Singapore's strong man.
Yes, you were
Famous for banning
Chewing gum.
Disappointingly for
Lovers of freedom
And irony, you
Did not come
to a sticky
End.
E J Thribb (17 and a half)
I've always been a big fan of Private Eye ... especially the Annuals .... they miss out all the political scandals and boring stuff about Worthingtonshire Borough Council spending £371,577 on pencils, or some minor politician who's shacked up with some floozy or other ...no, it's just all the cartoons, all the silly jokes, lots of daft pictures and odd poems by E J Thribb .... all the fun bits.
So ... the other day I got given a "slim volume" of the selected poems of Eric Thribb ( 17) who over the years has produced loads of marvellous, funny and absurd poems in Private Eye, usually obituaries of celebrities.... which still appear in Private Eye to this day. They nearly all start with "So..." and especially " So, Farewell then..."
I decided I would have a go at writing some of my own in Welsh .
However, I was a bit stuck at first.. what is the correct word for that "So.." at the start ? What exactly is its shade of meaning? .... how would you look it up ?
After a little snootling around, I decided that "felly" was just the thing ... so, I let Google Translate confirm my hunch .. or not ...here's what it did....
So, you fat fool, what's for breakfast ?
Felly, byddwch yn ffwl braster, beth sydd i frecwast?
So, Mr Truss, what's the meaning of all this ?
Felly, Mr Truss, beth yw'r ystyr hyn i gyd?
So, it's another bloody Thursday then.
Felly, mae'n Dydd Iau gwaedlyd arall yna.
So, that's it then !
Felly, dyna ni wedyn!
So ... it seems to agree with me. Phew !
Here we go then ...
Felly ... ffarwel
David Bowie.
Enwau wahanol
Trwy'r amser
Alla Dyn Sain
Duc Gwyn Main
Doniol yn iawn.
Well 'da fi
Hwn Ci Dôr i
'n hun.
Gwisgoch chi
Bag i Trowsus
ar y clawr cefn.
Dim mor
Hwn Ci Dôr i
nawr
yntefê....
.... and on a completely different topic, whenever I try to put accented letters on here using ALT codes as I've done quite happily in the past, now when I try to do it it dumps everything back to the start page. Anybody out there got any idea why ?
And now, a terrific song and performance by Huw M ... Hiraeth Mawr a Hiraeth Creulon. I've got the words booklet for this knocking arouns somewhere so I'll put them on "soonest."