Crudely persuasive
TV soaps
more influential than isotopes
more affecting
than drug injecting
and the plots go on
like the drift of clouds
to please the torpulent
corpulent crowds
What happened to Eddie
was he going steady
yes, 'til Charlene came along
then his girlfriend's brother
took revenge
another plot as old as Stonehenge.
Well done! Always a topic that never fizzes out of interest.
Thanks all you realists ! David, that is a liberty of a word, but it doesn't exist so I may be the first to use it, yippee!
Imagine on....
Great Col. I feel I have scored on my home ground, thanks.!
Paul, very kind. It really is enjoyable to have a jolly good go in verse.. Aythangyow.
Suki, Why not - even if that sounds like a Mel Brooks special. Nothing new under the solstice. Thanks.
Thanks Mark. Really I think the plots are pretty much interchangeable albeit with different regional accents - by gum!
Stu, you are right of course and that is a liberal view and a justifiable one even if unfathomable in practice!
Thank you one and all! Ray
hate the bloody things. but totally understand why people watch them. it takes all sorts to transport people from the drudgery of their lives. whatever makes them happy i guess.
A pinpoint portrayal of television trivia.
Soaps have always been a big switch-off for me...all that
bad tempered bawling and those short fuses on depressing display. I wouldn't want any of the characters next to me
in the pub - or ahead of me in the queue in my local shop!
Funnily enough, a soap opera about the builders of Stonehenge would probably be worth watching. Instead of Eastenders having their usual Christmas punch up, we could watch the builders and pagans dancing in praise of the Solstice!
Suki
Love it Ray, brilliantly written and 'another plot as old as Stonehenge' and 'torpulent corpulent' are blindingly good.
Take a bow sir ?
Paul
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Mon 6th Mar 2017 20:54
this is so very good Ray - nothing less than perfect - I've read it through several times and cannot find a syllable out of place. Terrific!
Col
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raypool
Wed 8th Mar 2017 22:27
Thanks Cynthia, much appreciated.
David, yes, a right liberty and I just shoe horned it in 'cause I did think it sounded convincing! Thanks.