THE GENERAL CATEGORY

1st - Ellie with:
A thunderstorm warning =
Start running homeward!

2nd - Rik with:
Give landlords ~
gold and silver.

3rd - Mey K. with:
Bad test =
D at best.

HSP with:
Bang a solid pulse by ~
playing double bass.

Brian Taylor with:
"I am such a loser" =
Malaise chorus.

Adie Pena with:
Women in the workplace ~
knew where to complain?

View with:
The assisted living facility =
This fits aged civilian style.

Adie Pena with:
The monogamous relationship =
A Ms. in the pool is enough to a Mr.

JR with:
I pray any torment is ~
temporary insanity.

Rosie Perera with:
The landlords =
Lads hold rent.

FatPhil with:
An inept tool =
No potential.

Ellie with:
Strawberries and cream teas =
Bees swarm and restrict area :(.

Brian Taylor with:
Mess up the time =
Miss the meet-up.

Dharam with:
Percolated coffee =
A deep color effect.

Mike Torr with:
Political anagrams
=
Liars campaign a LOT!

Snafu with:
Trump is a malignant narcissist =
Mr Putin’s a smiling satanic tsar.

View with:
Trump namesake ~
amusement park.

Rosie Perera with:
Slaveholders =
Hard, loveless.

Tony Crafter with:
How do you know for sure when a relationship's over? =
If her drop-in lover now owns a key to our washhouse?

Rick with:
Daily tweetstorms ‡
Stately word items.

Rosie Perera with:
Universal Basic Income =
American civil bonuses.

JR with:
Gastrointestinal tract =
Entrails starting to act.

View with:
"All or nothing" =
Night on a roll.

Dharam with:
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" =
Consider many decades' risk!

Tony Crafter with:
Samosa pie =
Asia's poem.


THE ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY

1st - Mey K. with:
The dystopian Orwell novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' =
The one deeply relevant to things in your life now.

2nd -Snafu with:
Oscar Wilde’s novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ =
How vice torridly corrupts a life and ages one.

3rd - View with:
'Married at First Sight' =
It is fast, dear Mr. Right!

Adie Pena with:
Édith Piaf's "La Vie en rose" =
And here's a positive life!

Ellie with:
The Italian master painter Leonardo =
Rare pioneer, and that Mona Lisa title.

db with:
Hiss one football/soccer team ~
the Colombians (Los Cafeteros)!

Tony Crafter with:
The English singer/songwriter Catherine 'Kate' Bush =
Consistent. Her break? Releasing 'Wuthering Heights'.

db with:
The singer Paul Antony Young =
An utter sop, hugely annoying!

HSP with:
"Life is Wonderful: Mandela's Unsung Heroes" =
Unselfish role models refuse a gun and win.


THE TOPICAL CATEGORY

1st - db with:
Inflatable President Donald Trump =
Rude and fat little blond in Pampers.

2nd - Mey K. with:
The final game of the World Cup ~
led me to whip out a French flag!

3rd - Adie Pena with:
The family-separation policies of Trump =
Ultimate pity for poor Hispanic females.

David Bourke with:
Run into greater French today =
Don't Cry Four-Three Argentina!

Snafu with:
The Thailand cave rescue =
Teacher alive, unscathed.

db with:
The footballer Neymar da Silva Santos =
A talent? Maybe. And rolls over as if shot!

Ellie with:
The tennis at Wimbledon =
Men in battle don whites.

HSP with:
It had been a dreadfully long time coming! =
Mighty England ruled in Colombia defeat

db with: "
Thailand cave rescue: How can rescuers free the boys? = They receive a scuba lesson? Reach the surface? Drown?"

Mike Torr with:
The software calmly enforced ~
the fall of Western democracy

Rik with:
Trump's EPA leader Scott Pruitt resigns =
Corrupt, smug, nastiest reptile departs.

Snafu with:
Big indolent southern right whale ~
sighted in the Wellington harbour

Snafu with:
POTUS is to meet the Queen =
He puts on some etiquette.

Mike Torr with:
Football's Coming Home =
Big moments of alcohol

Rosie Perera with:
The Wild Boars team is rescued from cave =
Divers focus, embrace more wet Thai lads.

Rosie Perera with:
Pediatricians say family separation is child abuse =
Trump is anti-Hispanic, is a seedy, racially biased oaf.

