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Poetry and Potpourri .... October 13-14, 2003
10-13-2003 | JustAmy, Mama_Bear and St.Louie1

Posted on 10/13/2003 6:18:03 AM PDT by JustAmy

Edited on 11/11/2003 7:51:44 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]



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The Poetry Branch has been in limbo since the prior hostess left FreeRepublic April 15th 2003. We've since learned that said hostess has lost her posting privilege. That being the case, and Jim Robinson having given his ok, I wanted to renew the thread.

FreeRepublic is blessed with many fine poets, and we look forward to seeing their poems posted on FR once again. There were many non-poet FReepers who visited the Poetry Branch for the camaraderie; we hope they will return.

I would like to invite everyone to visit and relax at Poetry and Potpourri. Hopefully you will renew old acquaintances for chatting, sharing jokes, telling stories, posting cartoons, etc. Everyone needs a place to escape from the everyday news, make Poetry and Potpourri that place.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Miscellaneous; Poetry
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To: dutchess
I think I have another ...



Christopher Columbus
Gertrude M. Robinson

Columbus was a wise man
Who thought the earth was round;
He planned to sail across the sea
Where trading could be found.

Though kings did not believe him,
And men thought he would fail,
He found one friend, the Spanish queen,
Who gave him ships to sail.

The crew rebelled, the sea was rough
In 1492;
Still this brave man kept sailing on
In spite of sea or crew.

But when they spied America,
They landed with a cheer -
And that is why we celebrate
Columbus Day each year.

21 posted on 10/13/2003 11:53:09 AM PDT by JustAmy (Praying for 7 yr old Jacquelyn and her family.)
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To: JustAmy
Errands got me!
22 posted on 10/13/2003 12:32:16 PM PDT by Darksheare (Good, Bad, I'm the guy with the Nun.)
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To: Dubya; MeeknMing; Diver Dave; LadyX; mtngrl@vrwc; Billie; lonestar; chadsworth; All; ST.LOUIE1; ...
I've been looking for a Columbus Day joke .... no luck. How about a blonde joke instead.

Two blondes are walking in the forest when they come across marks in the ground.

One says to another, 'Oh, look at the deer tracks!'

'Those aren't deer trucks, you dumb blonde!' says the other. 'They're bear prints.'

'Deer tracks, you dumb blonde!'

'Bear prints, you dumb blonde!'

Next day's headlines : Two blondes killed by train in forest.


23 posted on 10/13/2003 12:48:52 PM PDT by JustAmy (Praying for 7 yr old Jacquelyn and her family.)
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To: JustAmy
Thank you for sharing "A New World."
24 posted on 10/13/2003 1:14:23 PM PDT by Fawnn (It's official!!! FOURFOLD FAIR FUNKLE FAWNN!!! Yep! Four times this quarter! And counting....)
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To: Fawnn
You are very welcome. I liked that poem, too.
25 posted on 10/13/2003 1:26:05 PM PDT by JustAmy (Praying for 7 yr old Jacquelyn and her family.)
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To: ST.LOUIE1; MeeknMing; Dubya; ladyinred; Mama_Bear; All; Aquamarine; FreeTheHostages; dutchess; ...
TROUBLE WITH THE CAR

WIFE: "There's trouble with the car. It has water in the carburetor."

HUSBAND: "Water in the carburetor? That's ridiculous."

WIFE: "I tell you the car has water in the carburetor."

HUSBAND: "You don't even know what a carburetor is. I'll check it out. Where's the car?"

WIFE: "In the pool."~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~TaDa~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

26 posted on 10/13/2003 2:19:42 PM PDT by JustAmy (Praying for 7 yr old Jacquelyn and her family.)
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To: JustAmy
*Chuckle*
Haven't had that said yet.
27 posted on 10/13/2003 2:26:01 PM PDT by Darksheare (FR at 1,000,000 threads. Now at one Megathread power!)
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To: JustAmy
LOL !

28 posted on 10/13/2003 2:37:38 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
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To: lonestar; Aquamarine; deadhead; AntiJen; Victoria Delsoul; WVNan; MistyCA; Mama_Bear; LadyX
Pumpkin Cheese Bread Recipe

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups sugar
8 oz. cream cheese
1/2 cup margarine
4 eggs
1 16 oz. can pumpkin
3 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. ground clove

In large bowl, combine sugar, cream cheese, and margarine. Using electric mixer, mix at medium speed until well blended. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Blend in pumpkin.

In another large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and ground clove. Gradually add to pumpkin mixture, stirring just until moistened.

Pour into greased and floured 9" x 5" loaf pans and bake 1 hour, or until wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Cool for 5 minutes. Remove from pans.


29 posted on 10/13/2003 2:50:51 PM PDT by JustAmy (Praying for 7 yr old Jacquelyn and her family.)
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To: Darksheare; MeeknMing
Thanks ..... there must not be any Columbus Day jokes because I searched for at least an hour and came up empty.
30 posted on 10/13/2003 2:52:52 PM PDT by JustAmy (Praying for 7 yr old Jacquelyn and her family.)
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To: JustAmy
I can't think of any.
Brain is in holding pattern.
31 posted on 10/13/2003 3:01:37 PM PDT by Darksheare (The search for artificial singularities has ended, they have been found inside Dem's heads and at DU)
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To: All
In 14 hundred and 92

Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

And what a day it was!

Thought to be crazy,

Christopher Columbus

Thought the world was round.

He sailed West

To find the East

For riches to be found.

