Gabi really took it up a notch...

Started by Leon, 03 February 2015, 04:45:59 AM

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Duke Speedy of Leighton

Seashells and parakeets are both Haikus.
Traditional three line Japenese poetry with a 5/7/5 syllable pattern.
However they are utterly spoiled by the copy editor not understanding this and putting them into two lines!

The last one is at least a 5c..
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
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Orcs

Quote from: DanJ on 03 February 2015, 11:42:32 AM
That young lady has a great future as a poet, or possibly an arsonist.

Does she have a nice arse then ?
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Blimey, Orcs, we can't take you anywhere twice, can we!  :D
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Quote from: Hertsblue on 04 February 2015, 01:28:09 PM
Blimey, Orcs, we can't take you anywhere twice, can we!  :D

Yes, second time to apologise :D
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Matt J

I think he may want to reread the OP...
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Orcs

Quote from: Matt of Munslow on 04 February 2015, 02:05:56 PM
I think he may want to reread the OP...

Quite right. Having read the post fully rather than skim read it half way through a night shift and realised my complete foul up  :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[

I now fully retract the statement.
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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Last Hussar

No he doesn't. No he doesn't. Mr Just a Few teddy bears.
I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

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Leman

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getagrip

Buy plenty of Matron's sculpts now!

If he keeps using the chainsaw, the value of his work will soon go up.

Last Hussar

After all the grief he gives me?  I'm going to milk this like a cow  :d
I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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