How Are the Mighty......

MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY

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HOW ARE THE MIGHTY.......

That's the problem with being too modern; you end up just being old hat.

If you go for the high end of fashion you end up a bit of a prat.

This number-plate once was so trendy, expressing such great celebration,

For everyone, world-wide, because of the date, with an extra for us as a nation.

A brand new millenium sprang into life; we had such high hopes and such aims,

And that year Sydney was chosen to host the prestigious Olympic Games.

Such an air of excitement pervaded the place; the whole world seemed sparkling, brand new,

And the number-plate, here, said it all, at the time, confirming that it was all true. 

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I passed it last week in a builder's yard, looking crumpled and spattered with rust,

Surrounded by timber and paint-pots and tubes, and covered by scratches and dust.

My number-plate's older than this one, but it never had great aspirations;

It never declared a great change in the date, or rejoiced in the sport of the nations.

Those who rise high must, in time, fall down low and fashion's a very hard master.

My number-plate still has a certain sang-froid while this one's a wretched disaster.

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SURPRISE! SURPRISE!

Alfred Hitchcock, of movie fame, (and now as dead as mutton)

Wasn't like the rest of us! He had no belly-button!

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When you sneeze the rest of you also plays its part;

Everything ceases to function! Even your beating heart!

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Babies have no knee-caps! Feel a knee and see!

But they grow up to be knee-capped, just like you and me.

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Five years of your lifetime will be spent standing in a line

Probably obeying a little 'Wait here!' sign!

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The toothbrush was invented in 1498!

I bet you never would have guessed at such an early date!

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