Not quite poetry for Special_Trille

[samvara]

Two thousand feet above Scotland a tail gunner in a crippled British bomber tears off his burning parachute and clothes and leaps in panic from the airborne inferno. Plummeting naked through the night he thinks he is about to die.

He lands on a deep drift of powdery snow which has settled on some fine spruces. This cushions his fall and he drops through it onto a shingle roof which collapses under him. And finally he lands safely and softly on a thick, warm, eiderdown on a large bed beside a beautiful woman in a nightgown.

At that moment the womans' husband enters the room with a cup of steaming coca and in a sudden jealous rage flings the scalding beverage over the naked airman.

The gunner is reunited with his crew in the burns ward of a London hospital.

MORAL: God punishes those who survive too extravagantly.

Leunig

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Oh, Leunig, how I love thee.

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

From The Travelling Leunig

Nero fiddled while Rome burned!
This was seen as arrogant, indulgent and stupid.
Now, if Nero had been truly smart, he would have organised a fiddling contest while Rome burned
A competition!
A match!!
A FIDDLING DUEL

Nobody would have noticed or cared if Rome was burning. NO WAY! Not with a match in progress.

MORAL: When any sort of contest is in progress, turn away from it, go to the window and look out carefully at the world.

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

He was shot down over scotland (strange geographically considering the location of suitable axis targets, norfolk/suffolk would have been much more plausible) adn then ends up in a burns unit in *london*? Now I know that we don't do distances nearly as well as Australians do but that is a fair old trek, especially in wartime.

I think what really happened was that the gunner was dragged from the burning wreckage of his plane and was administered morphine to stop him screaming. He is now confused about that blurry line between reality and those really funky dreams he had/has/had/has/had/just after 1pm?.

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[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

They were targeting the axis of sporran - this is similar to the axis of levi - it was eventually established that rather than weapons of mass destruction, bad male fashion was a more serious threat to world peace.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Reminder...

Vultures Saturday 7pm.

Fun things may or may not happen :)

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Wahh, Rogaine. Shall be out tromping with K.

This is clearly going to be one of those love affairs conducted over long distances