Brian Taylor with:
The Croatians will defeat England =
Eradicating downfallen athletes.

Snafu with:
England team loses =
Not legends - lame as.

HSP with:
Ok, when Croatia beats England in trophy, ~
Captain Harry Kane wins the Golden Boot.

View with:
Penis-taunt man jailed for killing wife =
Painful joke: it will manifest in danger.

Snafu with:
Theresa May's awful dress =
US's leader saw hefty arms.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Presidential pardons =
Splendid reparations.

Rik with:
France wins this year's World Cup final =
Shrewd Croatians finally screw up. Fin!

Rosie Perera with:
The Russian President Vladimir Putin =
Unreal visit. Trump is in deep shit! Darn!

Ellie with:
'Congratulations' =
Sang a lot in court.

Mike Torr with:
Trump and Putin in Helsinki =
Unpruned militant kinship

Snafu with:
Melania seems a sourpuss =
Sure is a menopausal mess.

Snafu with:
The fires in Greece =
Eerie stench, grief.

Tony Crafter with:
Raging wildfires engulf the coastal resort of Mati =
Flames roaring. Near-gutted, with tragic loss of life.

Ellie with:
The wildfires in Greece =
Withered. Silence. Grief.

Rosie Perera with:
A tweetstorm from the President of the USA =
He threw tantrum to offset some dire tapes.

Dharam with:
The tragic wildfire near Athens, Greece =
Teachers are dealing with recent grief.

Rick with:
Daily morning tweetstorms? ~
Yes, grim old man's on Twitter.


THE PEOPLES NAMES CATEGORY

1st - Adie Pena with:
President Erdogan =
Denigrated person.

2nd - Brian Taylor with:
President Obrador of Mexico ~
once promised to fix a border.

3rd - View with:
President Rouhani =
The dope ruins Iran

Mey K. with:
Poet Emily E. Dickinson =
Keen on ode simplicity.

View with:
Trans woman Angela Ponce =
Parents: once a man, gal now.

Tony Crafter with:
Victoria Louise Pendleton CBE =
Brit on a velocipede. Cute loins!

db with:
Rebekah Nicholson Vardy =
Hands on a very rich bloke!

Dharam with:
Saint Gertrude of Nivelles =
Glad trustee for nine lives.

Brian Taylor with:
Ingmar Bergman =
Being ‘n’ Grammar.

Ellie with:
The former aviator Mary Ellis =
Oh, revere a star ... immortal, I fly.

Rick with:
President Hassan Rouhani =
He runs Iranians' head post.


THE OTHER NAMES CATEGORY

1st - Adie Pena with:
The Video Assistant Referee =
A defeat? This one reverses it!

2nd - Mey K. with:
Social app Tinder =
Platonic despair.

3rd - Snafu with:
The National Health Service =
I hate insolvent healthcare.

db with:
Los Cafeteros =
Careless foot.

Rosie Perera with:
The Riemann Hypothesis =
Ah, honesty in the primes.

Rosie Perera with:
The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society =
Dig what they embrace: minorities.

View with:
The Video Assistant Referee =
Here one tests/verifies data

Tony Crafter with:
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings =
"Control not the authentic spirit of bygone edifices!"

Christopher Davis with:
The Religious Liberty Task Force ~
forces a theist rule (like bigotry).

View with:
Founding Fathers of the United States =
That Unit of Giants, defenders of the US.

Ellie with:
The National Health Service =
Love, share it; then it can heal.

Mey K. with:

The social app Tinder
=
Helped pairs act on it.

Rick with:
Hampton Inn Motels =
Plan on this moment.


THE MEDIUM LENGTH CATEGORY

1st - Mey K. with:

3 Best Bond Films [And Why]

3. Dr. No [A wet Andress coming out of the sea]
2. Skyfall [Superb cinematography]
1. Goldfinger [Oddjob's hat]

=

3 Worst Bond Films [And Why]

3. Die Another Day [Bland]
2. Moonraker [Space battle seems off]
1. Octopussy [Had Bond fighting jugglers?!]

2nd - Tony Crafter with:
Bobby Dutton was late for school.
"Hello Mister Dutton; and what kept you this time, eh?" said Angela Budd his teacher.
"Um... it's ~
breeding time Miss and I had to put the bull to the cow."
"Couldn't your father do that?" she asked.
"No way, Miss; it has to be a bull."

