Any more for the roundabout?

Totally non contentious post. No other mention of Norway, Roma or cricket.

I did watch some of the Republican National Convention last night, I thought for a moment I had stumbled on “America’s got talent” by mistake. The last man to think that the Presidential election is NOT a popularity contest was Richard Nixon and look what happened to him.

We have four entries for the poetry comp. (from three regular contributors) nothing yet from the Dream Team, but there are a full twelve hours left to enter (even allowing a full thirty minutes for uploading and formatting).

All aboard!

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Author: Low Wattage

Expat Welshman, educated (somewhat) in UK, left before it became fashionable to do so. Now a U.S. Citizen, and recent widower, playing with retirement and house remodeling, living in Delaware and rural Maryland (weekends).

8 thoughts on “Any more for the roundabout?”

  1. LW – thanks for the reminder. I have only recently come back from a holiday in West Scotland. My son came up with a line which I might be able to exercise in the next few hours!

  2. Wasn’t it absolutely cringe and puke making?
    What a bunch of oleaginous religious nutters.
    Talk about patriotism being the last refuge of scoundrels!!!
    I didn’t watch much either was waiting for a programme about Jane Austin that ran half an hour late because of chief slime ball oozing and wittering on.
    Talk about short on policy! Like “What’s policy?”

  3. LW, good evening and a timely reminder. I’ll go into poetic throes immediately but I’m not promising that I can deliver before the deadline.

    As you will know, those who listened to the Nixon/Kennedy debate in 1960 thought that Tricky had won it whilst those who watched it favoured Joe Kennedy’s backup candidate. I listened to Mitt last night and thought his speech not totally without some merit. I presume that the full-on televised experience was OTT?

    Moving on, CO, good evening.

    What are you doing here posting? You realise, of course, that JW and you are the ‘Dream Team’ to which LW refers? Why are you not deep in transatlantic, telephonic communication with the Weegie boy as you sculpt a pome to win the prize?

    And, this ‘Jane Austin?’ programme which you were waiting to watch? Was she something to do with motor cars?

  4. PPG: That was an almost promise you made in the announcement post.

    CO: Excellent summary, I could take no more after the Barbie doll did the double act with the vertically challenged gent with the speech defect (she’s the Attorney General of Florida, so they claim) Mitt had yet to do his bit, but I was gone.

    JM: Try your best, the odd repetitive word can often be overlooked.
    Jane Austin , yes the car lady, also that William Morris fellow and that strange “Clerihew” Bentley character. Morgan? Was that James Pierrepont do you suppose or some other Welshman. Over here we have Ford Maddox Ford for a double hit and now of course the soon to be extinct Tesla (Nikolai). Canada has an entomologist (and TV personality) named David Suzuki.

    I am sure there are more.

  7. Sorry, LW. Mine didn’t work properly. Not true actually, it didn’t even get off the ground. 😦

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