Monthly Archives: November 2012

Saint Andra’s Fault

AnElephantCant tell you too much About St Andrew who is Scotland’s Patron Saint According to tittle tattle He won us a battle So we seem to have no cause for complaint Now Andy is quite a busy chappie He is … Continue reading

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Love is a Many Splintered Thing

AnElephantCant help sometimes wondering About the sort of lady to whom he might be attracted Elegant and tall Or pretty but small It’s hard to tell because he is easily distracted He imagines her being dark and sultry With hair … Continue reading

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Robot de Niro – The Sequel

AnElephantCant say he’s a movie buff In fact he would as soon read a book as Watch a Spielberg epic Or something by Kubrick He’s not fussed by Tarantino or Lucas But today he sees a film that excites him … Continue reading

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I, Elephant

AnElephantCant quite grasp technology He isn’t too bright as you know He is not quite in sync Some things do make him think His brain functions are just a bit slow Now the boffins at Rethink Robotics Have developed a … Continue reading

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Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma

AnElephantCant help killing the great songs With his usual murderous verse You may well have noticed That what he has wrote is Ungrammatical and about to get worse So if these songs were written in Scotland And not the good … Continue reading

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A Myth is as Good as a Smile

AnElephant Can fly over the rainbow He can take you jigging down by Brigadoon He puts his invisible cloak on Talks sense to a leprechaun And eats jam and green cheese from the moon He visits the North Pole to … Continue reading

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Without the Rain There Would be No Rainbow

AnElephantCant help thinking When it rains here everything gets a bit soggy It isn’t like Spain Where it rains mainly on the plain Here it rains in the park and makes it all rather boggy We have 7,943 words to … Continue reading

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The Yorkie Man

Just about the best person I ever met in my life was a Welshman. He was also a Tory1. So, zero from two, as the Americans say. He also, for very good reasons unrelated to the above, hated me with … Continue reading

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Hibernation, Aberration, Consternation, Confabulation

AnElephantCant do hibernation Though he thinks it’s a brilliant idea Because Scotland in winter You don’t want to get into You have to be crazy to venture outside here He thinks hibernation’s a strange word It sounds like an Edinburgh … Continue reading

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Fender Bender in November

AnElephantCant deny that November Of all the months is probably the strangest Although it contains his birthday For what it is worth he Considers it the scariest and certainly most dangerous For a start its name is a misnomer It … Continue reading

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