WHAT'S NEXT?

[Flinty]

People started at the emperor's new clothes.

 

[metalminx24]

Clothes are important when eating at restaurants. Dining naked is frowned upon.

 

[tree]

...upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered...

 

[metalminx24]

I pondered the continuing population explosion and concluded that the planet would be better off if 85% of us blasted ourselves off into space. Any volunteers?

 

[tree]

Volunteers who want to accompany me on a walk
through the woods this spring are advised to
bring a compass.

 

[metalminx24]

To bring a compass would be pointless unless one knew how to use it.

(Hahaha pointless...compass...I'm such a loser...!)

 

[tree]

A loser is not what I would call you,
even if while we were walking, you
got as turned around as I do because
that would only mean you'd lost your
bearings and now I am thinking of
those nice little steel spheres that we
used as children for marbles so that
is another instance of stream of
consciousness thinking.

 

[metalminx24]

Consciousness, thinking and common sense are three things missing from the lives of my teenagers *sigh

 

[tree]

"Sigh" is a sound that people make
and it is similar to willow trees breathing.

 

[Flinty]

Breathing makes fabrics feel much better.

 

[metalminx24]

Better to live in a shed with one nice person than to live a palace with ten nasty ones.

 

[tree]

Ten nasty ones aren't as
welcome as a single nice one.

 

[Flinty]

"Nice one, Ex-Lax" was a common insult in my community.

 

[metalminx24]

Community theatre can be dire.

 

[tree]

Dire Straits was a British rock band formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), his younger brother David Knopfler, (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Pick Withers (drums and percussion). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_Straits
This is not knowledge which I posses. I did what I do frequently: I looked it up.

 

[metalminx24]

Up in the clouds there lives a unicorn who eats sweetcorn, cornbread and cornflakes. But not corn dogs.

 

[tree]

Dogs bark and have a bark, but don't have any bark,
whereas trees have bark and never bark.

 

[Flinty]

Never bark at airplanes or Kim Carnes will sing about you.

 

[metalminx24]

You have no idea of the awfulness of my singing voice. Consider your ears very fortunate.

 

[tree]

Consider your ears very fortunate each time
you hold a cat and you hear it purring.