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Congratulations Jackie for winning the Challange of the Fortnight.
As part of your prize here is a special thread in praise of the winner, where A Word A Day-ers can post messages of congratulation, eulogies, limericks, poems or anything else that comes to mind!
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Jackie. I don't want this to get too slushy (yuk) but I remembered this poem and thought you might like it. It came second in a BBC poetry vote (after "If")
I did think about translating it into Cockney rhyming slang but I thought better of it!
When I am Old When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells And run my stick along the public railings And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain And pick the flowers in other people's gardens And learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat And eat three pounds of sausages at one go Or only bread and pickle for a week And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes to keep us dry And pay our rent and not swear in the street And set a good example for the children. We will have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practise a little now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised When suddenly I am old and start to wear purple. by Jennie Joseph
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Thank you. I am honored. I like the fishie, too!
Love,
Jackie
P.S.--An added note: for a couple of reasons, I won't post a response to any more individual posts, of which there may not be any anyway, though each will get private thanks.
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Jollity greets all arrivals on site An old hand extended in friendship’s delight. Cleaving to wisdom like a fish to a bike, Kudos is hers, as you-all know that she’ll like. I offer respect to the thread BOSS of late – Even though my spilt words may disorientate!
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>When suddenly I am old and start to wear purple
Someone will always be asking me if they can kiss my ring!!
TEd
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kiss my ring!! !!
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Well, Jackie, in honor of your recent victory, I wrote a little number for you, and it goes something like this: 3
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a little number for you, and it goes something like this: 3
I agree.
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Congrats to Jackie We're impressed with your talent Three cheers from us all
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