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I COULDN'T CARE TUPPENCE

Nippity-pippity, flippity-gibbity,

I couldn't care tuppence about serendipity!

Life is a craps game, a stage-play, a dance;

Life is a sap's game fate plans in advance!

Nippity-pippity, flippity-gibbity

I couldn't careĀ tuppence about serendipity!

serendipity

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Jack Pascoe

Mon 5th Mar 2012 17:49

Love it! Silly and yet serious in equal measure.

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Anthony Emmerson

Sun 4th Mar 2012 14:31

You and Cynthia to the cynic's corner immediately - pointy hats with a big "C" on!

Regards,
A.E.

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sun 4th Mar 2012 14:16

This is great, M.C., a neat absurdity of grumpy determinism, full of quite weighty ideas.

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Yvonne Brunton

Wed 29th Feb 2012 23:40

does this dictionary have rhymes for 'orange' as well? If so I'll have one too.( or is that 'one two'?
Ps loved the poem - still giggling - then noddong sagely( no comments about nodding parsleyly I can't even pronouce that!)

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John Coopey

Wed 29th Feb 2012 21:27

"Nippity-pippity, flippity-gibbity"
I'm going to get a rhyming dictionary like yours, MC!

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