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I Kissed Leila

My lame-ass lips can't even draw 
McDonalds milkshake through a straw: 
and if I must 
run for the bus, 
I take an oxygen inhaler. 
You like your house? I rent a trailer. 
But yell it through the loudest-hailer: 
I kissed Leila! 

Some lucky guy looks like George Clooney, 
while I resemble Mickey Rooney. 
I'm such a shmuck, 
if vampires suck, 
then call me Vlad the (Bad) Impaler! 
I guard my dough? Like a drunken sailor. 
But study this at Yale, or Baylor: 
I kissed Leila! 

I'll never win that Golden Globe 
for lounging in a silken robe 
like Errol Flynn, 
appearing in 
a bedroom scene with young Liz Taylor: 
my books won't sell like Norman Mailer: 
my jokes are rustier and staler 
than ol' Jed Clampett's cotton baler: 
I'm a no-mark, lamester, loser, failer. 
But shout it from the Torre Vela: 
I kissed Leila!

Premium Member Elizabeth Taylor's Valentines Day Fun

Miss Elizabeth Taylor
married everyone she met but Norman Mailer
Received many valentines day boxes
for she was sly as reddish foxes.

Princess Di met one nice guy
Having no idea he loved one who was married.
She is now an angel in the sky,
And he is with his soulmate, who looks quite harried.

Premium Member Did I Leave Anything Out, Liz Taylor

Liz Taylor 
 never married
  a sailor, retailer
   or a wholesaler
    or divorced a bailor
     or buried a tailor
      or used an inhaler
       or lived in a trailer
        or dated Norman Mailer
         or kissed a whale or
          even was jailed her
           whole life as a derailer


The Last Shall Be First

(The Torre Vela is a prominent castle tower
at the "prow" of the Alhambra Palace, and
dominates the Spanish city of Granada.)

My lame-ass lips can't even draw 
McDonalds milkshake through a straw: 
and if I must 
run for the bus, 
I take an oxygen inhaler. 
You like your house? I rent a trailer. 
But yell it through the loudest-hailer: 
I kissed Leila! 

Some lucky guy looks like George Clooney, 
while I resemble Mickey Rooney. 
I'm such a shmuck, 
if vampires suck, 
then call me Vlad the (Bad) Impaler! 
I guard my dough? Like a drunken sailor. 
But study this at Yale, or Baylor: 
I kissed Leila! 

I'll never win that Golden Globe 
for lounging in a silken robe 
like Errol Flynn, 
appearing in 
a bedroom scene with young Liz Taylor: 
my books won't sell like Norman Mailer: 
my jokes are rustier and staler 
than ol' Jed Clampett's cotton baler: 
I'm a no-mark, lamester, loser, failer. 
But shout it from the Torre Vela: 
I kissed Leila!

The Last Shall Be First

(Torre Vela = prominent tower, part of
the Alhambra palace, Granada, Spain)

My lame-ass lips can't even draw 
McDonalds milkshake through a straw: 
and if I must 
run for the bus, 
I take an oxygen inhaler. 
You like your house? I rent a trailer. 
But yell it through the loudest-hailer: 
I kissed Leila! 

Some lucky guy looks like George Clooney, 
while I resemble Mickey Rooney. 
I'm such a shmuck, 
if vampires suck, 
then call me Vlad the (Bad) Impaler! 
I guard my dough? Like a drunken sailor. 
But study this at Yale, or Baylor: 
I kissed Leila! 

I'll never win that Golden Globe 
for lounging in a silken robe 
like Errol Flynn, 
appearing in 
a bedroom scene with young Liz Taylor: 
my books won't sell like Norman Mailer: 
my jokes are rustier and staler 
than ol' Jed Clampett's cotton baler: 
I'm a no-mark, lamester, loser, failer. 
But shout it from the Torre Vela: 
I kissed Leila!

Premium Member Senator Smith's Filibuster

The Dodgers are in LA.
How are you boys doing today?
The Giants moved to Frisco.
Is that something you did not know?
There is many a familiar face.
I have spent six years in this place.
Where do the police use mace?
Did we beat the Russians in the space race?
Yes, this is a filibuster.
Have you heard of George Armstrong Custer?
He and his men we must mourn.
They met their demise at the Little Big Horn.
Who is married to Elizabeth Taylor?
Where can I find a Vicks Inhaler?
You have heard of Norman Mailer.
He wrote the book “The Naked and the Dead”
With wine, do you prefer white or red?
How about a bottle of rose instead?
Which goes well with pizza and pepperoni?
What kind of sauce is good with macaroni?
I think you know where to find Macchu Picchu.
Those are excavated ruins in Peru.
The Incas lived in South America.
No longer do they rule in that area.
Well, I believe that is enough for your ear.
Do not worry if what I said was not clear.
As lawmakers, we must persevere.
Let us discuss serious business here.

This is how most of our elected officials spend their time in Congress


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