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Poetry and Potpourri .... October 6-7, 2003
October 6, 2003 | JustAmy, St.Louie1 and Mama_Bear

Posted on 10/05/2003 10:10:27 PM PDT by JustAmy

Edited on 11/11/2003 7:54:41 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
KEYWORDS: jokes; poetry; poets; potpourri
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To: JustAmy
hehe! TOOOooo much coffee ?? Is there such a thing ?? ...


Have a cup while you FReep !


61 posted on 10/06/2003 5:06:22 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
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To: MeeknMing
"TOOOooo much coffee ?? Is there such a thing ??"

No Way!





62 posted on 10/06/2003 5:22:29 PM PDT by JustAmy (God Bless America, God Bless our Military, God Bless our Veterans!!)
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To: larryjohnson
Hi LJ! Is it cold up there? I bet the leaves are gorgeous.
63 posted on 10/06/2003 5:31:55 PM PDT by Jen (Ain't skeered to use my 'real' screenname.)
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To: JustAmy
LOL ! Love a good pun ...

Nice Autumn pic ...


64 posted on 10/06/2003 5:37:00 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; Victoria Delsoul; Darksheare; larryjohnson; SAMWolf; Mama_Bear; deadhead; HiJinx; ...
Hi FRiends! Don't have any poetry to share today, so here's some funny stories.


Darwin Awards

After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Beltway had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies.

The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.


The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.


Kentucky: Two men tried to pull the front off a cash machine by running a chain from the machine to the bumper of their pickup truck. Instead of pulling the front panel off the machine, though, they pulled the bumper off their truck. Scared, they left the scene and drove home. With the chain still attached to the machine. With their bumper still attached to the chain. With their vehicle's license plate still attached to the bumper.

They were quickly arrested..


A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER! When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle Street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

65 posted on 10/06/2003 5:44:48 PM PDT by Jen (Ain't skeered to use my 'real' screenname.)
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To: AntiJen
*groan*

He siphoned sewage...
66 posted on 10/06/2003 5:48:00 PM PDT by Darksheare (Alas poor Yorick. I AM HIM, Horatio!)
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To: Darksheare
I hope you didn't just finish dinner when you read that one. GAG!
67 posted on 10/06/2003 5:48:52 PM PDT by Jen (Ain't skeered to use my 'real' screenname.)
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To: JustAmy; Victoria Delsoul; MistyCA; Darksheare; All

WOOOOOHOOOOO! It's Monday night and the Indianapolis Colts are playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Y'all won't see me for awhile. Gotta get my game jersey on and go cheer for my boys in blue! Go Colts!

68 posted on 10/06/2003 5:53:00 PM PDT by Jen (Ain't skeered to use my 'real' screenname.)
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To: AntiJen
Thankfully, no.
*chuckle*
69 posted on 10/06/2003 5:54:32 PM PDT by Darksheare (Alas poor Yorick. I AM HIM, Horatio!)
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To: AntiJen
Holy Smokes!
A woman that LIKES football?
*scratches head*
That's. .uh.. kinda rare..
70 posted on 10/06/2003 5:55:13 PM PDT by Darksheare (Alas poor Yorick. I AM HIM, Horatio!)
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To: AntiJen; JustAmy; MistyCA; Billie; All
LOL! Hi Jen!

Hi Everybody!!!

71 posted on 10/06/2003 6:47:52 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul (Arnold has the conviction and the fighting spirit to lead California into a new age of recovery)
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To: JustAmy
Good post bump.
72 posted on 10/06/2003 7:05:11 PM PDT by Dubya (Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me)
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To: AntiJen
I love these stupid people stories. Yuck ...... sewage.

Thanks for sharing.
73 posted on 10/06/2003 7:55:13 PM PDT by JustAmy (God Bless America, God Bless our Military, God Bless our Veterans!!)
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To: AntiJen
Okay ...... go Colts!
74 posted on 10/06/2003 7:56:13 PM PDT by JustAmy (God Bless America, God Bless our Military, God Bless our Veterans!!)
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To: All; dansangel; Victoria Delsoul


Autumn Fires

In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!

Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
the grey smoke towers.

Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all,
Flowers in the summer
Fires in the fall!

- Robert Louis Stevenson

75 posted on 10/06/2003 8:11:14 PM PDT by JustAmy (God Bless America, God Bless our Military, God Bless our Veterans!!)
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To: JustAmy; Darksheare
OMG!!! I can't believe it. Colts came back from 21-0 at halftime with one TD in the 3rd quarter and 4 TDs in the fourth quarter. Game now tied 35-35 in over time! Bye!! Back later. Cheer for my Colts FRiends!!!!
76 posted on 10/06/2003 9:35:23 PM PDT by Jen (Ain't skeered to use my 'real' screenname.)
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To: JustAmy; Victoria Delsoul; Darksheare
WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO! Colts win 38-35 in overtime. Unfreakingbelievable. Vanderjagt kicks a field goal which hits the goal post and bounces back through! Hooray for the Colts. Take that Keyshawn and Gruden! HA! Happy birthday Tony Dungy. I wonder if the Bucs owner is glad he fired Dungy now???
77 posted on 10/06/2003 10:03:04 PM PDT by Jen (Ain't skeered to use my 'real' screenname.)
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To: AntiJen
Happy for you and the Colts. Yeaaaa
I was ready to post a frowning face to you not to long ago. LOL
78 posted on 10/06/2003 10:14:48 PM PDT by JustAmy (God Bless America, God Bless our Military, God Bless our Veterans!!)
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To: JustAmy
Never ever give up on Peyton Manning and the Colts. My hubby is going to freak out when he wakes up tomorrow and hears the outcome of this game. He went to bed when it looked like the Colts were in for a huge blow out! HA!
79 posted on 10/06/2003 10:25:23 PM PDT by Jen (Ain't skeered to use my 'real' screenname.)
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To: ST.LOUIE1; Mama_Bear; Billie; dansangel; dutchess; FreeTheHostages; Aquamarine; LadyX; WVNan; ...


The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost (1874–1963).

80 posted on 10/06/2003 10:26:17 PM PDT by JustAmy (God Bless America, God Bless our Military, God Bless our Veterans!!)
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