3rd - Ellie with:
A duck walked into a bar wearing one purple shoe. He went up to the barman and
said: 'I'd like one of your pints, if you don't mind.'
~
But Martin, a friendly barkeeper, pointing down, said: 'Wait up, man - you lose
a shoe?' And the duck replied: 'What? No, I found one. OK?'

rp with:
"Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord" =
Why? Our Bible Study overseer told us so on Sunday, so I must vow oath.

Adie Pena with:
The Lightning Seeds' "Three Lions (Football's Coming Home)" =
Do some of the English millions belt that cheering song?

db with:
Seventy years of the National Health Service in Great Britain =
Nye Bevan: "Listen, it's vital anyone has a right to their care free!"

Snafu with:
Harry Edward Kane is the English soccer team’s captain. Footballer is so masterful =
Hirsute fearless attacker plays hardball against homoerotic mincers of Sweden.

Ethan with:
Euler's Big Generalization of Fermat's Little Theorem =
I'll raise "z" term to totient, fearful... Ah! glib "one" emerges!

View with:
People Aren’t Having Kids Because It’s Way Too Expensive =
Negative sex viewpoint used: boy or lass - keep ain't cheap.

Dharam with:
aaaaaaaaabbccddddeeeeeeeeeeeeffggghhiiiiiiiiijkllllmmnnnnnnooooooooppqrrrrrrssssttttttuuuuvvwwxyyz[a][d]
=
A fugitive squid from Japan
Viewed [a] luxury catamaran;
"I ooze[d] to her shelter
Only to swelter,
Being cooked inside a big pan!"

db with:
The France and Paris Saint Germain footballer Kylian Mbappé Lottin =
A magnificent talent, spark and flair...is not improbably another Pelé!

Snafu with:
Entrepreneur Elon Musk calls British cave diver Vern Unsworth a ‘pedo’ =
A shrewd driven US technocrat repents vile unproven libelous remark.

Snafu with:
The most protracted semifinal contest was played at this year’s tournament of Wimbledon =
Sad Mr Isner competed with Anderson, lost the monumental battle. It was a stoic type of fray.

Snafu with:
The US Director of National Intelligence Mister Dan Coats says ~
“Yes, as I’m accusing traitor of treason, then I’d settle Don in a cell.”

Dharam with:
Trump: "What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening…" =
When our dying newspaper down here maintains that guy's a huge patriot!?

Rick with:
What makes Donald Trump the worst president ever? ~
His vamped up tweet storms rendered that low rank.


THE ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE CATEGORY

1st - Mey K. with:
I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short poem can you write about this thing?=
OBNOXIOUS

The great stupid fart from NY -
When he talks, he cannot not lie.
Any vulgar, crazed quote
Would secure him a vote...
It's why we just want him to die.

2nd - HSP with:
"I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short poem can you write about this thing?"

=
CONUNDRUM

Fixate on letters "G-N-O-M-E-S-H-I-T"
Why, all of a sudden you have it!
Wave hat at Nick Hewer,
Quote SOMETHING obscure...
A prize? That word justly won it!

3rd - Tony Crafter with:
"I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short poem can you write about this thing?"
=

MISQUOTES

At Lough Neagh view that vibrant shore,
Watch the azure jewel in Ireland's crown,
Shut off, take time to explore...
Um... you didn't say County Down?



Ellie with:
"I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short
poem can you write about this thing?"

=

EXPECTANT

'Enjoy!'
Mey murmurs to us
with no forewarning
Even the tough can fail
Dazed, lost, thwarted
downbeat, I quit.
Why, look! The victor
As usual ... he is!

Dharam with:
"I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short poem can you write about this thing?"
=
Countdown

I am no expert, haven't ever seen the show;
I just may try a set, after all, though
I'd falter with a question, I know,
But, could win some crazy dough!

Dharam with:
"I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short poem can you write about this thing?"
=
ZUCCHINIS

We enjoy squash of that lengthy kind,
Whether alone, wedged, or combined;
Pivotal to a Southwest mixture,
A tasty value for autumn or winter!


Rik with:
I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short poem can you write about this thing?
=
HARMONIZE

A quartet will weave before us
A magnificently knotted chorus.
Hear the ditty -- without much, it grows
And the woven sounds only juxtapose.

turnip with:

"I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short poem can you write about this thing?"

