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Lost Property
By Bagheera
23 June 2006
Sometimes you just hear things and think “As a writer of fiction, you wouldn’t dare to make it up ... !”

I heard a “filler” on a Radio 4 News bulletin about some things people have managed to forget on Public Transport ..... as I listened, the following ditty suggested itself, and the melody was suggested by my febrile imagination!

Lost Property



To the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, please!
Perhaps someone else can come up with suggestions for subsequent verses??



To the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, please!Perhaps someone else can come up with suggestions for subsequent verses??
On the First bus from Clapham, I lost when I got off:  a jar full of fresh bull’s sperm
On the Second ...........................................................:   two rubber boats, and .........
On the Third   ............................................................:   three dead bats,
On the Fourth  ...........................................................:    four blow-up dolls


Who said Truth was Stranger than Fiction???????????



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So that's what stuck to the seats...
Written by Leo (573 comments posted) 23rd June 2006
I caught a similar bulletin that pointed out that in the central lost property office of one of the main train operators they had a room full of prosthetic limbs that people had left behind... you would notice if you'd left your leg behind ....wouldn't you?

Written by brook_rivers (486 comments posted) 25th June 2006
great post bags!!! 
made me chuckle! 
 
brook

Written by jsyingling (31 comments posted) 11th July 2006
Rubber boats and inflatable boats is a little redundant. Leo's prosthetic limbs has a nice flow to replace five golden rings. Where exactly is Clapham?
oops!
Written by Bagheera (685 comments posted) 11th July 2006
:eek .... should have been "four inflatable dolls" :roll  
 
Clapham is a junction on the rail network on the outskirts of London: the theory is that from Clapham you can go literally ANYWHERE ....... for this reason, in music, the chord built on the fourth inversion of the subtonic is often called the "Clapham Junction" chord. 
In the key of C major, it would be the chord Bflat7 [Bb - D - F - A] with an A as the bass note 
 
Sorry I didn't check my original posting! :grin

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