

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: gnu
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 07:39 PM

This just in.... family cousin Stinkin' has been reported missing. His brother Drinkin' has been interviewed by police but they say they can't make any sense of his testimony. Police scent dogs have been called in to follow the Stinkin' trail.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: GUEST,Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 08:33 PM

NEWSFLASH

It's all a case of mistaken identity! I have been informed by a very reliable source that it wasn't Blinkin' who expired! It was Wee Willie Winkie! Sorry, no further details are available at this time.

I'm in Atlanta doing an art show and a Klingon on a Harley Davidson pulled up to my booth this afternoon and said, "Listen, Bub, ya got it all wrong. It was Wee Willie Winkie what got offed, not Blinkin. And another thing, you look too damned much like Santa Claus! Get a shave!"

Honest! You don't think I could make that up, do ya?

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 09:09 PM

SRS is the only one in this thread who has it right, and nobody else seems to notice. The name is Blynken. That's Blynken. B-L-Y-N-K-E-N. No "I", no apostrophe. It's BLYNKEN, dammit! Why can't anybody spell names right anymore? And why doesn't anybody care? Oh, the hell with it. Go and misspell your hearts out. One of these days, it'll catch up with you, when you least expect it. Then you'll see. Then you'll be sorry! And don't say I didn't warn you. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!

Aloha,
Marc

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 10:11 PM

I tried to post this information this morning but prevented from doing so by Certain Nameless Powers. At the risk of my very life, I'm trying again.

First, the dude's name WAS Blynken, when he was born in Holland. But when he moved to A Certain English-Speaking Country he changed it. This is reflected in court records easily available to anyone. No secret about it.

The mystery has been solved by using the science of numberology and the clews inherent in...well, see for yourself.

B B
L L
I I
N T
K Z
I E
N N

Four out of seven letters are EXACT matches. The remaining ones are NTKZIE, which provide the clew to the murderer -- or, to be exact, murderess.

When you put them together, they spell ZIT KEN, an OBVIOUS reference to and disparagement of the late "partner" with whom the notorious Barbie recently broke up and a VERY obvious attempt to place the blame for a gruesome and brutal crime on an innocent man. (Well, innocent of the crime -- Ken's now living on Castro Street with a guy named "Joe".)

But why, you ask, the name "Blitzen"? Well, Blitzen is Santa's "guard reindeer" and this fact is well known to Santa's Little Christmas Bimbo. After offing Blinkin (nee Blynken), she fed him to Blitzen, who ate him teeth and toenails.

The motive is obvious: Barbie had heard of Blinkin becauss of his stage name, "Wee Willie Winkie." She assumed that the name was ironic and that his "Willie Winkie" was MUCH more than wee. When she found that the name was actually a boast, well, roota-toot-toot, five times she shoot. Then chop-chop and a meal for Blitzen.

Blinkin's homies are pretty torn up over the whole thing. Nod said, "Sheeet, man! We wuz gonna give him a goin' away party, and here all that's left of him is some reindeer poop. What we gonna do, hang around the shitpile and party? No way, man!"

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 10:32 PM

There once was a gal named Azizi,
Who was drunken and fat and lazizi....

Nah. Be nice.


A lovely young lass named Azizi
Lived in old Philadelphi-ie
The stories she told
Were better than gold
But there wasn't enough money in it to keep body and soul together.

Nah.

Well, I tried. Sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 11:12 PM

It's amazing the lengths some people will go to rather than admit they don't know how to spell. Court records, indeed. Though I do admire the numerology. Don Brown would be proud.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Apr 05 - 12:04 AM

No one has mentioned Eugene Field (though I've linked to him). My "evidence" regarding Wynken was based on a couple of his other poems (that it happens my Dad put to music). As poetry his words may be slightly saccharine, but they translate well into song.

SRS

A little peach in an orchard grew,
Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Apr 05 - 12:26 AM

Eugene Field? I grew up on Eugene Field. We would gather 'round and my mother would read poems like this to her children:

LITTLE BOY BLUE

The little toy dog is covered with dust,
But sturdy and staunch he stands;
The little toy soldier is red with rust,
And his musket moulds in his hands.
Time was when the little toy dog was new,
And the soldier was passing fair;
And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue
Kissed them and put them there.

"Now don't you go till I come," he said,
"And don't you make any noise!"
So, toddling off to his trundle bed,
He dreamt of the pretty toys;
And, as he was dreaming, an angel song
Awakened our Little Boy Blue-
Oh! the years are many, the years are long,
But the little toy friends are true!

