Snippets

18 Feb

Looking for poetic inspiration, I’ve been trawling my old notebooks.  I found some fun stuff which I’d like to share; but don’t worry – there’s not a poem in sight.  Let me worry about that.

From 2008:

Alec the paperboy passed the house as I opened the door.  I waved to him.  

Spud, 12, to Alec: ‘I’m sorry about my Mum; she’s a weirdo.’

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Some neologisms of mine (you may recognise a couple but I share them again in the hope of one day having an entry in the Oxford Dictionary):

  • Smail: newsy email.  Obsolete now I have a blog.
  • Techneptitude: technical ineptitude of the highest order (my special gift).  I got a published poem out of this one.
  • Suburbani: modern wage slaves.  Another poem, sadly unpublished, even though it has a pretty font.
  • Weepiknees: crying, with trembling legs.  I inadvertently predicted my Toby Tale with this one.

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From The Sunday Telegraph supplement, Seven, 11/05/08:

Anxiety: fear in search of a cause.

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A Re-run

I’m sure I’ve shared this before but I find it so amusing, I have to tell it again.

There was a South African politician called Ferdi Hartzenberg; and a South African newsreader who shall remain nameless.

Journalists had a nickname  for Mr H and this particular journalist once, live on television, accidentally used it: Herdi Farts ‘n’ Burps.

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If you like your politicians mocked, head over to Edwina Currie Made Me Start This Blog, my newest blog.  You’ll find more from my old notebooks.

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11 Responses to “Snippets”

  1. penpusherpen February 18, 2014 at 13:59 #

    Awww, you’d already taken a bite from t’apple, I wanted to do that… Smiles , huge ones here for the selection of neologisms which, I’m sure will be added to t’ Oxford Dictionary soon, they’re just slow in recognising winners when they see ’em xPenx

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  2. Elaine - I used to be indecisive February 18, 2014 at 16:29 #

    I still suffer from techneptitude – such a great word! 🙂

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  3. katharinetrauger February 18, 2014 at 16:31 #

    Intermittentnet: What you get where I live instead of Internet. 🙂

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  4. slpmartin February 18, 2014 at 17:35 #

    Oh…I do love the “Intermittentnet”…my look what you engendered…maybe others will join in with new words and you can publish “A New Words Dictionary”. 🙂

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  5. jatwood4 February 18, 2014 at 18:44 #

    Thanks for the giggles! 😎

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  6. Rorybore February 18, 2014 at 19:10 #

    I think I have that laptop! Or, it could be Dora gummy fruit chews all over the front since my daughter was using it to watch Netflix.
    I would love love to hear what you would say about one Mr Rob Ford.
    the fodder could keep a blog going for months. seriously.
    On the other hand, I am oddly proud that Canada finally has a proper political scandal.

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  7. laurieanichols February 18, 2014 at 22:38 #

    Isn’t it weird when behavior which used to be considered perfectly normal for the babies pre-adolescence, suddenly with a sprinkling of hormones becomes the world ending horror of horrors. I never got that.

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