... And the rocks are smooth and gray

And all the woods and the valleys rang
With the Chorus they daily and nightly sang, —
"Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and the hands are blue
And they went to sea in a sieve.

😀😊

Ah, Edward Lear!
"
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
By Edward Lear
I
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"

II
Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-Tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.

III
"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon."

They don't write 'em like that anymore!
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While trying to find one book on line, I found another I had forgotten I'd had, of Edward Lears' nonsense poems, this one printed in 1938. Only recognized it by the inside cover. Sadly that one has disappeared long ago (probably in the flood with the other one.)
JB

Re - Apropos JB
The days when nonsense ruled Doug and we had fun, 😂 I read the 'Walrus and the Carpenter' and 'Jabberwocky' only a few months ago so as to top up my slowly depleting humour tank Used to have 'The Big Book Of Nonsense Poems' (original illustrated 50s printing) when I was kid but it was destroyed in a garage flood (along with my fathers' 1940s RNZAF gazette). Had hundreds of poems and was about 2" thick and was a real pity to loose them.
You will remember these ones from Ed Lear and Lew Carroll -

Long years ago
The Dong was happy and gay,
Till he fell in love with a Jumbly Girl
Who came to those shores one day.
For the Jumblies came in a sieve, they did, —
Landing at eve near the Zemmery Fidd
Where the Oblong Oysters grow,
And the rocks are smooth and gray .........

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe …

and hundreds more. Must hunt out a copy.
JB

Apropos JB,
"“Will you walk a little faster?”
said a whiting to a snail.
“There’s a porpoise close behind us,
and he’s treading on my tail."
....
Will you, won’t you, will you,
won’t you, won’t you join the dance?”

https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-mock-turtles-song/
Lewis Carroll.
Puerile nonsense or very clever allegorical word / homophone play with a social comment background?
😁😂
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Like my last Forum signature Rick,
"Young at heart - slightly older in other places!" 😉
Hope I can change back to this soon!
Cheers, Doug 😎
PS Had the sign in the pic on my office desk for several years.
Now it's above my PC desk😁

Hi Bill,
I am glad you liked it.
As you say a good sense of humour is defiantly required at the moment.

Martin555.

Hi Martin.
Glad it titillates the palate 😂😂👍.
I was looking at you scratch build HMS Exeter you built....fine model.
Being an Exeter resident it’s good to see.
Keep smiling.
I couldn’t survive without a good sense of humour.
Regards Bill.

Hi Bill,
That little sketch has made me look a my dog in a different way.LOL!!!

Martin555.

Well said JB.
Love every word of it.
Hope the situation is improving in your part of the world.
Happy sailing.
Regards Bill

This is why I like this forum we are old but young at heart.Baby boomer's for ever and laugh we will.
Rick

Re "puerile adjective 1 of or relating to a child or to childhood.
2 childishly foolish; immature or trivial"

Would 'The Walrus And The Carpenter', or 'The Hunting Of The Snark' be puerile Doug? sort of fit the description. 😁 We're all getting old and need a laugh cos we're running out of time to have one. If we didn't laugh we'd cry, then we'd be sad, then we'd need a laugh, if we got a laugh we'd be happy ad infinitum. like-

why are fire engines red?
because there are 12 inches in a foot
a foot is a ruler
a ruler was queen Mary
Queen Mary was a ship
a ship sails on the sea
there are fish in the sea
there are fins on the fish
the fins fought the Russians
the Russians are red
fire engines are always rushin
that's why they're red

Puerile nuff for ya 😀😁😊😂 or-

News flash from Gotham City!
Batman and Robin have been plagued by middle aged obesity and have taken up a milk run, with Robin pulling the cart while Batman steers. " we get a few funny looks" said Batman, "but we do feel a bit put out when early risers refer to us as Fatman and Dobbin"

Nite all, lie back and think of England😁😂 and as Luke Skywalker said to Han Solo, "watch out for the WuhanfluHan"
JB

I agree with the other guys a build log would be very interesting.

Martin555.

Wow! Mammoth! Where, how, WHY have you been hiding her?
You MUST do a blog Bill👍
I have a couple of 1/350 kits of the Colossus Class carriers.
One I intend to build as the original HMS Vengeance, and the other as she was upgraded with angled flight deck etc for the Brazilian NAel Minas Gerais. 'Kit bashing'😁
I worked on the refit of MG in the nineties. She served until 2004!
Victorious went through a similar process.
My long term dream (Next life🙄) is a 1/72 version of Ark Royal!
Have a huge plan covering the bookcase in a corner of my lounge😉
One has to have dreams! Or ...?
Cheers, Doug 😎

Yes. A blog would be very good. Looking forward to seeing it.
Peter.

Agreed Doug.
Back to sailing.
Thanks to a 24 knot wind speed when I opened the shed door I managed to land a couple of Stringbags on Victorious deck today.
Must get around to doing a blog but keep forgetting to take in progress pictures.
Happy sailing, when we can.
Bill

Brilliant! 😂😂😂😂
I wish I could give that a whole bunch of Likes Bill👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Where on Earth did you find that?
'Carry On Sailors' 😉
All the best, Doug 😎
PS I very much enjoyed visiting the States in the 80s and early 90s. East Coast from Boston to Miami.
But it's not a place I'd want to visit now I'm afraid🤔 Great shame.

