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This Week in Limerick!

April 18, 2008 By: Southpaw Jones Category: Interesting? 1 Comment →

On that “debate,” from me to ya:
I sob for the state of our media
I used several tissues
They hardly talked issues!
Why couldn’t the questions be meatiah?

Is Barack right to use the word bitter?
That word still has pundits atwitter
That lass on YouTube
Calls her husband a boob
She embodies that term, don’t it fit her?

The Pope has arrived, blessed day!
Faithful Catholics flock to obey
How might he handle
The sex abuse scandal?
Maybe ix-nay the elibacy-bay?

Bush turns his mind to the climate
It’s a big hill, he’s sure we can climb it
Despite new conviction
He won’t seek restriction
Some beast is quite skeptical (I’m it.)


as reported in The New York Times

April 18, 1908
EXPLAINS FAT MEN’S STRUT.
Prof. Robinson Also Gives the Reason for Their Fierce Looks.
PARIS, April 17. — “Why do fat men walk with a proud carriage, and, despite their joviality, often have a fierce look in the eye?” was the question discussed at length to-day before the French Academy of Sciences by Prof. Robinson, the eminent savant.


One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Why is it that every mesa in every coffeehouse is wobbly and precarious? I’m trying to play a legitimate game of Jenga here, so can anyone point me toward a…

Highlight here for answer: [stable table]


Model Railroad Slums




Danny and I worked together for 40 years - he was the most wonderfully fluid keyboard player and a pure natural musician. I loved him very much…we grew up together.
Bruce Springsteen, on the passing of The Minister of Mystery, Brother Danny Federici


EVERY DANG THURSDAY
with Matt the Electrician
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
http://www.flipnotics.com
________________________________________________________________

SAUTRDAY, APRIL 19
8:00 PM
Opening for Will Kimbrough
Bend Studio
5014 McKinney Ave. 75205
DALLAS, TX
214.841.9642
www.bendstudio.com
$20, Doors at 7 pm.

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