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Fables Told To Me |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America 
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Many years ago was told this for fact, The older you get, the less life's impact. They said that I would find the answers' key, One day I would look up and I would see. The years have past me by, that's how it is, Answers have I none, life is still a quiz. If it takes a pigs ear to make a pearl, I still don't know the makeup of a girl. I was told just you wait and you will know, The secret of life; how the wind will blow. The older I am the less I comprehend, I don't know the meaning of life's Zen. Shoulder to the grindstone and you will win, But I would like to know, hey! tell me when. I have pushed and shoved and so much more, All I got was a shoulder that was sore. Treat your fellowman with kindness and love, You will reap bountiful treasures thereof. So, smiling I went to my fellowman, He knocked me on my butt, that was his plan. Never hit a woman, that isn't right, She is not strong enough for you to fight. They didn't tell me women wreck our brains, Doing things designed to drive us insane. I have lived my life adhering to lies, Turn the other cheek even if you cry. The "do unto others" creed is so neat, And we should do it even if they cheat. Please answer me this one thing just for fun, Why won't women raise the lid when they're done? |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Ha ha, Jerry...I've wondered that myself. The thing is, we back into the bowl and men, well, you know. About the other stuff...I think we will never get all the answers while we live and that looking for them is one of the reasons we stay alive. Enjoyed this!! |
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irmirt Junior Member
since 2010-06-09
Posts 18 |
Jerry, You spoke to my distresses, frustrations, and betrayals. During this, we shared comradery. |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Haha!! Yeah, I know Martie. Just had to go with that at the end. Thanks for reading and commenting. <><><><> Distresses, frustrations and betrayals are all a grand part of it all I suppose, irmirt. We just have to overcome them. |
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Alison 
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
This is wonderful -- quote: Live life now - it's all we have ... and I loved the last lines too. Made me laugh. A |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Great stuff Jerry...I can so relate!  Lori |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
You are absolutely correct, Alison, took me a long time to figure that out. <><><><> Thanks Lori. I appreciate that. |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Got a chuckle out of this one, Jerry. I don't think we will ever understand enough to suffer the "sore shoulders" happily and the things that the other gender does to drive us insane are really in the grand scheme so very petty. It does, however, require a certain amount of "growth" on our part to regard them as such. Make me feel like a ... "queen" and who cares whether the seat is up or down. Helen |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
You have the key to the whole rigmarole, Helen. Treat one another with adoration and the rest is petty and stupid to bother with. |
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Dark Stranger Member Patricius
since 2001-03-19
Posts 13631West Coast |
JP..I took the lid off and gave it to my ex to use as a cutting board...guests just have to beware now..or be wide enough not to fall in..enjoyed it JP |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Hahaha! Gotta love it, DS. |
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Andrew Scott Member Elite
since 1999-06-24
Posts 2558Redlands,CA,USA |
A fine mixture of seriousness and humor. I learned some time ago, damn the questions because there sure aren't no answers. At least none worth having. Thanks for sharing. "We'll chase them like rats across the tundra." |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Appreciate your interest in my poetry, Andrew. I had fun with this one. |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
You have hit on one of the questions burning in male minds everywhere!!! It's so unfair, I tell you! Men are supposed to put the lid down to be courteous to the female species but are they supposed to put the lid up after doing the deed for the male counterpart? Oh, no...that's unthinkable. My advice is for men to never put it up, even in the commission of their omission. That way, when she is sitting there with a damp derrier, she might, just might, think that it would be a good idea to raise the toilet seat when she is finished so that when "drain the dragon" time comes for her man, she will not have to worry about settling down on wetness. If the man lowers it when he's done and the woman raises it when she's done, the world will be a wonderful place. Of course they have to make sure to do their business in proper rotation. If she raises the lid when finished and happens to have a bowel movement before he does and sits down on a pot with a raised seat, a scream may come out which would blanket the house like an angry cloud for years to come! Once we have it worked out and settled, we can attack the second-most important question plaguing family households - is the toilet paper supposed to roll down from the front of the roll or the back???  |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Wow,read that Michael brag Jerry, "drain the dragon!" Sounds big and fire breathing doesn't it? Might even melt the lid....LOL! Toilet paper should roll down from the back because it tears off much easier....(smile) He he loved the last lines didn't see them coming. Remember Bob Dylan's lines, "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." Seems the older we get we realize the less we know. Might be those two German boys working though, you know ALZ & HEIMER! Great write Jerry I really enjoyed the trip down through it and agreed with the entire scope. However, we all keep trying, sometimes fighting certain things tooth and nail! Write on my friend! Eric |
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Earl Brinkman Senior Member
since 2010-03-03
Posts 1183Osaka, Japan |
The older I get the less I realize that I know. I think they have a name for it - wisdom. |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Hah! I seem to have reopened that can of worms concerning the lowly toilet seat, Balladeer. Oh, the arguments even to the point of bloodshed that little piece of bathroom equipment has given us. Now you have given another problem to the inquisitive about the darn toilet paper, front or back. <><><><> Yep, Eric, those Dylan's lines are to live by. If it wasn't for the arguments, and the differences between the gender what a dull world this would be. Of course dull is good sometimes. <><><><> Wisdom is certainly the name of it, Earl, and some of us take a lot longer than others to acquire it. Thanks for the input. |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Sorry, Jerry, but talking about toilet seats makes me flip my lid!!! |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
I've noticed that, Balladeer. Are you taking anything for that confounded ailment? |
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Walter Poe Senior Member
since 1999-10-13
Posts 787 |
reading this i instantly thought of an old saying 'The lies my father told me' which would have been an ideal title for this got to love those hypocracies in life. My Fathers Words He sat me down upon his knee And told me lies of yesteryear Of chivalrous acts Of dogs and cats Of birds and bees he spoke to me. Of sugar and spice of snails and puppy dogs and what they do with their tails He lied and made the world seem right For all the wrong ive seen in my life So now i sit with my own son And i sit and tell the lies i now own. |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Hah! Yeah you right, Walter. What goes around comes around. Thanks for the comments. |
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