I'll save you the trouble...

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"All good things must come
to an end," they say. Bad things,
too, thank God. The End.

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(17 Syllables)

what d'you want, blood?...

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'Educate, inform,
entertain': that's TV's brief...
(this verse is just brief)

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the gentleman's club: 'needs must'...

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"members only," the
loo door said - so I cut mine
off and threw it in...

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- where spending a penny costs, well - more than just an arm and a leg...






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fast food - not...

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"I go by the name 'snail,' said the snail,
"and it takes me ages...

- to be absolutely honest,
it takes me ages to go by anything," he sighed...

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- "ha!" scoffed the coach that went by the name 'express'. (Did I say 'went'? - I meant 'flew').

a bit of rough - and tumble...

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I fell from grace last
night - well, that's not entirely
true: she pushed me off...

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from a cow...

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Milk can come from goats
or a sheep, but normally
it comes from Macau...

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(a bit of a breakdown on the language front which brought a smile to my face recently. Vincent Hefter, China)






(17 Syllables)

the brass neck of the man (size 16, and counting)...

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"hey, I'm the same size
I was twenty years ago! -
my ties all still fit!"...

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(17 Syllables)

and thus it all began...

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"Food for thought? - that sounds
like a good deal," mused Einstein.
So he thought some more...

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('A Fair Swap': 17 Syllables)

proof positive (70%, probably)

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"Sure, you've got a drink
problem - it's just that you're in
denial." - "No, I'm not"...

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- I'm off to the rice terraces for a couple of days; what passes for normal service might well be resumed upon my return. Cheers for now...




(17 Syllables)

one round too many...

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whenever I hit
the bottle, why's it me who
ends up on the floor?...

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- Ed: "stick to beer and avoid the punch, rum or otherwise"...




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Pearl's a singer (when she's not, er, 'working')

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Mulligatawny
won't interest Pearl Barley -
but a Scotch broth'll...

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she's always right there, in the thick of it - and now I'm probably in the soup myself, just for admitting to knowing that...




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"they're watching me, I tell you!"...

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"mate, if the night does
have a thousand eyes, quit the
drugs - you're paranoid"...

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(17 Syllables)

putting the 'ad' into triad...

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for endless Latin
fun, to 'nauseam' and 'hoc'
add infinitum...

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the driving licence...

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who needs a licence
just to drive someone round the
bend and up the wall?...

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- Sorry, did I say 'driving'? I meant 'marriage'...






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Talk about dodgy satnavs: my wife was trying to drive me
round the bend last night. Ended up driving me up the wall...
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he's pretty benign, by all accounts...

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don't panic, Mrs -
that lump on your chest: it might
just be your husband.

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- it so often is...







('I'm more of a 'legs' man, myself': 17 Syllables)

knights er, errant?...

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cross-dressing? - it's been
around since the days of the
knights in white satin...

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- original song written by The Moody Blues' Justin Hayward. This is the wayward version...






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the job interview...

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"Do as you would be
done by," you say? Great! I like
to be done by 5:00...

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(I'm still waiting to hear)





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why the ring road? - beats me (hard - if I pay enough)

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They've just opened a
spanking new S&M Dungeon on the ring road.
Well, not new, exactly.
Just spanking...

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Not just any sex - S&M sex (with apologies to Marks and Sparks)...hence the, er, 'Marks'?...

no end of a good time...

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Schubert's Unfinished
Symphony is a work that
still gives me endless...

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it does what it says on the tin, I guess...






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there's 'entertainment' - and there's 'do not enter' tainment...

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Christ, I'm getting old -
I knew that Adult Shop when
it was still a child!...

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I am bitious!...

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To reach the top as
a chauffeur you have to be
driven. - "But by whom?"...

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- for a long career on the road, try not to career off it - not too often, at least...

a two-course* meal - and on to the casino...

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when we gamble, we
sure make a meal of it: piles
of chips and large stakes...

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*(the courses? - Ascot and Lingfield, preferably)






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putting the 'fun' into fungus...

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magic mushrooms are
great! - especially with red
or brown saucery...

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(17 Syllables)

the ongoing economic crisis...

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"who doesn't struggle
putting food on the table
these days?" - "er - waiters?"...

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(17 Syllables)

the set meal - well, not quite set, in the jelly's case...

********************************* I love mange-tout, but I couldn't eat a whole one. I love blancmange-too... ********************************* (17 Syllables)

wearing your art on your sleeve...

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Picasso's desire
to put his money where his
nose was sure paid off...

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- in the blink of an ear: from PICASSO (born 1881) to PICA$$000,000 (died 1973).





(17 Syllables)

reincarnation - a man can dream, right?...

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'what form would I like
to come back in?' - "why, the 6th
at St Trinian's!"...

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terminal...

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dead on time, or dead
on arrival? - one's a crime,
one is survival...

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sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll...

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life was a bowl of
cherries in the 60's - and
most of them were stoned...

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- "it sure as hell beat the daze of wine and roses, pal"...






('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)