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One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead men got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords, and shot each other.
(never-right -getting it wrong since '78, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 10:46, 19 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

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The other day upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh, I wish that man would go away
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 10:50, Reply)

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The Elephant is a Pretty Bird,
It swings from bough to bough.
It builds it’s nest in a Rhubard Tree,
And whistles, like a cow.
(never-right -getting it wrong since '78, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 10:54, Reply)

...
The butterfly swam slowly by
A sandwich in each hand
The frogs all croaked abide with me
along with a big brass band
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 11:02, Reply)

I had a little otterous
I kept it in a shed.

I fed it on BINANAS (sic) cos it didn't like bread.

That funny little otterous, his name was Uncle Fred.


My uncle wrote that when he was a rather strange boy.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 11:03, Reply)

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Down the stream the swans all glide;
It's quite the cheapest way to ride.
Their legs get wet,
Their tummies wetter:
I think after all
The bus is better.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 11:02, Reply)

Full Version of the OP
One bright day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight.
Back-to-back they faced one another,
Drew their swords and shot each other.
One was blind and the other couldn't see,
So they chose a dummy for a referee.
A blind man went to see fair play,
A dumb man went to shout "hooray!"
A deaf policeman heard the noise,
And came and shot the two dead boys.
A paralyzed donkey walking by,
Kicked the copper in the eye,
Sent him through a rubber wall,
Into a dry ditch and drowned them all.
(If you don't believe this lie is true,
Ask the blind man -- he saw it too!)
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 11:04, Reply)

Yay
For nonsense rhymes.
(never-right -getting it wrong since '78, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 11:08, Reply)

I wrote upon your shadow
With a pencil made of cheese
The word I wrote
Would stun a stoat
And wipe out all its fleas.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 11:13, Reply)

One from my granddad...
Old Dan Tucker was a mighty man
Washed his face in a frying pan
Combed his hair with a wagon wheel
Dived with a tooth-pick in his heal
So stand alone for old Dan Tucker
Old Dan Tucker just lost his supper
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 13 Oct 2009, 11:14, Reply)

'twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogroves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 11:50, Reply)

as far as I have a favourite poem
that is it
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 11:56, Reply)

Recent changes in slang usage
Have made the borogroves much more interesting.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 12:12, Reply)

care to elaborate?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 12:14, Reply)

Mimsy, fool.
*ticks another one off the list*
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 12:17, Reply)

ah, how silly
what is this list?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 12:18, Reply)

The list of things I was here for today.
That was 'be mean to someone to make myself feel better'. It worked quite well. Now all I've got to do is distract myself from the impending realisation that I dislike my job and I'm done.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 12:22, Reply)

hey...hey... look at this!
look at the pretty puppet!!!



did that work?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 12:23, Reply)

Haha
Kinda.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 12:25, Reply)

I went to the pictures tomorrow
I had a front seat at the back.
I fell from the pit to the gallery
And hurt a front bone in my back.

An old lady rushed me to hospital
and I walked there most of the way.
I got some plain cake with currants in
and ate it and threw it away.

(remembered hazily from my father)
( Maladicta, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 19:17, Reply)