Originally Posted By DVC_dad I made myself a snowball As perfect as could be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet And let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas And a pillow for its head. Then last night it ran away, But first it wet the bed. -- Shel Silverstein
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Calvin’s Snowball Prayer by Bill Watterson Oh lovely snowball, packed with care, Smack a head that's unaware! Then, with freezing ice to spare, Melt and soak through underwear! Fly straight and true! Hit hard and square! This, oh snowball, is my prayer.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I got your email smedley.... I have your number. We need to leave the house in 20 minute. Perhaps I can call in a few hours?
Originally Posted By DVC_dad yes but these just don't quite capture what I am after.... I know...BRB (Be Right Back)
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Oh nevermind. Has anyone ever read The Snows of Kilimajaro? It is one of my all time favorites, right up there with To Kill A Mockingbird, and Wuthering Heights. It is a very very short book, story really. I dare say it has THE best ending of anything I have ever read.
Originally Posted By smedley *SPLAT* *SPLAT* *SPLAT* Poetic snowballs for DVC Dad!! Hey KT it was so great to chat with you, we should keep in touch more often, I'll see what I can do about getting that package in the post for you.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>I dare say it has THE best ending of anything I have ever read.<< Does it end with a snowball fight?
Originally Posted By tiggerdis_ hey DVC, don't worry about Avromark, I believe Avro is on the "right" coast, and I'm on the "left" coast. Plenty of land betwixt us.
Originally Posted By smedley I think DVC she's referring to you going to Canada to teach with her. and Avro also being there, but it being safe as he's on the other coast
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I enjoyed our conversation too smedley. Yes we will need to stay in contact <smile>.
Originally Posted By tiggerdis_ yup, that's quite right smedley. See, the Brits and Canadians still understand each other! ppif ppif ppif to all the boys still lurking.
Originally Posted By smedley FFIP FFIP FFIP Celebratory snowballs!!! Champagne flavoured snowballs all round to celebrate KJ's exciting news!!!! PS. I can't do snowballs fro you trails, the ones I know aren't LP friendly :0
Originally Posted By trailsend smedley, my dear, you are always LP friendly!!! yummmmmmmmmmm champagne-flavored snowballs . . . . .oh yeah!!! Great news and great snowballs!!!!!
Originally Posted By DVC_dad At Play In A Garden of P's I’m put upon to ponder the problem of poetry & thus, I proudly or, perhaps, perfunctorily, Ponderously pronounce with a preponderance, Even a plethora, of p’s: Poetry is pithy, prankish and perky, Pertinent and impertinent, too It’s prophetic, pathetic, pragmatic and proud Poetry pretends, preaches, points out, Points to, and down, and under Poetry’s petals promise purity and peace Poetry’s pristine, picky and pale Poetry is practical, prudent, is pregnant, Gives pause Poetry’s precise, prayerful, powerful Poetry’s presence is portentious and playful Poetry’s a mosaic portrayal, a Painted portraiture, perfect, profane Prosaic, it is not, Preposterous, it is It is ponderous, political, porous, pontifical Peripatetic and perennial, Prescient, pedantic, possessive and puerile Perfidious, perceptible, perplexing, perfectible Poetry perseverates, preserves, perseveres Sometimes perplexing, never perishable, It pulses it prowls, it probes and it pries Poetry is a perverse, precocious, pubescent prankster Presumptuously posing, Priapic and prudish It prances, and preens periwinkle plumage In place of deep purple prose A persuasive, peculiarly pleasant peacock, Poetry promulgates poems! Poetry, dear poet, exists Poetry, dear poet, persists Poetry, dear poet, persists and preoccupies Poetry can never desist Poetry perpetually propagates poems And that is the problem with poetry… Phew! ! ! Rev. Rebecca Guile Hudson
Originally Posted By smedley Wow! You don't want to know what it would have cost me lol! That's it then I'm afraid, you're going to have to do all the calling from now on. I'll give you my share of the costs when we meet in WDW in November!! *SPLAT* *SPLAT* *SPLAT* snowballs for the boys, girls we need some kind of a strategy meeting, we seem to be doing kind of badly at the snow thing this year....
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom smedley I have no problem making ALL the phone calls. Its what I do.... its what I live for.
