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« Reply #550 on: April 17, 2012, 12:06:07 pm » |
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Small enough to fit into a leather portmanteau
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I say, Joe it's jolly frightening out here.
Nonsense dear boy, you should be more like me.
But look at you! You're shaking all over!
Shaking? You silly goose! I'm just doing the Watusi
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Arrant Carney. Phmebian Cultural Attache.
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« Reply #551 on: April 17, 2012, 07:16:50 pm » |
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There's a little yellow idol, just north of Katmandu,
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Such are the feeble bases on which many a public character rests.
Construction of illegal outdoor Privvys on common land a speciality. Our customers always come back.
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Mr Peter Harrow, Esq
Master Tinkerer
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« Reply #552 on: April 17, 2012, 07:17:48 pm » |
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Yet ever so shiny
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« Reply #553 on: April 17, 2012, 07:26:36 pm » |
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Don't pinch his eyeballs. There'll be trouble if you do!!
Raiding temples is a literary trope.
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« Reply #554 on: April 17, 2012, 08:44:25 pm » |
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Raiding temples is a literary trope.
Full of 'Beware' and 'abandon ye all hope' |
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Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
Governor
Time Traveler
United Kingdom
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« Reply #555 on: April 17, 2012, 09:01:13 pm » |
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Raiding temples is a literary trope.
Full of 'Beware' and 'abandon ye all hope' Whether Jones or Croft , |
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Mr Peter Harrow, Esq
Master Tinkerer
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« Reply #556 on: April 17, 2012, 09:54:36 pm » |
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It's no life for the soft
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Angus A Fitziron
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Research Air Ship R.A.S. 'Saorsa'
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« Reply #557 on: April 17, 2012, 10:31:42 pm » |
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Raiding temples is a literary trope
Full of 'Beware' and 'abandon ye all hope'
Whether Jones or Croft ,
It's no life for the soft
Sir Richard Burton himself could not cope.
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Why do airships get such a bad press?
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« Reply #558 on: April 18, 2012, 01:40:43 am » |
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The shape is to blame, I confess.
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“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself."
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« Reply #559 on: April 18, 2012, 02:21:04 am » |
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A mighty ovoid,
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« Reply #560 on: April 18, 2012, 03:45:24 am » |
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A buoyed mastoid,
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"You don't mind breaking the law?"
"Not in the least."
"Nor running a chance of arrest?"
"Not in a good cause."
"Oh, the cause is excellent!"
"Then I am your man."
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« Reply #561 on: April 18, 2012, 06:57:52 am » |
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Why do airships get such a bad press?
The shape is to blame, I confess.
A mighty ovoid,
A buoyed mastoid;
The explosions don't help, nonetheless.
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Dr cornelius quack
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« Reply #562 on: April 18, 2012, 07:40:35 am » |
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When your airship is falling in flames,
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Mr Peter Harrow, Esq
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« Reply #563 on: April 18, 2012, 08:06:49 am » |
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Constant profanity
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« Reply #564 on: April 18, 2012, 10:15:01 am » |
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And makes any crewman ashamed
When buttoning up a new vest
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« Reply #565 on: April 18, 2012, 10:18:11 am » |
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When buttoning up a new vest
One's valet is often impressed
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Mr Peter Harrow, Esq
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« Reply #566 on: April 18, 2012, 06:55:51 pm » |
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And makes any crewman ashamed
When buttoning up a new vest
A "vest" does not have buttons, are you referring to what is charmingly also called a "wife beater " in the vernacular colonies?, or something else? In blighty we call a wife beater "the Defendant", and quite rightly shun him. We reserve naming clothing after chaps like Cardigan, Wellington and Snood. If referring to your waistcoat, your Valet would me most unimpressed by the reference to 'vest" When buttoning up a new vest One's valet is sadly unimpressed Using vernacular |
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Herr Döktor
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« Reply #567 on: April 18, 2012, 07:20:02 pm » |
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When buttoning up a new vest
One's valet is sadly unimpressed
Using vernacular
Sometimes spectacular,
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« Reply #568 on: April 18, 2012, 08:27:36 pm » |
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When buttoning up a new vest
One's valet is sadly unimpressed
Using vernacular
Sometimes spectacular,
Scandalizes the OED-blessed.
[Noah Webster once went to Oxford,]
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« Reply #569 on: April 19, 2012, 08:06:36 am » |
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Too hard Challenge accepted. Noah Webster once went to Oxford To study the tongue he adored. He became quite depressed When folks laughed at his 'vest' So he toddled off back to Hartford. ------------------------------------ The divergence of words, transatlantic |
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« Reply #570 on: April 19, 2012, 09:38:29 am » |
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The divergence of words, transatlantic Can lead to comments quite pedantic |
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« Reply #571 on: April 19, 2012, 02:54:36 pm » |
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The difference in meanings,
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Angus A Fitziron
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« Reply #572 on: April 19, 2012, 04:36:34 pm » |
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to say nothing of leanings...
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« Reply #573 on: April 19, 2012, 04:45:00 pm » |
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Can cause one to get really quite frantic!
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Why do youths wear their trousers so baggy?
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Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
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« Reply #574 on: April 19, 2012, 04:54:18 pm » |
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