Beautiful poetry to share with you

Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 14:49

These beautiful lyric verses just came to me this afternoon, so I decided to share with you ( at least with those who can understand).

Not so long ago I shared them with a friend of mine :



Es schlug mein Herz. Geschwind, zu Pferde!

Und fort, wild wie ein Held zur Schlacht.

Der Abend wiegte schon die Erde,

Und an den Bergen hing die Nacht.

Schon stund im Nebelkleid die Eiche

Wie ein getürmter Riese da,

Wo Finsternis aus dem Gesträuche

Mit hundert schwarzen Augen sah.



Der Mond von einem Wolkenhügel

Sah schläfrig aus dem Duft hervor,

Die Winde schwangen leise Flügel,

Umsausten schauerlich mein Ohr.

Die Nacht schuf tausend Ungeheuer,

Doch tausendfacher war mein Mut,

Mein Geist war ein verzehrend Feuer,

Mein ganzes Herz zerfloß in Glut.

Clarissa2


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Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
12/11/2011 14:50

Ich sah dich, und die milde Freude

Floß aus dem süßen Blick auf mich.

Ganz war mein Herz an deiner Seite,

Und jeder Atemzug für dich.

Ein rosenfarbnes Frühlingswetter

Lag auf dem lieblichen Gesicht

Und Zärtlichkeit für mich, ihr Götter,

Ich hofft’ es, ich verdient’ es nicht.



Der Abschied, wie bedrängt, wie trübe!

Aus deinen Blicken sprach dein Herz.

In deinen Küssen welche Liebe,

O welche Wonne, welcher Schmerz!

Du gingst, ich stund und sah zur Erden

Und sah dir nach mit nassem Blick.

Und doch, welch Glück, geliebt zu werden,

Und lieben, Götter, welch ein Glück!

martinD41


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Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
12/11/2011 15:05

Twas Brillig and the slithy toves,



Did Gire and gimble in the wabe,



All mimmsy where the boragroves,



And the mome wraths outgrabe,



Beware the Jabberwock my son



The jaws that bite,the claws that catch,



Beware the jubb jubb bird,



And shun the froomious bandersnatch,



He took his Vorpal sward in hand,



long time the Manxsom foe he sort,



So rested he by a tum-tum tree,



And stood a while in though,



And as in uffish thought he stood,



The Jabberwock with eyes of flame,



Came wiffling through the tulgy wood,



And burbled as it came,



One Two One Two,and through and through,



The vorpal blade went snicker snack,



He left it dead ,and with it's head,



He went galumfing back,



And Hast thou slane the Jabberwock,



Oh come to my arms ,my beemish boy,



Oh frabdious day ,Callou Calay,



he chortled in his joy..........

babydoll


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 15:19

good god !

Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 15:50

Re: Msg 3,



Some of us are in Wonderland whilst others - in Cuckooland.

martinD41


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 17:15

Well Clarissa2, at present I live in TRNC so Cuckooland fits the bill nicely ...

spider


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 17:18

What a very nice thread



Thank you it makes such a change too.







Spider,X

hattikins


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 17:27

Message1

I was always told that sarcasm was the lowest form of wit, whatever language is used. Is there any wonder this forum is going downhill, can't you let things go?

DutchCrusader



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Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
12/11/2011 18:06

@ msg 8, hattikins: (...) Is there any wonder this forum is going downhill (...)

▶ DO something about it! Start a thread (for a change) that may interest some people - instead of telling us all the time from your high hobby horse what to do and how to behave.

hattikins


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 18:11

Just like you do then DC.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 18:16

@ msg 10, hattikins: First prize for the quality reply of the day. :-(

hattikins


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 18:18

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit you silly little man.

spider


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 18:18

This might help some who do not find this thread interesting



http://www.dutchdailynews.com/job-stress-burnout-on-the-rise/





Stress is a something that can get people down.





Spider,X

TopTen


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Posts: 1246

Message Posted:
12/11/2011 18:21

I knew that the cheap gin here, would have an effect

spider


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 18:21

Oh and look what the Bits found out



http://www.dutchdailynews.com/reading-best-stress-reliever/





Maybe something they did not know ? Its good to sit quietly with a book





Spider,X

dippersgirl



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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 18:30

Well I enjoyed the Goethe as well as Lewis Carroll, haven't read either for a long time

AlsancakJack



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Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
12/11/2011 18:34

This is one I wrote for my first girl friend (many years ago)

I wrote it on a piece of paper during my maths class and gave it to her after school.



