There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
at this point does it make a diff?
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
what this is can be discerned with a whiff.
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
if only it would end in a jiff.
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
In either case, good for a riff
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
It’s fun to watch Dems in a tiff
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
Soon we’ll find out the meaning of “if”
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
He needs testimony from Spaceman Spiff!
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
for that he is the right Goniff.
Art Critic: Some people have made the mistake of seeing Shunt’s work as a load of rubbish about railway timetables, but clever people like me, who talk loudly in restaurants, see this as a deliberate ambiguity, a plea for understanding in a mechanized world. The points are frozen, the beast is dead. What is the difference? What indeed is the point? The point is frozen, the beast is late out of Paddington. The point is taken. If La Fontaine’s elk would spurn Tom Jones the engine must be our head, the dining car our oesophagus, the guard’s van our left lung, the cattle truck our shins, the first-class compartment the piece of skin at the nape of the neck and the level crossing an electric elk called Simon. The clarity is devastating. But where is the ambiguity? It’s over there in a box. Shunt is saying the 8.15 from Gillingham when in reality he means the 8.13 from Gillingham. The train is the same only the time is altered. Ecce homo, ergo elk. La Fontaine knew his sister and knew her bloody well. The point is taken, the beast is moulting, the fluff gets up your nose. The illusion is complete; it is reality, the reality is illusion and the ambiguity is the only truth. But is the truth, as Hitchcock observes, in the box? No there isn’t room, the ambiguity has put on weight. The point is taken, the elk is dead, the beast stops at Swindon, Chabrol stops at nothing, I’m having treatment and La Fontaine can get knotted.
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
at this point does it make a diff?
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
what this is can be discerned with a whiff.
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
if only it would end in a jiff.
What a load of Schiff.
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party off a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
Assuming the GOP’s stiff.
Someone must have fired up a spliff.
…for visuals, here’s a link to a gif.
https://imgur.com/gallery/PLGSRjx
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
In either case, good for a riff
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
It’s fun to watch Dems in a tiff
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
I’m snacking on jelly and Jif
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
Soon we’ll find out the meaning of “if”
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
2020? Won’t get them a sniff
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
He needs testimony from Spaceman Spiff!
There once was a lemming named Schiff
Who led his party right over a cliff:
Retreating’s a bummer
Proceeding is dumber…
for that he is the right Goniff.
Yay! a new word in my vocabulary.
I had to Google it too.
Oy Vey! Where’s my Obscury?
Over there in a box.
Can’t be, there’s no room.