Thursday, 1 April 2010
Thursday.
A new law entitled Equality for the Aurally Disabled is coming into effect as from today, for the benefit of the deaf, that all new wireless sets, portable radio sets, and transistor radio sets sold, must now be fitted with a facility to show subtitles. There is a very good reason why I must get this blog published by mid day. I wonder if my readers will work it out.
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Methinks I just heard the first cuckoo?????
SORRY, CAN YOU HEAR BETTER IN CAPITALS?
Perhaps the world famous Thibetan philosopher LIRPA LOOF can explain the new law?
Jude sends her love... It took me a moment to translate her message as she is signaling in semaphor.
She asks if bigger flags sound louder!
Is it a generally accepted rule that all April Fool leg pulls must be perpetrated by noon, or just a localised East Anglian one?
I believe it is general throughout the UK that those perpetrating April Fool jests after Noon on the first day of April are themselves the "April Fool".
I think Geoffrey Chaucer first wrote of it in his Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
Whan that Aprille wit hir shoures soote
ye droghte of Mars hath perced to ye roote
and beythed every veyne in swich liquere
that virtue engendered is the fleure
Then longen folke to "GOON" on pilgrimage
The hoolie blissful Martyr for to seeke
that hem hath holpen whan that they were seeck....
Although I'm not entirely convinced that to goon in April is the same as playing tricks on All Fools' Day!
I would love to just be an April Fool... instead of a perpetual one.
I'm sorry I didn't catch that, could you spell it out for me please?
from
A Loof Lip R. (R.= reader)
There one or two rules,
Half a dozen maybe,
that ALL family fools,
of whatever degree,
Must observe if they love their profession.
I don't know which of us in this family that refers to (if any).
To know there are rules is wise,
to know what they are is wiser.
To apply them on every occasion
is as likely as gifts from a miser!
Hi Carl. My bit of verse is from G.&S's Yeomen of the Guard. Yours is quite as neat. Is it your own?
Cheers, Mike.
Mea culpa, Mike.
It's just one of those doggerel staves that come sponetaneously in response to the appropriate stimulus. I usually look at them later and wish I had been a bit more careful with their metre.
I think inserting the word 'much' before wiser in the second line might improve it a little?
Yes, I think it would. But if you do, I suggest the insertion of 'quite' before the word wise in the first line would perfect the scansion (?).
Hi Carl. Probable final version:-
To know there are rules is quite wise.
To know what they are is still wiser.
To apply them whene'er they arise, is as likely as gifts from a miser.
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