Mary had a little bike

She rode it back to front

Every time the wheel went round

A spoke stuck up her (I think it was'nose' but my memory fails me)

For some unknown reason I never ever saw her again.

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
12/11/2011 18:46

I've noticed all the rhyming,

Going on, on this website,

So I'll start with perfect timing,

Before the poems get all shite.

This place is one of a kind,

unlike any other,

Get a joke when your in a bind,

Or one to amuse your brother,

But whatever it is you do,

Don't use one on your lover.

You see, some of these jokes are blue

Most of them are crude,

And that is why, oh thats why,

Cyprus 44, we love you.





 

    

spider


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 18:46

AJ.



A few on here





Fake poems.





Spider,X

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 19:21

Yesterday I finished a trilogy (yep, history), so today I start reading "London" by Edward Rutherfurd. If this book is half as good as his book "Ruska", then I have 1300 pages of excellent reading ahead of me. Enjoy! Yes, thank you, I will!



The author gets stunning reviews in the world press and rightly so!

▶ http://www.edwardrutherfurd.com/london.html

AlsancakJack



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Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
12/11/2011 19:26

I must admit the poem 'what I wrote' was not of my origination, It came from my school friend 'Bill the barber' never knew why he had that nickname but I knew he used to carry around a cut throat razor with him. He was my best friend and strangely enough I had no enemies.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 19:36

@ msg 17, AJ: A very moving poem, Jack. It really made me think and I hope to find out soon what about.

Jeannie


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Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
12/11/2011 19:40

Enjoyed "Jabberwocky" - haven't read that since I was in primary school

Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 20:05

Re : Msg 8 &12, "I was always told that sarcasm was the lowest form of wit, whatever language is used..."



Please don't repeat this nonsense.



Sarcasm (σαρκασμός) is only one of the shades or nuances of humour. To be ironic, or sarcastic, or sardonic one has to posses some intelligence.

But I don't suppose you studied philosophy or linguistics.

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
12/11/2011 20:11

I see it coming 

I know it's there 

It's completely inevitable 

I don't really care 



To me what mattered 

Has all been lost 

You could stick around 

But at what cost 



I think you have to leave 

It's easier for me 

You won't understand 

That's the way it has to be 



With all that has happened 

You've become very weak 

Not physically but mentally 

It's solitude  you should seek 



I've just waited too long 

And it's all so very clear 

It's time to say goodbye to you

The end is nearly here

Clarissa2


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Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
12/11/2011 20:22

Re: Msg 20,

"...so today I start reading "London" by Edward Rutherfurd..."



I'm on the page 61 of "London" at the moment, the Roman period - very interesting.

So we can 'compare pearls'.

I find it interesting that they were already producing forged Roman silver coins at the time - so counterfeit money is not a new phenomenon.

rowlo



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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 20:40

brilliant , at last cyp44 humour comes to life , keep it coming , loving it ,

BlueButterfly


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 20:49

THAT I CAN UNDERSTAND.

Jeannie


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Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
12/11/2011 20:56

Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I certainly know what's top of my Christmas wish list this year



Clue: It's a book.

rowlo



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Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
12/11/2011 21:00

pam ayres jeannie ?

Jeannie


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 21:28

rowlo - no, although I am very fond of her poem "I wish I'd looked after me teeth"



J

rowlo



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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 21:34

keep them in the jar of a night time , add some steradent , they will look after themselves , lol

spider


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 21:51

Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly,

'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy;

The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,

And I've a many curious things to shew when you are there."

Oh no, no," said the little Fly, "to ask me is in vain,

For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again."





"I'm sure you must be weary, dear, with soaring up so high;

Will you rest upon my little bed?" said the Spider to the Fly.

"There are pretty curtains drawn around; the sheets are fine and thin,

And if you like to rest awhile, I'll snugly tuck you in!"

Oh no, no," said the little Fly, "for I've often heard it said,

They never, never wake again, who sleep upon your bed!"





