THE GENERAL CATEGORY

1st - John Murray with:
Bent trachea =
Can't breathe.

Brian Taylor with:
Portrayal of heroism =
Fairly sophomore art.

2nd - David Bourke with:
Britain's colonial history =
So horribly nationalistic!

3rd - Meyran Kraus with:
So where will Trump go when he retires and dies? =
Well, I do presume the right answer here is DOWN.

Christopher Sturdy with:
He can't stop laughing ~
at hot gag's punchline.

Christopher Sturdy with:
Conspiracy theorists, eh? =
The phoney crisis actors!

David Bourke with:
Britain's colonial history =
So horribly nationalistic!

Dharam Khalsa with:
Do not smash my face on the keyboard! =
A crash of my head dents my notebook!

Dharam Khalsa with:
Decluttering, cleaning and organizing my kitchen =
Get out recycling, gain clear thinking and Zen mind.

Dharam Khalsa with:
The scientific analysis report =
I help reinforce any statistics.

Dharam Khalsa with:
Outdoor patio =
Door to Utopia.

Dharam Khalsa with:
How to drown the bad habit, but imitate the worthy =
Idiom: "Don't throw out the baby with the bath water"

George Missailidis with:
Scientific analysis report ~
says fine critical pointers

George Missailidis with:
Temperature screenings =
Regiments present a cure?

Jesse Frankovich with:
Toilet paper =
To pipe later.

John Murray with:
Bent trachea =
Can't breathe.

John Murray with:
Long to reign over us =
Or, "note us groveling"

Meyran Kraus with:
So where will Trump go when he retires and dies? =
Well, I do presume the right answer here is DOWN.

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree =
Hell-tempered father left prat of a son

Rosie Perera with:
The transatlantic slave trade =
Racist event, tears, and all that.

Rosie Perera with:
Assault by a police officer =
A ferociously capable fist.

Rosie Perera with:
Gentrification =
I act to infringe.

Tom Myers with:
Social Justice Protests =
So act -- just resist police

Tom Myers with:
Grow old with me =
Gloom withdrew.

Tom Myers with:
Loyalty to a cause ‡
Too easy actually.

Tom Myers with:
Always on the go =
So along the way...

Tom Myers with:
Her first kiss =
Skirt is fresh.

Tony Crafter with:
Rent-a-thug =
Hurt-a-gent.

Valery Silivanov with:
Do not smash my face on the keyboard! ~
skbooy mdoachmnotfeasynthdaeer

View with:
Social experiment =
Learn to mix pieces.

View with:
The medical procedure =
Care did help to cure me.


THE ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY

1st - Tom Myers with:
The Princess and the Pea =
The end part: spine aches!

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
"The Plague", a novel written by Albert Camus =
Bluntly savage peril... that now became true.

3rd - Rosie Perera with:
Museum of Bad Art ~
of dumb amateurs.

Christopher Sturdy with:
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir =
Oh, heed who I am. Here I seem to hate Trump in power.

Dharam Khalsa with:
Zero-budget short film is Number One at US Box Office =
"Unsubscribe", the result of a big effort mixed on Zoom.

Dharam Khalsa with:
The American director Carl Reiner =
Record career time in rental chair.

Meyran Kraus with:
"The Plague", a novel written by Albert Camus =
Bluntly savage peril... that now became true.

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
Schubert's Unfinished Symphony in B Minor =
Unpenned rhythms for boy's music in his bin?

Tom Myers with:
The Princess and the Pea =
The end part: spine aches!

Tony Crafter with:
The Andy Warhol painting of 'Campbell's Soup Cans' =
Awful art. No landscape, only them (basic shopping!).

Valery Silivanov with:
Artist N. Pirosmani =
Smart inspiration.

View with:
Disneyland Paris =
Play and dine, sirs!

View with:
The motion picture "Batman Forever" =
Movie: Mutant can be pert or fit hero

View with:
"Black Parade"=
Dark, capable.

View with:
Eurovision Song Contest =
Use no strong voices on it.


THE TOPICAL CATEGORY

1st - View with:
Oh, God, feel the tragedy of ~
the death of George Floyd!

2nd - David Bourke with:
The statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol =
Racist bastard's felled, lowered into the Avon to rust.

3rd - Richard Grantham with:
Covid-nineteen pandemic =
In time, depend on vaccine.

Christopher Sturdy with:
Gene Pitney's 'Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa' =
Funny so few turn up to see mighty rat. Loser!

