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Old 12-12-2013, 21:15
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Thanks Biz - despite the painful subject, Samuel is one of those poems I'm most pleased with
Didn't we decide it would be a good one for the school history volume, when children were learning about the second world war?
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Old 13-12-2013, 10:51
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Didn't we decide it would be a good one for the school history volume, when children were learning about the second world war?
Probably!
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Old 13-12-2013, 20:27
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Hey Superman!

Hey Superman, can you come back?
We’re facing heavy weather,
Hey Superman, we're on the rack
And need you more than ever.

The crime rate will not dip tonight,
Although drug-dealing flowers
I swear there's no green Kryptonite
To take away your powers.

While gangs and guns increase our fears
Nobody referees us,
We've waited patiently for years
But there’s no sign of Jesus.

In red and blue to heal the pain
Come help us to recover,
Feel free to invite Lois Lane
Or any other lover.

Hey Superman! Please fight our war,
The villains have succeeded,
We have no heroes any more,
A man of steel is needed.


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Old 13-12-2013, 21:41
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Oh yes! And please co-opt your six strapping sons to help you cover the country in your fight against crime. We'd be ever so grateful.
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Old 13-12-2013, 21:50
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Where's Superman when you need him?
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Old 13-12-2013, 22:05
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Christmas Cracker

Christmas cracker all alone
the last in the box
a joke, a hat, a prize
for that the mystery stops
as in time left by some
a reminder of a day
a joke, a hat, a prize
until where upon it lay.
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Old 14-12-2013, 10:27
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Oh yes! And please co-opt your six strapping sons to help you cover the country in your fight against crime. We'd be ever so grateful.
Where's Superman when you need him?
Ta Biz & Sandy - Superman coming to our rescue is a nice dream

Christmas cracker all alone
the last in the box
Nice one Sandy - we'll all be pulling them soon and reading out awful jokes
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Old 14-12-2013, 21:00
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Originally Posted by mr. mustard

Nice one Sandy - we'll all be pulling them soon and reading out awful jokes


Here's an early Christmas cracker joke.

Where do snowmen go to dance?

To a snowball.
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Old 14-12-2013, 21:02
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Old 14-12-2013, 22:13
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Originally Posted by sandydune
To a snowball.
Originally Posted by mr. mustard
I asked my son the joke and he guessed it correctly
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Old 15-12-2013, 09:39
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I asked my son the joke and he guessed it correctly
Good on him
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Old 15-12-2013, 09:40
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Bacchus, Lord of Exuberance

The son of Zeus
Has little use
For marble halls of splendour,
His neighbourhoods are caves and woods
Where tempted slaves surrender.

Debauchery
Will turn the key,
It’s almost like a mural
Of lust fulfilled where satyrs build
A world defiled and rural.

Don’t spare the rod,
A drunken god
Allows the worst excesses,
As fingers find and bodies grind
Delirium possesses.

When movements cease
And all is peace
Lewd women start appearing,
A naked line to pour the wine
Till Bacchus drinks it, leering.


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Old 15-12-2013, 21:16
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Yeah! I read about that in "The News of the World". Nothing changes it seems.
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Old 16-12-2013, 19:39
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Yeah! I read about that in "The News of the World". Nothing changes it seems.
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Old 16-12-2013, 19:39
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Beatles Impact Poem

When the working classes stayed
Downcast, drab and poorly paid,
When Brylcream soaked every comb
In the post-war monochrome,
When bores on the BBC
Smacked of aristocracy,
One alliance came along
With an unexpected song,
Ripping up the old rule book
Through a new outrageous look,
Long hair turning hirsute tides
Back from clipped short back and sides,
Accents, northern and unspoiled
Drawling until snobs recoiled,
Four young men, unique and strange
Due to make the zeitgeist change.

It's hard now to feel the shock
That made Britain's cobwebs rock,
Dated preconceptions fell,
Crude assumptions went to hell
As the screams of frantic teens
Smashed the hush to smithereens,
Something in the chemistry
Of the quartet set us free:
John's wit, bold as brass and strong,
Paul’s romantic tone in song,
George the quiet thoughtful one,
Ringo, every mother's son,
Things would never be the same
And their final farewell came
Crossing over Abbey Road
Where the Sixties traffic slowed.


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Old 16-12-2013, 19:58
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Beatles Impact Poem

When the working classes stayed
Downcast, drab and poorly paid,
When Brylcream soaked every comb
In the post-war monochrome,
When bores on the BBC
Smacked of aristocracy,
One alliance came along
With an unexpected song,
Ripping up the old rule book
Through a new outrageous look,
Long hair turning hirsute tides
Back from clipped short back and sides,
Accents, northern and unspoiled
Drawling until snobs recoiled,
Four young men, unique and strange
Due to make the zeitgeist change.

It's hard now to feel the shock
That made Britain's cobwebs rock,
Dated preconceptions fell,
Crude assumptions went to hell
As the screams of frantic teens
Smashed the hush to smithereens,
Something in the chemistry
Of the quartet set us free:
John's wit, bold as brass and strong,
Paul’s romantic tone in song,
George the quiet thoughtful one,
Ringo, every mother's son,
Things would never be the same
And their final farewells came
Crossing over Abbey Road
Where the Sixties traffic slowed.


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Here I sit in 2013,
remembering me as a teen
George, Paul, Ringo, John,
memories with every song
Optimism, in my very soul,
LOVE was my heartfelt goal,
and Here comes the sun
until it ended with a gun.
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Old 16-12-2013, 21:42
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They wrote tunes in those days - today it all seems like tuneless shouting. I remember the first time I went to a concert and heard girls screaming and being baffled as to why. Little did I know that all these years later audiences seem to be compelled (at least on television) to hoot and yell. I think they do it just to get on my nerves. It's telling that the Beatles have been appreciated for so long.

Flower you brought us down with a bump with that one.
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Old 16-12-2013, 22:01
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Flower you brought us down with a bump with that one.
Sorry Biz, loved Mustard's poem, sometimes I can't help replying to a poem x
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Old 16-12-2013, 22:25
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and Here comes the sun
until it ended with a gun.
A lovely tribute Flower Despite John's awful end, his and The Beatles' message of love lives on.

It's telling that the Beatles have been appreciated for so long.
I don't even think Brian Epstein and the band knew that would happen Biz. The shelf-life for pop acts was a few years at most in the early Sixties. One more barrier The Beatles broke through
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Old 17-12-2013, 09:22
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Did you have prior knowledge Musty, or are you just psychic? I heard on the radio this morning that some Beatles unheard before recordings are being released in the hope of extending their copyright.

'Morning Flower.
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Old 17-12-2013, 12:51
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Did you have prior knowledge Musty, or are you just psychic? I heard on the radio this morning that some Beatles unheard before recordings are being released in the hope of extending their copyright.
That's news to me Biz - I didn't think anything was left to release bar a few tracks
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Old 17-12-2013, 13:36
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That's news to me Biz - I didn't think anything was left to release bar a few tracks
An attempt to extend the present fifty years to the seventy years copyright lasts for now. Perfectly understandable.
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Old 17-12-2013, 14:09
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PS Not all new songs, just different recordings of them.
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Old 18-12-2013, 05:38
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PS Not all new songs, just different recordings of them.
It sounds like the Anthology CDs that EMI released before - there are still important chunks missing from those.
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Old 18-12-2013, 05:39
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