Said the cunning Spider to the Fly, " Dear friend what can I do,

To prove the warm affection I 've always felt for you?

I have within my pantry, good store of all that's nice;

I'm sure you're very welcome -- will you please to take a slice?"

"Oh

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 21:53

Jean. Is it a 'thriller' )

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 21:59

Try the endgame by Derrick Jensen.

Jeannie


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Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
12/11/2011 22:37

Bill, I'm not entirely sure, but going by the information given in message 26, it certainly sounds like "edge of your seat" stuff, that's for sure.



J



PS I'll give the Derrick Jensen a go and let you know what I think



J

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 22:51

I see what you mean - fascinating stuff! )

nurseawful



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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 22:53

Jeannie



Try reading 'Oor Wullie' now that is fascinating stuff! lol



Chris

spider


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 23:20

Just had to share this...so very funny



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUcMcwPgGV0&feature=player_embedded







Spider,X

rowlo



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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 23:20

i was reading the broons , am i outa touch with life ?

Mick the Fish


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 23:28

The cat crept in the Crypt,

Crapt,

and crept out again,



William McGonigill (I think, Could have been SpiKe Milligan)

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 23:37

According to the Institute of Incomplete Research, 9 out of 10..........    

spider


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Message Posted:
12/11/2011 23:41

A must book is ''The games people play'' Eric Berne



Thought you could have a laugh at this too,so funny



http://www.videosurf.com/video/billy-connolly-tells-the-best-joke-ever-1296125076





Great to have a laugh



Spider,X

MsGarnet


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Message Posted:
13/11/2011 01:35

This poem came to me just now (ahem - forgive my semantics)! :o)



oh, "And to think they just come to me and I can't even SPELL" ah well, it must be - um - spiritual? I guess - must be - let me see - like - The Moving Finger writes, and having writ, moves on - et cetera (crikey - and I'm a polymath to boot - who knew)?



A BIG black spider lived in a hole;

A terrible spider was she:

As big as your hand, and with hairy legs,

And a mouth as red as could be.



The beetles and flies at the sight of her fled,

And even the birds were afraid.

She had two great nippers, and eight wicked eyes;

How she ran ! and what leaps she made

I and all who lived in the garden knew

That terrible spider's lair,

And told their little ones, under their breath:

' 0 never, 0 never go there! '



One day when she crept quiet, out of her hole,

To pounce on a passer-by,

Buzz, buzz, came a wasp - the spider's afraid

A spider afraid of a fly...

MsGarnet


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Message Posted:
13/11/2011 01:35

The beetles and flies at the sight of her fled,

And even the birds were afraid.

She had two great nippers, and eight wicked eyes;

How she ran ! and what leaps she made

I and all who lived in the garden knew

That terrible spider's lair,





Her poisoned nippers she opened wide,

And reared herself up to fight;

Round, round, and round, flew the wasp, then— down!

And stung her before she could bite.



She crumpled up, and was carried away,

And buried alive, to feed

The baby-wasps that were soon to be born.



A story for bullies to heed.

Clarissa2


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
13/11/2011 01:40

Re: Msg 44,



It could be a case of 'speaking in tongues'.



More importantly, have you written the poem for a friend of yours and shared it earlier?

MsGarnet


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Posts: 989

Message Posted:
13/11/2011 01:48

(checks to see if her tongue is forked...)



Um - nope (phew)



K - well, I must just have a way with words methinks...



Oh - um - not exACTly written for a friend - more a case of jumping on the bandwagon - conducive to being considered part of the crowd - blending in



(nah - just joshing; don'tcha know...)

spider


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Message Posted:
13/11/2011 08:14

A very interesting play here Ms Hide.



I went to see it when my daughter and her collage friends performed it at the Edinburgh Festival.



http://www.aatg.nl/index.php?id=147



The funny this is that once the cage is open very few birds maybe just like you,were able to fly away and move forward to enjoy their lives.



Spider,X



PPPS Maybe a good real life play is way too over the heads of most 5% members on 44



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TopTen


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Message Posted:
13/11/2011 09:05

Its just toooooooooooooo much I,m going back to bed

jock1



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Message Posted:
13/11/2011 09:18

When i was a lad lang time at the school

The master aye cauld me a dunce an a fool

Fir aw the words a could unnerstond

He bawd ..hey you, haud oot yer hand.....

spider


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Message Posted:
13/11/2011 09:30

Top Ten Ken



LMAO Good play though! could go down well over here,wi all yousss men dressed up as birds...