Now he is famous

For while he was lost

An island he did find.

He claimed it for the

Queen of Spain.

Even though it wasn't

The land he had in mind.


32 posted on 10/13/2003 3:32:12 PM PDT by JustAmy (Praying for 7 yr old Jacquelyn and her family.)
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To: JustAmy; All; AntiJen; MistyCA; Billie; ST.LOUIE1; Mama_Bear; dansangel; Aquamarine; deadhead; ...
Evening everyone!!! Happy Monday all.

A HAND IN THE BIRD

I am a maiden who is forty,
And a maiden I shall stay.
There are some who call me haughty,
But I care not what they say.

I was running the tombola
At our church bazaar today,
And doing it with gusto
In my usual jolly way

When suddenly, I knew not why,
There came a funny feeling
Of something crawling up my thigh!
I nearly hit the ceiling!

A mouse! I thought. How foul! How mean!
How exquisitely tickly!
Quite soon I know I'm going to scream.
I've got to catch it quickly.

I made a grab. I caught the mouse,
Now right inside my knickers.
A mouse my foot! It was a HAND!
Great Scott! It was the vicar's!'

-- Roald Dahl

33 posted on 10/13/2003 3:46:09 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul (The CA recall's biggest losers are the three musketeers: the RATS, the LAT, and the National Inquire)
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To: Victoria Delsoul
LOL

That is cute, Victoria. Thanks.
34 posted on 10/13/2003 4:39:05 PM PDT by JustAmy (Praying for 7 yr old Jacquelyn and her family.)
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To: chadsworth; MeeknMing; Dubya; ST.LOUIE1; LadyX; All; WVNan; lonestar; okimhere; Calpernia; ...
THE WOLF MAN

The Wolf Man comes home one day from a long day at the office.

"How was work, dear?" his wife asks.

"Listen! I don't want to talk about work!" he shouts.

"Okay. Would you like to sit down and eat a nice home cooked meal?" she asks nicely.

"Listen!" he shouts again. "I'm not hungry! I don't wanna eat! Alright! Is that alright with you? Can I come home from work and just do my own thing without you forcing food down my throat? Huh?"

At this moment, the wolf man started growling, and throwing things around the apartment in a mad rage.

Looking out the window, his wife sees a full moon and says to herself, "Well, I guess it's that time of the month."

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I hope all the net nannies have gone to bed.
Heh Heh Heh

35 posted on 10/13/2003 5:39:51 PM PDT by JustAmy (Praying for 7 yr old Jacquelyn and her family.)
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To: JustAmy
LOL ! Forwarding, forwarding ...

36 posted on 10/13/2003 5:59:17 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
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To: JustAmy
Must Be A Redneck

A Frenchman, an Englishman and a Redneck are captured by a fierce tribe of Indians. The chief walks up to them and says, "I have bad news and good news. The bad news is you will all die, and we will use your skin to make canoes. The good news is you can choose the way you die."

The Frenchman says, "I take ze poison." When given the poison, the Frenchman shouts, "Viva la France!" and drinks it down.

The Englishman says, "A pistol for me." When given the pistol, the Englishman puts the gun to his head and shouts, "God save the queen!" and shoots himself in the head.

The Redneck asks for a fork. Puzzled, the chief hands the Redneck a fork, and he begins stabbing himself all over his body, his stomach, his sides, his chest ... everywhere. As the blood from the redneck begins gushing out all over, the chief is appalled and screams, "What are you doing?"

The Redneck looks at the chief and says, "So much for your canoe, Bubba!".

37 posted on 10/13/2003 6:28:29 PM PDT by lonestar (Don't mess with Teexas)
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To: lonestar; MeeknMing
LOL

As Meekie says, Forwarding, forwarding!
38 posted on 10/13/2003 6:34:28 PM PDT by JustAmy (Praying for 7 yr old Jacquelyn and her family.)
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To: lonestar; MeeknMing; chadsworth; LadyX; mtngrl@vrwc; All; ST.LOUIE1; Dubya; The Mayor; jkphoto; ...
An elderly gentleman of 85 feared his wife was getting hard of hearing. So one day he called her doctor to make an appointment to have her hearing checked. The Doctor made an appointment for a hearing test in two weeks, and in the meantime he told him there's a simple informal test the husband could do to give the doctor some idea of the state of her problem.

'Here's what you do," said the doctor, "start out about 40 feet away from her, and in a normal conversational speaking tone see if she hears you. If not, go to 30 feet, then 20 feet, and so on until you get a response."

That evening, the wife is in the kitchen cooking dinner, and he's in the living room. He says to himself, "I'm about 40 feet away, let's see what happens."

Then in a normal tone he asks, 'Honey, what's for supper?" No response.

So the husband moved to the other end of the room, about 30 feet from his wife and repeats, "Honey, what's for supper?" Still no response.

Next he moves into the dining room where he is about 20 feet from his wife and asks, "Honey, what's for supper?" Again he gets no response so he walks up to the kitchen door, only 10 feet away. "Honey, what's for supper?"

Again there is no response, so he walks right up behind her. "Honey,what's for supper?"

Damn it JustFrank, for the fifth time, CHICKEN!"

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Heh Heh Heh
JustAmy will probably complain tomorrow that I used her computer.

39 posted on 10/13/2003 8:13:04 PM PDT by JustAmy (Praying for 7 yr old Jacquelyn and her family.)
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To: lonestar
I love the canoe joke!
40 posted on 10/13/2003 8:15:07 PM PDT by MEG33
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