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Nenya
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"I'll make do with a roll."
-------------------- They told me I was delusional. I nearly fell off my unicorn.
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jrw
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So he sat with a beer and a sub*.
*Submarine roll.
While walking one day round the shops
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ArachnidinElmet
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I was tailed by a couple of cops
-------------------- 'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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bib
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His hair's like a pair of old mops
A grumpy old girl from Tasmania
-------------------- "My Lord, my Life, my Way, my End, accept the praise I bring"
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Stetson
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So the one who was dumber
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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went and married a plumber
-------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Raptor Eye
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With whom she found she was so much more zanier.
A jolly frog who came out of the pond
-------------------- Be still, and know that I am God! Psalm 46.10
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Piglet
Islander
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met a princess, with whom he did bond
-------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Croaked he: "Kiss me, my sweet."
-------------------- "I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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ArachnidinElmet
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It will be such a treat
-------------------- 'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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Stetson
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And our kids will have hair greenish-blond.
A skeezy old crooner in Vegas
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Looked around and said, "What? No bodegas?"
-------------------- "I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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georgiaboy
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So where to get gin?
-------------------- You can't retire from a calling.
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The5thMary
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And generally sin...
-------------------- God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose.
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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In this city of all the lost wages.
There once was a lass from Cancun,
-------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Who cavorted stark naked at noon.
-------------------- "I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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the watchers all shivering
-------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Stetson
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As they gaped at the midday full moon.
A doctor of dubious rep
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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For surgery never would prep.
-------------------- "I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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Raptor Eye
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His hands were so foul
-------------------- Be still, and know that I am God! Psalm 46.10
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The5thMary
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all his patients would howl...
-------------------- God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Then come down with a bad case of strep.
A clever young lad from Berlin
-------------------- Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Oscar the Grouch
Adopted Cascadian
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Who thought his father was Merlin
-------------------- Faradiu, dundeibáwa weyu lárigi weyu
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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cast spells in the street
-------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Raptor Eye
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But got bored and instead took up curlin'.
On a bright sunny day in July
-------------------- Be still, and know that I am God! Psalm 46.10
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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I was given a hot apple pie.
-------------------- "I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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With ice cream, vanilla
-------------------- Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Oscar the Grouch
Adopted Cascadian
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And scent of gorilla
-------------------- Faradiu, dundeibáwa weyu lárigi weyu
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Sipech
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I asked of the smug chef, "Oh Why?"
There was a young man from Dunblane
-------------------- I try to be self-deprecating; I'm just not very good at it. Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheAlethiophile
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Raptor Eye
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Who really was a terrible pain
-------------------- Be still, and know that I am God! Psalm 46.10
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pimple
Ship's Irruption
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He had no idea how to scan [ 23. June 2014, 14:15: Message edited by: pimple ]
-------------------- In other words, just because I made it all up, doesn't mean it isn't true (Reginald Hill)
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Neither anapest nor iamb
-------------------- "I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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Piglet
Islander
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but at tennis the kudos he'd gain.
'Tis the season for strawb'rries and cream
-------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music
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The5thMary
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In Atlanta, add humidity and steam
-------------------- God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Be it bishop or shaman
-------------------- "I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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Raptor Eye
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Is that it hurts when we're hit by a beam.
A lizard from Cornwall one day
-------------------- Be still, and know that I am God! Psalm 46.10
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jrw
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for his train ticket he could not pay
-------------------- plug plug
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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You see, he had no pockets
-------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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And shouted, "Up, up and away!"
The vicar once said to his wife:
-------------------- "I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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L'organist
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You're not really the love of my life
-------------------- Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet
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Stetson
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That honour would go
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The5thMary
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to my mate named Joe Blow...
-------------------- God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose.
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Cara
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I wish he were my trouble and strife!
There once was a young legionnaire
-------------------- Pondering.
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