Half a loaf is better than none - so use it!...

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Anybody with
half a brain...more than likely
feels a bit short-changed!

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(17 Syllables)
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"Anyone with half a brain agrees Trump's doing a great job!"
says dad. "And anyone with a whole one doesn't," adds mum.
Marriage! It's a bit like War and Peace in our house...
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Isn't it about time someone locked Trump up? In either of his
two brain cells, I'm not bothered which...
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Cereal liars (like Boris?) should be made to eat their words -
for breakfast, preferably...
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no strings - well, just the four...

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mum seeks musician
to play second fiddle to
her darling children...

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(17 Syllables)
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Fast food and sloe gin: all you need for a great night in!
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'Eating meat can help save the planet,' writes Tom Parker
Bowles. Wow! I never realised there was quite so much at
steak!... (Vincent Hefter, Mail on Sunday, October 6)
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So The Hilton Bankside has a vegan suite? - I bet the
Hilton Topside hasn't, haha...(news item today)
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NEWSKNIGHT - Sir Trevor McDonald, OBE... (Vincent
Hefter, Daily Mail, October 8)
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Symphony No 20, Opus 20...

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to write just one good
symphony, do composers
have to write a score?...

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(A composer of some note: ♫. Yeah, that's the one! 17 Syllables)
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Reading about Dina Asher-Smith, it's pretty
clear that grit and determination run in her
family - very, very fast!...
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the breadwinner...

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Dad struggles to put
food on the table. Not great
when you're a waiter...

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is that your career in the soup, dad?...



(17 Syllables)
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To paraphrase John Hockney, it seems that when
his brother David's life draws to an end, it'll be
David himself who's holding the pencil...
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Not having sex needn't be a hindrance to a happy
marriage. Next week we're celibating our 30th
wedding anniversary!...
(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, October 7)
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if you can't put it off, put it on, Tom...

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"If it's not on, then
it's just not on" says the wife.
Damned prophylactics!...

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(17 Syllables)
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Online dating: single arsonist seeks perfect
match. Well, any match, to be honest...
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Charlotte Edwardes's Boris accusation:...
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Petronella Wyatt now tells of being groped by
two politicians 'as thick as mashed potatoes'.
Not CHARLOTTE potatoes, surely? Or King
EDWARD(E)S? It's a small world, Boris...
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PM's LBC interview with Nick Ferrari...

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"Can you believe Boris Johnson had never heard of
Naga Munchetty?" a woman asked her companion
on the bus. "Boris who?" came the reply...

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(PM has car-crash interview with Ferrari. 
Well, it was never going to be a Lada, was it?...)

well-bred and buttered...

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of course you can toast
baguettes - as long as you toast
the bride and groom first...

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(17 Syllables)
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If music be the food of love, let's hear it for
jazz-bands, brass-bands and hus-bands!.....
(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, October 1)
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'Living by the sea can cut depression' (page
20). 'Thousands told to evacuate homes as
waves lash coast' (page 21). And I thought
Brexit was confusing!...
(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, October 3)
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