Sunday 3 January 2021

PONDERING

 

The meaning of life I often ponder

Of gods great gift’s and things of wonder

I reason matters Theologic

Thinking deeply philosophic

I have often sought these things profound

But there is an answer I have not found

What I must know before I’m dead

What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?

THE GREATEST LIES OF LIFE

 

No, your bum doesn’t look big in that

Money isn't everything

How funny, I was just going to call you

I'm only going to put it in a little way

I've never done this before

They’ll ride up with wear

The cheque's in the post

Anticipation is half the fun

This will hurt me more than it hurts you

I promise I won't finish in you

This won't hurt, I promise

No, I can’t see the join

Uh yes, it’s very slimming

Saturday 2 January 2021

Word Games

  

PALINDROME

 

Go deliver a dare, vile dog!

Go hang a salami I'm a lasagna hog!

God to Hanoi on a hot dog

God saw I was a dog

"Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men," I nod

Do geese see God?

Don't nod

Dogma: I am God

 

OXYMORA

 

Exact Estimate, Same Difference

Free Love, Military Intelligence

Extinct Life, Clearly Confused

Deafening Silence, Old News

Liquid Gas, Constant Variable

Working Holiday, Hell's Angel

Larger Half, Civil Engineer

Found Missing, Alone Together

Plastic Glasses, Virtual Reality

Only Choice, Definite Maybe

Rolling Stop, Minor Crisis

Open Secret, Original Copies

Living Dead, Genuine Imitation

Even Odds, Unbiased Opinion

 

ACRONYM

 

Cows Often Sit Down Carefully

Perhaps Their Joints Creak?

Persistent Early Oiling Might

Prevent Painful Rheumatism

 

PALINDROME THE SEQUEL

 

Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna

A Toyota! Race fast... safe car... a Toyota

Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?

Ah, Satan sees Natasha

 

Lisa Bonet ate no basil.

Live not on evil, madam, live not on evil

Lived on Decaf, faced no Devil.

Live, O Devil, revel ever, live, do evil.

 

Dennis, no misfit can act if Simon sinned.

Denim axes examined.

Desserts, I stressed!

Devil Natasha, ah, Satan lived!

ACRONYM PROSE STYLE

 

Toronto Girls Can Flirt

And Other Queer Things Can Do

General Eisenhower's Oldest Girl

Rode A Pony Home Yesterday

Father Charles Goes

Down And Ends Battle

Richard Of York

Gave Battle In Vain

Kids Prefer Cheese

Over Fried Green Spinach.

My Very Easy Method

Just Set Up Nine Planets

Every Good Boy Deserves Favor

Furry Animals Cook Excellently

Good Boys Do Fine, Always.

All Cows Eat Grass.

Not Every Cat Eats Sardines

Shrimps, And Rabbit Yogurt

 

PANGRAMS

 

Jump by vow of quick, lazy strength in Oxford

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

The Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz

And Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs

 

PALINDROME REVISITED

 

Ned, I am a maiden

Never odd or even

Ned, go gag Ogden

Nate bit a Tibetan

 

RETURN TO PALINDROME

 

So many dynamos

Some men interpret nine memos

Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!

Sad, I'm Midas

Suneva, Nina is sure Russian in a Venus

Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus

 

RETURN TO PALINDROME AGAIN

 

Madam, in Eden I'm Adam

May a moody baby doom a yam?

No, it never propagates if I set a gap or prevention

No trace; not one carton

Dammit, I'm mad!

Dairy myriad

Must sell at tallest sum

Murder for a jar of red rum

Too bad, I hid a boot

Too far, Edna, we wander afoot

Rats ailed, damn it, in mad Delia's tar!

Rats live on no evil star

Doom an evil deed, liven a mood

Do, O God, no evil deed, live on, do good


ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – THE TOWERING INFERNO (1974)

 

“The Towering Inferno” is an action thriller disaster movie, screenplay by Stirling Silliphant, from the Novel by Richard Martin Stern, Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson, and Directed by John Guillermin.

The focal point of the movie is a colossal skyscraper, designed by Architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman), which is nearing completion when he returns from a long vacation, but ahead of the “grand opening” party he discovers that his wiring specifications have not been followed and as a result the building has been experiencing an increasing number of electrical glitches.

He raises his concerns with his father in law, Jim Duncan (William Holden) and Project Manager Simmons (Richard Chamberlain) but they are brushed aside. 

Suffice is to say that during the party a fire breaks out and quickly spreads, which threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

So Michael O'Halleran (Steve McQueen), who is the chief on duty as a series of daring rescues punctuate the terror of a building too tall to have a fire successfully fought from the ground.

It’s a tense and thrilling tale with an amazing cast assembled by producer Irwin Allen, who succeed in getting McQueen and Newman to co-star, he also signed Faye Dunaway to play Newman's love interest and cast Fred Astaire, against type as a con-man, but even more astonishing than that, he lured reclusive and legendary film star Jennifer Jones out of retirement for the sympathetic role of Lisolette Mueller.

He also secured other notables which included Robert Wagner, Susan Blakely, Susan Flannery, Sheila Allen, Robert Vaughn, O.J. Simpson and Dabney Coleman.

A WANDER DOWN LUPINO LANE

You should have watched Steve Punt?

Does anyone know does James Hunt?

Few people stopped to see Steve Race?

I can hardly wait to see Lorraine Chase?

I’ve always wondered was Oliver Hardy?

What I want to know is Richard Tardy?

Did anyone else watch Todd Slaughter?

I’d have liked to watch Carol Drinkwater?

 

Does anyone know is Phil Cool?

Am I the only one to see Gordon Rule?

Can anyone remember is Barry White?

Did anyone think was Steve Wright?

Will anyone watch as Sid Dithers?

Do you want to watch as Bill Withers?

What do you think will John Wayne?

Have you ever walked Lupino Lane?

 

Does anyone know was Lionel Blue?

Is it possible to know if Nancy Drew?

What do you think is Ian Pacey?

Does anyone know is Rebecca Lacey?

Let’s take a gamble will Ivan Sag?

You should have heard Melvyn Bragg?

I really want to know is Tom Good?

Did anyone else think Natalie Wood?

 

Does anyone think will Tessa Peake?

I have often wondered is Michelle Meek?

Does anyone know was Joseph Rashe?

Would you like to witness Stacey Dash?

I would have liked to see Peter Boyle?

I’m interested to know is Joe Royal?

Was I the only one watching Peggy Mount?

I didn’t think I’d hear Dracula Count?

DRY JANUARY

 

A month without alcohol

Isn’t what makes January dry

What does, is sex without foreplay

Or indeed the use of KY

Friday 1 January 2021

FALLING DOWN DRUNK

 

A man had had far too much to drink

Now I must go home he began to think

He tried to stand up and fell to the floor

So, he decided to crawl out of the door

Then after a little fresh air he tried again

But he fell face down in the drain again

“I will never get up” to himself he said

I won’t try again Ill crawl home instead

His wife found him on the step asleep

“I went for a drink” he said like a sheep

“And I know what made you crawl so far

Your wheelchair is still in the public bar”