Jul 25, 2010

Confusion Reigns . . .

. . .  on the Poetry Bus

You Wonder I’m Confused . .  ?

Two Heads are Better Than One, it’s said,
but Too Many Cooks and the Broth will Spoil.
Take Care of the Pence, and the Pounds, I’ve read
Will Always Take Care of Themselves, and yet
Penny Wise Pound Foolish, - it’s counterfoil!


Smite Thine Enemy Hip and Thigh
But . . . Turn the Other Cheek?
An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth
while the Earth goes to the Meek?

Please keep things simple!  Surely we know
Thou Shalt Not Kill.   Even on Death Row?

And what of the way this World began?
A mysterious BANG in endless night
or a mystical whimper from the Void.
“Let There Be Light.”?







Jul 21, 2010

You Need Cheerin' Up, You Guys?

Don't ask "Why the Panda(s)?"  I don't know . . . .


I love the movie of the scratchy record playing the song while the song is playing! The under 50's might not remember it . . . but it was a smash hit when it came out in er . . . er . . . 1948?

NEWSFLASH

V**G*N T****S yesterday reported that all scheduled services ran to time throughout the day and passengers, livestock and freight reached their destinations in a contented frame of mind and pleasantly surprised at this unprecedented turn of events. A V**G*N spokesperson blamed this circumstance on "the wrong kind of fog" (See picture below)




Jul 19, 2010

Have I Missed the Bus?

I mean the POTTERY BUS.  No I don't!  I mean the Poetry Bus


Even if this doesn't buy me a ticket, I don't care!  'Cos I've got me Senior Citizens' Bus Pass HeHeHe!



On the Sadness of the Artistic Life

A writer called Ford Madox Ford
Said, “Really, I’m feeling quite bored!
That Ford Madox Brown
Is the talk of the town.
My poems are being ignored!”

WHEREAS

A painter called Ford Madox Brown
(He painted some navvies in Town)
said “Ford Madox Ford
should go live abroad . . .
For I am the man of reknown!”


(Click on the "Navvies" link.  Look at the gent second from the right with the funny hat and the evil eyes!)

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Jul 17, 2010

Mrs. Trellis . . . .

. . . invites her followers and fans to decide which explanation of the giraffe's strange behaviour is the most likely.

1. The giraffe is stranded by a flash-flood not seen in the picture.
2. The giraffe is barking mad.
3. The giraffe is barking up the wrong tree
4. The giraffe is . . . how shall we say . . . extremely fond of the tree.
5. The giraffe does not believe the Theory of Evolution which argues that giraffes are maladapted to climbing trees.
6. The giraffe was fostered by a leopard.
7. The giraffe does not realise that leopards can climb trees.
8. Photoshop.


Jul 16, 2010

Continuing . . .

. . . . a Very Silly Game

Uranus and Pluto

Mercury and Venus

Jupiter and . . .  Oh Never Mind!

Isadora and Peter Duncan


Jul 10, 2010

Mrs. Trellis . . . .

 . . .  invites followers and fans to guess why the Class was Cancelled or even Ancelled!  No!  No! Sorry!  That's altogether too easy, innit?    Guess how the car got parked where it did . . .  


BTW . . . Google Images is full of this sort of thing.  Search on "Amazing Accidents", "Silly Accidents" etc.  And MIND HOW YOU GO!  You wouldn't want your class to be cancelled just because you came in through the window . . .



The Silliest Thing . . .

. . . about this interview is that apparently there are folk who think it was for real!  No Australian could fall for it . . . could they?

Jul 8, 2010

Mrs. Trellis . . . .

. . .  invites her many followers and fans to try their hand at the following conundrum.  As usual, she will be awarding drinks coupons
. . . . and drinks coupons mean . . . .


SO!


Name the Victorian cleric who visited his parishioners wearing a
and who, when crossing a farmer's field one morning was tragically bored to death by a

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