I used to be me...

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is it not better
to be a has-been than to
be a never-was?...

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(17 Not-So-Sillybles)
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Mortgaged until you die? (news item) -
Shouldn't these be called morgue-ages?...
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A public health announcement...

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JAB a wocky and
fight the flu! - Jabberwocky,
and your CHILDREN, too!...

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(With apologies to Flewis Carroll)



('Flu jabs': 17 Syllables)
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How (I imagine) certain women chefs might have
greeted an ungallant and rather sexist Heston
Blumenthal (with apologies to Shakespeare): "We
come not to bury Heston, but to braise him -
overnight in a slow cooker"...
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(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, October 16)
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I'm a regular organ donor - not a week goes by
without me giving someone a piece of my mind...

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THE QUIET NIGHT INN: not a place to
seek out if it's excitement you're after...
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"Crater love hath no man than this...

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Boris Johnson allegedly told Jennifer Arcuri
she was 'the Everest every man wanted to climb'.
(If she'd turned him down, would he have
tried to mount Etna instead, haha...)

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Cinemas publishing misleading start times means having to
watch ads infinitum. (Well, 30 minutes' worth, at least, haha)
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onomatopoeiaring through the window...

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Snap, crackle and..."pop,
is that you?" - It's my dad, the
cereal killer...

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(17 Syllables)
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"I'm draining the swamp," claims Trump. STOP PRESS!
Uncultivated land being drained by uncultivated man!...
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'She looks good,' I thought. "Fancy a date and walnut
cake?" I asked. She agreed to the date, but declined the
walnut cake. But hey, one out of two - that's pretty
good, right?...
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a narrow escape?...

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Three cheers for satnavs!
Where would we be without them?
"Scunthorpe, probably"...

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(17 Rather Sillybles)
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The demise of Thomas Cook: (a lack of)
Foresight Saga? Who didn't see it coming?...
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If you're already feeling a bit funny, is
laughter really the best medicine?...
(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, October 15)
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Lbs, shillings and pence: Tom Watson, Deputy Leader
of the Labour Party, loses 98 pounds, makes 19,325 -
writing about weight-loss sure is lucrative! (But does
the UK need yet ANOTHER lightweight poilitician?)...

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