keep it informal-(dehyde?)

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"I'm a little stiff
from badminton" - "How do you
do, I'm from Worcester"...

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('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

The 2012 Oscars...

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And the winner is:
The Art1st. It goes without
saying (er - anything).

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('1st. Amongst Equals': 17 Syllables)

democracy v. violent dictatorships...

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a tax on earnings
is nothing when compared to
attacks on people...

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(17 Syllables)

"ah, men!" (who needs'em?)

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There are plenty of
monks in a monastery.
Nun in a convent...

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('Amen': '17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

"nurse!"...

*********** Rule 1 ************

There's an exception
to every rule. Including
that one. "Now I'm lost"...

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*********** Rule 2 ************

There's an exception
to every rule. Except for
this one. "Nope, still lost"...

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('Psychiatricks': 17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

myself, I prefer palm reading - date or coconut...

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astrology - not
so much a science, more of a
hit and mystery...

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('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

the there-and-backstroke...

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I tried to swim the
Channel once. Got bored halfway,
though - so swam straight back...

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('Brest is Best? Nah, Dover's Better': 17 Syllables)

an incomplete fool...

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it seems I can't do
anything right (there's no end
to my incompet

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('Unfinished busine...': 17 Syllables)

ha:ha (not)

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it's so not funny
being a wind-up merchant in
the digital age...

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('Putting the 'Chasm' into Sarcasm': '17 Syllables)

the birds and bees - spelling bees...

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"but no-one asked me -
I'd like a pee after tea,"
sighed the ptarmigan...

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(Spelling Bee? - "I'm Game," Said Old Bird: '17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

if at first you don't succeed...

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might recidivists
who turn over "thousands a
year!" just mean 'new leaves'?...

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('New Day Resolutions': 17 Syllables)

who needs to be under anyone's...erm...'spell'?

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Give me an 'L'!...give me an 'O'!...give me a 'V'!...

- on second thoughts, just give me an "E"...and a
glass of water. I'll settle for a chemical high, thanks.

Love? Who needs it?...

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('Love Letters': A Valentine's Day Special)

Clapham inJunction...

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"who did you snog on
platform six?" - "can't say, mate, there's
a gagging order"...

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- not so much going off the rails as trying not to roll on to them, as I remember...










(17 Syllables)

emotion sickness...

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Moving - that's the most
stressful thing in life. All things
moving: death, weddings...

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Writes of Passage (17 Rather Sillybles):

'Bugger pens and pencils - here in Tunisia I use araBics'...










(17 Syllables)

There's a sign here that reads 'hors riding' (which goes a long way to explaining what that strange meat in the 'hors d'oeuvre' actually is)...

all dressed up and "know where to go?"...

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"That's it, we're lost!" she
sighed. "Oh, well," I shrugged, "at least
we know where we stand"...

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('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

one 3-liner (and one sunken one)

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How on earth could the
Titanic have sunk? (How on
water could it not?)

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(17 Syllables)

the art of counselling...

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the only lifts you
should accept from strangers are
emotional ones...

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('Raising Your Spirits': 17 Syllables)

"I was a virgin once" - "Just the once?"...

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"Virgo intacta?
Me? Well, no - not exactly.
But one lives in hope"...

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('A 3-Line Parallel Uni-Verse': 17 Rather Sillybles)