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Unread 12-24-2013, 09:10 PM
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Fat thumbs I suppose.
I have hitch-hikers thumbs, which makes texting really slow and a two- handed job.
I shared my sentiment with the inspiration for the poem and he smiled. He has no intention in making it come true.
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Unread 12-25-2013, 03:23 AM
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'Christmas is a threatening season.' - John Whitworth

It threatens with turkey and mince
And jokes to make everyone wince
But then ill-judged allusions
Lead to fights and contusions
As brains get an alcohol-rinse.

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Unread 12-25-2013, 05:45 AM
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Roast turkey, roast goose and roast duck
taste vile. Christmas dinners all suck.
To my massive relief
this year we've got beef ....
Oh, no! Mummy lied to me. Bother!
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Unread 12-25-2013, 08:19 AM
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Mr. Scrooge woke this morning to find
the nightmares had not changed his mind.
“I will side with the Grinch,
and I’ll not give an inch,
or the poor will be robbing me blind.”
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The carols may drive me berserk
But there's one undeniable perk
Of Christmas, it's true:
Even though I'm a Jew
I still get the day off from work.
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Withdrawn for tinkering

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I was hanging my stocking when Criminy!
Father Christmas emerged from the chiminey,
With the works of Descartes
And a hot little tart
Whom he'd met on a weekend in Rimini.
Father Christmas said "Go get a life!
That wasn't a tart, but my wife,
And the book was just bumpf,
Not Descartes but "Mein Kampf" -
I'm surrounded by trouble and strife.
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Unread 12-27-2013, 12:19 PM
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Her costume was principally gauze,
While her pulchritude broke several laws.
She ignited my brain
And I'm not really sane,
But we know there's no Sanity Clause.
The Sanity Clause was invented
By Marx, the one really demented -
Not Harpo, not Groucho,
Not Chico, but ouch! Oh,
That Karl with the brain that was dented.

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Neither of my girls, though they aren't really girls any more, knows much about computers at all.But its true they can both use their thumbs on mobile phones, which I cannot. Fat thumbs I suppose.
I have a dibbler with a soft tip. To press my smartphone keypad, that is.
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