David Bourke with:
The "Law and order president" =
A present dread in the world.

David Bourke with:
The statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol =
Racist bastard's felled, lowered into the Avon to rust.

David Bourke with:
Twitter has shut down Katie Hopkins' account =
With that, thick outspoken racist was undone.

David Bourke with:
Cecil Rhodes' statue =
Racist leech ousted.


Dharam Khalsa with:
Deplorable city unit? =
End police brutality!

Dharam Khalsa with:
Be irate, chant ~
"I can't breathe!"

George Missailidis with:
American riots =
Irate on racism.

John Murray with:
Trump's posing with a Bible =
Big blasphemous nitwit PR.

John Murray with:
Supporting Black Lives Matter ‡
Loving bleak racist pest Trump.

Maurice Goddard with:
I can't breathe... I can't breathe..... I can't breathe.......... =
Rate the act: Beaten in barbaric ethnic hate!

Maurice Goddard with:
Woman hatches ducks from Waitrose eggs =
Gosh! Heck of a cute swimmer sat and grows!

Meyran Kraus with:
Doctor Anthony Stephen Fauci =
The duty: Confine Corona's path.

Meyran Kraus with:
Uncle Ben's rice products =
Public concerns deter us.

Meyran Kraus with:
Corona deaths mount weekly =
Could they not wear one mask?! :(

Meyran Kraus with:
American police stations =
Maintain loose practices.

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
"I am your law and order president" =
I, Donald Trump, eye war as in order

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
Police brutality =
Epic bully at riot.

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
Controversial statues =
Let's test a coronavirus!

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford =
A star stand for a free child summer lunch reboot.

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
The sitting president of America =
I pretend to fight racist meanies

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
Chafed at Boris's gut =
Fit as a butcher's dog?

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
Edward Colston's statue =
Scuttled on towards sea.

Richard Grantham with:
Covid-nineteen pandemic =
In time, depend on vaccine.

Rosie Perera with:
Trump may try to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 =
1078 troops, men in uniform, to attack/hurt every city?

Rosie Perera with:
Historic slave narratives =
Christ, a Savior, is relevant.

Rosie Perera with:
Atlanta riots =
A total strain.

Rosie Perera with:
California Prison Moratorium Project =
No more jail, for it is a corrupt iron camp.

Tom Myers with:
Mature leadership ‡
A Trump's ideal here

Tom Myers with:
A fortified White House =
Authorities: off we hide.

Tom Myers with:
All lives matter =
A stall. Evil term.

Tom Myers with:
The Trump Tulsa Rally =
Truly phallus matter

Tom Myers with:
Trump's failed Tulsa event =
Adviser statement: full up

Tom Myers with:
Trump's slippery shoes ~
supply press more shit.

Tom Myers with:
Microsoft closing all stores =
Mall store cost of long crisis

Tom Myers with:
Donald Trump on The West Point Ramp =
Don't want Emperor to slip and thump.

Tom Myers with:
National gripe match ~
on the campaign trail.

Tony Crafter with:
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell's statue =
Honest townspeople's asset under threat by BLM.

Tyler Severance with:
Forced to wear a mask in public =
Wild case from outbreak panic.

Tyler Severance with:
Temperature screening ~
presenting me true care.

View with:
Oh, God, feel the tragedy of ~
the death of George Floyd!

View with:
U.S. at risk of 'total economic wreckage' =
America looks stuck: "We ain't got force".


THE PEOPLES NAMES CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin =
Vicious man kneeled on chap. RIP.

2nd - Tony Crafter with:
Donald John Trump, the President of the United States =
No soul nor depth, and just this epithet - 'Demented Fart'.

3rd - View with:
President Bolsonaro =
Person is born to lead.

Christopher Sturdy with:
English National Hunt jockey Liam Treadwell =
An untimely death. Welling in shock. A real jolt.

Christopher Sturdy with:
White House Chief of Staff, Mark Randall Meadows =
We all had a monster of a master. I wish he'd fuck off!

David Bourke with:
Actor Daniel Peter Masterson =
Rape scandal...so, to retirement?

David Bourke with:
Gavin Christopher Newsom =
Worship his CA government!

Meyran Kraus with:
Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin =
Vicious man kneeled on chap. RIP.

Meyran Kraus with:
Comedian Carl Reiner =
Older, nicer American.

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
Opposition Leader Keir Starmer =
It's a Sir role to keep a PM in order

Rosie Perera with:
Chloe Anthony Wofford "Toni" Morrison ‡
Oh, find not woman of color in her story?

