MY TEACHER IS EXTREMELY ANCIENT

 

My teacher is extremely ancient

But I don’t want to be thought a fool  

But it is the truth as he told us

He taught Shakespeare at his old school

A MAN IN LOVE IS INCOMPLETE

 

A man in love is incomplete

Until he is married

According Zsa Zsa Gabor

And then he’s finished

THE TRAFFIC COP STOPPED A TRUCK

The traffic cop stopped a truck

And told the driver that his wife

Had fallen out of the back, and

As a result the woman lost her life

The driver though was not bereft

But relieved he hadn’t gone deaf

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS (1939)

 

Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a romantic drama, based on James Hilton’s book of the same name and directed by Sam Wood and Sidney Franklin.

An old classics teacher, and former headmaster of Brookfield School, “Mr Chips” (Robert Donat) looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage to Katherine (Greer Garson), who he met in the Alps while on holiday with his friend and colleague Staefel (Paul Henreid), and that meeting transformed his life, and the effect she had on him lasted throughout his life.

Robert Donat deftly handles the role of Chips through the years, from his arrival at the school as a young man in his mid-20s until he lays on his death bed in his 80s.

A wonderful film that cleverly marks the passage of time with snippets of conversation between boys or masters as they return to school in the autumn mentioning keys events, such as Queen Victoria's death, the advent of the telephone, a book by a new author, H.G. Wells, and of course the Great War.

It is a sentimental story, but it is also poignant and thought provoking and is essentially a chronicle of a common man's existence as he touches the lives of hundreds.

THE WISDOM OF OLD AGE # 2

 

I have found keeping a vegetable garden

Of potatoes cabbages and dills

Is without any doubt at all

Worth a medicine cabinet full of pills

BEST BEFORE 1980 # 1

 

I have a Universal Remote control

Which I have had for quite a while

But I tried for ages to turn on the Radio

It turned out I was using my mobile

YOU MUSTN’T LET AGEING GET YOU DOWN

 

You mustn’t let ageing get you down

It’s something you just have to face

And let’s not forget how hard it was

Getting yourself up in the first place