Donkeys Cheat At Cards, Wizard Award Options

[AMETHYST]

Hi James...


This is brilliant. I loved the Disclaimer as well. I needed a light hearted, down in the deepest of my soul laughter and smile, and I enjoyed the talent and poetic skills that went into creating such a piece of poetry.

I found the rhymes so enjoyable. The story line held well and it, in itself, quite entertaining. I see that you've made some improvements and I have nothing to add at this time to improve it further. I will, however be back for the gift of happiness and smiles.

Big Hugs, Liz

[Guest_Jox_*]

My apologies to Cathy, Maxim, Liz,

Somehow this simply slipped off my radar. I'm away tomorrow but as soon as I can I'll reply to all three of you. Thanks very much, J.

[Guest_Don_*]

Hi again Jox/James,

Loved your little ditty.  Your glossary helped a great deal.  Our entertainment characters have other names.  Maybe a cross-the-pond litigation agreement?

I will take issue with what we Americans call "jelly."  Jello is eaten like pudding; whereas, jelly is a sweet spread for bread or toast and without fruit chunks.  I refrain from gettting into jam, preserves, etc. due to potential litigation by some unkown brand that needs a stock boost via publicity.

Cooks also use jello in pies.  Our jelly looks like jello, but spreads like peanut butter; whereas, jello just jiggles, which makes me giggle.

Don

[Guest_Jox_*]

Hi Don,

Thanks for popping-in; good to see you; how are you now?

>D>Loved your little ditty.  

Thank you.

>D>Your glossary helped a great deal.  Our entertainment characters have other names.  Maybe a cross-the-pond litigation agreement?

LOL. Thanks but I knew a lot of the terms were very British so this needed some explanation. (Sooty, Sweep and Soo, by the way are glove puppets and (Soo excepted) have been around about as long as me.

>D>I will take issue with what we Americans call "jelly."  Jello is eaten like pudding; whereas, jelly is a sweet spread for bread or toast and without fruit chunks.  I refrain from gettting into jam, preserves, etc. due to potential litigation by some unkown brand that needs a stock boost via publicity.

Well I won't disagree with an American about an American term. Thanks for the clarification. Here, if a jam is labelled "jelly" it means it has virtually no pieces of whiole fruit in - so that is the same - but most jams do have fruit pieces in. "Jello" is unknown. "Jelly" usually means a dessert which wobbles. But jelly can also be aspic and so on.

>D>Cooks also use jello in pies.  

That is the aspic / meat type.

>D>Our jelly looks like jello, but spreads like peanut butter; whereas, jello just jiggles, which makes me giggle.

LOL. Two cultures divided by a common language again!

Thanks Don - and again, great to see you.

James.

Don

[Guest_Don_*]

>>LOL. Two cultures divided by a common language again!<<

Yeah, we have the same divide between our North and South, East and West.  A nation can have too much geography for its own good.

Don

[Guest_Jox_*]

Hi Don,

Maybe but we're too squashed-up here; sixty million people in an area smaller than almost all your states is too many.

Mind you, we've also had strong regional variations - listen to some of Mike (Billydo)'s slang - I don't understand it and he is only about eighty miles from where I was born - and my Mother was born in his area. I think tv, the Net and general cultural globalisation are killing these regional differences but they still exist as of today. Vive la difference! As our neighbours say.

J.

[Guest_Don_*]

Good morn (probably past noon for you) James,

I was kidding about the size of geography making lingual differences--as you well know.

The answer is "living language," no?

Speaking of the French attempt to nail theirs into a coffin of purity, a fellow codger I supped with yesterday evening expressed the attitude that nothing worthwhile exists between Germany and England.  "A buffer zone between Europe and the English Channel," was his summation.

I did not take the opportunity to debate the point as I do not speak French at all.

How quickly we forget our debt to the French in wrestling away from King George.  For a country touting diversity, we have a large percentage of biggots.  Why should we be different, expressing elimination of biggotry while encouraging it?

That is my summation of attempted globalization to erase differences for a world class population devoid of national boundaries.  The expression I remembr is, a man convinced against his will is of the same mind still.

Cheers

Don

[Cleo_Serapis]

Congrats James on your wizard award winning tile!

Well done!

~Cleo :)

[Guest_Nina_*]

Hi J

Congratulations on another Wizard Award.  You are collecting them by the armful today.  There must be some reet powerful magic in the air with all those wizards on the loose.   I wonder if they'll conjure up a dragon for you.

Nina

[Guest_Jox_*]

Hi Lori,

Thank you very much indeed. Appreciated.

J.

[Guest_Jox_*]

Hi Nina,

So it seems (though two are for older works - I've been less prolific of late).

But there is a problem... wizards are pesky critters and can be a reet nuisance in numbers. One threatens to turn another into a toad, he responds by making washing machines freeze and freezers spin - you know the sort of thing. Easier to deal with in singles. But I've never met a wizard in a singles' bar. Mind you, I've never been in one. A singles' bar, that is.

J.

[Guest_Nina_*]

Hi J

>J>But there is a problem... wizards are pesky critters and can be a reet nuisance in numbers. One threatens to turn another into a toad, he responds by making washing machines freeze and freezers spin - you know the sort of thing.

It's all that testosterone flying around, each one fighting to be  alpha male -or Supreme Wizard, trying to outspell each other.   Who knows what could happen.  You could come home to find your house has been turned into a giant scone.


>J>Easier to deal with in singles. But I've never met a wizard in a singles' bar. Mind you, I've never been in one. A singles' bar, that is.

no, I've never met a wizard in a single's bar, though come to think of it I've never been in one either, have been in a gay bar but not seen any wizards there either.

Nina

[Guest_Jox_*]

Hi Nina,

Thanks for popping-back. :)

>N> It's all that testosterone flying around, each one fighting to be  alpha male -or Supreme Wizard, trying to outspell each other.   Who knows what could happen.  You could come home to find your house has been turned into a giant scone.

OK, I can live with that - providing it is a current scone; not a plain one. (I need the current to power my pc).

>N> no, I've never met a wizard in a single's bar, though come to think of it I've never been in one either, have been in a gay bar but not seen any wizards there either.

You should look harder! They are the ones with the leather cones on their heads, "A Fish Called Wand-a" enblazned on their gowns and can be seen struttin' their stuff to the 1960s' strains of Limmie & The Family Cookin' singing "You Can Do Magic" (or the hardcore gay Warlocks will be jivin' to Pilot's 1970s' hit "Magic," (complete with glam-rock outfit, of course).

TTFN, J.

[Guest_Nina_*]

Hi J

>J>You should look harder! They are the ones with the leather cones on their heads, "A Fish Called Wand-a" enblazned on their gowns and can be seen struttin' their stuff to the 1960s' strains of Limmie & The Family Cookin' singing "You Can Do Magic" (or the hardcore gay Warlocks will be jivin' to Pilot's 1970s' hit "Magic," (complete with glam-rock outfit, of course).

Ah no wonder I didn't notice them.  Those ballroom gowns did confuse me  I thought they were just a bunch of drag queens singing along to  a medley of "It's A Kind of Magic"  followed by "Fat bottomed Girls" "I Want to Break Free" and "I Want it All"  

Nina