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Clapham Chancers
Meanwhile boys wanted versions Of Hollywood-style fame, So to brief fair excursions The Clapham chancers came. .... None of them hired chauffeurs Or won the football pools, Some turned out idle loafers, Some worked with hands and tools. Where are the Clapham chancers Who used to flirt and smile? Like candy-floss, the answer’s They only shone a while. © |
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LMAO Thanks for that fascinating link, I can't believe someone actually found the location of Ophelia ![]()
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There is a lovely book available online called Illustrating Shakespeare that has paintings from the artist and others you are speaking of.
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So true to remembered (hazy now) versions of our pasts, well and accurately rendered - good one Musty.
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The internet is a wonderful thing isn't it? I couldn't manage without it. People who don't have it don't believe what value it can add to their lives.
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There is a lovely book available online called Illustrating Shakespeare that has paintings from the artist and others you are speaking of.
![]() Right, I'm off for my daily mile-plus walk, a good way of letting poetry come through - bye all for now
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They only shone a while. © ![]() And so the funfair and it's lights, on the move, to the next town.
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And so the funfair and it's lights, on the move, to the next town.
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A Contract On Everton Mint
Word on the street was tacit, The rat had to be stopped Who ripped off Bertie Bassett, A gangster no foe topped. All sorts killed for this fellow, The Mob boss who broke hearts, In suits pink, black and yellow, A man of many parts. His launderer of money Was called Everton Mint, Embezzlement’s not funny, Though Bertie wasn’t skint. Upset and feeling boozy, Obsessed by what Mint stole, He rested with a floozie, Miss Lolly Pop, the moll. She wasn’t rough or bandy, In fact no one could lick Big Mr B’s eye-candy, Cool ice sex on a stick. But Lolly wasn’t making His sherbert fizz, that hood Lay planning hits and aching To finish Mint for good. He rang Don Tobleronie, Named after his strange head, Triangular and bony, A target for each Fed. While Bassett gave the angles Old Mr T sniffed junk Then growled ‘I’ll send the Spangles, They’ll whack that little punk!’ The Spangles liked to root bums Out of the dark, but they Were unaware the Fruitgums Hid Everton away. He wed a señorita, A true Mint mystery, Down south the brave sweet cheater Escaped from Mr B. © |
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And they're still around - I find them very romantic Sandy
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Do you like to sit and look at the lights at night?
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Yes Sandy, I love any sort - in funfairs, the stars, at harbours. town centres. The night evokes
![]() Miners had the Davy lamp Seamen had the Lighthouse Sir Humphrey Davy liked poetry and wrote books one of which has the title Consolations in Travel, which sounds a lovely title. |
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A Contract On Everton Mint
© ![]() Be careful about the choices you make folks - there's danger everywhere. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm very fond of lights too Sandy.
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Be careful about the choices you make folks - there's danger everywhere.
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You haven't met me yet, I make people nervous, it might be something to do with my walk
![]() Have you noticed all the full stops on this page? Could be spy cameras you know.
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A Contract On Everton Mint
Word on the street was tacit, The rat had to be stopped Who ripped off Bertie Bassett, A gangster no foe topped. All sorts killed for this fellow, The Mob boss who broke hearts, In suits pink, black and yellow, A man of many parts. His launderer of money Was called Everton Mint, Embezzlement’s not funny, Though Bertie wasn’t skint. Upset and feeling boozy, Obsessed by what Mint stole, He rested with a floozie, Miss Lolly Pop, the moll. She wasn’t rough or bandy, In fact no one could lick Big Mr B’s eye-candy, Cool ice sex on a stick. But Lolly wasn’t making His sherbert fizz, that hood Lay planning hits and aching To finish Mint for good. He rang Don Tobleronie, Named after his strange head, Triangular and bony, A target for each Fed. While Bassett gave the angles Old Mr T sniffed junk Then growled ‘I’ll send the Spangles, They’ll whack that little punk!’ The Spangles liked to root bums Out of the dark, but they Were unaware the Fruitgums Hid Everton away. He wed a señorita, A true Mint mystery, Down south the brave sweet cheater Escaped from Mr B. © |
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Have you noticed all the full stops on this page? Could be spy cameras you know.
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but perhaps I know more about you than you think.
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PS Biz not really
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PS Biz not really
![]() Mind you not long ago there was a report that some laptops were about to be launched on the market which had concealed secret spy cameras in them, but the authorities put a stop to it - fortunately. I don't like the sound of it do you?
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Case closed I feel.
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Sir Humphrey Davy liked poetry and wrote books one of which has the title Consolations in Travel, which sounds a lovely title.
Also Alexander Keiller, my hero who saved Avebury for the nation, wrote funny limericks about a fellow archeologist on the digs there. One of his four wives helped him write them - it's a pity I can't post any ![]() Quote:
Wow! I'll never walk into a sweetshop in the same way again - who'd have thought it.
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I'm just teasing too Sandy.
Mind you not long ago there was a report that some laptops were about to be launched on the market which had concealed secret spy cameras in them They would be so bored
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Glam and Free in '73
A stripe of red and blue grace, That futuristic slash, The zig-zag on a new face So dangerous and rash. A man who changed with make-up To one beyond the stars, Before he chose to break up The doomed Spiders From Mars. Jean Genie owned some rare slaves And gladly I’d obey When Bowie ruled the airwaves With Drive-In Saturday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGQo6zpVzt8 |
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If only Simon Cowell could produce such talent
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Against Everton Mint? Or that poetry's a dead art? The latter I suspect as you didn't add a smiley
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Why would they think to do something like that, haven't they heard of privacy and without a person knowing, I imagine someone finding out such news would be very angry, I certainly would if I found out someone had been spying on me
They would be so bored![]() A few years ago when the subject of phone tapping came up, I remember saying that I feel sorry for anyone having to listen in to my conversations, 'cos they'd die of boredom - that doesn't mean I'd excuse it. |
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LMAO
They would be so bored