Each voyage was worse than the last - lashes and keelhauls increased - but the captain's eyes overbrimmed with surprise when they chucked him off the mast!
image: Pinterest
inspiration: Elbow from
Tables Turned
Tag: humour
Fourmation
My randomly-generated acrostic word for today is Form. Four letters, four lines required, fine! But the word, like many others, has different meanings so I decided to play around with four of them. One, at least, is a riddle. Even more confusingly, the picture I’ve chosen to illustrate the topic bears no relationship to any of them!
Fresh each day I make big plans to change, overlooking Habit's sticking power - right I tell myself you're now a new man who can - but I can't above an hour! flux is drift outcomes shift rock-beds rift mountains lift fast as the wind out boxing in spring rather long ears my home starts these lines First in every subject always was his biggest boast. Outdoing classmates easily, well, he began to coast. Real life came hard, without the prestige he was lost. Me, I knew that being Number One came at a cost.
image: Zoho
inspiration: Form from
A is for Ass
Acme products always win, depending on the punter's pin - voting for the name on top elects the chump who'll be a flop - read the list as far as first to hire the cowboy that's the worst - if you'd like to laze today, select the alphabetic way - employ wild chance and start to pray!
image: TwistedSifter
inspiration: Advertise from
Power Play
OK for satires to fly from the low in rank to the high - from the high to the low each joke is a blow - no matter how funny don't flaunt that money!
image: SoundCloud
inspiration: Offend from
Let’s Dance!
Bopping the night away, Lavinia sleeps in the day - As soon as it's dark She's hitting the park Till dawn when she hits the hay.
image: Peninsula Doctor
inspiration: BLAST from
The Silent Majority
Quentin plays death-metal loud, until neighbours come in a crowd - impounding his hifi, extinguishing wifi, till volume or taste has improved.
image: BBC
inspiration: Quiet from
Hard of Hearing
Viagra Falls for two tonight, I ordered on the internet. Girls like being romanced, right? Our destiny was tête-à-tête. Rushing water does the trick. Or so I heard. That mighty fall... Until she said my scheme was sick. Seems I'd misheard after all.
image: iStock
inspiration: VIGOROUS from
a nomad in cyberspace 