Mybe we should have a humor section!

[Big and Bashful]

Very gone, but still not forgotten:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIcj6bhiYoQ

[Big and Bashful]

More Jake, absolutely priceless:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmwyp38V ... re=related

[Kirbstone]

A TV show in Brisbane, Australia. Two contestants on the stage, a priest and a shepherd. The compere spins a wheel and the pointer stops at the word TIMBUCTU (a desert town in Mali, N. Africa)
Each is invited to compose a four-line poem ending in that word. The priest thinks for a little while and starts off:

I am a father all my life,
Have no children, have no wife,
Read the Bible through and through
On my way to Timbuctu.

The audience burst into applause.

Now the Shepherd....He thinks for a bit longer, then comes up with:

When Tim and I to Brisbane went
We met some ladies, cheap to rent.
They were three,and we were two,
I booked one, and Tim booked two!

[crfriend]

When Tim and I to Brisbane went
We met some ladies, cheap to rent.
They were three,and we were two,
I booked one, and Tim booked two!

It is a good thing I do not have false teeth (yet), for I would have spat them out from laughing on that. One has to adore forced rhyme.

On the topic of "forced rhyme", I offer The Elements by that grand master Tom Lehrer [0]. It's nothing more than the list of chemical elements known to exist in 1959 ("set to a possibly recognisable tune") with a wicked bit of force at the end.

(In the vein of "research" I am most passionate about, there is also this about Data General. Who says poetry needs to be the lackluster stuff that gets jammed down the school-age kids' throats?)

[0] Note: Following the you-tube link may become a time-sink. Lehrer has a good repertoire, and most of it is side-splittingly funny. You have been warned.

[Kirbstone]

I loved the 'Gilbert & Sullivan'. I'm also a long-term fan of Lehrer and have attempted at parties to reproduce one or two of his songs, playing the piano part as well, but with limited success.
Here's another one from 'The Oldie:

He's making a list of people he doesn't want to see at his funeral..jpg

Tom K.

[Big and Bashful]

No need for words:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0n88tZQ ... re=related