Thanks, Chels, I'll look forward to the clubbing (tho' I'm a bit worried about the egg on the side - do you dance with a limp?)
But I promised a prize for the best last line to the bit of cheapo doggerel I included earlier - and I award it to PropheticScar, for three reasons:
First, her line scans better than the other entries, tho' Mandi's came very close ...
Second, I've had a foul cold for the past 36 hours and the thought of a glass of rum definitely appeals!
And, thirdly, O'Neill (or whatever your highly unsporting Rugby President's name is) needs reassuring that although Oz cannot always win at rugby, they can still win a highly important international doggerel match! Though I greatly doubt that he himself could ...
So, Phrophetic, PM me with a name and address to send to and a unique bracelet will be on its way to you - postal strike here in UK allowing (tho' I don't believe that will cause more than a very few day's delay.)
Tony.
PS. Perhaps we should have more light-hearted competitions - I'd be happy to try to devise one or two ...
Last edited by Harley's Dad : 09-10-2007 at 08:18 PM.
Reason: spelling mistake
i found the doggerel hard because i couldn't decide if some line had 8 or 9 syllables in it to make my entry scan correctly. I still can't decide.... i guess it depends on how you speak as to how many syllables you use.
mand x
Mand, South Wales, Full-time working, single mother to 2 scarily independent girls.
I AM A PROUD PLUMERIA SISTER
dont most people who've been on RYL for a while know he's Harley's brother? i like the sound of James having the screen name 'Harley's brother' though :P then all the newbies and anyone who doesnt know will know he's Harley's brother. though for all we know, James could really be Harley's aunts sister :P
dont most people who've been on RYL for a while know he's Harley's brother? i like the sound of James having the screen name 'Harley's brother' though :P then all the newbies and anyone who doesnt know will know he's Harley's brother. though for all we know, James could really be Harley's aunts sister :P
soph.
you mean like a trannie? coz in his pictures...that aint no laydee!
Mand, South Wales, Full-time working, single mother to 2 scarily independent girls.
I AM A PROUD PLUMERIA SISTER
And, Mandi, for the record, I'm always having arguments with James about scansion (not that we're talking poetry/doggerel every day). We always each reckon we're right but, though he can very definitely hear better than I can - not difficult - , I claim to count better than he does!
Oh, and though I'm no expert at all, I think you can have a poem with, say, 10 syllables in the first line and 12 in the second, provided that pattern then repeats itself in the third and fourth and so on. And just to complicate things further, it seems permissible to have a last line with many more or fewer syllables than the preceding lines. But no doubt some expert will put us right ...
And, a last little disclosure - almost Saturday Night Story stuff; when I was at school about a hundred years ago, part of our required reading for O Level Literature included a poem by Keats, the title of which may have been The Eve of St Agnes. The only two lines which I remember were "Behold her bosom and half her side, a sight to dream of, not to tell ..." What sort of stuff was this to be teachng a pubescent boy?! But I had the balls (or was about to have them!) to quote it word for word in my actual exam paper - and what's more I passed! Whether the examiner was impressed by my memory, by my feel for language, or - more likely - by the fact that I had he or she falling about laughing I'll never know ...
Tony (God, these personal reminiscences can be exposing!)
Sorry Prophetic about mispelling your name - can't think what got into me (and it wasn't rum!) But do claim your prize ...
Tony.
I won? Booyah!
Can we have a spot of rum to celebrate? :)
Oh, and no worries about the spelling of my name. I hadn't even noticed to be perfectly honest. Of course, calling me Erin is always nice :D
"...that incremental suicide of turning your life into a dream, to make being awake as similar to sleep as possible. Drowsily, lazily, dry-mouth your way through the day's ceremonies, fumble your way back into the dew-bather you never really left, draped in brown, brown now all around, the haze!" - Russell Brand on drug addiction.
"Si ma êkh gûndo piyiamásko...ándo bírto barruno. Bírto, bírto barruno."
After stumbling upon this thread and reading it all in one sitting, I have decided the following:
-Harley's Dad is actually Harley's great aunt, ruth
-James is really Harley
-Harley is some poor nipple deprived lad that James keeps locked in a closet somewhere to photograph whenever he pleases...
It's also strange to me, Control. All I did was to post a thread about a (slightly surprising) PM I'd received as to whether I really was Harley's Dad. The response has been a bit of an eye-opener, tho' of course it's been much more about curiosity about Harley than me ...
Tony.
PS. Though I have, along the way, been described as a curiosity in my
own right!
I know how to tell if Tony is really Harley's dad.
See Harley has no nipples, which must be a genetic thing, so if Tony has no nipples either, he must be Harley's Dad!
Flawless logic!
Well it breaks my heart to see you this way,
The beauty in life, where's it gone?
And somebody told me you were doing okay,
Somehow I guess they were wrong.
We've been through this a year or two ago when I posted pics of me in Oman, having been scuba diving. Some scurrilous American scoundrel then reposted the photo having removed my nipples. I had to check for myself that they were still there ... !
