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Well Sir I was waiting to see what Simone would say about this. My own comment was to be well John you can't catch old birds with chaff. To be honest I felt that you were taking the wee,wee. You are such an intelligent young man, you know how to write good poetry. Perhaps I am wrong and this was a funny story, if so I will read it again to try to appreciate the subtleties that evaded me on my first read. In retrospect it stared off quite well and then as you became rather tired of the poem, you became like the character behind the Punch and Judy show after a good night out. I suppose like you, I must now try to make amends and tell you that if I could have written like you at your tender age I would have been exceedingly pleased with myself. Please don't take offence I feel that you are the only friend I have left. It is my vow of chastity, no I mean honesty, well both.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 2, 2010 at 9:20 AM
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re a nutcase loll... I, like Northsage , do not get the European humor but I got yours loll... xoxoxo
posted by
Sinome
on August 1, 2010 at 11:01 AM
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I am intrigued....never having seen any Punch and Judy other than snippets in movies....and amused at the use of toes as I tend to see my own as characters on occasion....interesting read and makes me wonder about your mind!
posted by
Krisles
on July 31, 2010 at 6:53 PM
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Since you are an American, HOW are you so familiar w/Punch & Judy shows?
JFM,
We are both of the same age, (born in '45) and while I have seen short snippets of that P & J puppet show, I've never seen the appeal of it. Unless one is referring to the "Monty Python" variety of humor, I don't "get" much of English comedy. Dance-Hall, Vaudeville-style comedy strikes me as being on a par with the Three Stooges, very "lowbrow." Benny Hill, Stan Laurel, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, etc. I have no problem whatsoever with. They practiced the classic, timeless, ageless humor, heavy on innuendo, dialogue, sight gags, double entendre, and visual stop-action comedy, but these cinematic pioneers relied quite lightly, on the "slapstick" and "Three Stooges" style, head-banging, eye-poking, and French style farce. Punch & Judy, like this kind of lower-class, United Kingdom/ European humor, eludes me however.
Guy
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northsage_45
on July 31, 2010 at 1:52 PM
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