Have a word with that producer chap



Jock 1 you are a naughty boy



Spider,X

pollymarples


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Message Posted:
13/11/2011 13:03

h dear I really must be as thick as a plank, all this goes right over my head, thank God.

mikelapta



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Posts: 2186

Message Posted:
13/11/2011 13:56

A wife's poem:



He didn'i like my casserole.

And he didn't like my cake

He said my biscuits were too hard

Not like his mother used to make

I didn't make his coffee right

and he didn't like my stew

I didn't darn his socks right

The way his mother used to do

I pondered,I thought,then...

I smacked him across his face

Just like his mother used to do



Anon

AlsancakJack



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Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
13/11/2011 14:05

I must go down to the sea again

The lovely sea and sky

I left my socks and knickers there

I wonder if they're dry



Words by Spike Miiligana the well known typing error

Mick the Fish


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Message Posted:
13/11/2011 14:12

Don't worry Jack



The on-line spell-checker (DC) is logged in

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
13/11/2011 14:37

) ) ). Good one Mikelapta

Jeannie


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Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
13/11/2011 14:40

Message 54:



You must go down to the sea again

To retrieve your knickers and socks

The tide's been in - and out again

They're stranded on the rocks



J

x

MaggieAndBernie



Joined: 26/07/2008
Posts: 2012

Message Posted:
13/11/2011 14:49

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple

With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.

And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves

And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.



I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired

And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells

And run my stick along the public railings

And make up for the sobriety of my youth.



I shall go out in my slippers in the rain

And pick the flowers in other peoples' gardens

And learn to spit.



You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat

And eat three pounds of sausages at a go

Or only bread and pickles for a week

And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.



But now we must have clothes that keep us dry

And pay our rent and not swear in the street

And set a good example for the children.

We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.



Cont'

MaggieAndBernie



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Posts: 2012

Message Posted:
13/11/2011 14:50

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?

So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised

When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.



Jenny Joseph



Long been a favorite of mine



Maggie

Glasbury


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Message Posted:
13/11/2011 14:53

That's a good one Maggie

Jeannie


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Message Posted:
13/11/2011 14:56

Maggie - long been one of my favourities too; a friend of mine gave me a copy on my 50th I haven't spoken to her since

J

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
13/11/2011 15:26

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

I'm rubbish at rhymes,

And I don't think my timing is very good either.    

Jeannie


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Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
13/11/2011 15:46

Roses are red

Cabbages are green

My face is lovely

But yours is a dream



J

xx



PS Oops - typo.



Last line should read:



"But yours is a scream"

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
13/11/2011 15:54

Many years ago written in a leaving card i once got was this little ditty...to this day i don't know wether to have been flattered or insulted...you decide...



Fox's are red



Bruises are blue



This is how



I'l remember you...... :~/



DD

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
13/11/2011 17:00

I started writing poetry the other day:



POETR



That's coming along nicely.

   

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
13/11/2011 17:04

When the moon hits your eye, Like a big pizza pie,

That's amoré.

When an eel bites your hand, And that's not what you planned,

That's a moray.

When your horse munches straw, And the bales total four,

That's some more hay.

When a Japanese knight, Uses his sword in a fight,

That's Samurai.

When your sheep go to graze, In a damp marshy place,

That's a moor, eh?

When you ace your last tests, Like you did all the rest,

That's some more "A"s!

When on Mt. Cook you see, An aborigine,

That's a Maori.

   

MaggieAndBernie



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Posts: 2012

Message Posted:
13/11/2011 17:06

66 Bill.....brilliant! enjoyed singing along to that!





Maggie x

mikelapta



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Message Posted:
13/11/2011 17:19

Some lovely poems..tku esp Bill and Maggie





My final one,maybe:



All the boys love little girls

All the boys love Mary

I love all the boys



Whoops I'm a fairy !!!



Mike x

MaggieAndBernie



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Posts: 2012

Message Posted:
13/11/2011 17:26

lol! you said it Mike! xxx