WRITER CHARLES DICKENS

 

Writer Charles Dickens

Kept in his kitchen

The best of thymes,

The worst of thymes

THERE WAS A PARADE OF RABBITS

There was a parade of rabbits

All in a line

Hopping backwards,

A receding hare-line 

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – BLUE THUNDER (1983)

 

“Blue Thunder” is an action, crime, drama, written by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby and Directed by John Badham.

 

Los Angeles Police pilot Frank Murphy (Roy Scheider) is chosen by Capt. Jack Braddock (Warren Oates) as test pilot for an experimental police helicopter, Blue Thunder, a specially modified, heavily armed helicopter designed to counter street insurgencies.

Unfortunately, his trainer for the trials is Col. F.E. Cochrane (Malcolm McDowell) with whom he has issues dating back to their time in Vietnam which adds to the tension.

But when Frank and his Observer, Officer Richard Lymangood (Daniel Stern) prepare to put the aircraft through its paces they discover the sinister implications of the new aircraft and the top-level conspiracy behind it, and with that knowledge comes danger.

 

A great movie of its time, although the technology dates it, but it is still very watchable and among a very accomplished cast Candy Clark stands out above the rest as Frank’s love interest, Kate.

21st CENTURY NURSERY RHYMES # 429

 

What are little girls made of?

Sugar and spice and all things nice

That's what little girls are made of?

Well try to remember that the next time

You’re holding her hair while she throwing up

BEST BEFORE 1980 # 3

 

I was asked by a practising Buddhist

If I could remember any past lives

I replied I couldn’t confirm yesterday

Without consulting the archives

IN THE EIGHTIES I USED TO SUPPLY

 

In the eighties I used to supply

Filofaxes to the mafia at the time

I suppose you could say I was

Involved in very organised crime

A CEMENT MIXER COLLIDED WITH A PRISON VAN

 

A cement mixer collided with a prison van

And the incident was critical

Motorists are asked to be on the lookout

For sixteen hardened criminals