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Previously on "Friday poetry corner"

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  • Malacandra
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    Lilies are white,
    Violets are funky;
    If Darwin was right,
    I'm the son of a monkey.

    Yes, I know, but it's funnier this way

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock View Post
    How Aulds yer Granny SB ?
    My Grandmother is 854, my Mother 8561.

    Alfie, can you tie a bow?

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    There is no such practice within Freemasonry.
    Poor old Churchy. Still "seeking the light"!



    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    However while you were being buggered by your local Priest he may have imparted such superstition in your bigoted little mind.

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  • Denny
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    Rose are red, violets are blue,
    I have constipation, so it's damned hard to poo.

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  • Francko
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    Farewell beautiful Lugano

    Hello Mr AJP. Wish to dedicate you the next poem to what can be my next location (not sure yet...).....


    Farewell beautiful Lugano

    my sweet land,
    driven away guiltlessly
    the anarchists are leaving,
    and they set off singing
    with hope in their heart.
    It is for you exploited
    for you workers
    that we are handcuffed
    just like criminals.
    Yet our ideal
    is but an ideal of love.
    Anonymous comrades
    friends who remain
    the social truths
    do spread like strong people.
    This is the revenge
    that we ask of you.
    And you who drive us away
    with an infamous lie,
    you bourgeois republic
    will be ashamed one day.
    Today we accuse you
    in the face of the future.
    Ceaselessly banished
    we will go from land to land
    promoting peace
    and declaring war,
    peace among the oppressed
    war to the oppressors.
    Helvetia, your government
    makes itself someone else's slave,
    a brave people's
    traditions it offends
    and insults the legend
    of your William Tell.
    Farewell dear comrades
    friends of Lugano
    farewell white snowy
    Ticinese mountains
    the knight-errants
    are dragged to the North.

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  • AlfredJPruffock
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    Did the job though didn't it?





    Thought I'd leave that to you, you are the one with the 'intimate' knowledge.

    How Aulds yer Granny SB ?

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    Come on Churchy, no need to be so secretive. You have "rode the goat" I have no doubt. What's it like?
    There is no such practice within Freemasonry.

    However while you were being buggered by your local Priest he may have imparted such superstition in your bigoted little mind.

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    Well here's the definitive answer, nothing.
    Come on Churchy, no need to be so secretive. You have "rode the goat" I have no doubt. What's it like?

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    Did the job though didn't it?





    Thought I'd leave that to you, you are the one with the 'intimate' knowledge.
    Well here's the definitive answer, nothing.

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    Typical juvenile response from our dense scot contingent.
    Did the job though didn't it?


    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    Btw, would you care to elaborate on wtf a goat has to do with freemasonry?

    Thought I'd leave that to you, you are the one with the 'intimate' knowledge.

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    Lots of "friendly grips" and "hands at the back" there Churchill. Your naval background must have stood you in good stead. I look forward to next week's follow-up where you expand on the whole "goat" thing.
    Typical juvenile response from our dense scot contingent.

    Btw, would you care to elaborate on wtf a goat has to do with freemasonry?

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  • threaded
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    Lots of "friendly grips" and "hands at the back" there Churchill. Your naval background must have stood you in good stead. I look forward to next week's follow-up where you expand on the whole "goat" thing.
    Funny you should mention a goat: I got a bizarre message on my answering machine where someone apologized for the ?birthday? card being late but some ?child? had had it take away from them by the goat, but it was in the post now and not to mind it being a little chewed.

    threaded in "wrong number?" mode

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Lots of "friendly grips" and "hands at the back" there Churchill. Your naval background must have stood you in good stead. I look forward to next week's follow-up where you expand on the whole "goat" thing.

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  • Churchill
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    Last Night I Knelt
    Where Hiram Knelt


    Last night I knelt where Hiram knelt
    and took an obligation.
    Today I'm closer to my God
    for I'm a Master Mason.

    Though heretofore my fellow men
    seemed each one like the other,
    today I search each one apart.
    I'm looking for my brother.

    And as I feel his friendly grip
    it fills my heart with pride.
    I know while I am on the square
    that he is by my side.

    His footsteps on my errand go
    if I should such require.
    His prayers will lead in my behalf
    if I should so desire.

    My words are safe within his breast
    as though within my own,
    his hand forever at my back
    to help me safely home.

    Good counsel whispers in my ear
    and warns of any danger.
    By square and compass, Brother now
    who once would call me stranger.

    I might have lived a moral life
    and risen to distinction
    without my Brothers helping hand
    and the fellowship of Masons.

    But God, who knows how hard it is
    to resist life's temptations,
    knows why I knelt where Hiram knelt
    and took that obligation.

    Author unknown

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Bravely Bold Alexei, rode forth from SKAmelot
    He was not afraid to die
    O brave Alexei
    He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways
    Brave, brave, brave, brave, Alexei

    He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp,
    Or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken,
    To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away
    And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Alexei

    His head smashed in and his heart cut out
    And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged
    And his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off
    but he WAS afraid to do his National Service!!

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