VJs Weekly Challenge – Snippets
“Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.” Tom Stoppard
Such Fun Westerns on the telly, I pistol whipped my old man, but after the gun-fight, of course, melting in the Suez on P&O, armless beggars in Colombo, shark alarm off South Freo, dangerous creatures in straya, but we're all having fun mate peeing how far up the dunny wall? Chasing girls for curiosity's sake, mixing the books in the library and wagging boring school, dreaming of joining a rock band, idly playing a surf champ but really a clerk, no, labourer with bell bottoms and platform shoes, fumbles and kisses then a car of my own and the world was wide open. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
Note: Australian usage – Old Man = dad; Freo = the city of Fremantle; straya = Australia; dunny = toilet; wagging = bunking off.
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Fun poem. Thanks for the mini glossary of Australian terms.
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I love how we all have our slang, thank you Pat.
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‘Stralian slang is among the best. 🙂
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Aha, you’ve got it spot on. 🙂
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Title says it all, and the car at the end, such a thrill.
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I had so much fun playing with this one, I needed that this week, thank you so much VJ.
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You’re welcome. Worked for me too!
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I will get to yours soon, looking forward to it.
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Paul, such an entertaining poem! 🙂 Thank you for the tutorial on Australian slang. ❤ May your life continue to be fun!
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I hope we all have fun, we seem overdue for some right now. My pleasure Cheryl, couldn’t resist the slang.
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❤
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Poem combined with Photo gave very good flash link to Memory!😊
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Many thanks 🙂
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Thanks for the tutorial, Paul….and keep having fun out there!
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I’m never sure how slang works outside the culture, so my pleasure, and many thanks Sandy.
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Sure!
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Very much a boy’s idea of fun!
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Well, It was fun at the time 🙂
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😀
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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I’m certain you got up to mischief too 🙂
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Ha! What can I say???? 😊😁✨
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Well, enjoy the weekend – mischief and all 🙂
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A perfect tonic to end the week, Paul!
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Well thank you very much indeed Chris, very kind.
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Yes, high price… Sweet memories.
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Sure was, mind you, it’s not the same now is it? Many thanks Amy.
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Memories stay with us.
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They sure do, something special about memories, you often capture yours in visual form, but they often connect for your followers in so many ways. So yes indeed.
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A funny poem, ending in the possibility to conquer the world. A great one, Paul!
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Always the conquest, otherwise I feel we curl up and die. 😉
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Lets hope the better one. 😉
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Absolutely 😉
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:-))
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Your youth in a nutshell – great poem
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Ah, yes indeed.
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