14,000 Things to be Happy About (#53)

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14,000 Things to be Happy About (#53)

Ted Reynolds
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since 1999-12-15

Posts 331

0 posted 2000-02-10 10:41 AM

What a fix! My next topic for a "happy" poem is supposed to be a T.V. show I never watched. Luckily, the great Scots poet, Robert Burns, wrote a poem on a similar subject, but forgot to write down one stanza -- probably distracted by a new girl friend. I herewith supply his omission from the standard texbook poem, "The Cotter's Saturday Night."

"The auld man, backins-comin, nears his cot.
His wife and bairns kenna he has returned.
For thae themsels a' gowl for the remote
By which the TV channel may be turned.
But whan the guid-man's presence is discerned
Then not another whingin word is said,
Sin' a' of them in wud time past hae earned
The stacher of a boot upside the head.
So they all settle down to wauk the glow,
Where father's favorite 'WELCOME BACK, COTTER,' is to show."

Echo Rhayne
Senior Member

since 1999-09-17

Posts 1495
Canyon Country, CA

1 posted 2000-02-10 07:03 PM

Those Sweathogs were insane! hehe Great poem!

Did Jesus laugh?
I think He did,
'cause He was once
a little kid;
and all of us
were made with joy
both sugar-spice girl
and snake-snail boy!

Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

2 posted 2000-02-11 07:59 PM

... and you expect us to believe that you never watched... "Welcome back - Welcome back - Welcome back........"

Cute.... very cute...

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