Verse And Worse

Random Wit, Errant Rhyme. Not A Literary Crime

You gotta love the tale of the lonely Cinderella
Who went to the ball and met a handsome fella
But the ugly stepsisters who tried to encroach
Were thwarted by the footmen and the pumpkin coach

Verse And Worse

Random Wit, Errant Rhyme. Not A Literary Crime

So when Pumpkin and Pecan received the Presidential pardon
They were pampered in first class, to Disneyland’s best garden
Send 'em to a sanctuary, wrote animal rights group PETA
While the Fed computed the cost, using tan, cosec and theta

Otherwise Engaged

Pumpkin's In The Soup

How long ya bin on the phone line, ya pumpkin? AT&T phone technician David Cooper said it was the first time he'd disconnected a pumpkin - this one was hanging on the Stiger family's telephone wire in Chickasaw, Alaska. For five months, the Stigers had watched it grow from a blossom on neighbouring vacant land. The vine climbed the fence, made its way up the phone line, then started producing what was until last week a 19-kilogram orange orb dangling from the phone line.

FOOTNOTE: Hang on, speak to the pumpkin.