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Trouble? Trouble? There's no trouble. And the trouble WE go to. When I first heard the curious thing you do with 'missile' I thought you were talking about a Catholic prayer book. What WERE they doing with those Cuban missals? And for years I couldn't understand how the great Ogden had fallen over so badly with his rhyme.

The turtle lives mid plated decks
That practically conceal his sex.
I think it's clever of the turtle,
In such a fix, to be so fertile,

NOW I know it should be furtle. But how do you say tensile and prehensile? I suppose one could live a blameless life and never say either of these words. But if you did?

And what about savidge. Do you say sav-ahj? And porridge. Por-ahj. And don't say it's the spelling. Scott's Porage Oats it says on the box with the chap in the skirt on it - who is, of course, a Scotch savage.
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Porage, mon brave.
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Alas, resistance is fewtle
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'Midst the sagebrush and the thistles I'll watch the guided missiles, while the old FBI watches me...'

If it's good enough for Tom Lehrer, it's good enough for me.
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But if you actually SAY missle, Bazza, I'll eat my topper, gor strewth if I won't, me old china.
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I just did. Post the video.
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Are the boys getting a little infantle or juvenle, now, Ann? Let's hope they don't become hostle when they see how versatle we are.
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My poet's brows are bound with myrtle. Or murtile of course.
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Back where we started, and my poem about Myrtle.

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Here's my gentle stab at the challenge.


SIX O’CLOCK

It's six o'clock, the evening ghouls are loose:
another suicide attack to cheer
the Taliban; that clip of clones in goose-
step signalling the mood in North Korea;
Strauss is cleanbowled by a Johnson yorker;
and on the local scene, there’s been a gruesome
murder down the street, a jealous stalker
suspected. Well, you win some and you lose some.

And now, from Police HQ, your on-the-spot
newshound: “Forensics have identified
someone-of-interest in the brutal shot-
gun slaying of the model. Homicide . . ."

Sleep well, my dear. You're mine forevermore.
And here's the SWAT team, breaking down the door.

oOOo
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