IdleRich
IdleRich
You know, jazzy, like Jamie Cullum.Depends what you mean by jazzy I suppose, wouldn't have occurred to me to call it that.
You know, jazzy, like Jamie Cullum.Depends what you mean by jazzy I suppose, wouldn't have occurred to me to call it that.
Yeah just rinse it until you get bored might as well, they're good funit's not the sort of thing i'd set out to try and write. i feel vaguely uncomfrtable about it too. but it just happened to me and becasue it was clearly well done and it made me laugh i let them keep coming.
Yeah, these lines are funny, they come easily to you, they hit the spot - but if you're not careful they could become a cliche, you could lean on them too much and whip one out whenever the poem needs something.The thing that's carried on from the old style into this new one are the memorable, funny phrases.
"He had come to depend on his rowing machine."
Not sure why that makes me laugh but it does.
"He had always loved travel brochures."
Sounds like the setting for one of Graham Greene's novels, or possibly Le Carre. Though if it was GG the narrator wouldn't be taking advantage of the "tremendous opportunity" he would be working for the company of the guy who was, probably in a sort of middle-management role. Not at the bottom, but not at the top, and probably his position would be just a bit more lowly than you would expect for someone of his age with that much experience I'm the sector.It was a tremendous opportunity. Or so it seemed on the surface.
Of course he had misgivings. The political situation there was
volatile. A powder keg, he had called it. And the rebels making
inroads from their traditional areas of support in the highlands.
But the rates of profit would be almost obscene and the extraction
rights would stand for longer than he would, he was certain of
that. They had shaken him down at the airport. Of course, you
had to expect these things. It was the cost of doing business here.
The mine and the roads leading to it were heavily guarded. It
didn't pay to take half measures. The humidity was enervating.