=
ALCOHOLIC
A woman who's blitzed, stinko, merry.
Intoxication? just give us the stout!
Whenever we're waffled, a query:
(Many the apt thoughts) "Under?" and "Out?"

HSP with:
"I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short poem can you write about this thing?"

=
ENJOYMENT
Connect to a viewer, TV Host Hewer -
U sound us out and fuss about;
What a word meant, Lexicographer Dent;
I talk quite highly of Maths Wiz Riley.

Rosie Perera with:
"I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short poem can you write about this thing?"
=
COLLUSION

Mr. Trump, I see you've kowtowed to the charming Russian who wanted to enjoy the US's death. Quite bizarre.
Had fun watching Fox TV lately? Neat!

Adie Pena with:
"I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short poem can you write about this thing?"
=
our ABC news host had them
DEFinitely siGHIng
on a Jet from KLM.
what now? uNOPened at two,
a Queer thiRST occurs VIRTUALLY
on a dUVet Without a seXY Zee.

Rik with:
I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short poem can you write about this thing?
=
KILOHERTZ

Humdrum faulty watch delivers,
You wax then wane in jolting quivers.
Oft wore out, the twitch repeats
In one second may go a thousand beats.

Ellie with:
"I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short

poem can you write about this thing?"

=

Etiquette

Oh, some vow boozy Norman
who was this Francophile
whilst a giddy youth, unwise man
the frustrated juvenile
got cruel drunk: next, ate a cat.

HSP with:
"I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short poem can you write about this thing?"
=
CHALLENGE

You've taken away a text...
A vaguest quota of nonets

Trapezium --- Ytterbium
Horsehide --- Worldwide
Wordsmith --- Forthwith
Junctions --- Luncheons

Dharam with:
"I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short poem can you write about this thing?"
=
TRAPEZIUM

To quell huge, heavy job discomfort,
When it's the weak wrist and hand,
Use Auntie's rule to gain comfort:
"Text only with whoever you can stand!"



Dharam with:
"I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short poem can you write about this thing?"
=
ANXIOUSLY

I watch for the utmost question,
Crazed with jumpy indigestion;
Raw nerve ends became taut,
Flatulent and overwrought.

Who has the loo key!?!

View with:
I see you have skilfully extracted a nine-letter word from Countdown's quiz and have just won the game! What short poem can you write about this thing?=
Anagrammy

Unitive beehive,
Folk from the world
Junior and old -
Word enthusiasts play,
Search one way
To get the quiz,
To execute this...
What nuts.
Now, CUT!


THE LONG CATEGORY

1st - Tony Crafter with:
A blind man entered a bar, sat down and ordered a glass of Scotch.

Hey you guys!" he shouted loudly: "Do you want to hear a blonde joke?"

A deathly silence suddenly descended upon the room.

Then a woman tapped him on the shoulder and said: "Sir, since you're blind I think it's only right to inform you that the bartender here is a blonde female; the bouncer is a blonde female; the woman just to your left is blonde and a professional wrestler; the woman to your right is a blonde weightlifting champ and I'm Viv, a six-foot, blonde-haired female with a black belt in karate. So... do you still want to tell that joke?"

"Nope," said the blind man. "Not if I'm going to have to explain it five times!"
=

A major movie had just started at the cinema, when a blonde woman sitting in the middle of a row stood up and said she had to exit immediately.

All the folk sniffed in intolerant irritation at having to stand up to let the blonde work her laborious way by, and she apologised as she clambered over their legs and bags in the dark.

When she finally got to the tail-end of the row, an irate old man asked: "Couldn't you have been doing this earlier on?"

"Look, I'm sorry, but no, I totally couldn't," explained the blonde. "The 'Turn off your mobile phone' notice only just flashed up on screen."

"The man was baffled. "So why did you need to get up?"

"The blonde said: "Because my mobile is in my car!"

2nd - Adie Pena with:
THE TEN BEST SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS EVER*
1. Jaws
2. Jurassic Park
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. The Dark Knight
5. Back to the Future
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
7. Die Hard
8. The Avengers
9. Raiders of the Lost Ark
10. Aliens

=

1. Shark attack
2. Dinosaur herds appear
3. Brave Rockatansky
4. Heath Ledger became Joker
5. DeLorean driver
6. Jack Sparrow's hubbub
7. Smug street-smart Bruce
8. The Incredible Hulk et al
9. The Staff of Ra theft
10. The feminist's exosuit.

