Cabbages & Kings #2

[DtheP47]

Linking back to the World Maths Day Thread Today thread on here and gpick24’s posts showing not a little frustration at some replies back.
My reply # 176

I've opened up this thread here in the Anything Goes forum gpick.
Mr Carroll's verses may help you adjusting to the peeps on here.


The Walrus and The Carpenter

[Margaret Pilkington]

I like the Walrus and the Carpenter.......they are astute fellows....they get the oysters to walk with them, all the while entertaining thoughts of how good they are going to taste.
If you are alluding to the thread wandering properties of the forum...do your every day conversations not meander in this way?
Or are you trying to tell us that we all talk nonsense?
If you are alluding to the thread wandering...isn't there already a thread on this subject?

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

If you are alluding to the thread wandering...isn't there already a thread on this subject?

Closed down by the mods a few days ago Margaret - apparently some folks were upset that it was resorting to name calling.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Oh....I hadn't noticed it had gone...or that it had attracted such unwanted attention.
Thank you for setting me straight Sue.

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

If you are alluding to the thread wandering...

I think he's actually referring to a certain perceived level of duplicity & connivance that appears from time to time.

But what do I know ? Perhaps I'm presuming much & knowing little.

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I like the Walrus and the Carpenter.......they are astute fellows....they get the oysters to walk with them, all the while entertaining thoughts of how good they are going to taste.
If you are alluding to the thread wandering properties of the forum...do your every day conversations not meander in this way?
Or are you trying to tell us that we all talk nonsense?
If you are alluding to the thread wandering...isn't there already a thread on this subject?

Roger that to all of those things Margaret.

Dave in Germany said it in maybe a more eloquent fashion on his gnomic World Maths Day post to gpick and I quote
" As you progress (should you choose to stay around) through the intrigues, clannishness & as some would have you believe "Cliquism" of the Accyweb halls of artifice & chicanery, you will note underlying currents & trends, those popular at court will thrive, while those on the periphery may either wither & die, or become enmeshed within the tricksyness of it all"

My post was meant to be thought provoking and aye mischievious but also stimulating
All human life is there, cabbages and all.

I could have posted one on waxed bread wrappers but that's been done before

Hey and shutting down that Wandering Off Thread thread was no bad thing, it was just getting plain silly

[Margaret Pilkington]

Thank you for that answer.......sometimes I am not sure if I read a little too much into things...or if I am perhaps being just a bit naive...so, to make sure..... I ask, and hope to be treated lightly.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Had the thread been for poetry appreciation there are one or two I would have perhaps added.....ones that srem from my childhood, and am rediscovering anew through the eyes of my daughters children.

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Had the thread been for poetry appreciation there are one or two I would have perhaps added.....ones that srem from my childhood, and am rediscovering anew through the eyes of my daughters children.

Come on Margaret don't leave the thread hanging there in this cold arctic wind ( it is here in CLM today anyway).
Share them with us

[DtheP47]

Oh and thanks to Stevie R for pointing me(us) to Javaughnta Bates verses

Her Metaphor particularly thought provoking

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Had the thread been for poetry appreciation there are one or two I would have perhaps added...

Nothing to stop you making it so Ma. And if there's a lesson or point to be taken away from within the poem all the better.

It is "anything goes" when all's said & done.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes the wind is blowing across the steppes of snuffy arrod(I am in c-l-m too).
One of the recent poems that Spindles has done some comprehension work on, is this one...
Mrs Malone By Eleanor Farjeon : I Love Poetry Story & Experience
and another one is.....http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16431

Both of these I remember reciting in class for Mrs Armistead...more years ago than I care to remember.......I was transported....... the smell of old wooden desks and chalk dust. Memory is a wonderful thing...please God...I never lose mine!

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by DtheP47

Oh and thanks to Stevie R for pointing me(us) to Javaughnta Bates verses

Her Metaphor particularly thought provoking

Yes...I liked it too.

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Yes the wind is blowing across the steppes of snuffy arrod(I am in c-l-m too).
Memory is a wonderful thing...please God...I never lose mine!

A bit shorter than Mr Noyes Highwayman and apropos of todays weather, Oliver Pritchett in todays Telegraph reminded me of Spike Milligan's whimsy

Granny by Spike Milligan

[Margaret Pilkington]

I will show Spindles that poem....I think it will just tickle his funny bone.