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The Oupa and the Sea
My Afrikaans Grandfather Beer and jokes weekend golf and holidays and practising his swing, they said his drive wasn't so far but it was straight. He...
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The escape artist
Budgies don't sing but a happily chit-chatter hopping around all the time chatting pleasantly very much like sparrows. A brain as big as half a pea a...
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* Silver Spiral Stairway *
* Silver Spiral Stairway * A dweller on the threshold Strange Places Out Patients The Doctor A full force gale Nkosi Bayete! ~ Precious Time Living...
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Brutal Honesty
The staff union president and also my supposedly personal mentor, sat down in my office “I am going to be brutally honest with you”, “Some of your...
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Matchbox-cars and Lucky Packets
“There was a saviour, rarer than radium, Commoner than water, crueller than truth.” – Dylan Thomas - In my bed going to sleep sometimes I imagined a...
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I got lost twice since a long time
Posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2022
I got lost twice since a long time it was terribly scary. The one time was in bush sea bushes at the sea God spared me nothing else. The first one I can remember was in primary school. Another was weird tunnels behind across the walkway of a...
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Sorry Di I honestly did not mean
Posted on Sun, 06 Feb 2022
Sorry Di I honestly did not mean to criticise your work at all and I don't recall that I ever have. It is a great poem. But please keep in mind any good teacher knows one often learns more from your mistakes and by the way I'm also out of a job....
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Yes
Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2021
Yes. Beautiful ending, man's best friend. Heartbreaking sometimes we feel a duty for mourning. And indeed, it is much more noble to live for someone than to die for someone, sometimes living takes great courage.
Keep well Paul! Tom
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No doubt inspired
Posted on Mon, 16 Mar 2020
No doubt inspired by Jules Verne's classic scifi novel 20,000 leagues under the sea. Also makes one think of Jacques C. and the research ship the Calypso.
Good work, original too! We are in, looking out, man and fish roles reversed! Who's...
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it's good to be young
Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
It's good to be young and insane.
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Lyrical, almost ecstatic!
Posted on Sat, 20 Apr 2024
Lyrical, almost ecstatic! You trancend yourself losing yourself into the beauty of the scenery.
All the best! Tom
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I'm a scorpio
Posted on Sat, 20 Apr 2024
I'm a scorpio too so watch out!
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Not very cheerful
Posted on Sat, 24 Dec 2022
Not very cheerful, “Like a spanner in the works” is a good one, “Like a lie inside the truth” a very dangerous thing, deadly, as a half-truth, and “Like a clock that’s stopped” ominous. The chorus says it all.
“Hell” is a nice swear word...
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Everything is relative
Posted on Sat, 06 Apr 2024
Everything is relative hey? Eg in all sizes from astronomical to microscopic doesn't look like there's an end to it either way.
By the way a common misconception, you cannot deviate the course of a astroid with any nuclear bomb, the...
Read full commentPosted in The Can Guru Lectures #314
Wedding vows American style
Posted on Sun, 07 Apr 2024
Wedding vows American style, "as long as we both shall love". By the way don't put too much value in the "number of views" they are always suspect.
Cheers! Tom
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