3rd - Mey K. with:

[About a week ago, the US president Donald Trump actually sat down and tweeted this all-caps message for all to see:]

"To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!"

[About a day later, the Foreign Minister of Iran replied the American president's somewhat odd Twitter rant, tweeting:]

"COLOR US UNIMPRESSED: The world heard even harsher bluster a few months ago. And Iranians have heard them — albeit more civilized ones — for 40 yrs. We’ve been around for millennia & seen fall of empires, incl. our own, which lasted more than the life of some countries. BE CAUTIOUS!"

=

[The man with the US nuclear launch codes further wrote:]

"WHO GIVES A CRAP! SEE, I'VE 'BEEN AROUND MELANIA' TOO! SHE EVEN LET ME FEEL HER ASS! SO WHO CARES!"

[A critical person in a fierce regime also capable of serious harm then replied:]

"I pity your wife's ass, then. Eat a hundred boogers."

[Our effing leader of the free world wrote even further:]

"I DON'T EAT BOOGERS! YOU DO! WITH A BIG FORK! YOU'RE THE WORST FART IN THE UNIVERSE AND A DRUNK AND SO DUMB AND I'M TELLING PUTIN - MOM!!!"

[Surprising everyone, Vladimir himself then wrote:]

"Quiet. And for the 40th time, only contact us on a secure channel."

[But fortunately, NASA redeemed us and tweeted:]

"A deposit of frozen water has been discovered on Mars, so it could soon sustain life. Let's leave that weird trio alone, shall we?"

[And that is how we all left Twitter (and Earth).]


Ellie with:
A child goes to his father and asks earnestly, "Father, please can you tell me, how do parents think of names for

their children?" His father answers, "Well, my son, the very night before the mother is due to give birth, the

father-to-be goes bravely into the woods and camps out in the wild for the whole night.

~

And then, when he wakes the following morning, the affectionate father then names his latest child after the first

thing that he observes. The system's rather old, but foolproof. Which is why your daredevil little brother, a mere

seven-month old, is christened Soaring Eagle. Why do you ask, Bear Poop?"

Rik with:
The last five Words of the Year, chosen by the American Dialect Society:

1. *because* (introducing a noun/adjective)
2. #blacklivesmatter
3. (singular) they
4. dumpster fire
5. fake news

=

1. because such vague, bullshit reasons
2. #effectivesocialmovementtweet
3. reject binary gender identity
4. disarray; chaos
5. token scandal of the filthy, wicked Trumpian era

Dharam with:
Ten Amazing Animal Organs That Would Give You Superpowers:

10. Planarian Cells
9. Snake Vomeronasal Organs
8. Wood Frog's Liver
7. Ophiocoma Wendtii 'Eyes'
6. Mantis Shrimp Eyes
5. Green Basilisk Feet
4. Owl Wings
3. Platypus Snout
2. Bombardier Beetle Gland
1. Sperm Whale Circulatory System
=
Power Use:
10. Grow new head, in a loss
9. Track my foe a long way
8. Possess antifreeze
7. Pink body is all-seeing eye
6. Pupils see UV light
5. Run along on water
4. Swoop and grab mammals unobserved
3. Transmit electrical pulsations
2. Spray corrosive material
1. Swim, holding my breath a long time


THE SPECIAL CATEGORY

1st - Mey K. with:
haikus=
haikus

2nd - Tony Crafter with:
A BOX OF JOKES AND PUN STUFF

I think children are like Marmite. You either love them or you keep them at the back of the cupboard next to the piccalilli.

I was watching the London Marathon and I saw one runner dressed as an egg, another as a chicken. I thought: 'This could be interesting.'

I have a good pal whose name is Lewis Bloom. We call him 'Two Legs Lewis'. The reason for that is because he only has one arm.

If you don’t know what Morris Dancing is, imagine eight guys from the KKK got lost, ended up by chance at gay pride and just tried to style it out.

The fattest knight at King Arthur's table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his girth from scoffing too much pi.

I thought I saw an eye-doctor on a remote Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .

No matter how much you push the envelope, it will always be stationery.

Would a grenade thrown into a kitchen in France result in Linoleum Blownapart?

Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

A vulture carrying two dead raccoons boards an aeroplane. The air stewardess looks at him and says, 'Sorry, I'm afraid only one carrion is allowed per passenger.'

