The lawn's needing cutting today,
And the sky's looking cloudy and grey
But using the mower
's a terrible bore
When the sun shines, I think I'll make hay
Author notes
Apologies for a very bad pun.
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I didn't think the pun ...
was bad at all. It's actually rather clever. Of course, people who don't speak French wouldn't get it since they'd pronounce "grace" like a lady's name.
Anyway, good job.
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Now just you cut it out! Coup de grace indeed! You mean "mot de l'aulne", surely.
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Touchee! Ach, now I've got tae cut and paste an acute! A hit, a very palpable hit. I'll no forget that wee gem.
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No apologies needed... This is a SPLENDID Franglais pun - and worthy to stand alongside such howlers as "hors de combat" rendered as "war-horse", or the wonderful "Le peuple, emu, repondit" (= The purple emu laid another egg!"). And I have always wondered whether the famous Punch joke about the curate's egg was prompted (consciously or subconsciously) by the label "Pour les oevres de M. le cure" on the charity boxes in French churches.
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Did Noah know a moa…¿?
Coupe de grace = coot the grass¡! Eye Bon knee! Hmmm and there was me thinking the moa was extinct! I think like dirty money it needs laundering – but hey we all need a pithy pun sometimes… and they don’t come much pithier than this!¡ Still I do like lawn mowing… but then I don’t use a foil or a claymore¡! …Or whisky …half cut – blah blah!
Good luck in the contest - you have certainly given it a fine broadside¡! (No personal comment is implied here.)
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I don't like the feeling of work reproaching my laziness, so I can usually find a good excuse, like this one, not to do it. This is a cute limerick again.
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I don’t like mowing the lawn either, I wouldn’t think of fertilizing or watering. When the lawn is dry and brown, it ain’t dead it’s just dormant, waiting to go ape shit the next time it rains
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