The upsetting effect of my current poem ending up in bits all over the laundry
Damn!
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Could the world really stand up to all our 'through the mangle' poetry? I doubt it Dave but it might be funny in a black kind of way.
That's possible Ann - getting scattier all the time. Thanks for commenting, everyone - it's been a consolation (sniff, reaches for hanky). And thanks for refraining from cracks about laundry and men "boldly going where no man has gone before".
PS last mangle I saw was in a museum. What about 'Through the mangle' as a competition theme?
Maybe it was just your shopping list Dave! P'raps your poem is in the pocket of your other jeans! xx
LOL dave. When I leave paper in pockets i usually get a sort of 'pulp lump' 2 great words. Win
<Deleted User> (7212)
Sat 13th Nov 2010 18:24
Dave - if I look very closely I can just make out a C.... a U....an N.. and, I think, yes, a T. does that help ?
<Deleted User> (7212)
Sat 13th Nov 2010 18:21
(at the risk of repeating myself)
How many ears has Captain Kirk?
Three: a left ear, a right ear and a final front ear.
<Deleted User> (7790)
Sat 13th Nov 2010 17:39
It looks like a cosmic image from the Hubble telescope. You have the final frontier in the base of your laundry basket.
I was only joking yur honour and now you are making me feel guilty!
I'm scratching my head trying to think of all the things I've washed that I shouldn't have - but can't think of one... I like the way you have wrung so much out of this Dave - did you put your poem through the mangle as well?
<Deleted User> (7212)
Sat 13th Nov 2010 15:21
One of your very best!
(haha).
Isobel-love your comment-you really know how to kick a man when he's down... Go Girl !!!
Excellent - right to the point!
Well, it even beats 'Jesus wept'. You showed much grace under duress. I think, like me, you probably had no idea how to recreate the original.
now that's a challenge, Dave.. lol
But was it worth the paper it was written on Dave?
I would like to claim this as being WOL's shortest poem ever - certainly the one with the highest title words to actual words ratio. Having the record will be some small compensation for the trauma suffered
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Chris Dawson
Mon 15th Nov 2010 10:10
Very upsetting - losing what would, no doubt, have been your finest work. I get round the problem by only committing to paper (or pc file anyway) my mediocre and rubbish stuff, the works of genius I keep safe in my head.
On the subject of ridiculous and regretted, own fault lost things ... I once got £100 out in American dollars to send to my son (who was living in the US at the time) - and accidentally put it in the paper re-cycling bin - on the day of collection.
xx