Amusing poems...

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What is yr favourite amusing poem? Please list them here (preferably short, limericks etcetera).

Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

As he crept into the stealthy night air
Little did he realize the fire escape was not there

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm... I am looking more for something that I could adapt into an amusing pome at my best friend's wedding on Friday... That's nice but there's not much scope for alteration!

Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I am looking more for something that I could adapt into an amusing pome at my best friend's wedding on Friday

See, now if you had mentioned this first...

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a good point. I was attempting subterfuge.

Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

What are the bride and groom's names?

I bet we could write you some brilliant personalised limericks before Friday, if you give us enough details to go on!

C J (C J), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

There once was a CJ in Oxford...

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

gimme gangsta dawg, gimme gangsta.

ken c (ken c), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Just read an exquisite corpse made of various posts on this thread.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

They're called Matt & Kate, he's from Devon (Dawlish) and she's from... out east. Southend-on-Sea.

Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

They're called Matt & Kate, he's from Devon (Dawlish)

They studied sculpture at St. Martin's College
That's how Nick
Got on their wick...

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

They told him they were lovers
Nick said "I figured you weren't brothers"
They said "Right"
And in a few months time
They said

"We want to be like married people
We want to do whatever married people do
We want to sleep with married people
And that means each other, not you."
What else could Nick do?
He said, "I'll see what I can do."

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I was looking at this recently -- fatherhood pending -- and it's just filled with so many truths!

This Be The Verse

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.


mcd (mcd), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

For your uses, though...

mcd (mcd), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"...a toast to the happy couple and may they have many kids!"

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Seen in the excellent Canny Man's pub toilets yesterday. I may paraphrase.

"The yellowfly has wings of fire
and spreads them like a flame
the bedbug has no wings at all
but gets there just the same"

___ (___), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Right, I have written a limerick cycle based on the fact that they hated each other when they met and Matt got kicked out of uni (they met as students) due to being drunk all the time...

Young Matt met a fine girl named Kate
Though at first they did bicker and hate
But across many days
Through an alcohol-haze
The ructions did start to abate

Now Matt was a headstrong young man
Who hatched an extraordinary plan
But it all went awry
When kicked out of uni
Due to his boozy élan

Now Kate she was far less foolish
Her degree it did not go amiss
So they moved in together
In the damp Devon weather
But only once she had finished

Remembering how they did meet
When Kate she did call Matt a “creep”
And years ‘twixt now and then
Overtime worked at SWEB
That they’re now getting married is sweet

Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Although Ned's "Married People" is seriously wicked (it's Matt's favourite song!)!!

Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha! I think you should have that as the extra bonus karaoke feature.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

If they have karaoke anywhere near I am so doing it.

Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I leave it up to you to write the rest of the lyrics.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

No fear!

Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

or you could adapt a Muse lyric

(i don't know any...)

de, Monday, 2 August 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs.
B is for Basil assaulted by bears.
C is for Clara who wasted away.
D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh.
E is for Ernest who choked on a peach.
F is for Fanny sucked dry by a leech.
G is for George smothered under a rug.
H is for Hector done in by a thug.
I is for Ida who drowned in a lake.
J is for James who took lye by mistake.
K is for Kate who was struck with an axe.
L is for Leo who swallowed some tacks.
M is for Maud who was swept out to see.
N is for Neville who died of ennui.
O is for Olive run through with an awl.
P is for Prue trampled flat in a brawl.
Q is for Quentin who sank on a mire.
R is for Rhoda consumed by a fire.
S is for Susan who perished of fits.
T is for Titus who flew into bits.
U is for Una who slipped down a drain.
V is for Victor squashed under a train.
W is for Winnie embedded in ice.
X is for Xerxes devoured by mice.
Y is for Yorick whose head was knocked in.
Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.
THE END

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 2 August 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Goth.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Tep's masterpiece

A is for Amy, the ho from downstairs.
B is for Basil, who's cruising for bears.
C is for Clara whose boyfriend is gay.
D is for Desmond (who made him that way).
E is for Ernest who's hung like a runt.
F is for Fanny, who's British for cunt.
G is for George, smothered under a rug.
H is for Hector and hooha and hug.
I is for Ida whose cherry was popped.
J is for James whose balls have not dropped.
K is for Kate who was fucked in the bum.
L is for Leo who swallowed some come.
M is for Maud who puts out at sea.
N is for Neville and Nookie Navy.
O is for Olive run through with an awl.
P is for Prue who hooks at the mall.
Q is for Quentin who really likes feet.
R is for Rhoda who's hungry for meat.
S is for Susan who's got some nice tits.
T is for Titus who plays with his bits.
U is for Una who sucks like a seal.
V is for Victor who's crushed under heel.
W is for Winnie who quivers at ice,
X is for Xerxes who likes that thing with the rice.
Y is for Yorick who got dug up and fucked,
Z is for Zillah who did too.

-- Tep (te...), April 21st, 2004.

Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 2 August 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I like your poem Nick, but I feel you should sing this song;

'This is your birthday song, hey! it is not very long, hey!'

Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ten years pass...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/CameronShute.jpg

General Shute had an intense dislike for the unconventional "nautical" traditions of the Royal Naval Division and made numerous unpopular attempts to stamp them out. He was particularly critical of the poor management of the latrines which could have led to an outbreak of dysentery. Following a particularly critical inspection of the trenches by General Shute, an officer of the division, Sub-Lieutenant A. P. Herbert, who later became a famous humorous writer, legal satirist and Member of Parliament, wrote a popular poem that summed up the feelings of the men of the RND:

The General inspecting the trenches
Exclaimed with a horrified shout
'I refuse to command a division
Which leaves its excreta about.'

But nobody took any notice
No one was prepared to refute,
That the presence of shit was congenial
Compared to the presence of Shute.

And certain responsible critics
Made haste to reply to his words
Observing that his staff advisors
Consisted entirely of turds.

For shit may be shot at odd corners
And paper supplied there to suit,
But a shit would be shot without mourners
If somebody shot that shit Shute.

Sanpaku, Thursday, 14 May 2015 19:18 (ten years ago)


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