Tag: Funny

Spaghetti trees?

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In 1957 there was a famous April Fools trick played on viewers of the Panorama TV show on the BBC.

“The BBC broadcast its famous “spaghetti tree” hoax on April 1, 1957, as a three-minute segment on the current affairs program Panorama. The spoof featured a Swiss family harvesting strands of pasta from trees, narrated by Richard Dimbleby, and successfully convinced many viewers that spaghetti grew on trees. “

It was one of the first April Fools tricks broadcast on TV. Another memorable one was “Dehydrated water”, it was on a Children’s TV show called Magpie in the 70’s I think.

They showed a funnel and I think the presenter added a white powder to it and water flowed out of the funnel? It’s a hazy memory from more than 50 years ago so apologies for not remembering properly….

Anyway happy April 1st!

Esther’s limerick challenge… Ride

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Esther Chiltons weekly prompt for a limerick was the word ride. Many different ideas came to mind. Fairground rides, riding in a train. Car rides. Riding a bicycle or motorcycle.

I tried to come up with something a bit unusual..and funny…

I decided to ring “local ride”
And waited by the road side
Till a horse came along
Which was absolutely wrong!
A jockey? I’m not! Better hide!

Cats calm me

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What is good about having a pet?

Cats calm me,

Relax me..

But they trip me up

Knead my stomach

Paw my face

Insist on tasting my food…

But they make me laugh

Purr at me

But then they jump up

On cupboards

Climb up trees

Lie on the stairs

Entertain me,

Keep me company

Cost too much at the vets

Give me love. X

Rain

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It rained very heavily a few days ago.

I wrote this poem in response :

Rain flowed down the hill
Flooded the gutters
A wall of water
In the midst of it
A man on a mobility scooter
Drove it through two feet of water
Flash flood wheel chair hero!

The man on the scooter was videoed, it made the local TV news! Legend! I think it’s on tiktok in Stoke on Trent.

Spelling…

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My friend Esther Chiltons weekly limerick prompt this week was to use the word SPELL somewhere in the five line rhyme. I was rather pleased with what I came up with so here it is…

The witch of the wood cast a spell
But no one could easily tell
For she’d been mistaken
Used the wrong incantation
And turned her broom into a well!

Fairy tales?

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From Pinterest Lady Cottinghams Pressed Fairy Book, by Terry Jones, illustrated by Brian Froud.

Have you seen this book? It’s a really strange and funny book illustrated with squished fairys. The story is that a little girl  who accidentally snaps a fairy in her book, and then gradually collects more and more in her book. They are the essence of the fairys, their spirits, and incredibly cheeky looking.

Each illustration has notes of the capture alongside them. As Lady Cottingham grows up her writing improves and her speculation about the fairy world and the intensions of the “wee folk” gets more involved. I really enjoyed it.