A PARROT SAT ON A CUSTODY CHAIR

 

A Parrot sat on a custody chair

And continually prattled on

In fact he sang like a canary

So he was a real Stool Pigeon

I’M SOMETHING OF A JOKER # 9

 

I’m something of a joker

But being a comic is tough

I have a microbiology joke,

But it’s not cultured enough

THE YOUNG MEN CALLED HER JIGSAW

 

The young men called her jigsaw

For she was not universally adored

And the boys would only do her

When they were really bored

I GOT A BARGAIN ON A LOAD OF STEAK # 3

I got a bargain on a load of steak

But the guy turned out to be a spiv

Five lorry loads of horse steak

Is what I’ve been saddled with

I THINK MEN ARE LIKE WEAPONS

 

I think men are like weapons

Because if you keep one

Around the house sooner or later

You’ll want to shoot one

ON THEIR FIRST MISSION TOGETHER

 

On their first mission together

Aboard the Millennium Falcon

Chewbacca made a Wookie mistake

When he killed Han

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – CASABLANCA (1942)

 

Casablanca, is a wartime drama directed by Michael Curtiz, in which Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), is a cynical world-weary ex-patriate who runs a nightclub in French Morocco during the early stages of WWII.

Rick's cafe has become a kind of haven for refugees seeking to obtain forged documents that will help them escape to America and he is used to running the gauntlet between the local authorities and the criminal fraternity, 

But one day Isla Lund (Ingrid Bergman), a former lover of Rick's, and her husband, a well known anti-fascist leader, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), show up to his cafe, and Rick faces a tough decision, as events complicate his life.

Casablanca is a film with many special moments, but chief among them is when the orchestra plays La Marsellaise and Paul Henreid leads them and the rest of the non-Germans in the cafe in a rousing rendition and 80 years later, I still get a thrill from the stirring act of defiance.

It’s a fabulous film, a timeless classic, which  won the Oscar for Best Picture and best director for Michael Curtiz in 1943.
Both of these awards were due in no small part to the superb supporting cast of Claude Rains (Captain Louis Renault), Conrad Veidt (Major Heinrich Strasser), Sydney Greenstreet (Signor Ferrari), Peter Lorre (Ugarte), S.Z. Sakall (Carl), Madeleine Lebeau (Yvonne) and Dooley Wilson as Sam

Casablanca will be seen and loved by filmgoers for generations to come.