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Curmudgeon' s Corner. I blame it on the heat. (3)

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Tell us more😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Hanged.   Only meat is hung.  
    My lips are sealed. o:)
    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    And some gentlemen are well-.... ,I believe.
    but not enough. ;)
    Devon.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    edited December 2018
    Hung, according to this !
     

    THE HARTLEPOOL MONKEY
    (Alan Wilkinson)

    Well, it's up and up in Hartlepool about the time of France,
    The Emperor Napoleon was leading all the dance,
    When up along the coast came a British man-o-war
    And the captain’s own good monkey got washed up on the shore.

    cho: Singing old folks, young folks, everyone and each
    Have come to see the Frenchie who's landed on the beach.
    He's got long arms and a great long tail and he's covered down in hair.
    We think that he's a spy, so we'll hang him in the square!

    Now the Lord Mayor of Hartlepool was walking down the shore
    When he saw this funny thing he'd never seen before.
    A-sitting in the sand was a little hairy man,
    Clutching a banana in his little hairy hand.

    Well the Lord Mayor fetched the Town Clerk who hurried to the shore.
    There they found this little man where he had been before.
    And a crowd had gathered 'round him 'cause he was the strangest sight
    Since the Sporting Club got fired on the previous Friday Night!

    Now, Constable Parsons, he hurried to the scene.
    He viewed the situation and he licked his pencil clean.
    He said, "Causing a disturbance is a serious offence
    And every thing you say, it will go down in evidence!”

    Well, when this little man spoke, a funny thing was heard,
    And Constable parsons couldn't understand a word.
    But the reason for his puzzlement the crowd could plainly see:
    This little man's a foreigner from far across the sea!

    So they hung... hung... this little Frenchie from the gallows in the town
    With a rope... rope... around his little necky-weck, and his tail all hanging
    down
    As a warning to Napoleon to make himself a rule
    And not to send his little hairy spies to dear old Hartlepool! 
  • DyersEndDyersEnd Posts: 730
    I wouldn't dream of not voting but I do wish there was a 'none of the above' option. I might even go out canvassing for him/her/it.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    I can't think of any political leader that I could trust or respect enough to vote for. I hope someone emerges from the dung heap smelling of roses before the next election. 

    This is why we need to stay in the EU. There's no one fit to run this country without the European courts breathing down their necks and giving them a clip around the ear now and then.
    You think we can trust non-elected, and non-removable, Eurocrats more than elected and removable politicians? 
  • Them as well.   Maybe I should have said only sentient beings are hanged!  
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
  • B3 said:
    And some gentlemen are well-.... ,I believe.

    Like I said before.....
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
  • Is it curmudgeonly to be annoyed that this thread dropped off page 1?


    Ahh, thats better.
    Gardening. The cause of, and solution to, all of my problems.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's all this insidious goodwill and cheer business. it gets in everywhere if you're not careful 😡
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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