Odd dreams

[AleisterCrowley]

Needs more work, the rhyme structure is wrong

Anyway, as David Brent said; ""You don't solve town planning problems by dropping bombs all over the place."

[bungeejumper]

Needs more work, the rhyme structure is wrong

Can't let a challenge like that go unanswered.

"Come, Eton College, Eton Mess,
So who's to blame? Let's take a guess?
De Pfeffel Johnson? Cameron?
Play up, play up, the game's not won!

Nor will it be until the krauts
Have conquered Brussels, and the sprouts
Have handed over all our banks
To Berlin and the Euro-Yanks.

And all we're left with is the sham
Of what now fattens Amsterdam.
So, friendly bombs, come, flatten Eton
It doesn't matter now, we're beaten."

I was going to add a verse about Windsor Castle, but I ran out of words that rhymed. Nothing personal, AC

BJ

[AleisterCrowley]

No, no, and thrice no!
10 stanzas

Rhymes

A slough
A now
A cow
B death

C smithereens
C canteens
C beans
B breath

and so on, with fourth line rhyme in pairs

[AleisterCrowley]

"Come, Eton College, Eton Mess,
So who's to blame? Let's take a guess?
De Pfeffel, Johnson? Good Queen Bess?
Play up, play up, the game's not won!

Nor will it be until the krauts
Have conquered Brussels, and the sprouts
Have handed over all our louts
To Chelsea and West Bromich Albion

Doesn't make sense but it fits the structure

[bungeejumper]

Have you been on them Shropshire Lad pills again, AC? (And have you got any going spare?)

BJ

[JMN2]

Hats off to a man with an old-fashioned classical English education - for some to envy, some to hate with vigour and some bloody Johnny Foreigners to mock and ridicule.

I appreciate a 10 verse stanza when I'm told I'm looking at it.

[AleisterCrowley]

I went to a comprehensive, and had to look up the definition of stanza on Wikipedia...

[JMN2]

I would've thought at least an aspirational grammar school pupil.

[AleisterCrowley]

It was an ex-Grammar
And I have absorbed a lot of Housman (not literally)

[bungeejumper]

I thought a stanza was one of those fancy dances they have on Strictly, actually. Sequins and stamping and bolero boots.

Mind you, it'll never replace the Iambic Pentameter. You need five feet to do that one, and I've only got two.

BJ

[AleisterCrowley]

I read that as Lambic, and started thinking about beer. Shame it's not Friday.
No wait...

[UncleEbenezer]

I went to a comprehensive, and had to look up the definition of stanza on Wikipedia...

It's Italian for a room.

(I went to a comprehensive, but lived several years in Italy).

And I have absorbed a lot of Housman (not literally)

A favourite of some of the English Pastoralist composers, and as such a huge pleasure to sing.

[AleisterCrowley]

Stanza? -also a Nissan from the 70s

[bungeejumper]

Stanza? -also a Nissan from the 70s

Indeed. Soon to be followed by the Adagio, the Tragico Ma Non Troppo, the Doloroso and the Decrescendo. The Patetico and the elegant Lacrimoso never made it into production.

BJ

[AleisterCrowley]

Ah, the Lacrimoso. Gear stick between the driver's legs.
An emergency stop could bring tears to the eyes.

[JMN2]

What would I know when it comes to early education, I went to a DDR-style primary school where we were shown documentaries of Russian superior agricultural and economic system....I still remember the 70's eastern block TV series like Polish/polski Toni/Tolka Banana, probably never shown on BBC...

Youtube come to rescue
https://youtu.be/rO10uEgaiw4

https://youtu.be/5tYjmEyvv30

Oh the socialist nostalgia...

[JMN2]

Perhaps that's why I became an anti-communist...Corbyn never lived it as close as I did so it is not so strange he entertains such whimsical ideas about it.

[AleisterCrowley]

Ah, communism, popular with certain UK intellectuals in the mid 20th century -they saw it as the only response to (equally nasty) fascism.
Bit like setting yourself alight because you're worried it's getting colder.

[scotia]

Bit like setting yourself alight because you're worried it's getting colder.

I like that one - I'll store it in my plagiary list.

[bungeejumper]

Ah, communism, popular with certain UK intellectuals in the mid 20th century -they saw it as the only response to (equally nasty) fascism.
Bit like setting yourself alight because you're worried it's getting colder.

Pssst, watch it lads, or the mods'll have us relocated to Polite Discussions, and then every raving wingnut on the boards'll be taking free potshots at us. Some of them might even try and force their interpretations of dreams on us. Not a pretty thought. Best stick to the beer and banter, eh?

BJ