does a bed's water capacity include the drip on top?

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"I can't sleep at all
on my new waterbed - the
water's far too hard"...

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- never heard of water softeners?...










('H2O - It's the Way2Go': 17 Syllables)

the hoarse whisperer...

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"A horse, a horse, my
kingdom for a horse," Richard
III, er, whispered...

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- "Bloody hell!  First the horse, and now my voice"... 










('Forget Larry Olivier, think Laryngitis': 17 Syllables)

go to town (and paint it red - with a pencil)

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can't artists who need

the cash just sit down and draw

a huge salary?...

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- what? and risk being framed? stick to miniatures...

('From Picasso to Pica$$00,000 - at the stroke of a pencil': 17 Syllables)

the only course of action available: the sweet course

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Dad gave me my just
desserts: lashings of cream. But
it didn't hurt. Much...

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('The whipping cream boy': 17 Syllabubles)

Somerset Levels, 2014 - the winter of floods...

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2x2 was fine
for the Ark - round these parts you'll
need a 4x4...

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('And then it began terrain' terrain: 17 Syllables)

diff'rent strokes...

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"I had a hole-in-
one once," said Mike. "And me an
eagle," I chipped in...

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('Chips, greens & sand wedges':17 Syllables)

dumb and dumber, numb and number - but not just any number...

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1 day, maybe
2 morrow,
1 'll be gone...
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4 good
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