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A nostalgic poem about your trip by bus

posted by adventurer02 on September 22, 2015 at 3:31 AM | link to this | reply

Thanks everyone. Spit spot indeed.

posted by Antonionioni on November 15, 2006 at 9:22 AM | link to this | reply

Ha ha!

I like your pet peeves and, funnily enough, I, across the ocean, was hissed at by geese just this weekend, though I was fool enough to be hand-feeding them bread. The hound of music, Julie Andrews! I'm a fan, but your words made me smile this morning

posted by stbond on November 15, 2006 at 7:09 AM | link to this | reply

Tonyzonit,

haven't lost your edge.. and poor Mary Poppins got a bad rap. What can I add but "spit-spot," ready for your next one. and "a spoonfiul of sugar."

posted by mneme on November 15, 2006 at 4:03 AM | link to this | reply

J'ecoute la derniere chanson pauvre Benoit et je prends mon bain...

pas de bulles ou de champagne ou de bougies, dommage.

posted by marieclaire66 on November 15, 2006 at 2:04 AM | link to this | reply

Tony, it was baptism by fire, but tomorrow i shall roast their ass on a

spit! You bet! I have full back up of staff, so tomorrow is another day.

posted by marieclaire66 on November 15, 2006 at 1:56 AM | link to this | reply

de rien mon cher!

je suis en train d'écouter le CD de Hugues Aufray que je t'ai envoyé. Tu es au travail n'est-ce-pas? Vilain. je vais le dire à ton patron...

posted by marieclaire66 on November 15, 2006 at 1:55 AM | link to this | reply

Yep, as MC says, you floated our boats instead.

posted by _dave_says_ack_ on November 15, 2006 at 1:22 AM | link to this | reply

Thanks, peeps!

MC - what a shame about having a hard day - merci pour les photos!

posted by Antonionioni on November 15, 2006 at 1:20 AM | link to this | reply

you saved the last line for best!

your boredom does float my boat, at your expense...Ce n'est pas gentil. J'espère que tu vas aimer les photos que je t'ai envoyées ce soir. Cela devrait te raviver un peu.

posted by marieclaire66 on November 15, 2006 at 1:14 AM | link to this | reply

So Boredom continuing Tony's Kingdom, giving delight to subjects with his wisdom. But the one shot that floored me was, "these are all things that do not float my boat". How many of the hundred listed out still remain? We'd like to hear about them too, after the appetizer that you have served us.

posted by Bhaskar.ing on November 14, 2006 at 10:48 PM | link to this | reply

and your heart sinks in your little Wellies... poor Tony...

posted by marieclaire66 on November 14, 2006 at 9:41 PM | link to this | reply

nice one, Tony.

posted by star4sky5 on November 14, 2006 at 7:49 PM | link to this | reply

Tony i swear i commented on your poem,

may be the school swallowed it, i was being watched, so ...any way i cannot think of one intelligent thing to say due to undue exhaustion and child abuse, meaning, teacher suffering trauma abuse from unruly brat.

posted by marieclaire66 on November 14, 2006 at 7:19 PM | link to this | reply

Au revoir, Tony, I find the English nanny reality show here very SCARY.

She looks like Atila the Hun in sensible shoes. Run, run run away!

posted by Blanche. on November 14, 2006 at 5:39 PM | link to this | reply

Exactly. She is a frightening mother hen figure who,

(In the case of Mary P, anyway - I've never bothered to watch Hound) because she can't have her own children, somehow chooses to torture those who do. She also uses the Dick Van Dyke character who spends his money and time on her for nothing in return, not even respect. RESPECT, find owt wot it means to moy (Dick's failed attempt at a London accent rendered badly there, sorry)

My bedtime - au revoir tout le monde

posted by Antonionioni on November 14, 2006 at 5:33 PM | link to this | reply

yeah, that Julie, the one who was bounding arond the Alps, yodeling

at 6 am, the early equivalent of aerobics at 6 am, which I dislike as much as you dislike Julie for the same reasons, the perpetually fake and perky who have the secret repressed dark side of Kathy Bates in Misery as she whacks the poor author on the ankles, but refused to swear, that Julie, I think is a monster and an abomination, which has haunted us through the ages, in various forms, with all it's chirping and warbling of "get over it" "rise and shine" "think positive" meanwhile whacking everyone's ankles wth secret malice.

posted by Blanche. on November 14, 2006 at 5:29 PM | link to this | reply

Hi troosh

I'm not promising to do a Julie Andrews sonnet. But Mary Bobbins makes me so angry, it might actually produce a classic akin to Ginsberg's 'Howl'

posted by Antonionioni on November 14, 2006 at 5:22 PM | link to this | reply

Yes, Blanche

It's really the Julie that dominates our national consciousness that I don't like, in The Hound of Music, or Mary Bobbins. You know, the saccharine smile, the awful piercing voice and posh pronunciation. Yuk. I've seen the real Julie Andrews, and she's not evil at all! Mary Bobbins, what a supercilious, loveless young ice maiden.

posted by Antonionioni on November 14, 2006 at 5:21 PM | link to this | reply

Think of Julie in Victor Victoria, Tony, and maybe you'll see a different

more complicated Julie and not be so angry.

posted by Blanche. on November 14, 2006 at 5:18 PM | link to this | reply

ooo -That aught to be amusing

posted by Troosha on November 14, 2006 at 5:15 PM | link to this | reply

Hi folks

Sorry, i was tied up watching 'Monster' starring Charlize Theron. Not literally, of course, even though she was! Yes, I may be a Brit, but I reject the notion that I must love Julie Andrews. Have I made that clear? No? Alrighty then, I'll dedicate a full sonnet to her tomorrow, and state a few of my unfavourite things about her, in unloving detail. Or maybe not. i might get too angry.

posted by Antonionioni on November 14, 2006 at 4:17 PM | link to this | reply

MAYBE YOU SHOULD GET A SUBMARINE..

What would we do without the British, be German I guess.... I have a similar list.

posted by FARSAILOR on November 14, 2006 at 3:54 PM | link to this | reply

Tony

Another excellent list....... ! Gee if we all put our heads together we could give you material that might carry to Sonnet #1,000. Well done, as always.