A night alone, just me and the remote.
A new 55-inch big screen,
Yes, my friends they would gloat.
HDTV ready, twenty speakers with Dolby sound.
Careful with the volume,
So I won't knock the walls down 600 channels,
that is what the installer promised me.
Then he hooked up the cable and satellite to my TV.
Now for the big moment, a push of the power button.
I sat patiently, but alas no picture or sound 'there was nothing!
I ran to the TV, to see what had gone wrong.
I checked all the cables.
'What the heck is going on?'
Angry, upset, sitting on the floor looking down,
The desire struck me to throw the lot around.
Taking a deep breath, I mumbled'
'Your not going to win!'
But looking over the mess' where do I begin?
Putting everything back, starting with the TV,
Soon the real problem became apparent to me.
From behind the couch was a cable, black and thin.
It was the extension cord...and it wasn't even plugged in.
A contest entry
- Funny Poems Enter Here Plus another option ( pre-writes alowed by Dark Whispers.
330 points, ended April 12, 2007, 13 entries
Bronze trophy winner
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It's supposed to be funny, ut even I don't think so. Comment
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Haha, this is pretty funny.I think we all have a few of those "Well duh" moments... or is it just me? Anyways, the in the seventeenth line(or six lines up) "Your" should be You're.
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halarious
Wow! Thank you thank you thank you! Of all the poems I've read for this contest so far this was the best yet! The rhyming wasn't forced and the flow was great! Not to mention the entire thing was halarious! I guess it goes to show what can happen when people get angry before the asess the situation.
Great job!
Ashley
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This was cute and amusing and the end was the funny.
good job and thanks for enterimg and best of luck in the contest.
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hahahaha the end was the best! i hate it when that happens. when you try so hard to do something, and it turns out it was really turned off the whole time.
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Thanks for your comment. Yes, at least once in everyones life there's a small,yet enormous detail that somehow slips right past you. Thanks again!
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lol, its cute, and i love the background. you manage to capture something everyone goes through at some point and make the reader smile because its not us that its happening to. be it with a tv or a computer...very nice, keep writing
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