05 May 04 - 07:04 PM (#1178913) Subject: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Áine Ninety-five Challenge!s, and I don't remember as good a mysterious topic as this. I'm hoping to see a bunch of imaginative turkeys take wing this time ;-) Just be advised; turkeys can't fly too good, so they have to flap harder! Have fun, my darlin', darlin', Challenge!rs: How To Drop Fifty Pounds At A Time With Sweet, Sweet, Style -- May 5, 2004, LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A woman with an apparently insatiable sweet tooth stunned staff at a British shop when she bought more than 10,000 chocolate bars and had them loaded into her chauffeur-driven limousine. The woman asked staff at a north London Woolworths branch for every single Mars bar in stock -- 10,656 of them packed in 220 boxes -- and paid for them in cash with 50 pound notes, a Woolworths spokesman said on Wednesday. The total bill was 2,131 pounds ($3,828). 'It was very, very strange but nobody thought to ask her why she wanted so many,' the spokesman said. 'It would usually take us a month to shift that number of chocolate bars,' he added. 'Perhaps she has a sweet tooth.' GO FOR IT, CHALLENGE!RS!! All the best, Áine |
05 May 04 - 07:06 PM (#1178915) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Amos Yeehaww!! A |
05 May 04 - 08:42 PM (#1178981) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Amos This one will need some time for reflection!! A |
05 May 04 - 10:36 PM (#1179062) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Amos Additional tidbit; "Daniel Himsworth, spokesman for Woolworths, said: "The manager of the store said she looked Lebanese. She was smartly turned out in traditional black robe and a head- dress. "She had a chauffeur waiting in a limousine and she had him take the Mars bars, which were in 200 boxes, and put them in the back. "We have no idea what she wanted that many Mars bars for but it raises all sorts of questions. "I can certainly say we have never had that many Mars bars bought at the same time in the same store before." " Man, what economy did she pop up from?? A |
05 May 04 - 11:35 PM (#1179081) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Amos
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06 May 04 - 09:43 AM (#1179411) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Áine Bloody Brilliant, oh master of verses!! Now, I double dawg dare ya to sing it, record it, and send it to me ;-) What a story! A whale of a tale! Cudos and congrats, dear Amos. Here's your B.L.O.B., for this fancifuly fattening fit of phraseology: Then in the trunk full ten times twenty cases they were loaded So rich they were with Mars' best, the car almost exploded Two thousand pounds in ironed notes, to fill his desperate craving She handed to the Woolworths store, from forty years of saving. Way to go! -- Áine |
06 May 04 - 09:59 AM (#1179420) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Amos I am in grateful receipt, fair Goddess, of your BLOB, which I treasure, as always. Be advised I have extended an invitiation to the gang hanging out over on the MOAB thread to come enter the lists here. But they is a bunch 'o chicken shit bastids who hain't got the noive! Well, never mind -- there are plenty of bards and bardesses around these parts to answer the call to glory!! They're just working through this especially daunting challenge. :>) A |
06 May 04 - 10:22 AM (#1179444) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: GUEST,MMario a daunting challenge indeed! |
06 May 04 - 10:44 AM (#1179463) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Áine Daunting, yes, but very, very, sweet!! ;-) Come on, Challenge!rs -- you can solve this mystery any ol' way you want to. Let those flags of fancy fly -- just remember to flap, flap, flap!! -- Áine |
06 May 04 - 01:05 PM (#1179471) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: MMario attempting again to post my reconstructed post lost earlier due to composing directly in the box - and lost g*d knows where a few minutes ago... Lebanese Chocolate Shopper (tune:The Streets of Laredo) Oh, list' to the tale of the Lebanese shopper, who let her desire for choc'late gain sway Imagine the calories, weight-gain and bloating The least of the prices that she had to pay As she was out shopping one morning in London A shopping by Woolworths, North London, one day She spied in the window a bar of rich choc'late And cried to her driver "Stop NOW, I pray!" chorus The limousine slowed and it pulled to the curbside Out popped our shopper in veil and black robes Visions of choc-o-late, nougat and toffee temporarily paralyzing her cognitive lobes chorus Most swiftly she strode through the store to the counter informed the sales clerk of her impulsive yen And ordered her Mars bars be brought to her quickly The total was over one thousand times ten! chorus Two hundred boxes plus twenty were loaded in the limo two hundred and twenty did go She paid for them all with a fistfull of pound notes For she had in her purse not a single Euro! chorus The why's and the wherefore's of her impulse shopping are clearly a myst'ry to the Woolworth's staff Tho' gladly they rejoice in profiting greatly they certainly hope that she will come back! |
