breakfast

Snow (retired) · Post by **Snow (retired)** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:52 pm

I dreamed my name was Percy Bysshe
and I still feel a little bit groggy -
Please pour my milk to the side of the dish
or the cornflakes will all get soggy.

© 2005 - me

Fljotsdale · Post by **Fljotsdale** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 3:09 am

ROFL!!

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:43 am

Ha! I think this is fun. I wonder if they had 'Cornflakes' in Shelley's day. I rather doubt it, so I'm wondering about the connection. I like the pouring of the milk to the side. Couldn't tell you why though.

Fljotsdale? What does ROFL mean? Sorry, but there are many cyber-phrases/words that I can't decipher. I'm pretty sure it's obvious in some way, so I'll work on it like a crossword, when I'm 'stuck', I'll ask again!

Thanks for the poem Geoffrey/Snow. Is there a name preference?

Linda.

Critic2 · Post by **Critic2** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:37 am

Geoffrey Wren is a dear friend of mine who runs the Leonard Cohen newsgroup. Although he sometimes calls himself Poetman, I have always preferred his earlier nickname, Snow. He specialises in bawdy, even crude and obscene doggerel. The man himself can be seen on the Beautiful Loser's Gallery wearing his trademark Tux! It is a marvellous to welcome him here.

In the Master's honour I copy one of his earlier works

I dreamt my name was Bill the Bard
and I had a new tuxedo
Please lick my cock until it's hard
I have a sore libido

Snow (retired) · Post by **Snow (retired)** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:47 pm

Fljotsdale wrote:
>[I'm] R[olling O[n the] F[loor] L[aughing] !!

As Gershwin wrote: "Who could ask for anything more?"
:-)

Snow (retired) · Post by **Snow (retired)** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:39 pm

linda_lakeside wrote:

>I wonder if they had 'Cornflakes' in Shelley's day. I rather doubt it, so I'm wondering about the connection.

Well, the connection is that Mr Shelley and Mr Kellogg were both vegetarians - as indeed is our very own Mr Cohen. I'm afraid I can't tell you anything more about cornflakes in this post, though, because it's a serial.

>Thanks for the poem Geoffrey/Snow. Is there a name preference?

'Geoffrey' is fine - but I'm not particular. Just as long as it's not 'Geoff'.

Critic2 · Post by **Critic2** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 4:09 pm

Geoff wrote:Fljotsdale wrote:
>[I'm] R[olling O[n the] F[loor] L[aughing] !!

As Gershwin wrote: "Who could ask for anything more?"

you could ask for ROTFLMAO

Snow (retired) · Post by **Snow (retired)** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 4:16 pm

Critic2 wrote:
>Geoff wrote:

Hello little shadow, and thank you - I've just won 100 krones.

Critic2 · Post by **Critic2** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 4:28 pm

Snow wrote:Critic2 wrote:
>Geoff wrote:

Hello little shadow, and thank you - I've just won 100 krones.

Dear Hank Marvin

it's more subtle than that. I won 200 kroner!

Every LC Event I organise the sending of postcards to important non-attenders and to you as well. Every time you tweak your real address just a little to prove a point you have never really explained, (beyond providing you with an opportunity to go "aha!" when the huskies arrive with the card bearing it's tweaked address).

I'm afraid, Geoffers, you have, as usual, been outbluffed on this thread. But do keep on trying!

Fondest Regards

c2

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:36 am

Dear Geoffrey,
thank you for that beautiful little poem. so honest and natural, and with that vital little hint of humour that is always smiling from your work. what a tonic you are. after being silent for years you make me want to shout from the mountaintops. do you want to see a poem i wrote last night while taking a break from laquering my toe-nails? ok then. but be kind because it's my first one. i call it 'petals'.

petals
i've got nimble fingers and two damned good eyes
and i know that this might sound a bit crazy -
but if i pulled the wings from a dozen dead flies
i could make you a transparent daisy.

© 2005 - ann

Snow (retired) · Post by **Snow (retired)** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:56 am

Hello Ann!!

I enjoyed 'petals' so much - a truly special love poem, written by an exceptionally special lady. I knew you were different from the others when I went into your office that time and saw that you didn't have the obligatory rubber tree in the corner like all of your colleagues. And the way you had fastidiously interlocked those strips of pastry when making the trellis work on top of that delicate slice of apple strudle I saw in your lunch-box. Encore!

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:44 pm

Hello All,

Well, I can see right off the hop, so to speak, that this thread is somewhere out of my grasp. And so soon!

Truly lovely poetry, everyone. I find ann's graphic quite endearing. I hesitate to wonder what C2s addition to Fljots' ROFL is? I'll be honest and say that I am afraid to wonder, unless it's a direct reference to a departed Chinese person, I have no clue. Yes, that's right, I have no clue.

On that note, I'll leave you Gentlemen (and ladies) to proceed without my unnecessary interruptions. Oh, btw, I did see Geoffrey's pic in the Gallery in said tux. Trademark tux? Well, that too, is something to ponder.

Thank you for a fine event.

Linda.

Fljotsdale · Post by **Fljotsdale** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:37 pm

linda_lakeside wrote:I hesitate to wonder what C2s addition to Fljots' ROFL is? I'll be honest and say that I am afraid to wonder, unless it's a direct reference to a departed Chinese person, I have no clue. Yes, that's right, I have no clue.

Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off.

There is a version with an F between M & A, but I don't use that one.

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:13 pm

Ah, thank you Fljots. I see there is so much more to learn. Maybe I'll lurk about this thread a bit, to see what I can see.

Were these acronyms devised in order that the long form need not be typed repeatedly? How many times in an ordinary day would someone say "I'm rolling on the floor laughing my ass off?" And that's just one of many examples. See, there really is much to learn. And what better place to do it?

Linda.

Fljotsdale · Post by **Fljotsdale** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:18 pm

Yeah, it's years of posting on forums and asking questions all the time about the strange initials that got me up to speed. And there are lots I don't know/remember. New ones crop up from time to time, as well. Sometimes, I'm VERY sorry I asked!