On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:14:08 GMT, Mephistopheles
<no-fixed@address.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:29:01 GMT, "::darkshadows::" <here@there.net>
>wrote:
>
>>I CAN HEAR JUST FINE!
>>
>>Three retirees, each with a hearing loss, were playing golf one fine
>>March day.
>>
>>Mercury remarked to the others, "Windy, isn't it?"
>>
>>"No," Rolex replied, "it's Thursday."
>>
>>And Mephi chimed in, "So am I. Let's have a beer."
>>
>
>"You are old, Mephistopheles," the Umbrageous One said,
> "And your hair has become very white;
>And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
> Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
>
>"In my youth," Meph replied to this son-of-a-gun,
> "I feared it might injure the brain;
>But now, just like you, I'm sure I have none,
> So, I do it again and again."
>
>"You are old," said the sassy one, "as I mentioned before,
> And you have grown most uncommonly fat;
>Yet you go to the gym with Brad Pitt every week -
> Pray what is the reason for that?"
>
>"In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
> "I kept all my limbs very supple
>By the use of this sausage - one quid a box -
> Allow me to sell you a couple?"
>
>"You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose
> That your eye was as steady as ever;
>Yet you shot all those tin cans off Mercury's noddle -
> What made you so awfully clever?"
>
>"I have answered two questions, and that is enough,"
> Said Mephi. "Don't give yourself airs!
>Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
> Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs."
>
>With apologies to Lewis Carroll
LOL
That explains the extra parts in Mercury's hair.
darkshadows
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