"I'll have some Lemon Squash, please."
I turned and gave my dad a funny look,
and repeated what he said - "Lemon Squash?"
"Yes," he said "That's an old-fashioned
British term for lemonade, Jeeves."
Author notes
Oh, yes, I remember now - his love for
P.G. Wodehouse's Wooster and Jeeves.
Jeeves the valet always served 'Lemon Squash,'
not lemonade to Bertie Wooster, and
now dad is wanting 'lemon squash' all the same.
In a list
A contest entry
- Oranges and/or Lemons by Vera Rich.
590 points, ended January 30, 15 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Okaayyyy.....
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I was about to comment about lemonade in the UK but EVERYBODY has done that - so let me just send you a couple of nostalgic YouTube links instead. Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqBa7eay6Fo Lemon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB2xYdjt7bE&feature=related - orange, surreal, and sub-Disney!
This poem tickled me. I'm glad to read it.
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Neat and epigrammatic... and I take your point that US "lemonade" is NOT the same as ours.
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thanks for placing this one in the border topic. I will be placing more as I think of something else to make.
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wow this is a nice background Love the lively colors of it. Place it in the topic that I have for backgrounds. We'll see what the group thinks of it. I like it though. Well done.
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I think this is so funny. "Squash" I appreciate this because I'm british too. Thanks for entering.
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It is odd how memory works, one thing leads to another. I like this series of connections.
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Fun, fun!
Cute little ditty! It flows well and is definitely fun! Good work, OrangeMarmalade!
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I don't quite know what to say about this poem, which is quite unusual. You seem to have left me speechless.
Well written: I think I just would have got one word of this poem had you not used grammar, but now that you have, you've told a short (and somewhat important) story that I enjoyed reading (for some reason).
Thanks for entering.
skitza
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Well..... Very well written, very short and sweet. B ut it still says everthing that tells a story.
"I'll have some Lemon Squash, please."
I turned and gave my dad a funny look,'
I liked this part of the poem because you describe the funny look she gave her dad and it just fits to lemonade. Its bitter! Well done keep writting.
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I'll admit that I didn't understand this at all. but that's okay, because it was funny and original! I don't think I've ever read anything like it lol. Best of luck in the contest!
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Huh?
Squash means cordial, doesn't it?
Well, I'm British, and it does now....
I'll tell you that real lemonade is not fizzy...
I love that you write about Lemonade, but your name is Orange Marmalade.
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You're British and you've NEVER read G.K Chesterton's Jeeves and Wooster?! Not even seen the mini-series?
We don't even HAVE fizzy lemonade over here. Some friends of mine only told me about it when they went to England for summer vacation. We have lavendar lemonade, though. -
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Um... I've never even HEARD of it!!
Oh dear... I'm in your bad books now...
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LOL!!!!!!
Funny that an American would know more about classic British literature than a Brit would! It's an amusing series about a valet/butler who's always saving his young master's rear end.
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I know that 'Jeeves' is a common name for one referring to a butler- perhaps that's where it comes from?
Yeah, i see the irony in that.....
I will make the excuse that I come from a 'common' part of England, A county called Devon, which is bloody MILES away from London...
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