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#208070 - 11/19/12 11:26 AM We are slow.Some guy is advertising during... [Re: A C Bowden]
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Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi ...intermission
GROAT - GROTESQUE
A grotesque gap in the stern is sinking my boat
Home Depot sale's on grout might keep my boat afloat
I don't wanna
But I'm gonna
Get some grout to grout the gap for less than a groat![]()
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#208087 - 11/22/12 12:34 PM Re: Foolish provocation [Re: jenny jenny]
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Registered: 10/22/10
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Loc: London, UK It's always unwise to insult
Practitioners of the occult;
If an oddball white witch
Is called a mad bitch,
A darker-hued spell may result.
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#208101 - 11/24/12 01:29 PM Re: [Re: jenny jenny]
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Loc: Lancaster, UK Originally Posted By: jenny jennyWonderful, yes, but strange.
What are the odds that a Podunk village like London would have two great limerick masters?
I'm not saying that Rhubarb Commando is A C Bowden and vice versa.
I'm just saying...
Ever see then on the same stage at the same time?![]()
It's only ACB who comes from the podunk village, jj - I come from the up-market, highly civilised city of Lancaster, Lancashire, which is far removed from the stinks and stews of London (removed by better part of 300 good miles!)_________________________
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#208102 - 11/24/12 01:36 PM Re: [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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Loc: Land of the Flat Water You tell them Rhuby ! ! !_________________________
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#208104 - 11/24/12 03:35 PM Re: [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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Loc: Alaska Yeah, that's what I meant, Rhuby, but I was too polite to say so.
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#208105 - 11/24/12 08:52 PM Re: [Re: Tromboniator]
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Loc: Land of the Flat Water That's true, Rhuby, he is the essence of polite-ness._________________________
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#208109 - 11/25/12 06:38 PM Re: [Re: LukeJavan8]
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Loc: Lancaster, UK Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8I never ran across either of them when I was in London, of
course the pubs I was in there was singing not limerick
composing.
Well, I tended to use the cellars of coffee bars and play washboard in skiffle groups.![]()
But, in any case, that was prolly a bit before your time in The Great Wen
And you're quite right: la politesse is the leit motif of our exponent of the sackbut (Thinks: Did he play in the Tittipu Town Band?)
Edited by Rhubarb Commando (11/25/12 06:41 PM)_________________________
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#208110 - 11/25/12 06:53 PM Transcribers Licence [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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Loc: Lancaster, UK The parchment was full of lacunae:
One incomplete phrase really drew me.
It fairly set me ablaze -
I just had to paraphrase –
And the long-dead author can’t sue me!
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#208113 - 11/26/12 01:21 AM Re: [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Quote:
Well, I tended to use the cellars of coffee bars and play washboard in skiffle groups.![]()
But, in any case, that was prolly a bit before your time in The Great Wen
And you're quite right: la politesse is the leit motif of our exponent of the sackbut (Thinks: Did he play in the Tittipu Town Band?)
Gee whiz, Commando, intellectual banter such as that is usually overheard only in downtown London.
I, a country girl, am impressed.
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#208114 - 11/26/12 01:59 AM Re: [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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Loc: Alaska Originally Posted By: Rhubarb Commandoour exponent of the sackbut (Thinks: Did he play in the Tittipu Town Band?)
Actually, yes.
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