Saturday, 19 June 2021

MONEY FOR OLD ROPE

 

When I was a boy

Jumble sales helped good causes

Raise some cash

And if the jumble didn’t sell it

The rag and bone man

Took away the trash

In the eighties

Car boot sales began

Turning people’s junk into cash

Then later eBay appeared

Taking things once valuable

And selling them like trash


WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE WHY (20)

 

Who saw her die?

What’s eating Gilbert grape

When worlds collide

Where sinners meet

Why we fight

GIRL IN THE WINDOW

 

I queued in the building society

Waiting my turn patiently

At window number one

Sat a blonde tanned by the sun

And at window number two

A petite brunette was in view

I waited, wondering excitedly

Which young beauty would serve me

When light number three came alight

I was faced with a dreadful sight

The girl looked like a moose

With flesh all flabby and loose

With hair unkempt and wild

Doubtless she was the love child

Of a coupling quite absurd

Like Arthur Mullard and Bella Emberg


Thursday, 17 June 2021

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – THE DEAD ZONE (1983)

 

“The Dead Zone” is a horror thriller, screenplay by Jeffrey Boam, based on the Novel by Stephen King and Directed by David Cronenberg.

 

When a survivor from a road accident awakes from a coma after five years, schoolteacher Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) discovers he has psychic abilities, when he touches someone, he gets visions of the past, present or the deadly future.

However after five years he finds life has moved on without him, his girlfriend Sarah Bracknell (Brooke Adams) is now married; he no longer has a job and he's basically crippled due to his muscles having atrophied.

So he struggles to find his place in the world, but along the way he does use his abilities to help Sheriff Bannerman (Tom Skerritt) solve a murder case.

He then helps to save a child's life but when he discovers the chilling fate for the world, he must save everyone from an evilly corrupt presidential hopeful Greg Stillson (Martin Sheen) but at what cost.

Character stalwarts, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe and Colleen Dewhurst provide excellent support to the stars in the gripping movie.

WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE WHY (19)

 

Who is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying these terrible things about me

What’s up tiger lily?

When the Daltons ride

Where’s jack

Why the dickens

SPONGESS

 

Sponges are Female,

Because they are soft,

Very squeezable

And retain water quite oft

WORDS OF WISDOM # 2

 

I learned that if someone

Says something unkind about me,

I must live my life

So that no one will believe it of me