Matt Monro Forum

Thanks Robert, and good luck to Hull AFC on their playoff
decider versus Sheffield Wednesday.

I was delighted to read, in this month's issue of the West Cork magazine, about my cousin Anna Gabriel's scintillating appearance on Ireland's foremost live t.v. programme, The Late Late Show. Anna was plucked from the horrors of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and adopted by my first cousin Robert a...

SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME,
The Drifters

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, by
Tchaikovsky from The Nutcracker.

CANINE CAPERS A Geordie loved his pet dog, so when it died he decided to have it commemorated in the form of a gold statue. He went to a local jeweller's shop and enquired: 'Can ya make me a gold statue of me dog?' 'Certainly sir,' replied the jeweller, 'would you like it eighteen carat?' 'No, daft...

Thanks Robert, I was hoping that you, a kindred spirit,
would put your seal of approval on the piece. Also it is
pleasing that the Matt Monro website enabled us to add
our pennyworth of fellow-feeling for the families.

HILLSBOROUGH They strode through the grim aftermath of the cruel, preventably tragic occurrence, were emboldened by the darkness of incompetence, lies, cover-ups and misrepresentation and, at long last, were lulled by the sweet sound of vindication. Never averting their gaze from a golden horizon d...

UPSTAGED IN SIXTEEN

Finding himself in a supporting role
and denied his spotlight place this year,
St George was outshone by the Sovereign,
his young namesake and superstar Shakespeare.

Keith Good

Shakespeare was born on 23 April 1564, and died 23 April 1616. SONNET 33 Full many a glorious morning have I seen, Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green; Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy: Anon permit the basest clouds to ride, With ugly ra...

Hi Robert, Pancake Day isn't exclusive to us in Britain;
it is celebrated as part of the Mardi Gras in America.

Eman, they say that love makes the world go round; well I think occasional hefty humour also gives 'this ball of clay' a few spins: NOTEWORTHY NOMENCLATURE Four male citizens of the British Isles are discussing how they came to be blessed with their respective forenames: 'I'm called George because I...

Let's maintain the medical motif: SCARY SURGERY A patient was seen running along a hospital corridor shortly before his operation. 'What's the matter?' enquired the concerned ward sister. He gasped: 'I just heard a nurse say,"It's a very straightforward operation. Don't worry. I'm sure it will be al...

PROXY PILLS A woman goes to the doctor to get some medication for her elderly husband. She is given some pills and is told that he should take two every Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday and skip the remaining days of the week. A month later she returns to tell the doctor that, alas, her husband has di...

Slightly less boring Robert,
and easier to stomach.

TUBULAR TEDIUM

I read my tablet on the London Underground
this morning; very boring - it simply said 'Aspirin'.