Rosie Perera with:
Trump's campaign manager Bradley Parscale =
Crappy ragtag man's lame career in bad slump.


Tom Myers with:
US Attorney General William Barr =
Legal amateur's narrow in liberty.

Tony Crafter with:
Donald John Trump, the President of the United States =
No soul nor depth, and just this epithet - 'Demented Fart'.

View with:
President Bolsonaro =
Person is born to lead.


THE OTHER NAMES CATEGORY

1st - Tony Crafter with:
The Beverly Wilshire Hotel, California =
Who chills there? Every fat billionaire!

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
American police stations =
Maintain loose practices.

3rd - Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
United States of America =
I must defeat a racist one.

Christopher Sturdy with:
The French Mountain Climbing Federation ‡
Not much danger in her teen cliff ambition.

David Bourke with:
The Reunion Observation Tower, Dallas =
A tall one's seen with a round orb over it.

Dharam Khalsa with:
The Internal Revenue Service =
Elites have even nicer return.

George Missailidis with:
Society of Flat Earthers =
Here to forecast falsity.

John Fidler with:
Disneyland Paris ~
is a splendid yarn

Meyran Kraus with:
The US Military Academy (also known as West Point) =
Trump's walk not calm and easy on his way to it, I see!

Meyran Kraus with:
Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house in Barcelona =
Our eager, reliable Corona audience? The plants!


Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
United States of America =
I must defeat a racist one

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics =
Ancient scholastic's tome, I hear

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
The Old South =
The holdouts.

Rosie Perera with:
Police Benevolent Association =
Believe in nice cops, too? Alas, not.

Rosie Perera with:
Coney Island Amusement Park =
Kids can play, one neat summer!

Rosie Perera with:
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone =
Cool, polite, mutual. Oh... No Nazis!

Rosie Perera with:
Museum of Bad Art ~
of dumb amateurs.

Tom Myers with:
The Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria =
That anti-Indian nears Panama

Tony Crafter with:
The Beverly Wilshire Hotel, California =
Who chills there? Every fat billionaire!

Tyler Severance with:
The Department of Homeland Security =
I rather commonly fund the Deep State.

View with:
City of Jerusalem, Israel =
Reality of Jesus miracle


THE MEDIUM LENGTH CATEGORY

1st - Tony Crafter with:
Britain's Most Popular Albums of all Time (per Radio Two)
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. 21
3. (What's The Story) Morning Glory=
1. Beatles symphonic pop trip wins it!
2. Sorrowful LP by pragmatist Adele
3. Snarly Gallagher brothers lost out to No. 1 and 2. Bummer :(

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
Top 3 Child Geniuses

1. Rimbaud (Published stellar poetry as a teen)
2. Mozart (Composed as a toddler)
3. Picasso (First word: "Pencil")

=

Top 3 Old Wastes

1. Trump (America's sad pest)
2. Elizabeth II (Unemployed since birth)
3. Our grandad Pops (Still scared of "coloreds")

Eq3rd - Dharam Khalsa with:
Top ten countries with the most recorded COVID cases
(as of June):
* US
* Brazil
* Russia
* India
* UK
* Spain
* Italy
* Peru
* Germany
* Iran
=
No virus assessed in country:
* Tonga
* Kiribati
* Samoa
* Lesotho

A triumph, per current dip, caused security:
* New Zealand
* Fiji

Eq3rd - George Missailidis with:
Donald Trump's own words blow up in his face as the crowd size at his much-hyped Tulsa rally disappoints yesterday
=
He dumbly said a crazy slew of his record million supporters would show up that day. Newscasts say it didn't happen!

Eq3rd - Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton
=
Journey with the Moronosphere: Home with the Abominable Dope.

Eq3rd - Christopher Sturdy with:
"Any solid geometrical figure with straight parallel sides and a circular or oval cross section."
=
Regard statistics I give to inform a school class.
I hear a regular person would call it a cylinder.

Christopher Sturdy with:
"Any solid geometrical figure with straight parallel sides and a circular or oval cross section."
=
Regard statistics I give to inform a school class.
I hear a regular person would call it a cylinder.

David Bourke with:
The American singer Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell
=
A millionaire, in the silliest clobber, and epic green hair!

David Bourke with:
The late English singer Dame Vera Margaret Lynn (née Welch)
=
Her entry challenges the German invaders - "We'll meet again..."

David Bourke with:
'Prince Andrew: Epstein and the Palace' by Nigel Cawthorne
=
Randy creep with nonce rapist and pliable teenage wench.


