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[challenge entry] so i hear you're about to inherit a monarchy...

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(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 20:22, archived)
# They tuck you in, your mum and dad
(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 20:38, archived)
# lay you down send you to sleep and pray the lord your soul to keep
(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 20:42, archived)
# I knew it was Phillip Larkin but that’s about it. So I looked him up and ended up reading some cleverly-written, grim poetry.
(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 21:01, archived)
# this is the only one i know - it's a very flimsy joke and not very funny really
about the the royal family and public service broadcasts. i'm not sure it really works to be honest.
(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 21:07, archived)
# It’s text on a scroll is what it is
(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 21:49, archived)
# *rumbled*
suggesting an amendment, are we?

also - imagine it being shouted out by a town cryer back in the olden daze - oi vey oy yay etc
(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 21:53, archived)
# Fuck no! It was not a criticism, at all.
(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 21:56, archived)
# well the world seems a bit fukt right now so all suggestions are gratefully received
(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 21:59, archived)
# “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 22:03, archived)
# cheers
(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 22:42, archived)
# lol
(, Sat 3 Sep 2022, 1:00, archived)
# Well that's a good excuse.
(, Sat 3 Sep 2022, 16:36, archived)
# But I quite like the poem
(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 21:54, archived)
# Really?
Reminds me of the poetry I was taught at school, which put me off poetry for life. But then my English teachers were fucking terrible, so maybe that was why.
(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 22:53, archived)
#
there once was a porcupine of purgatory

a hedgehog once from hell

always dreaming of heaven

and wishing us all to be well
(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 22:59, archived)
# Weirdly, the only reason I’m familiar with it is that one of the few teachers who had time for me, an English teacher, read it out to us.
He really relished the swearing, you could tell.
(, Sat 3 Sep 2022, 0:59, archived)
# I've got "mobility problems" right now IYKWIM
By which I mean I've been dying for months and I won't be here next week
(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 22:51, archived)
# we'll have a whip round and mount a cheaply engraved brass plate on your favourite park bench if you like
(, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 22:55, archived)
# What about the week after?
(, Sat 3 Sep 2022, 1:05, archived)
# :’O
(, Sat 3 Sep 2022, 2:36, archived)