EDDIE GIBBON! I AM AMUSED!

Re Eddie's poem Reasons for Writing: "I dwindle down/to Angstrom dimensions" - is this a reference to John Updike's hero of the same name ? I'm curious.

Carly, Please don't encourage me - I just might write more of them. Professor, Sorry, there are no great Literary allusions in the poem. I use the term 'Angstrom' to denote 'very small'. Angstrom units are used for expressing atomic distances. Cheers! Eddie Gibbons (with an 's' - I'm plural)

You're not by any chance related to that Funky Gibbon that Jasper Carrott used to sing about some years ago are you?

surely the funky gibbon was The Goodies ... are you thinking of mopeds finn?

Yeah you're right ivory etc. it was a moped, and I suppose Eddie Moped sounds a bit silly doesn't it?

hmmmmm .... i don't know there ... i rather like the sound of eddie moped ... (as long as you get the emPHAsis right ... otherwise he just sounds a bit glum ...) ... as a character i do not suppose eddie moped would be too utterly thrilling but probably thrilling enough ... (for ME anyway) ...

What's all this, I turn my back for five minutes and you start getting all worked up about a bloody motorised pushbike!

Yet another thread hijacked! This time by a moping moped! All roads lead to Mrs Hippie, by the looks of things. ps Could I hitch a ride to Graceland on your Moped, Mr Funky? pps Are you the one who wrote 'The Rise & Fall of the Roman Stamp Collection'? Thumbs up! Hitchaiku.

Afan? Are you Welsh, Ivory? BTW *grins and dribbles* creased me up. Gets my vote for most succinct reply on the site. Any other offers on that?

sorry eddie ... can't stop ... am off to "Ta Chucks" with WH Audenary ... (i think i'm falling in love with him)

Oh, you're quite welcome.

And where may I ask did you come from? I see you suffer from some kind of hitch and it seems to be in the geographical department. All roads don't lead to me and you can make your own way to Graceland as I've had to in the past! And no, I didn't write anything about the ancient Italians postal arrangements or the archive there of! One last thing, whatever the threads start as has nothing whatever to do with what they end up as, that's one of the interesting things about the discussion groups. They are just open doors, beckoning the unsuspecting reader to explore.

tend to agree about the threads splintering off being A Good Thing, altho i wish you hadn't mentioned it M cos i came here this time to applaud eddie...i've read all his stuff now and enjoyed it tremendously

I wasn't detracting from Eddie's work Robert, I'm sure it's very good, i was just trying to put 'Hitch ?' in the picture!

There are some interesting things in these discussion groups. There are some un-interesting things in these discussion groups. Let's not be picky though ....

Thanks for your kind words, Robert. Mississippi - I think the references are Gibbon's (no relation) 'The Rise & Fall of the Roman Empire' and Stanley Gibbons' (no relation) stamp collecting books. Finn - you're a scream! Funky Gibbon eh? I've not heard that one before! Well, not from anyone over seven years old with an IQ larger than his shoe size.

Hey, Eddie All this moped stuff has gibbon me an idea. You know we have lamented that it's often not enough to be a good writer, but one requires a gimmick as well? In the absence of shiny youth or a drugs scandal, how would you feel about wearing a foppish Oscar Wilde-type wig? Then you could be Eddie Mophead, or, better still, Mophead Gibbons! Mophead Gibbons Mophead Gibbons His reputation is not in ribbons! He swings, he climbs 'Mongst literary trees And see his hair blow in the breeze! Hmmmn... Perhaps not. How about a drugs scandal then? Just trying to help! Earache

I'm surrounded by idiots.

*grins and dribbles*

Sorry, Ivory, I should have been more specific - I was referring to Finn and Eric, pratts of this parish.

*feeling left out now* love from A Fan x x x

Well, Gibbons, with an S, or whatever you're calling yourself today, I got a real chuckle out of those limericks. Yes - I will encourage you - you ought to write more - maybe I'll share mine.