Methinks this RLG is taking over WW! Well done to those who have added today, but sorry, I'm not reading any until I get mine done, cos they are putting me off. Promise I'll catch up with them later.

Are any poems? I hope not, cos I wanna be the first one - which is why no-one must tell Elsie, as she rattles things like this off in a couple of minutes, so shhhhh! (hope you all appreciated the masterly way I did that, I'm a librarian so have had years to perfect my technique. Think I'll give it to you one more time..shhhhhh!

I think the meaning debate is interesting, but no falling out boys and girls! I remember not long after I started I'd written what I felt was a searing piece on sexual abuse, and someone (on another site) said how touching it was and how I must have been in so love with the person. I was gobsmacked, but I guess once it's out there, it's out there, and the reader is King. Bit of a bugger tho' if they miss all one's nuances and clever comments.

Hurrah! Wordy is One of Us! Pass that bottle, before it's empty...I don't care what it is, I've had two lessons with Year 11 and I'll drink anything right now...

Have to go catch a train - intend to compose on the way and have my masterpiece ready for perusal when I get home. (Yeah, right!) Iron Chicken was very inspiring, better than the Soup Dragon or the froglets. They just gurgle, (SD) and bounce, (Fr) which isn't a lot of help when one is wrestling with a constipated Muse...

Be good whilst I'm gone

tc x

Okay one question....

What does nobbling entail exactly? Sounds like I might just enjoy it...too much You do realise, Dee, that you're paying for all this drink? I'll have Richard's share for now and then you can pay for a round when he's back...no really I insist!

James/Anthony - I loved your little ditty/poem - really captured what I was feeling at the time...oddly enough :D

Jumbo - thanks for sticking up for me (sort of) against Dee's nobbling (whatever nobbling means)...but just like you enjoyed (I know you did) my cuddly 'handle' comment, I'd quite like a nobble! (swipes bottle from Jumbo's cuddly hand).

TC - Happy New Year to you etc! Can't wait to see your contribution - I have to admit I made an attempt at a poem, but only got half way through and decided on the one I uploaded instead. Might post the poem AFTER I see yours - depends if it's as crepey as it stands at the moment. shhh's the word


Nahed x

Nahed

Don't know how to tell you this - I tend to stick to the cuddly, handle thing. Nobbling is an added extra.

Sorry!

John

Don't be John,

I've looked up nobble in the dictionary and I don't care for it at all...I'd much rather the cuddly handle...

What's this about? nobbler (slang) a person who nobbles; a finishing-stroke; a thimblerigger's assistant or accomplice...

Okay, now I have to look up thimblerigger...

Nahed

I would have thought you would have known this:

A thimblerigger is One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.

So there!

John

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Sleight of hand or deception, in case you were going to ask.
J x

legerdemain! I like it, J
Almost as good as 'tocking'

I think it should be in the next RLG that we generate.
(Ha! That'll slow these short story buggers down!..)

Oh, I've started..got the opening line all sorted out, it's usually plain sailing from there!

Laters all!

tcx

Oh, I was the last one to post. Can I reply to myself? Wonder if I'll get an email telling me..

Ok, kiddies, it's done and uploaded. Title of 'Opening Door'. Go, Read & let me know what you think!
I'ts almost a poem, I think. Perhaps I've invented something new, a hybrid. Prose n' poetry in one. Proetry.

Dee, where's that bottle?


tc x

tc

Perhaps we can use the word as a 'tocking' filler - pause for silance after particulraly bad joke!!

Well, I'll be of now to read your poem/prose.

John

Have I frightened everyone off?

This RLG seems to have been something of a success, three of the entries in the Top Ten Most Pouplar bits!

And a poem as well. Thanks, tc!

Great stuff! So much talent, so little time!

Now, I don't want to rush you chaps, but it is almost Easter. Do we want another line to get the old juices flowing? (Calm down, WW. I think we're going to have trouble with her. Bit of a trouble maker, methinks. Perhaps Dee had the right idea with the nobbling plan!)

I have a new random line bubbling, so just let me know when and I'll post it.

Bye for now. I'm off to wrap the Easter eggs.

John

Look sorry, J, but someone has to tell you....it's the jokes...
We're all too polite, see..

Thanks for the coments on my poem, I'm hoping the rest of the clan get round to viewing it before it vanishes off the list. We've amassed quite a colection now, I'm sure I've still got a couple to check out.

Am wondering what the new line will be. Something short, striking, pithy and poetic would be fine, ta very much. And if you can get tocking and that D word, which I've forgotten, in there so much the better.

Now, you strike me and the sort of guy who might know this. Something that's been bothering me all day.
Do fish make any noises? I mean I know they don't speak, whistle, squeak etc, but how does one fish let another fish know how it's feeling, what kind of a day it's had, if it feels frisky...? How do they communicate with each other? Subtle fin movements? Little wiggles of the tail?
It's playing on my mind in a most upseting way. Think there's a poem in there somewhere..

tc

Well, there's a school of thought that says ...

Leave it with me. This may take some time. (Vocalising fish? The poor girl's lost it!)

John

tc

Have a look at www.wadedoak.com/_disc1/000001fa.htm

Hope the link works. I must apologise, the page it points to mentions sex!

Have a good one

John

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Ooops, the link doesn't work!! I'll be back!
J x

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Try this one instead www.greenreefbelize.com/reefbriefs/briefs78.html

Fingers crossed!

TC - I hate to see you so bothered about how fish go about communicating with each other, particularly when they're on the frisky side of Friday. Do the lady fish give off a scent, perhaps? Does smell exist under water? We probably wouldn't know because we, being humans, can't breathe underwater and therefore can't smell underwater - which is probably a good thing if you're swimming in certain public pools.

Apparently, fish DO make sound...don't ask me what sound exactly they make, and how they make it but, according to my sources, they do

I imagine it to be like a variation in tones of bubble sounds...

HOOOooOOpe this helps

Nahed

Well, I'll be! Batter me senseless and slap me ontop of a pile of hot, greasy chips..

Clever buggers. Loud booms during courtship, combative pops, chirps! How exciting. (don't tell any one, but think I must have slept with at least one Jewfish in my time..thought he had funny skin, and he was a really odd kisser..)

Thanks, J! Your information gathering skills put mine to shame, don't tell the Library Association or I'll be excommunicated!

Mmmm, greasy chips...guess what I'm having for tea tonight



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Wordy, your efforts too are appreciated. Who'd have thought our little marine friends could be so fascinating...

by the way, how'd you get that fancy type and box round the smiley?

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Oh, it's a link. More spiffingly complex fishies.
Actually, think I'll just get the chips tonight, not sure I could eat one now I know all this.
Afraid I'm guilty of badly underestimating them all my life. All those fairground goldfish lying dead on the kitchen floor in the mornings after they had jumped out of the bowl. I thought it was just cos they were stupid, now maybe they were desperate, unfulfilled, unstimulated...fishycide was their only way out of a barren, pointless existence....

Just heard on the news today that a goldfish - imaginatively called 'Goldie' - how do they think of these names - has just broken the record for fishy longevity... about 40something years. Hope it's had someone to talk to all that time.

Back to business - I was out last night at the local Writers Circle (freezing cold, no alcohol and I had to read out a short story to about 25 freezing cold sober fellow writers. So tonight I'm hoping to catch up on all the RGS entries.

How about we make this a monthly thing? Otherwise we'll get nothing else done.

Your turn for February's opening line, John.

Dee