21-02-2019, 08:36 AM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Originally Posted by Ciderman
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Bloody great masses of flies, The bastards 'll pick out your eyes.
They get up yer nose
And inter yer clothes,
The bloody great masses of flies!
'Skeeters as big as a dog
Descend on yer camp like a fog,
And after confusion
Y'll need a transfusion
For every damn one is a hog!
It rains in Tasmania often.
Yer toes start to wrinkle and soften.
"It's a beautiful day"
You hear some drongo say,
As they carry you off in a coffin.
21-02-2019, 05:54 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Quote Gumbud: "but I am never sure if you are pulling our legs [metaphorically of course] could you put a little icon at the bottom to indicate whether it is true or false - like truey or falsie?"Jaysus man yer getting very fussy in yer old age, don’t ya like guessing? be patient and I’ll hang out little flags for ya.
Alright then, if I’m making it up as I go along I will put a big grin at the end, if it’s doubtful but could be true I’ll put a question mark, and if it’s true I’ll just say -true. I can’t find a true or false icon anywhere.
But don’t blame me if I’m tempted to cheat now and then, sometimes i can’t hold back the devil in me.
That’s true about Agatha Christie, I have read an awful lot about her, one of the first complete novels I ever read was “And Then There Were None” of course it was not called that then, I’m not allowed say the original title in full but it was “Ten little N….rs” , after a while it was changed to “Ten Little I…..s”, finally it ended up as it is now.
After reading that novel I became a big fan of her easy to read style, her half hidden sense of humour, her avoidance of sloppy love scenes and panoramic descriptions of places, all just good gripping mystery writing.
I got all her 80 paperbacks, including those written under the name ‘Mary Westmacott”, never liked those, mostly love stories.
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