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The Ode that never was

Member since 2003 · Posted 23 Jan 2003 · Edited 24 Jan 2003 · 15 comments

"Why are these street signs in Morse code?" (I was on my way to pay the tax man when) I made a right turn, down the wrong road. Like my state of mind needs this added load? "Excuse me Maam, may I ask you a question?" "Why are these street signs in Morse code?" The woman seemed distant, in a strange mode. Mumbling something about letting them syphon. I made a right turn, down the wrong road. I tried to remember if I had licked a toad? When up rolled a mad four wheeled orphan. "Why are these street signs in Morse code?" All he said was, "Screw pirgayte LeChoadke!" Then he went into a pub dubbed the "Lions Den" I made a right turn, but down the wrong road. If I was a poet I would've made this an ode. (But 'twould be ignored, and not get a ten) "Why are these street signs in Morse code?" I made a right turn, down the wrong road.

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15 comments

[9] Ranger 23-Jan-03/11:36 AM Reply
Oh...I really wanted to be sarcatic and rename it the Ode that never should have been...but it's actually quite funny.
Maybe next time. I'll go and read Blade's work to see real crap. Or not.
[9] Ranger 23-Jan-03/11:37 AM Reply
Oh, but please change "would of" to "would have". Please.
[n/a] Shardik › Ranger 23-Jan-03/11:42 AM Reply
Thanks. Fixed it.
[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. › Shardik 23-Jan-03/12:33 PM Reply
Cheers!
[9] Ranger › Shardik 25-Jan-03/9:04 AM Reply
Good stuff. Worth a nine now.
[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 23-Jan-03/11:47 AM Reply
Durst you bespatter the Good Name of Pirgayte LeChoadk with this tawdry example of post-apocalyptic incontinence!? A pox on thee!
[9] Ranger › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 25-Jan-03/9:04 AM Reply
Whert?
[n/a] Shardik › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 16-Apr-03/2:41 PM Reply
I am not a post apocalyptic poet. Jared Leto is, apparently. I have a moog synthesizer and a theramin processor, I'm pre-apocalyptic w/whip cream ala' rainbert sprinklai, kind sir.
may you fall from a cliff for many seconds out of the field of view until a poof of dust...well, poofs!
[n/a] deleted user 23-Jan-03/12:49 PM Reply
fucking A man, i like it
[10] horus8 › deleted user 23-Jan-03/1:18 PM Reply
ha ha ha.
[9] wOrnella Mutiw 24-Jan-03/1:50 AM Reply
gooooood 9
[9] Bill Z Bub 24-Jan-03/3:09 PM Reply
Neat-O, amusing, different, and worthy. Here's a nine, for the sake of the signs in Morse code.
[10] horus8 24-Jan-03/11:01 PM Reply
I demand that you tell me immediately who told you about the pirgayte LeChoadke? DAMN IT MAN...SPEAK! you obviously are trained at the art of poetry! and should be forced to dance 'the prawne shuffle'. _e_t_e bastard! i know that's you come out..ye..plagiarist..you stole my lyr....... cockeyed vandal.
[8] nentwined 26-Jan-03/8:20 AM Reply
nicely done, for what it is. :) the only bit o' weakness I felt be the toad, and 'm not quite sure what.
[4] FreeFormFixation 29-Jul-08/3:06 AM Reply
suspension of disbelief cancelled... in a bad way.