06 May 04 - 01:11 PM (#1179473) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Áine Alright!! Another great one for the Challenge! tomb!! Yeehaw, MMario ;-) Here's your B.L.O.B. for the observant bit o'bull: Two hundred boxes plus twenty were loaded in the limo two hundred and twenty did go She paid for them all with a fistfull of pound notes For she had in her purse not a single Euro! Now we're cooking with gas (or should that be 'with chocolate'?)!! -- Áine |
06 May 04 - 01:18 PM (#1179480) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Amos Yeah, MM!! And a good question as to what happened to the Euros?? What's all this with sterling then?? Or didn't they finish swapping over? Oh, Recite the brands slowly Read ingredients lowly And offer a smell as they slowly pass by 'Though Cadbury's neater, The Mars bar is sweeter I'm a young diabetic, and I know I must die! A |
07 May 04 - 11:10 AM (#1180316) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Áine Come on, Challenge!rs -- it's Friday, and time to let your hair down and get in a smooth mood . . . let's see some of the fantastic creative juices flowing here . . . I know you can do it!! (somehow, that doesn't really sound the way I meant it, hmmmmmm) -- Áine |
07 May 04 - 11:12 AM (#1180322) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: MMario Roll,Limousine, Roll (a candy loading shanty) Load Up, me boys, Woolworth's been paid, Roll, limousine, Roll Load down the car with our chocolate gain Mars Bars forevermore I'm a shopping fool out of Lebanon! Roll, limousine, Roll I'll only stay 'til the chocolate's gone Mars Bars forevermore Sweet tooth has been killing me Roll, limousine, Roll Made me go on a shopping spree Mars Bars forevermore Traditional robes and a head-veil Roll, limousine, Roll Don't get in my way when candy's on sale Mars Bars forevermore So heave in the car those boxes all Roll, limousine, Roll Never complain the boot's too small Mars Bars forevermore |
07 May 04 - 11:21 AM (#1180339) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Amos Wow -- the collision of ancient sea-faring songs and childhood candybars! Shazaam!! LOL, MM! A |
07 May 04 - 11:30 AM (#1180357) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Áine Shazam, indeed!! Now that's some smooth stuff, MMario ;-) I can feel our Mudcat boat rollin' on the waves of Mars bars now -- and for givin' us all that lovin' feelin', here is your B.L.O.B. for: Traditional robes and a head-veil Roll, limousine, Roll Don't get in my way when candy's on sale Mars Bars forevermore Roll on, Challenge!rs, roll on!! -- Áine |
08 May 04 - 07:02 AM (#1180985) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Flash Company When I read this one in the paper, Marianne Faithfull sprang to mind. I will therefore, invoke the ghost of Bea Lillie;- I've just been to a MAR-vell-ous party, It was really the creme de la creme The McCartneys, Tom Jones, Elton John and the Stones, (And you know what they say about them!) So I bought about Ten Thousand Mars Bars, And---I lay on them--looking divine, And from his reaction Mick got some satisfaction, OH I did have a WON-der-ful time! FC |
08 May 04 - 09:00 AM (#1181025) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Áine Short; but, oh so sweet, Flash Company! Just consider yourself awarded a B.L.O.B. for the whole dang thang ;-0 - Áine |
08 May 04 - 09:23 AM (#1181042) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Flash Company Keep the challenges coming, I'm enjoying this! FC |
08 May 04 - 10:06 AM (#1181060) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Amos I like that one, Flash!! I can just hear it being rolled out in a High Society drawl, dahhhling! A |
08 May 04 - 02:31 PM (#1181226) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Charley Noble Mars bars when it could have been TimTams? Brilliant work, me boys. I offer a cup to you and one to Flash Company as well! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
11 May 04 - 11:35 AM (#1182913) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 95 From: Flash Company Hi Amos, High Society drawl is about right, the original was written by Noel Cowerd for one of his shows, and was full of Astors and folk like that. Interestingly, Bea Lillie, who performed it in the show,married Lord Peel (Life copies art!) I have a recording of the Master himself performing it, it can't get more High Society. FC |