It’s time for this weeks bit of panic poetry in the form of Chelsea Owens weekly Terrible Poetry competition.
Here are the specifics for this week:
- Topic: Stockpiling against a worldwide disaster, in limerick form.
- Length: A limerick. They’re five lines: AABBA, in anapestic meter.
- Rhyming: Yes. In AABBA anapestic meter format.
- Make it terrible! Got it? Make it terrible!! The world’s ending, after all!
- Rating: PG-13. This is the perfect time to panic …poetically.
You have till 8:00 a.m. MST next Friday (March 20) to submit a poem to Chelsea.
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Shelves stripped bare including the Gluten free
Load your boot with every single last frozen pea
You can keep your 10 year supply of toilet roll
Fill your trolley with all the Chicken casserole
But keep your pigging hands off my Yorkshire Tea
Yorkshire tea! 😃 I love it. It made me laugh. Andrew’s uncle ran out of toilet “rolls.” When you use the term toilet “rolls” I think of dinner rolls… and I don’t think they should be anywhere in the vicinity of the W/C (lol) But then we say toilet paper, and I’m sure that could conjure up some imagery as well. I just typed this in your search box. Oops. Nothing came up! Lol…
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Pleased you laughed. Now that dinner roll has made me laugh. x
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Good! 😊
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funny Gary
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Thank you
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Yes!!!!
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Horrible! Not the poetry, I mean the tea…🤣😂 I prefer coffee myself.
Everyone has *something* they can’t live without😉
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I’m a coffee person but I’ve been off it for months.
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To avoid all the germs in the store
Gladys ate a bluebird and a boar
She washed down that pig
With an isolated swig
That socially infected her snout with a stout.
You did say BAD?!?
Traffic was so light yesterday
Officer Joe met his mistress to play
But his wife had a fever
And before he could leave her
He’d slipped his virus in her beaver.
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That’s brilliant
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Not a p g tips man then? 🐵
😆😆😆
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From Yorkshire……
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Oh yes .. of course!
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Is work getting madder….
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Yep. Posted last night, it’s been such a week all round. The ever changing nature of this and the fact that no-one knows what to do is very tough for all. Just trying to go with the tide!!
Hope you are ok x
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I guess that’s all we can do. x
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Lol!! They hadnae taken every last pea in that shop called Aldi–sorry, largely cos it looked as if the bag of peas had been fought over and burst …all over the actual last pack of frozen veg which I got… I must say today the gods were favoring me!! I never thought tae see the day when I thought that finding that last packet oh and getting 9 rolls of loo roll in Iceland after seeing this guy wheeling a trolley out of there with a set on top— I had to discreetly bound in and round the shop before the entire car park saw him… would mean the gods had smiled upon me.
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It’s good to have those wins every so often.
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Espesh as i had just come out the co-op…nae flour there either and I was heading back to the car which it had taken god knows how long to get a space for, when this guy wheeled out of Iceland with guess what on top of his trolley… Who would have thought in the good old days the site of a bog roll could engender such joy either? You have no idea how I had to contain myself as I headed for Iceland and when I got in the door, in order not to alert half the car park and get trampled underfoot in the rush….
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These are strange times. Hopefully it will slowly settle down and a balance will be found again. It feels like we panic then the buffoon stokes it more and we panic even more.
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The worst of this is the panic and utter hysteria. The worst of this is the way people swallow every screaming press headline and got spew out down and panic some more. For me what it seems this is really about is a shortage of all the NHS necessaries to deal with this on a scale past a certain level. Some very interesting stuff out there now about Italy and the decisions that have had to be made. I makes sense to me cos there’s no abatement there. Despite the lockdown the corpses still mount???? And when did this gov ever care about anyone, especially the vulnerable??? What they really care about I reckon is not looking bad when announcements get made– like the one that was just made about an hour ago about how one hospital no longer has the capacity to treat… So let’s lock everyone down –and play ducks and drakes with their livelihoods– in the hope of containing a spread we cannot possibly deal with cos we never invested sufficiently in the NHS. The thing is not one of them has a bloody clue. While having time for Sturgeon her comment today about Scots on the hole were not clearing shelves or something to that effect is utter rubbish and could only be uttered by someone who plainly did not attempt to set foot in five shops yesterday, all with damn all to be had. Also despite this delivery stuff… I ain’t seen a single lorry delivering anything and if it is being delivered and put on the shelves at night, how come the pensioners who are first in the next day are being greeted by empty shelves? there are unsung key workers who cannot get a single item. Just how long are they gonna go on being key workers.? Gimme a break here.
