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Bedroom Chancer
By Mr_E_Writer
13 August 2008

Forget metre and beat - I'm using the rhythm method.








I've put on a few years; some might call me a codger,
but I think I look fit in my Y-fronts and vest
as I dance a striptease for my young Swedish lodger.
  And they say "age matures" so I'll give it my best,
cos her well-rounded breasts put some fire in me todger;
so I'll pull out my cutlass and plunder her chest.
  Now my wife's at the door and there's no way to dodge 'er
cos I'm flat on me back from a cardiac arrest.
  Oh bugger it all, there'll be no Jolly Roger!
  


Reviews
Laughing . . .
Written by Katanga (1537 comments posted) 13th August 2008
. . . so much I dropped my lighted cigarette into a pile of tissues (needed for weeping at GW works!) and papers (printouts of weepy GW works) and damned nearly set fire to my house! 
 
I hope patterjack (Brian) appreciates our efforts! 
 
Yo! Ho! 
 
Still chortling at yours! 
 
(got another ciggy on the go!) 
 
John X

Written by Josie (2847 comments posted) 13th August 2008
The women on this website will have painted a mental picture of you all right Eric. ha ha We'll send you out to Queensland to do some surfing and get those muscles bronzed in the sun. That'll help.
Well, Josie . . .
Written by Katanga (1537 comments posted) 13th August 2008
. . . . where's that poem you promised in your sweet review of my effort? 
 
lol 
 
Cheers! 
 
John X 
 
BTW Have you given up 'Ha! Ha!' for 'lol'? 
 
A shame if so . . . Ha! Ha!
I am, I am -
Written by Josie (2847 comments posted) 13th August 2008
John, I told you I have been concentrating on the 7 deadly sins, and today's subject was "lust". Envy was the first one - see children's website. It's your turn now.
Right!
Written by Katanga (1537 comments posted) 13th August 2008
I'm off to never-never land! 
 
Cheers! 
 
John X
A bash . . .
Written by Katanga (1537 comments posted) 13th August 2008
. . . I will have at it! 
 
'Lust' for little ones? Now there's a challenge indeed! 
 
If the poor teacher ever gets past explaining the concept . . .  
 
lol 
 
John X

Written by punchy (535 comments posted) 13th August 2008
Another cracker, I love the codger ,dodger,todger etc rhymes, keep it up! :p
Ha Ha
Written by fellpony (1751 comments posted) 13th August 2008
Very witty and I liked the way you kept the rhymes going throughout!

Written by Veronica_Milvus (768 comments posted) 13th August 2008
Agree with Punchy - the todger rhymes were inspiredly wicked. Good work and so, so erotic!

Written by Veronica_Milvus (768 comments posted) 13th August 2008
Agree with Punchy - the todger rhymes were inspiredly wicked. Good work and so, so erotic!

Written by Phil (7001 comments posted) 13th August 2008
Enjoyed. What a way to go! 
 
Phil
Forget metre and beat, Eric?
Written by Brett (1001 comments posted) 13th August 2008
This is mainly written in anapaests!  
 
A very enjoyable piece that had me laughing - almost to the point of my own cardiac! 
 
Cheers
Great piece of verse BUT
Written by patterjack (1435 comments posted) 13th August 2008
The real killer humour is in the title and the epigraph !!! 
 
Greatly enjoyed ! 
 
patterjack

Written by Mr_E_Writer (225 comments posted) 14th August 2008
Oh, my dear friends, such high praise indeed! To which I feel I must respond. And yet… there remain far too many of you to mention by name. 
 
John, to whom I shall ever be indebted for burning down the Wigan palladium during my highly unsuccessful run as Hamlet in William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet (the bastard producer having given me the wrong script!).  
 
Josie, who - armed only with a copy of the King James Bible and a bottle of fake tan - single-handedly turned me from a flabby middle-aged heathen into a beautifully honed bronzed Adonis. One can but wonder what might have happened had she seen fit to use both hands!)  
 
Punchy, who, whilst endeavouring to assist me in keeping it up, was always happy to pull my cracker. 
 
The fell pony, who on numerous occasions expressed her admiration for the fact that I had managed to keep my rhythm throughout (and never once felt the urge to confess our relationship to her fellow fillies at my daughter’s pony club). 
 
Veronica, who, akin to the charming punchy, felt my todger to be inspiringly wicked and so, so erotic (if only she‘d known that it wasn‘t really mine. I had only borrowed it for the weekend).  
 
Phil, a man of few words who, even so, was still able to express his admiration of my final performance.  
 
Brett, a fellow bard who advised me that I wrote like an anapaed, danced like a centipede, talked like an animal do, and who, sadly, whilst watching my performance of Macbeth in Some Mothers Do Much Ado About Having Them, laughed himself into an early grave.  
 
And, finally, patter jack. A fellow thespian who admired my epigraph and wrote my epitaph (even though I was still much alive!). As with all of the fellow’s works it was a beautifully scripted piece of literature. Just two simple words: HERE LIES. As if I would! One likes to believe that he would have written more about me if only he’d known who I was. Yet such was the price of fame; far too expensive for one such as I. 
 
Old soldiers may never die, but old codgers? Adieu, my friends, adieu.  
 
* At least this way no one can accuse me of pushing my review numbers up by answering you all personally.

Written by Mr_E_Writer (225 comments posted) 14th August 2008
Oh, and Josie, before you form any more images of me, I am not really an old codger, I am simply a young(ish) man playing a role in the theatre of life. 
;)

Written by punchy (535 comments posted) 14th August 2008
That is most impressive review responce I have read on this site, I almost feel me finger edging towards the return button out of respect ;)  

Written by punchy (535 comments posted) 14th August 2008
Woopsie
Written by punchy (535 comments posted) 14th August 2008

Written by coosh (923 comments posted) 14th August 2008
Delightful! Brilliant set-up and a cracking finish! Great stuff.

Written by Mr_E_Writer (225 comments posted) 15th August 2008
Coosh, my sincere thanks go out to you for offering such kind words. 
As you know, I am not one for long drawn-out replies, preferring to err on the side of succinct whenever possible. Yet I recall that my good friend Crissy Lee (who you will no doubt remeber from his role in the classic film Some Like It Not, in which he starred alongside Marilyn Manson; her very first portrayal of the lesbian monocyclist Penelope Layby, a role for which she would later win an Oscar. Crissy, of course, played the part of Count Drabula, for which he won the Oscar for Best Male Lead in a second-hand suit. I, myself, played the much underated part of 3rd shoeshine boy; a cameo of my role of 1st shoeshine boy in the legendary film The Grandmother, alongside Dusty Hoffmeister; who played the Oscar-winning part of Mafia boss Don Quixote). 
So, as I was saying, I recall that my good Oscar-winning friend Crissy Lee comes walking up to me, smoking a huge Cuban cigar (that must have set him back plenty!) and wearing a massive grin upon his fabulous, rugged, ladies-man, playboy features, and he says to me, ever so succinctly, "Bugger off, fatty". 
And on that note, I shall do just that. 

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