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Cincinnati’s Secret Subway – A Sad and Sorry Tale

Spent millions digging tunnelsThrough the rock and shaleAbandoned never finished What a sorry tale In 1925 Cincinnati tried, and failed, to build one of America’s first subway. Never completed and never used. You can go on a tour but it is sealed off forever. Don MatthewsDecember 2022

I Dressed Up As a Christmas Tree

I dressed up as a Christmas treeJoined my Santa skiersRaising cash for charityPlenty lookers/see-ers Sunday River Ski Resort. Newry Maine. Annual Santa ski run for charityRaised $US 11,000…… Don MatthewsDecember 2022

Control Room

Was tired and looking for a placeWhere I could have a napAbandoned and neglectedControl room gone to crap Don MatthewsDecember 2022

Parking Space

Here’s a nice spotSpace a bit tightNo problem here goesNo problem just right Don MatthewsDecember 2022

Fandango’s One Word Challenge – Superfluous

Write something incorporating the word ‘superfluous’ Should you accept, go forth. Show your creative juices I accept.Here goes…. ODE TO SUPERFLUOUS Sibling brothers FluousLousy and SuperLousy Fluous/Super FluousNot friends super duper They not saw eye to eye (they didn’t)Fluous Lousy/SuperNothing (nup) in common to makeFriendship super duper Poor Lousy and Super Fan…… Nothing in common.Continue reading “Fandango’s One Word Challenge – Superfluous”

FCS Daily Music Video – ‘Never been Tonight’ Six60

Six60 are an Indigenous Dunedin band formed in Dunedin, Otago in 2008. Lyrics below “Never Been Tonight” I knowI know that there have been nights just as warmAnd I’ve seen themSummers, they come and they goWith the moon in the same placeLike not much has changedI don’t know much but I know that Whoa-whoaThere’s never been tonight beforeAnd noContinue reading “FCS Daily Music Video – ‘Never been Tonight’ Six60”

From the FCS Book of Little-Known Facts (leopard horse)

Sorrel Leopard Appaloosa, its ancestors were bred by the Nez Perce tribe There is never a timeto stop learning new things

Jeezes

Funny? Feels bit lighterLighter in me truckBetter stop and check itJeezes wtf Don MatthewsDecember 2022

Priscilla. What’s the?Big Deal

Priscilla is ECS resident cat So what’s the big deal?You can open canWhat’s the big deal mate‘Bout opening da can? I thought it would interest you…… Don MatthewsDecember 2022

Female Snakes Have a Clitoris

Scientists have discoveredFemale snakes have oneTiny small clitoris with whichShe can have some fun The male has been much researchedBut scientists have bemoanedNeglection of this femaleFemale sexual dome Previously the scientists thoughtScent gland attracted maleAnd not a little pleasure domeOf which they could avail There ya go French scientists have just discoveredthis little pleasure domeContinue reading “Female Snakes Have a Clitoris”