A sign on the lawn at a drug rehabilitation centre says: 'Keep off the Grass.'

Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other says, 'Are you sure?'
The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.'

A soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

I like Jesus but he loves me, so it's all a bit awkward...

I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

Atheism is a non-prophet organisation

I'm sure that wherever my dad is, he's looking down on us. He's not dead, just very condescending.
~
A hole has been found in the nudist-camp wall.
The police are currently looking into it

If you jumped from a bridge in Paris, you'd be in Seine.

People who use selfie sticks need to take a proper, long look at themselves.

A kid's rubber-band pistol was confiscated in an arithmetic lesson because it was regarded as a weapon of maths disruption.

She was only a whisky-maker, but he loved her still.

A dog gave birth to puppies near the roadside. She was arrested for littering.

I required a password eight characters long so I picked 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves'.

Two hats were hanging on a rack in the hall. One remarked to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'

The fortune-teller midget on the run from prison was a small medium at large.

In general, in a democracy it's your vote that counts.
In general, in feudalism it's your count that votes.

When the cannibals ate the church missionary, they got a genuine taste of religion.

Two fish swam into a concrete wall.
One turned to the other and said, 'Dam!'

An Eskimo sitting in a kayak got chilly so he lit a fire. The entire boat sank, proving to the distressed man that you can't have your kayak and heat it.

In essence, I'm not a super-muscly man. Never was. In truth, I'm weedy - the strongest thing about me is my password.

Jokes about white sugar are very rare. Jokes about brown sugar? Demerara.

When I was younger I'd felt like a man trapped inside a woman's body. Then I was born.

Life is like a box of chocolates: it doesn't last long if you're fat.

Golf is not just a good walk ruined, it's also the act of hitting things violently with a stick ruined.

"What's a couple?" I asked my mum. "Two or three," she announced.Which probably explains why her marriage collapsed.

3rd - Mey K. with:

Answer July (written by poet Emily Dickinson)

Answer July —
"Where is the Bee —
Where is the Blush —
Where is the Hay?"

"Ah", said July —
"Where is the Seed —
Where is the Bud —
Where is the May —
Answer Thee — Me —"

"Nay" — said the May —
"Show me the Snow —
Show me the Bells —
Show me the Jay!"

Quibbled the Jay —
"Where be the Maize —
Where be the Haze —
Where be the Bur?"
"Here" — said the Year —

=

"Hey there, U.S.!
My, you're a mess.
Where be the shame?
Where be the blame?"

Quibbles U.S.,
"Hey, jail the press!
What's with the lies
They utilize?
Why analyze?!"

Journalist sobs:
"I had a job!
Why hire mobs?
Am I a jest?
Where be the West?"

"Hey", whines the West,
"We were the best!
Why are we here?
Why are we jeered?"

Hey - Humankind
Is held behind.
Either we mend,
Or reach the end.

Adie Pena with:
THE JULY SUN OVER LEBANON
by Leo Yankevich

She hears bombs raze the nunnery.
She hears F-16s on their way
back to Israel, to reload
new bombs sent from America.
Blinding smoke burns in her eyes
and shrouds the limbs of terrorists,
boys and girls from grammar school
who in the spring first learned to count.

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THE JULY MOON OVER BEIRUT

Familiar with the lessons of history –
final morsels and unsung martyrs,
she remembers the 16 broken boys
in school who never came back.
She gazes at a translucent orb remnant
dreaming of newly born sons.
Irreparably robbed of her childhood,
she sobs under a sinister night sky.


THE RUDE CATEGORY

1st - Mey K. with:
If lad smelt it, he ~
himself dealt it!

2nd - HSP with:
Open relationship =
Her optional penis.

3rd - View with:
The erotic dreams ~
erect his meat rod.

Adie Pena with:
Ah! He's got the rod deep into her delicate vagina... ~
She replied: "Not tonight, dear, I've got a headache."

Tom Myers with:
having intimate relations
=
to instil meat in her vagina

Tony Crafter with:
Inflatable dolls, available for gentlemen
=
Labelled: 'Brill foam vagina! On sale. Ten left'!

Tony Crafter with:
Inflatable dolls available for gentlemen
=
Albert left a vaginal balloon semen-filled.

Snafu with:
That Playmate Karen McDougal is so damn sexy =
Ay, got naked, moist, had anal sex, sly Trump came.


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