Aye, faithful to Little Boy Blue they stand,
Each in the same old place,
Awaiting the touch of a little hand,
The smile of a little face;
And they wonder, as waiting the long years through
In the dust of that little chair,
What has become of our Little Boy Blue,
Since he kissed them and put them there.

Then we'd have another beer and sing "Bell Bottom Trousers."

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Apr 05 - 01:21 AM

My father sang that one, so it's a favorite. What a tear jerker!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Apr 05 - 05:16 AM

Rapaire, thanks for your two attempts.

You helped inspire my own creation which I hereby name
"Hey Diddle Diddle-o" [the "o" is to distinquish this composition from that other "Hey Diddle Diddle" masterpiece. **BG**]:

Azizi is my name.
It is my claim to fame.
Singin "Hey Diddle diddle.
I ain't got no fiddle.
Singin Hey diddle diddle-o".

[For those who care about proper English-the 4th line can be changed to "I haven't any fiddle"-but IMO in doing so you'll wreck the rhyme's flow. Not that it really matters, but I'm just sayin...

Of course, many folks songs are open-ended. Subsequent verses of this song follow the same pattern and immediately flow from the preceding one.

So..in recognition of the theme of this thread and mindful of Mark Cohen's hyper-sensitivities on this subject, I will add this verse:

Blynken is his name.
It is his claim to fame.
Singin "Hey Diddle diddle.
He ain't got no fiddle.
Singin Hey diddle diddle-o."

****

and PS. to Rapaire:
It's Pittsburgh and not Philly..but I'll give you some props for composing rhymes using my name and some more props for remembering that I live in Pennsylvania and I try to make my living as a storyteller.

And then I step off into the sunset singin:

Rapaire is his name.
It is his claim to fame.
Singin "Hey Diddle diddle.
He ain't got no fiddle.
Singin Hey diddle diddle-o".


And since this is a music forum- my apologies, Rapaire if you actually do have a fiddle.

LOL!


Azizi Powell

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: gnu
Date: 24 Apr 05 - 08:07 AM

There once was a lass named Azizi,
Who lived in Pittsburgh where winters are breezy.
Then she found folk,
And took on the yolk,
To find poetry ain't easy when it's freezy.

Ahh, back to Rapaire. I'm sorry too.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: John Hardly
Date: 24 Apr 05 - 08:15 AM

Dan Brown

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Apr 05 - 08:17 AM

Thank gnu.

LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Apr 05 - 12:16 PM

Fiddle? FIDDLE? I don't got no steenkin' fiddle! I don't got no steenkin' guitar, either. My wife has got a steenkin' guitar, but I don't. I don't fiddle around with no steenkin' strings! I play a REAL instrument, an' it ain't no steenkin' reeds, either!

I, as the cognescenti know, play one of these (except that mine's not that fancy, has vertical screw-type tuning, and was made in 1929). A true instrument for gentlefolk.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: John Hardly
Date: 24 Apr 05 - 12:43 PM

Aziza
Donovan


When a thought comes to your head
That's the time you post a thread,
That's your lot in life, Aziza
Can't please ya, Aziza.
Arty tart, ladeda,
Can your part get much sadder ?
That's your lot in life, Aziza.
Can't please ya, Aziza.
Run your hand 'cross the keys,
Paint your message screen as you please.
That's your lot in life, Aziza
Can't please ya, Aziza.
When a thought, comes to your head
That's the time, you post a thread.
That's your lot in life, Aziza
I can't please ya, Aziza.
Arty tart, oh so ladeda,
Can your part ever get, ever get much sadder ?
That's your lot in life, Aziza.
I can't please ya, Aziza, no, no, no, Aziza,
Oh, Aziza.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Apr 05 - 01:12 PM

OFF TOPIC {so what else is new?}

Hmmm,

Rapaire:
My ex-husband played trumpet and fugle horn.{jazz}.
I'll forgive you..

and John Hardly:
"When a thought comes to your head
That's the time you post a thread,
That's your lot in life, Aziza
Can't please ya, Aziza.
Arty tart, ladeda,
Can your part get much sadder ?"

John, nice effort, but who is this Aziza?
That's a nice name, but it's not mine..

It's probably a good thing that this Aziza [who ever she is] doesn't need you to please her since that experience would make her quite sad.


Be that as it may, I'm pleased to end this commercial break and say-On with the show!

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: John Hardly
Date: 24 Apr 05 - 01:15 PM

it had to be more "lalena-ish" to make the song work. Work with me here.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit?: Blinkin'
From: GUEST, Big Brother Helen
Date: 24 Apr 05 - 04:59 PM

I like Blynken, I do