Well, folks! It seems I have again started something---could it be "amusing claptrap'" I am myself guilty of disseminating? Or is it just conservative drivel? Anyway, I have had to go to the bottom of the barrel to find these relatively clean ones! I hope someone gets a needed laugh, though I have probably managed to insult several people anyway!! Laughter is potent medicine, I believe. I am happy that Camilla and I can agree on something! And Rayilyn the history buff, too!! I will take credit (?) for the first one written for my academically accomplished nurse friend previously mentioned. A lady's going to school, if you please, Where nurses can get PhD's-- But 'twill will be perfectly plain If she cracks from the strain, That she exhausted herself by degrees! --- Two spinster ladies from Fordham Went for a long walk and it bored 'em, 'Till on their way back A sex maniac Leaped out from some bushes--- and ignored 'em. --- Said a monkey as he swung by his tail, To his offspring, both male and female: "From your progeny my dears In a few thousand years May evolve a professor at Yale." --- There was a young lady from Ryde Who was carried out to sea by the tide. Said a reverent shark: "I knew that by dark, If I prayed, the Lord would provide!" --- There once was a maid from Madras Who had a most beautiful ass. Not round and pink As you probably think. It was gray, had long ears, and ate grass! By the way folks, thanks for adding to my collection! If you by chance have any (as I do) that aren't "suitable" for posting send them to me personally. It will give me something to do during my "off periods". Cheers Don A ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn