Edsel Bob

Edsel car, Bobs poem, Heard of em, but never bloody saw a one, sort of bloody albatross, a Goonie bird a walking, flap n flop and sometimes drop, as the Yanks did say from Gaum .... got sidetracked hey, on ya cobber Bob, ....of mine...Don Seems the Yanks Air force were having trouble, with bloody albatross, coming in for landing , when the Yanks were landing cos, runways blocked with birds across, a stumbling and a falling, at goonie birds was kinda cross, on Guam they kept returning...
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Mcknight Avatar
October 14, 2011 at 1:39 PM
my dad was WW2 Navy sir, I have also been the peaceful one in the family all thhe time growing up, and here I came to let my expressions out. You are not judged by me, perhaps his photo with a bayanette in a field of japs as he called them with a thousand yard stare, captured, Chinese torture chamber, and I am Lucky's youngest daughter, since cain and able ~ we are all brothers and sisters man, Lukky Lu(in honor of John Mcgrath, let by gones be by gones(he named me that) my first love was Jesus, I tried to reform Dad; it did not work!Lu Journey on....
Lane Avatar
October 14, 2011 at 6:48 AM
I like the history poems too, Tony
Johnson Avatar
October 14, 2011 at 6:50 PM
We will have to get Bob Hope Hinshaw, to write about the goonies for sure, just might?
Zzzzz Avatar
October 14, 2011 at 5:22 AM
I never knew that, Don. You give a good history lesson, packed with fun. Excellent write, mate! Robert.
Johnson Avatar
October 14, 2011 at 6:16 AM
Robert, Yes the Air force had a bit of drama, with them ungainly birds, who'd trip an flop and sometimes stop, or so i bloody heard, orright? :)
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