paranoia or practicality?

[embroideredfrog]

keeping a knife on your night stand...just in case...

it doesn't help that my roommate is out of town and that I've been watching scary movies on hulu.com all day...

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[martinoh]

Y'know, realistically, how likely is it that someone's going to present you with a cheeseboard in the middle of the night?

[martinoh]

:D...very unlikely, m'dear! :) the knife's meant for squishier targets...:D

[martinoh]

Ah, tomatoes...

[embroideredfrog]

Oh Marty (or should I just call you "Smarty" :D)...tomatoes reminds me of my favourite limerick...

"Dr. Bell fell down the well and broke his collar bone
Doctors should tend to the sick and leave the well alone"

hehehehe...in case you are wondering how we got to that one (???)...
"An accident happened to my brother, Jim...
when somebody threw a tomato at him
Tomatoes are juciy and don't break the skin
But this one was specially packed in a tin..."

yeah...I forget all my passwords at least three times a day and get locked out of every major account(like AT & T, right now) but limericks, I can remember...:D
do you like limericks...?

[martinoh]

I may be coming over all pedantic at this point on what exactly constitutes a limerick but since I share your fondness for uncompassionate verse, your penance shall be merely to look up Harry Graham, the creator of "Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes" :-)

And many thanks for the two rhymes above, both of which appealed greatly. You know how to please a man :-)

[embroideredfrog]

hehehe...I knew you would protest my classification of the 2 nonsense rhymes as limericks, but I thought I'd stick to my childhood definition of a limerick...both are from a book of limericks that had followed none of the prescribed rules in compiling that magnificent collection, which I still recall with extreme fondness and thank my parents for being so naive as to let me read that (and also watch the Simpsons) at a very, very tender age...:)

I did look up Harry Graham...deliciously morbid! Tell me am I a bad person when I LOL@
When Grandmamma fell off the boat,
And couldn’t swim, and wouldn’t float,
Maria just sat by and smiled -
I almost could have slapped the child!

And I'll leave you with this gem I chanced upon...
There once was a man from Peru
Whose limericks stopped at line two.

[martinoh]

:-D Now that's a proper subversion of the form.

Are you a bad person? I would be concerned only if you didn't raise a smile at Mr Graham's vignettes. Having first chanced upon his work - um, a few years before you were born - I still regularly dip into the slim volume that collects his Ruthless Rhymes together. Favourites change from reading to reading, but I always have a particular affection for the one you cited and of course:

In the drinking-well
Which the plumber built her,
Aunt Eliza fell...
...We must buy a filter

[embroideredfrog]

LOL! you know everytime I see that line "couldn't swim, wouldn't float" I break out laughing...happened a million times (hyperbole) since yesterday! He has such a gruesome sense of humour, I recall reading about Pet Sematary and how Stephen King had to do a lot of soul-searching to be able to write that...I don't know if Mr Graham had any such feelings writing about drowning his children (who should be seen, not heard:D)And he does have that warning at the beginning of Ruthless Rhymes, to keep the book on the top shelf!:D

[martinoh]

I suspect that if one has to pause to consider whether one really wants to write with such gleeful sociopathy, one is firmly in the 'wannabe' category :-)

Thank you!

[embroideredfrog]

Thou mysterious giver of beautiful balloons! :D
Very sweet of you...it really made me very happy! And double thanks actually, I have never read Winnie The Pooh...and I started reading it now...it's awesome...so funny, touching...weird, not at all sugary childhood sap like I had expected...thank you very much, I'm loving it! :)
And you know what, I love balloons, I still have fond memories of that black helium balloon my aunt had bought for at this local fair...*sigh*

Re: Thank you!

[martinoh]

If something has made you happy, I'm always prepared to publicly take credit for it. Even if internally I'm completely bemused and going "Say, wha?" about the whole thing...

Look elsewhere, Princess. Your charms are obviously more widely appreciated than you sometimes seem to think :-)

Re: Thank you!

[embroideredfrog]

Erm...that made me squirm! :) That's impossible unless everyone got balloons courtesy Frank(baaaa)... how strange...maybe it's just a goof-up they actualy wanted embroideredtoad...or patchworkfrog...:D
I'm sorry I jumped you!
oh well...

Re: Thank you!

[martinoh]

Meh, it's not like I'm ever going to complain about you jumping me :-) Fairly sure that you will have been the intended recipient.

I kinda wish I had gifted you something now...

Re: Thank you!

[embroideredfrog]

LOL! Oh Martinoh, your friendship is a gift...just be my friend forever...that will the best gift ever...:) like lets do a blood pact or at least lets spit and shake on it :D

Re: Thank you!

[martinoh]

I could never refuse a young woman who offered an exchange of bodily fluids. Or more specifically, I always vowed that I wouldn't if the occasion ever arose...

My friendship is yours, Princess, for as long it may amuse you. :-)

Re: Thank you!

[embroideredfrog]

Eh! I don't trust men...especially as friends...HIS story proves it...they all run out on me! :( (and I'm always easily amused ;p)