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Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: MistyCat (122.58.102.---)
Date: February 23, 2014 12:05AM

... line a house as well as good old dry-wall.

I agree, a very good song. According to Wikipedia, this witty ditty, set to the tune of Men of Harlech, first became popular in the 1920s as a song in the Scout movement.

The author was William Hope-Jones, a housemaster at Eton, who wrote it some time before 1914.

Google ' "men of harlech" woad ' for more.


The armadillo in my sock drawer...

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: OB (---.range86-169.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 23, 2014 04:11PM

The armadillo in my sock drawer is as mystified as I am as to what it's doing there


Pets should never be a substitute for...

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: bunyip (101.103.163.---)
Date: February 25, 2014 02:27PM

....an affectation towards custard, I think, maybe brandy custard.



repetition is a form of self.....

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: OB (---.range109-156.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 25, 2014 07:30PM

Repetition is a form of self-congratulation, especially if it involves those really strong onions you grew and pickled last year. Truly a TASTE WORTH REPEATING!


A large mirror is the only thing that...

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: Sir FFlint (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: March 01, 2014 04:30AM

... replace the helping hand of a neighbour.

(Yeah, great poem)

The porcupine said...

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: March 03, 2014 10:23AM

... i'm in a rush can you get to the point.

Wait here I will be ...

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: Sir FFlint (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: March 08, 2014 11:35PM

...back with a scales to see how heavy.

The pearl said to the oyster...

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: March 09, 2014 10:16AM

..i hope that I'm not irritating you.

Who knows where.......

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: March 09, 2014 11:58AM

...the lost socks go?

In the jingle jangle jungle on a ...

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: OB (---.range109-150.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 09, 2014 12:52PM

On a noisy path that leads to meat, a tiger waits.


Tea-trays are fine if you just want to....

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: March 09, 2014 01:41PM

...get to the bottom of the up escalator

Be careful what you........

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: steeljam (---.range86-166.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 09, 2014 08:29PM

... are careful of.

Always pack a ...

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Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: OB (---.range109-150.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 10, 2014 08:54AM

When you go out for the day up a dark alley


I wouldn't want to meet her up a ....

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: OB (---.range109-150.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 10, 2014 08:56AM

punch When you go out for the day up a dark alley


I wouldn't want to meet her up a ....

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: March 10, 2014 12:00PM

...atop a double decker.

I say, I say, I ...

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: OB (---.range86-186.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 11, 2014 08:42PM

I say I say do lemons have feathers : if not I've just squeezed the budgie all over my pancake.

TV chefs have the edge on....

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: bunyip (---.sfl9.fli.bigpond.net.au)
Date: March 11, 2014 10:05PM

...shopping channels on TV for being tediously unwatchable after a few minutes.



A bald elephant in the larder is worth......

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: Sir FFlint (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: March 15, 2014 01:54AM

two hairy ones in the rose bush.

Never cross an armadillo...

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." - Will Rogers

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: bunyip (---.lns5.fli.bigpond.net.au)
Date: April 03, 2014 01:59AM

...with a turtle, for all you will get is.....

Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: April 03, 2014 11:16AM

...a bottle of Amaretto.

The grand old duke...

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