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A Typical Evening | Robert Atkerson | ||
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Do you ever get bored in the course of a day? |
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Badass Frank | Don Johnson | ||
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After a friend got burgled recently Frank thought about home defence....heheh |
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| Bloody Squirrels | Walter Occleston | |||
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We have a lovely garden where trees and flowers grow. Love to watch the birdies come and food for them we throw. |
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| Christmas Tradition | Kathryn (Chris) Hamann | |||
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My father was Catholic of a true Irish strain It was a point of honour that from the first Sunday in Advent he never drew one sober breath The Lord was toasted / made welcome in every inn. |
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| Clutter or Collect? | Pimms | |||
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We all do it, but one's persons trash is another person's treasure. |
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| Danger! | Phyllis McDuff | |||
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I didn't chop my fingers. They're just short and pink and fat. I didn't chop my fingers when I went CHOP, CHOP, like that! |
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| Flypaper | Ephraim Crud | |||
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The title of this poem's misleadin', it's not quite as it implies for this is a thesis I've written... |
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| Hanging out the Washing | Suzanne Kelman | |||
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Go on a woman's exotic journey while she's doing laundry. You'll never do washing the same again! |
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| HOGWASHBRAIN | Anita V. | |||
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After having travelled and stayed with friends for 6 weeks... it took time to get back in the "swing of home" .... |
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| House Guests | Rayn Roberts | |||
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How do YOU really feel about house guests? |
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| How I Wish There Was An Ironing Fairy | Suzanne Kelman | |||
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Meet every woman's dream man. An Ironing Fairy dressed in full tutu and ballet shoes!! |
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| Metamorphosis | Lee Daniel Quinn | |||
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Have you ever noticed when doing your wash That, after the rinsing -- that very last slosh, That something is missing from out of the flock? It's that one lonesome item -- that mateless ol' sock!... |
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| Ode to a Sun-Bather | Paul Wilkinson | |||
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Imagine... one minute you're standing there with your dibber in your hand... the next, you're arrested for sexual harassment!!! |
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| Old Custard | Nadia Simpson | |||
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I'm an aged, battered garden gnome, Looking for an old gnome home, 'Cos I've just been moved out of sight, Behind the rhubarb, and it's not right... |
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| Our New Bed | Heather Densley | |||
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I think it's time, my husband said, For us to buy a brand new bed. "I reckon a mattress and base are the go, So let's go and see just what is on show." .... |
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| Please Call Again! | Stringybark | |||
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Sick of calls from salesmen or debt collectors? Do you get stupid recorded messages when you need to speak to someone? This is for you then. |
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| Quash that Squash! | Bob Wombacher, Jr. | |||
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Now comes that dreaded time of year: Sadistic neighbors reappear ... |
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Ringo
Blues 
(Ex Top Ten) |
Graham Fredriksen | |||
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He's bought himself a set of drums - Seems that's the latest fad For them with teenage craniums Just to annoy their Dad.... |
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Rumble Russ
(Ex Top Ten) |
Stringybark | |||
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We all think we know how to fix those little problems around the house, don't we? It couldn't possibly be that hard! |
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| Shocking | Jim Garman | |||
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Electrical work requires brains. |
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| Smoke and Flames | Tom Gaunt | |||
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It's a lovely summer's day and 23 of your neighbours decide to get the barbie going.... |
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| Snoring | Nicole Braganza | |||
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You must wonder where this betides, this all free entertaining. Look no further dear, these hits, are the wonders of snoring... |
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| Spring Has Sprung | Doug Miles | |||
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A topical poem (submitted in spring, anyway) about the "dark side" of many people's favourite season. |
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| The Family Cat | Stringybark | |||
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Oh tragedy! Alas, alack! Pets are a wonderful addition to the family, until they die, and then how do you handle this sensitive family crisis? With tact or tack? |
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| The Giant Food Chains Are Taking Over The World | Lee Daniel Quinn | |||
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If you visit my home on any old day "It looks very nice!" I'm sure you would say. But that's where you're wrong, there's a spy in my house He's hidden somewhere -- I don't THINK it's my spouse!... |
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| The Jam of a Modern Man (Part 1) | Robert Swales | |||
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I strike a thinking pose to draw the burden from my chest, and tangle in the cobwebs borne through lack of stimuli and zest, you see, I'm unemployed, I have no hook on which to hang my hat, I'm now soaking up the days and nights like the average family cat ... |
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| The Mower | DonL | |||
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The grass had grown so high it couldn't support itself It was time to get the mower out, the brush cutter off the shelf |
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| The Vegie Garden | Bette Moss | |||
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He'd purchased a lovely new rotary hoe all shining and red a delight And started in ploughing the virgin soil working from morning till night ... |
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| Way Out West | Topoke | |||
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I was only four when my paw was killed.... |
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| Wardrobe Memorabilia | Ephraim Crud | |||
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Mum were in the kitchen cuttin' Lily Tappet's hair whilst I attempted wallpaperin' ...... |
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| Who's In Control | Angela Convery | |||
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Each evening we settle to watch the TV, to see all the 'soaps' would be heaven for me. I guess all the cliffhangers and love every one, but in the middle of 'Corrie' I see BBC1 ! ... |
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| Visiting My Gran | Dustnomi | |||
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We would lie there with the candle flickering, making shadows and shapes on the wall and we'd play at trying to find faces on the damp patches that we saw. |
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| Visitors | Tom Hampstead | |||
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Having a party? Clean the house. What's that got to do with having a party? |
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