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I always forget what the thread originally meant

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Autobahnmotorwayautoroute

Around the gleaming map of Europe
A gigantic wedding ring
Slowly revolves through Londonslowestberlin
Athensromemadrdidparis and home again,
Slowly revolving.

That’s no ring,
It’s the Great European Limousine,
The Famous Goldenwhite Circular Car

Slowly revolving

All the cars in Europe have been welded together
Into a mortal unity,
A roundaboutgrandtourroundabout
Trafficjamroundaboutagain,
All the cars melted together,
Citroenjaguarbugattivolkswagenporschedaf.

Each passenger, lugging his
Colourpiano, frozenmagazines, high fidog,
Clambers over the seat in front of him
Towards what looks like the front of the car.
They are dragging behind them
Worksofart, lampshades made of human money,
Instant children and exploding clocks.

But the car’s a circle
No front no back
No river no steering wheel no windscreen no brakes no

Adrian Mitchell

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The Maldive Shark

About the shark, phlegmatical one,
Pale sot of the Maldive sea,
The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim,
How alert in attendance be.
From his saw-pit of mouth, from his charnel of maw
They have nothing of harm to dread,
But liquidly glide on his ghostly flank
Or before his Gorgonian head;
Or lurk in the port of serrated teeth
In white triple tiers of glittering gates,
And there find a haven when peril’s abroad,
An asylum in jaws of the Fates !
They are friends; and friendly they guide him to prey
Yet never partake of the treat-
Eyes and brains to the dotard lethargic and dull,
Pale ravener of horrible meat.

Herman Melville

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The Collar

I struck the board, and cried, “No more!
I will abroad.
What! shall I ever sigh and pine?
My lines and life are free; free as the road,
Loose as the wind, as large as store.
Shall I be still in suit?
Have I no harvest but a thorn
To let me blood, and not restore
What I have lost with cordial fruit?
Sure there was wine
Before my sighs did dry it; there was corn
Before my tears did drown it.
Is the year only lost to me?
Have I no bays to crown it?
No flowers, no garlands gay? all blasted?
All wasted?
Not so, my heart; but there is fruit,
And thou hast hands.
Recover all thy sigh-blown age
On double pleasures; leave thy cold dispute
Of what is fit and not; forsake thy cage,
Thy rope of sands,
Which petty thoughts have made, and made to thee
Good cable, to enforce and draw,
And be thy law,
While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.
Away! take heed;
I will abroad.
Call in thy death’s-head there; tie up thy fears;
He that forbears
To suit and serve his need
Deserves his load.”
But as I rav’d, and grew more fierce and wild
At every word,
Me thoughts I heard one calling, “Child”;
And I replied, “My Lord.”

George Herbert

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‘maggie and milly and molly and may’

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

[toybulldog]

It’s in the lap of the gods, although there is something about that phrase that has always bothered me.

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She’s gone, Actor.

Some might say that making a thread called ‘My Last Post’ was a big giveaway. However, I have been given to understand that the shame of using a ‘rolling eyes’ emoticon was more than she could bear.

Another street-smart fish out of water just trying to survive in a world she never made…….and who else will post about eclairs now ? It’s a shame……….

[toybulldog]

yeah that’s the spirit

They cut off two legs but as you say, you still got the other one.

And all your fingers for counting too

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@cath 55 wrote:

To whom it concerns……

After reading Bon Bons post, I cant beleive that a person on here has bullied and threatened someone so much they felt forced to reveal the most intimate details about themselves. In this case everyone is fully aware who it was that did it, I hope that you are proud of yourself, I hope that the anguish and obvious hurt you have caused gives you at least one sleepless night.

To other would be keyboard gangsta’s , I am at a loss as to why people feel they have a right to be just downright nasty, be it on the boards or in the chat room. think about it , many of the would be keyboard gangstas must have, brothers, sisters, wives, mums, dads , kids etc all equally as important, how would you feel if someone caused half the misery and anguish in their lives that you obviously cause those you ‘attack’.

I was in the chat room one saturday morning , and someone came in obviously angry at the world , saying some horrible stuff to some of the chatters, and i decided to pm him, I asked him why he was so angry and we got chatting, he had lost his wife and 2 daughters in the bali bombings and he was lonely and absolutely desolate, he came right out and said he had no where to ‘aim’ his anger. I spoke to this person for the next 3 hours and at the end of the conversation we parted having swapped email and msn addresses, he actually said to me had i not spoken to him that morning he had decided that when he logged off he was going to end his life.

we continued talking on and off for about a year, one morning i received a message saying he had met someone and was beginning to live life again.

My point at relating this story is that behind everyone on here, there is a story to tell, if you are upset or angry at stuff in your own little world then just think before you ‘take it out’ people who are only trying to get by in this world same as you are…..

i’m not sure what sort of reception this thread will get but you know what? i really dont care it is my opinion and whilst you might not agree with what i have to say and I know I will get a slamming from the minority, at least i am not deliberately hurting a fellow human being.

innit missus

you ever stop being you and I’ll be having a word right ?

……….thank feck for people like cath on here

x

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Perfume……….Eau de Bulldog, by Givenchy…..(because I’m worth it)

Flower………… self-raising, sprinkled over my beds

Clothing………..swear by the lilac ballgown which has never once let me down

Colour…………..don’t be so racist, we all the same underneath

Cheese…………amazing how one word can describe both socks and jokes

Fruit……………..well it’s a kind offer but I’m worried about gas

Male singer…….Me !

Female………….woman from the Shake n’ Vac ad

Crisps……………broccoli ‘n aubergine

Sex Position…….at the bottom of stairs, crouched on the ‘Get Set’ command

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