Bongos (And The Rest Is History)

“So I have this really crappy drum

That sounds like birds flying into a wall

And I’ve tried selling it to musicians

But no one is buying at all.”

“Have you tried sticking two drums together

And giving them a really dumb name?”

“Why, no. Do you think that will help

If they still sound incredibly lame?”

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UK, Past and Future

Back in 1776

The British government

Oppressed its people oh so much

That they off seceding they went.

Now 250 years later

The British somehow find

New things to ban or punish,

Now including the human mind.

In another century or so

When Mars has human dwellers

We’ll see the Union Jack flying

And many space-suitless dwellers

Because the British government

Will long since have outlawed breathing

But the beating hearts and smiles

Will leave the Martian rulers seething.

Then millions of miles away in space

The British will finally see

That the time has come to pull the plug

And finally outlaw tea.

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Dear Car Insurance:

When you have to advertise

Something that everybody buys

Perhaps it would be wise

To consider how the company lies?

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Ou Vous Avez Un Accent Sympa

Si vous comprenez

Vous avez traduisé bien

Avec le Google

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To Repel or To Attract?

We go camping and spray our bodies

With chemicals to keep mosquitoes away,

But maybe instead of repelling them, we

Should hang photos of sexy mosquitoes, ok?

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The Career Ladder

I picked up a career ladder

To get ahead at work,

But wasn’t sure exactly what to do,

So I laid it on its side

Straddled o’er the chasm wide

Between the role of me and that of you.

With the ladder ‘cross the ridge

It became a sort of bridge,

But not one with stability in mind.

I walked across each rung,

Did my job, and held my tongue

And on the other side what did I find?

Well, I must be frank with you:

There was a very similar view

Of a gaping gap between the then and now

But I feel somewhat misled;

I’m no higher nor more ahead

And the ladder-maker won’t say why or how.

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Gyms and Churches Unite!

What if we sold folks

A place they don’t want to go

Then shamed them for it?

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Too Young For MySpace, Too Old For Empathy

When I hear the word

“Instagram” I always think

“These damn kids today…”

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One’m Really Sorry Guys…

There once was a Roman dragoon

Who got stabbed by a harpoon.

The medic said, “He

“Really needs an IV.”

The Roman said, “It’s a four, you buffoon!”

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See Also: Locusts, Floods, Lightning Strikes At Political Rallies…

A zombie apocalypse would be bad,

But if it was just a month or two

We’d probably see society improve

For the ones who made it through.

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