For many years now I've been a crossword buff
Nowadays they are only cryptic but for me some are much too tough
It's always the Pommies who create the greatest challenge
The cryptics in their newspapers, The Guardian, The Times
if I can solve six clues, I feel I've got revenge
To ease some built up frustration, escape from spoonerisms and other things I sqizz
Revert to Code Crackers ( not that far gone yet}and the daily on line trivia quiz
Many years ago I worked with a man who I judged as totally insane
Give him a cryptic crossword all done within a flash every single day time and time again
There exists an old adage never judge a book by it's cover
There's a lot more to many people we will no doubt oft discover
TRIVIA
It’s a question for a quiz
A meeting of three roads
Romans had a name for it
Always in Latin, naturally
Today, a common source
But also Greek of course
Tri, a prefix meaning three
Road is Via, simple to fit
The answer uses no codes
Trivia, actually, it is!
Way back in medieval Germany
If a married couples fight was bad
And no agreement, could be reached
A "Marital Duel" could be had
To even the field, between them
From a hole, the man had to fight
With one arm tied to his body,
To subdue some of his might
The woman could move as she pleased
But her weapon, was more than mocks
While she was moving around the hole
She was armed with a sack full of rocks!
Now I'm not a historian
But I'd say back then, in the day
This statement just might have been born,
"Ok, honey what ever you say!"
In ancient days, few knew how to write
So they would sign an "x" as their name,
Then kiss it to show sincerity
So the "x" , a kiss then became!
If anyone ever had regrets
Mr. Giocondo would be the one
He commissioned the Mona Lisa
Then refused it, when it was done!
Earnest Evans, a chicken plucker
Became a singer and changed his name
To honor his idol Fats Domino,
Chubby Checker is who he became
The standard size slinky can be fun
Go ahead and play all you desire
About that slinky did you know this?
It's made with 80 feet of wire!
Trick Trivia is not my greatest force,
so it is time I think we should divorce.
The questionaire wants to know,
what’s in the middle of Glasgow -
then states - the answer is an ‘S’ of course.
Trivia ~ Signposts to Self ~
They say that home is where the heart rests
where paths join on that one journey called
~ Life before passing on ~
Road maps show the way back and forth a
considerate needle in many a ‘Stay-Stack’
~ Following shadows ~
Cast by stars and comets rising from glowing ashes
Icarus’ waned wings wax on residue’s impact resolved
~ Writings on walls ~
Fountains script a soft travel log with logic
and felt pens of emotions inked in feelings’
~ Bosom straight at the pulsating core ~
A cradle of empathy kindness compassion awaits when we
embrace never to discredit a sentient being with hatred or hurt
~ Aimed outside inside within and without ~
One home stable in motion beating for certain a reolute
heart is anchored in body mind essence and soul from true
~ Signed posts of love ~
Trivia’s messages transcend empty cliches resurrecting from words without
meaning the beaming abound and ahead once we glimpse gleams of courage
~ To acknowledge also loving ourselves ~
10th May 2018
Ice hockey teams have their team dentist,
To put their teeth back into their head.
And crisp is a word said from the back to the front,
Of your mouth whenever it’s said.
The Sahara desert is seventy percent not sand,
And you can’t hum and whistle in time.
And the words donkey and monkey once sounded the same,
Because once they had a linguistical rhyme.
There’s a billion tonnes of ice on the moon,
And no U.S. president’s ever died in May.
Cows only have bottom teeth in their mouth,
And there’s a divorce every thirty seconds of the day.
Useless facts and trivial truths,
We use every day to seem intellectually cool.
Maybe this is what a billion years of learning has done,
Maybe we don’t even need school.
Here's a bit of trivia from World War Two I'll bet you didn't know,
Concerning the war-time Prime Minister of Japan, Hideki Tojo of Tokyo.
After the war hapless Hideki was jailed in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison,
Where he was given a new set of dentures 'cause he was losing his'n.
A waggish American dentist, determined to make a lasting 'impression',
Etched on Tojo's choppers in Morse Code this immortal expression:
'REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR" - 'Twas America's stirring battle cry!
He eternally gnashes his teeth in perdition after he was hanged to die!
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved
True Story!!!
Ronaldo, The New Emperor
It is the news in Portugal, the footballer Ronaldo has won a golden football
and the country rejoices, after Eusebio died a new emperor is needed,
a hero people can look up to, one who can continue the people’s culture....
Football!
This, perhaps, is modernity, technology that and instant messages is coming
down to a game of football and a TV that has commentators who cannot stop
talking about it. The mind appears not to expand as modern skill does, oft it
little behind to the days when people asked why rivers tended to run into
the ocean, luckily they lacked skills to make rivers run faster by making them
straighter shaving off curves and circles.... The reason we live in relative peace
has to do what great thinkers thought and wrote about and influenced our
imperfect brains, we looked up to the stars and asked questions, a curiosity that
made us civilized, but modern mass media made us multicultural and bland.
In the end life is a game of soccer, and a football has no corners.
Sayings
In a country of
Bald people
The wig maker is
The king
If throwing a stone
At the moon
That floats on
The surface a lake
You will shatter
A beautiful image
And ask
What the hell did
I do this for?
Motherhood
Even if female
Crocodiles
Are good mother
It doesn´t make them
More cuddly
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