Honestly! I google 'Nursery Rhymes' because I'm thinking I might ruin a few for people by adapting them, just for something to do. Up comes 'Baa Baa Black Sheep'. I click on that to get the rhyme, and it takes me straight to a website featuring Italian women in skimpy underwear and a big flashing message saying, 'I am Lolita and if you call me right now, we can do lots of sexy talk.' Well, Lolita, I am Fran, and if I called you right now, I'm afraid sexy talk would not be on the agenda, but just to pep up your night, I could run you through the basics of semicolons, the apostrophe, and the difference between the active and passive voice. Hey! Am I onto something here? If I set up a chatline, offering advice on grammar, but in a husky-husky voice, would I get many takers? I could give it a go, because I've just had a cold, and am at that stage where you sound like a woman in a Bond movie, until, that is, you start coughing like a woman in a...
I thought your poem was great
ReplyDeleteAnd I anxiously await
Your next one--you're so articulate
Just don't fall down!
Your poem was very funny
It was right on the money
So be very careful, Honey
And don't fall down!
Had me sniggering out loud. You're the Pam Ayres of the blogging world you are. And I mean that as a compliment.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if it's the fact that she IS so wasted that makes Amy Winehouse so fabulous?
ReplyDeleteIts a bit like Greenpeace and the National Trust- if they're doing it so well, then I have a clean consience about not having to do it myself!
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I'm not Amy's biggest fan, but then I admire the work of Pete Doherty...go figure. However, I am a Fran fan, and that poem was 'top drawer'.
ReplyDeletefishducky - thanks for your poetic comment!
ReplyDeleteSteve - I wouldn't have taken it any other way. Oi be thankin' you.
ted and bunny - I prefer her when I can hear the words, I have to say.
Martin H - Can the English say 'go figure' and get away with it?... But I'll forgive you, cause then you say 'top drawer' which is straight out of the English Gentlemen's dictionary.
Amy Winehouse has remained the sort of girl that the headmistress would sigh over , hasn't she ! Bless her .
ReplyDeleteI'm just glad she's not my daughter. Or indeed in one of my classes.
ReplyDeleteI nearly forgot all about Amy Winehouse.
ReplyDeleteSmitandSon - she has, she has, you're right. She'd be the one turning up late for assembly in high heeled red shoes and doing her mascara.
ReplyDeleteIsabelle - yes, imagine being Mummy Winehouse. Not good.
Amber - not easy!