The One Line Poem Game (1-50 Words) Showing 1,451-1,500 of 5,070

[Roger]

Which destroyed in one all our hard labors.

[Preston, Moderator]

It's best not to pay attention to the News

[Preston, Moderator]

It keeps you from singing the blues.

[Roger]

Not like them olden days, looking for Reds

[Roger]

Left, right, center and under our beds.

[Preston, Moderator]

Now it's looking for bent cucumbers

[Preston, Moderator]

our farmers are all stumblers and bumblers.

[Preston, Moderator]

The cucumbers are graded on a curve,

[Roger]

In Europe they must be straight, bent is a perv.

[Roger]

And their length is to be just right,

[Roger]

Too short, no good, too long is a fright,

[Roger]

We most like ’em somewhere in the middle.

[Preston, Moderator]

Because we are EuroTrash piddle.

[Preston, Moderator]

We dictate to every country taradiddle,

[Preston, Moderator]

We are masters of deceit and twiddle.

[Roger]

We dish it out to Greece, because it's the way we're feeling,

[Roger]

Give ’em the Euro inflation and leave the poor bastards reeling.

[Preston, Moderator]

We don't do this arbitrarily or leave it to chance,

[Preston, Moderator]

We do it to be cruel and meanly show our dominance.

[Roger]

We strut our stuff and dish it out,

[Roger]

We don't bully, we just demonstrate our clout.

[Roger]

We're neither god nor monster, purely politician.

[Preston, Moderator]

We don't need ammunition we've a rhetorician.

[Preston, Moderator]

Euro-inflation up by five percent.

[Preston, Moderator]

If we ever get it right it'll be an accident.

[Roger]

We put up the cost of living by the way of inflation,

[Roger]

And cream it from top to bottom of the entire nation.

[Preston, Moderator]

Wouldn't the headline writers find it opportune,
If your Prime Minister ever went to Cameroon.

[Preston, Moderator]

It's a bit of a shock to the system,
knowing Brad Pitts's older than your PM.

[Roger]

I had no idea Brad Pitt was so old

[Roger]

I always hoped he'd be the one to break the mold.

[Preston, Moderator]

Isn't it all the rage?
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[Preston, Moderator]

If he could always be young that would be nifty,

[Preston, Moderator]

But William Bradley Pitt is officially fifty.

[Roger]

That really is a terrific, shock

[Roger]

It's put half his life in hock.

[Preston, Moderator]

In hock? you are going to pawn him?

[Preston, Moderator]

Such a horrible fate it's worse than Grimm.

[Roger]

No, he can step into his great great great great great grandfather's shoes,
You remember, the great William Pitt, a prime minister whose

[Roger]

Policies so deeply upset the French

[Roger]

Whenever he spoke from the front bench.

[Preston, Moderator]

We named a city after that distinguished male,

[Preston, Moderator]

Pittsburg, where QAF showtime has its locale.

[Roger]

Which is in the state of Pennsylvania,

[Roger]

For woods the family always had a mania

[Roger]

And hailed from one of my hometowns of Rickmansworth, Herts.*

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertford...

[Roger]

The Penns of Rickmansworth were men of many parts.

NB: WIkipedia carries no link to Rickmansworth, bwtf do they know, huh?

[Preston, Moderator]

I was born in Albany but grew up in Guilderland,
Where there were no Guilders only sand.

[Preston, Moderator]

Everyone used top soil when gardening in the sand,
You can't grow nothing but potatoes on a sandy land.

[Preston, Moderator]

But now I'm back in Albany founded by the Dutch,
Fought and taken by the English but it didn't take much.