Well said Doug

Well said Doug.
Carry on laughing people.
Regards Bill

"puerile
adjective
1 of or relating to a child or to childhood.
2 childishly foolish; immature or trivial"

Considering the underlying danger of the current situation and personality of the 'gentleman' whose actions prompted Newby to start this thread, I would not consider it either puerile or political.
Rather more, expressions of our concern expressed with humour and some pointed wit.
I am neither Republican nor Democrat, not even American, maybe Jonty is?
All I want is to live in a safe world where I can go out, when I want, and peacefully sail my boats and enjoy my retirement without being bombed, shot by terrorists or catching the lurgy!

I suppose by Jonty's definition all Cabaret is puerile as well!🙄
But then Cabaret needs to be understood and thought about!

"You can't please all of the people all of the time,"
but I'm happy to see that we obviously please many of the people much of the time😊
Keep it up folks👍
Doug 😎
Enough of the Soap Box, back to Model Ships😁
Here endeth the party political broadcast on behalf of the Free Model Boat Builders Society.😂

I am sure with Covid 19 lockdowns we all need to loosen up. In South Africa I am only allowed to buy essential goods. Whilst this is a model boats website we are all feeling the strain of the lockdown and it takes a sense of humour to get through this lot

Why is it political to talk about things so outrageous people could die if they went along with the idea?
Rick

Doug.
I concur with your comments.
If you go by the Oxford dictionary’s definition of Puerile then there are many Puerile comments on here, all posted with the good humour that they were intended with no offence to anyone.
The day we stop that sense of humour will be a sad one, especially under the current circumstances, and climate.
Keeps us young at heart oldies young.
Back off to the boat shed 👍👍
Bill.

"This sort of puerile political comment will alienate as many people as it amuses. "
I guess we'll just have to take that risk Jonty. Although I don't believe that many of us share your opinion. Sorry you see it that way.
An 'excellent contribution' for your first post in eight years!?👎
This thread is clearly in the 'Non Hobby Chat' section so you don't have to read it if you don't want to.
Doug.

This is meant to be a model boats website. This sort of puerile political comment will alienate as many people as it amuses.

The real problem is that people vote for him.

Nerys

It's called Donald (&) Duck😊😊

Hard to believe that the "Donald" was saying the use of disinfectant's in the body was sarcasm when it is clear he is looking at one of the medical people at the update and not media .There were hundreds of calls to ask if it was OK to
use disinfectant as a cure makes me wonder if the man has a full deck or if his elevator goes to the top the lights are on but no one is home.But LETS Make America Great Again.
Rick

Roosevelt must be spinning in his grave!🤔
😎
https://www.gocomics.com/stevebenson/2020/04/01

"on the way up the loft to search for the books"
If you're not back down within the week Marky we'll send up a search party with food, water and medicine for laugh cramps!😉
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2020/04/26
😎

It will be interesting to see how the presidential elections pan out in a few month's time.
Cheers, Nerys

Thank you Fleet.
Cheers (on the way up the loft to search for the books)Marky👍

Specially for Marky,😁
http://www.sparklyprettybriiiight.com/theyre-back-the-return-of-calvin-and-hobbes/








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"...and he knows more than all his generals .."
A certain son of an Austrian Customs official thought the same Rick!🙄
Doug

Black humour for black times Bill👍
But you've gotta laugh at him - or just cry for humanity.
Doug

Just great I'm glad we do have him when it come to humor for he is a legend in his own mind and he knows more than all his generals to bad he never learned the do's and don'ts about bleach
Rick

Agreed.
The man is a danger to all other humans.
Enjoy a little laughter at his expense.
Take care all and be safe.
Regards Bill

Trouble is with his attitude he could very easily start a war👎👎Apart from killing some of his people with non advisory health practices🤞🤞

Calvin and Hobbs ,ya beauty 😂😂😂
Cheers Marky 👍

No great trouble with German Rick.
But with French. Daydreamed about my latest model project most of the time.
(Many of my early Airfix 1/600 ships went the way of those in the attached cartoon!)
Only time I paid attention was the year we had a rather tasty young French girl as an exchange teacher 😋😍
😎

Trouble in German you say.

Sei entschuldigt und vergeben Swanee😉
I had the same trouble in French lessons!🤔
Failed French but got an A in German😁
Cheers, Doug 😎
Tschüss!

I bow to your superior knowledge herr professor. I spelt Mengele wrong as well. I should have spent more time listening to the German teacher and less time dreaming about model aeroplanes.

I think you are mistaken Swanee🤔
Actually Josef Mengele (Angel of Death) drowned in 1979 off the coast of Brazil, São Paulo state.
Apparently he had a stroke while swimming.
His remains were exhumed and positively identified in 1985.
Doug

Unless I am mistaken, didn't Dr Mengeler experiment with injecting victims in Auschwitz with Phenol and similar substances. The result for him was a length of rope courtesy of the Nuremberg trials. A point to ponder!!!!

Absolutely Rick - the man is deranged, a danger to his own people.
We can only hope he is the first to try it - Leading by example!
I saw the press conference where he said that.
The expression on the face of the medical advisor present was a picture - of pure horror!
Doug.

If Donald says it’s right it’s gotta be 😂😂😂😂😂