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Villains who run for the hills
better steer clear of the copse...

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(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, March 31)

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'Tout,' you say? - Good heavens,
the French have a word for everything...

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(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, March 30)

Brahms and Liszt (who wouldn't be? - it's a bloody long Liszt)

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"Prairie Oyster,
Tequila Slammer,
Kamikase,
Snakebite,
Flaming Lamborghini,
B-52,
Slippery Nipple,
Snakebite,
Cherry Bomb,
Coffee Kiss,
Sex on the Beach"...

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"hey, it's not often I get to call the shots..."



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Does Mr miss Mrs? - er, no...

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Jane goes out of her
way to please me. Sadly, though,
she always comes back...

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(with me, it's 'out of sight, out of mind' - with her, 'it's out of sight, out of her mind')









('A little clingy? (I'm all heart, me)' : 17 Syllables)

if music be the food of love, who the hell needs marine crustaceans?...

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"I should never have
had those prawns," said Mahler, now
on his 5th movement...

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('Must have been in the wrong quay": 17 Syllables)

anorexic chic? - it has its knockers...

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Flat-chested models?
They're nonentitties! Bring back
the fuller figure!

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- as pretty as a picture, but just look at that frame...









('Life on the cat(ty)walk': 17 Syllables)

who wants to marionette, anyway?...

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Thunderbirds puppet
seeks no strings relationship.
(Mine are all broken)

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('It comes to us all eventually': 17 Syllables)

a world all at sea...

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IS strikes again -
Brussels now. For 'Planet Earth'
read 'Terror firma'...

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(17 Syllables)

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Don't complain if obtaining justice is a fairly
long process; complain if it's an unfairly long one...

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(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, March 23)

says "pleased to meet you" (thinks 'pleased to eat you')

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Me hungry. Ewe lamb....
Something tells me this friendship's
not going to last long...

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('Baa baa-becue time': 17 Syllables)

from learning curves to yearning curves...

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At twelve I was quite
the egghead. By half-past I'd
discovered schoolgirls...

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('Turning afternoons into laughternoons. Well, gigglenoons, anyway': 17 Syllables)

call that music? - I call it annoys...

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I went clubbing last
night, and I pulled. The plug. The
music was rubbish...

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('Crap music shouldn't be allowed. Not aloud!': 17 Syllables)

early learning (a tad too early?)

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bringing a child to
book's never a problem - if
the book's Fanny  Hill...

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(17 Syllables)

Burma, otherwise known as...

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Me 'n' ma are off
on our hols soon. Haven't a
clue where to go, though...

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('Myanmar': 17 Syllables)

doctors have a lot on their plate - and so, it seems, do their patients...

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obesity: less
of an epidemic, more
a chip pan'demic...

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(17 Syllables)

"I was framed!"...

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only a painting
can be hung long after it's
been executed..

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- that must be the one in the rogues gallery?...









(17 Syllables)

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Money talks, all right - but the banks are its spokesmen.
And their monthly statements depress me.

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(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, March 15)

mountin' excitement...

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I've made a model
of Mount Everest, mum. "To
scale?" No, to look at...

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(Not mine, sadly (99.6% of the others are), but I include it here, because I love it)









('Foreign climes': 17 Syllables)

the deceased's wardrobe...

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no-one knows what she
saw in these clothes, but what
I saw in them was her...

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- a grieving widower reflects...







('The first day of the rest of my life': 17 Syllables)

a limerick, just for the hell of it...

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In a crumbling old palace called Buckingham
The Queen had some sweets and was sucking 'em.
But her ladies-in-waiting,
Who were keener on mating,
Just laughed as Philip tried...no, I can't do this.

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(I'm not a great limerick fan, to be honest)

My wife, the sex object (I'll want sex, she'll object)

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Rejected! (Sometimes
the spare bedroom's just that - a
room to go spare in!)

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(17 Syllables)

still, who gives a toffee?...

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"Is that a Werther's
Original?" - "No, dad. I'm
sure it's a copy"...

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(17 Syllables)

for those whose appetite is only for competition...

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       --- Miss Anorexic ---
(Winner to win lose a few pounds -
          and get atrophy)

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('Miss Nuneaton? Still unbeaten!': 17 Syllables)

(wet) dream homes...

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house (red), semi (skimmed),
flat (white)? - I'm really not sure
where I want to live...

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(17 Syllables)

however hard the course, a chemotherapy course is harder...

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Great North Run: "Run for
your life! Better still, run for
someone else's life"...

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('Running for charity': 17 Syllables)

Right, now get back to work, lad...

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To rhyme in a poem with "anoint"
An "exhaust manifold joint"
Is really not on,
It's simply too long,
(And besides, whatever's the point?)

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(33 Pointless Syllables)

who gives a sausage?...

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Hot dogs make great fast
food. (But avoid chihuahuas -
they take twohuahuas)

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(17 Syllables)

sometimes "no sound" advice is better than sound advice...

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ringing endorsements
for tinnitus cures drive me
mad! - "stop that ringing!"...

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('Suffering...ring...ring...ring...ring...': 17 Syllables)

the party circuit - it's hardly Monza...

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most racing drivers
find lap dancing quite boring -
"what? just the one lap?"...

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(17 Syllables)

a grizzly end...

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"Bear right," read the sign.
So I did as I was told.
Straight into the bear...

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(17 Syllables)

no cache in the attic...

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"Five years in jail for
something I didn't do!!!" "What
was that?" "Hide the loot"...

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(17 Syllables)