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It feels like some joined up and out of the box thinking is required. That’s not going to happen here. The panic buying should have been dealt with by the PM. Shame we haven’t got one.
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Led by donkeys sure enuff. BUT hey let’s not worry there’s to be a golden hour in the supermarkets for the key workers. If it is anything like the pension’er hour they should not hold their breaths.
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At least they will get discounts on what left.
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That was no very much the other day…
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Today is better…..
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Awfully good.
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And you even rhymed this week! Have you tried Amazon for the tea? Sigh.
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Working my way through a rival brand now.
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👍
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The non vegans have taken all the soya and almond milk in Aldi! I was a bit miffed but maybe it will be the start of a conversion so I shouldn’t mind! And did you see that there was an almost boycott of Yorkshire tea after the Chancellor posed with a box and they had to say they weren’t affiliated to any political party!
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My online came without any gluten, meat, dairy free stuff. Must have been completely stripped. Suddenly we have a lot more on the diet….
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Which under normal circumstances might be something to celebrate, I am usually pleased to see vegan stuff selling out, but I keep thinking they will have other options when we only have these so it is a bit annoying, we drink a lot of smoothies and cereal in our house!
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I was trying to but the ingredients I like are getting harder to get hold of.
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An epic for the ages.
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Thank you
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I’ve never tried this brand of tea but after reading your earlier post, I kept a look out for it in our supermarket. It doesn’t have the one in your featured image but we do have the Yorkshire Gold.
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They are similar. Gold doesn’t taste quite so strong. Many can’t tell the difference.
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Lol.. love this..really made me smile
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I’m pleased.
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Fantastic! Nice to have some fun in these strange times!!!
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Thanks. Yes fun will keep us going hopefully
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Awesome..not so terrible 😊
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Thank you
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Excellent.
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Thank you sir
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Great job 🙂
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Thanks Robyn. Hope the home schooling is still survivable.
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HA! Yeah, every grocery store seems to be out of something. By us, it was eggs and lunchmeat. Plenty of toilet paper at the hardware store, though…???
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At least your imagination will still be fully stocked. Just need to find the time to visit it with a pen. x
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Forgive my ignorance but what the heck is Yorkshire tea? Educate me.
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It’s a blended black tea
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Aw, very good. I love English Breakfast tea, and also Earl Grey and also Green Tea … you see where this is going, right? LOL
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I can see a pattern developing x
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Tea takes up the top shelf of our pantry ahaha
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It’s funny that A few months back my shelves where full of coffee. Now it’s full of decaf tea.
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My daughters both love a wide variety of tea, and often gift me with a variety. Hence the full shelf of tea. I do, however, also have a jar of coffee, as well as packages for perking. I do like a coffee from time to time, but mostly it’s tea.
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It’s not a bad thing to have in store. Makes things a little brighter with cup of something hot. Even just making it takes my mind off things.
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Several people sent me a voice recording on Facebook of a doctor’s advice concerning this virus and apparently it is really good for you to take a sip of something warm every 20 minutes – apparently the virus doesn’t respond well to heat. There’s a bunch of other advice, some of it very stringent. But glad to hear it if things get any worse. If you’d like I will try to figure out how to send it. I am a little bit technically challenged, but learning all the time.
Tea is very comforting as well as healing in some instances.
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Just holding a warm cup is so reassuring as well.
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Especially on cold days 🙂
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Absolutely x
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Hahaha, that’s so well done. I think you don’t succeed this time because it is fantastic (not terrible)… lol!
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Thank you x
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You are so welcome!
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Thank you x
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You are welcome, Gary 😊
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🙏
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Oh yes! We must have our cuppa! ❤
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Need one now
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Indeed…❤
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❤😊
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Thank you
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You’re welcome
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If not toilet paper, what do you intend to use? 😀
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Who knows
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You do have rather long grass…
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Ok I will cut the grass.
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This is a huge improvement over your usual bad poetry. It probably only qualifies as adequate.
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Adequate is the new gold standard.
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I love it. We love Yorkshire Tea but can only get it at one shop here in Oregon.
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Oregon. Wow Yorkshire has reached far. Hope your staying safe.
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