nil by mouth...

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Bert had asked for 'two
portions of fish' - so they gave
him a double bass...

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- do stop playing with your food, Bert...





('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

our nearest and dearest? - they're in the furthest and cheapest...

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cash flow problems? - not
for those (so-called) care homes that
get paid by the weak...

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- no more than 'don't-give-a-toss homes', some of them (or they were, when I was a social worker back in the day)




(17 Syllables)

soccer academies: passing balls, failing exams?...

lateral thinkers? -
many forwards can't even
think inside the box...








(mind you, they do tend to finish games, even if they're not much good at reading them - which, by her own admission, is more than Posh Spice does with books)




('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

now you see him, now you don't...

pity the gay agoraphobic -

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no sooner had he
come out, than he had to go
straight back in again...

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(make that 'directly back in')

do the answers lie? - well, the questions seem to...

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Do the answers lie
iN One's questions? Wow, they do!
Hey, wait a minute...

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('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

stuck for an answer...

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"I haven't a glue,"
said Sherlock Holmes to Watson.
So he used solvent...

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('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

rhythm and greens: "music to my stomach"...

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Simply delicious,
Heston? - No. Remarkably
complicatedly!...

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Heston Blumenthal cuisine: putting the 'fusion' into 'confusion'...




(17 Syllables)

"hi!" (that's me - on the right)

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'i' was the small, dark
and italic type that went
after 'h' - not girls...

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(The Alpha(bet) Male: '17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

but Jesus, how he tried...

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my brother lost his
voice last night - how long it would
last, he couldn't say...

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('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

death throes...

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In The States, they love
their beef jerky. Me? I like
to wait a few hours...

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Hickory Dickory Dock: Bugger, where's it gone?...

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The rescuers searched
round the clock. Nowhere else. Just
round the clock. Damned mouse...

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Lost in Time: a narrow squeak. So to speak...




(17 Syllables)

he doesn't aim to please - he just aims...

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throw the book at a
bad librarian, and he'll
throw a hundred back...

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- the only man I know who can be in two places at the same time - behind his desk and on the shelf (under 'tosser', if you want to take him out - appropriate, I'd say)...





('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

well-read red tops and the unred topless...

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why are the broadsheets
called broadsheets? - it's the tabloids
who've got all the broads...

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- "don't call me a broad," says ex-Big Brother brainbox and Page 3 beauty Miss Ogynist, 23, from Essex, "I've never been there once" (she may not be well-read, but her words certainly are)



(17 Syllables)

wrap songs...

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"Sid's a great wrapper!" -
"don't you mean 'rapper'?" - "nah, he
only does covers"...

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thanks a bunch...

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 'say it with flowers'? - at 

less than three quid for twelve, 'talk 

is cheap' at Tesco... 

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 - whatever else works, a discount dozen dozen't... 

(17 Syllables)

one happy liner - or a happy one-liner?...

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a jolly happy crew's the recipe for a jolly happy cruise...


a jolly happy
crew's the recipe for a
jolly happy cruise...


(17 Syllables)

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there's nothing worse than
enforced jollity - except
perhaps syphilis...


(another 17 Syllables - completely unrelated. not)

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plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose...

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My brother was the sort of guy who'd run a mile
at the merest hint of the word ' commitment'.
Things soon changed when he came into money, though -
he grabs the nearest taxi now...

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- better 'the metre' than 'meet her'...

bags of time - and all perforated...

******** 'TEA-TIME' by Vincent Hefter, age unknown ********

----------------------------if time is money,
---------------------------is 1:50 enough for
---------------------------a nice cup of tea?...

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- "am, pm or Assam, pray?"...




(17 Rather Sillybles)

the belle of the ball - and chain...

"it's my wedding, and
I'll cry if I want to - and
I'm having a bawl"...








('not all love stories end happily - some of them end in marriage,' as they say)





('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

if gentlemen prefer blondes, do intelligentlemen prefer brunettes?...

peroxymorons? -
I guess they're the preserve of
the pretty ugly...






- so very thin, so very thick: a contradiction in perms - you know the type...





(17 Syllables)

"a fish'll do," you say? - I'll dress up, then...

"would Sir like red or
green Thai curry?" - "black Thai, please -
it's a formal do"...







('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

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"Tonight, my love, it's steak done rare,"
The lady Mayoress told the Mayor -
"Alas," he sighed, "official do".
"OK," she smiled, "it's cod for two"...

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how to kick anything if you're legless? (let alone the habit)

an optimistic
alcoholic sees the glass
as half-full - briefly...






(hey, it takes a lot of bottle(s) to reach out for help - rather than the glass)






('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

flaccid rain...

the breeze was indeed
a little stiff - but hey, the
rain wasn't that hard...












('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

Trafalgar Square, New Year's Eve: pretty face, plain clothes - "bugger!"...

I just wanted to
cop a feel - but I ended
up feeling a cop...












(17 Syllables: a short enough sentence. And suspended, too, thankfully).

they come in green - and leave in haste...

'Combat Jackets - Cheap!'
(at the first sign of trouble
all the colours run)







taking the dye out of 'Die Hard' - not to mention the p***, so to speak...




('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

enjoy yourself last night? - sure did, no-one else to enjoy...

a loner? me? I prefer the term
'socialite' - with emphasis
on the 'lite', of course...












Check out the 'His & Hermit' towels (well, just 'His', to be honest - hers is long gone). Great for keeping the humour dry...

silence of the lambs...

"The lamb sounds good," my
dinner date declared. Me, I
hadn't heard a thing...








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"you remind me of
lamb, well-cooked," said the waitress
to the baa, tender...

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('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

parting (with cash?) is such sweet sorrow...

instalment plans: when
life is just a series of
long, drawn-out good buys...








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('17 Syllables' plus)