Dharam Khalsa with:
Top ten countries with the most recorded COVID cases
(as of June):
* US
* Brazil
* Russia
* India
* UK
* Spain
* Italy
* Peru
* Germany
* Iran
=
No virus assessed in country:
* Tonga
* Kiribati
* Samoa
* Lesotho

A triumph, per current dip, caused security:
* New Zealand
* Fiji

George Missailidis with:
Donald Trump's own words blow up in his face as the crowd size at his much-hyped Tulsa rally disappoints yesterday
=
He dumbly said a crazy slew of his record million supporters would show up that day. Newscasts say it didn't happen!

Maurice Goddard with:
Thousands of empty seats at Trump's comeback rally in Tulsa
=
Calamity's mess for that mad cantankerous POTUS bully pest!

Maurice Goddard with:
The lower house and primary chamber of Great Britain's Parliament, the House of Commons
=
Oh! Rough time in there amid Corona, so I hear! All MP bench nobs may suffer two meters apart!

Meyran Kraus with:
Top 3 Child Geniuses

1. Rimbaud (Published stellar poetry as a teen)
2. Mozart (Composed as a toddler)
3. Picasso (First word: "Pencil")

=

Top 3 Old Wastes

1. Trump (America's sad pest)
2. Elizabeth II (Unemployed since birth)
3. Our grandad Pops (Still scared of "coloreds")

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton
=
Journey with the Moronosphere: Home with the Abominable Dope.

Rosie Perera with:
Hazards of Covid-nineteen left concerns; ergo I select, put on
~
one size fits all, one hundred percent cotton face coverings.

Tom Myers with:
Trump is using secret police against demonstrations
=
Crisis matter! Losing POTUS gets in a tremendous panic.

Tony Crafter with:
Britain's Most Popular Albums of all Time (per Radio Two)
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. 21
3. (What's The Story) Morning Glory
=
1. Beatles symphonic pop trip wins it!
2. Sorrowful LP by pragmatist Adele
3. Snarly Gallagher brothers lost out to No. 1 and 2. Bummer :(


THE ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE CATEGORY

1st - Dharam Khalsa with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
Why kill the truth on which I thrive? Join with the injured and chant in unity:
"George Floyd"
"I Can't Breathe"
"Black Lives Matter"
"No More Hate"
"Liberty for All"
"End Brutality"
"Freedom"
"Tolerance"

2nd - Maurice Goddard with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
In the front: Truth.
Honor birth.
Acknowledge the truth.
Value all.
Education.
All bond. Belief in
Dignity. My hint:
Reject racism! Hit hate!
Enjoy kind worth,
A better richer life,
My way: REAL LOVE.

3rd - Meyran Kraus with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
"Hey boy!"
"Jungle-bunny!"
"Get a job!"
"Addict!"
"Crack-ho!"
"Viral filth!"
"Rot in hell!"
"Uncivil!"
"White-dole thief!"
"Tar-skin!"
"Not my brother!"
"We matter here!"
"Idiot!"
"Entitled!"
"Whiner!"
-- More than half a century later.


Christopher Sturdy with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
The abject, recurring truth: melanin level, though enjoyed by all, white or black, remained a horrible yardstick for another rude, violent hothead with illicit intent on twenty-fifth May.

Christopher Sturdy with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
He held brotherly love in high regard but unfortunately, no; here are the illiberal folk, that immoral jaded kind, which can be critical to justice for that minority even in twenty-twenty.

David Bourke with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
"I have a recurring monthly nightmare, where I sure can't beat the wonderfully, incredibly brilliant haul of Mey K...then, forlorn, I jack it in, too dejected to even try that. Ah, to hell with it!" - DB

Dharam Khalsa with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
I hate to be the killjoy, but why don't we note further outreach in black juvenile health? And then, with all the ethnic minority voter regions artificially gerrymandered? ('libtard' from NC)

Dharam Khalsa with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
I have that dream; it may be strange--
If the current horror will change,
I think the tiny ethnic boy
Could know the jubilant joy
Of the truer ethical friend.
Lord, it will be a lovely trend!
(Amen)

Dharam Khalsa with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
Why kill the truth on which I thrive? Join with the injured and chant in unity:
"George Floyd"
"I Can't Breathe"
"Black Lives Matter"
"No More Hate"
"Liberty for All"
"End Brutality"
"Freedom"
"Tolerance"

George Missailidis with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
Judged by the "filth" or "horror" in my hellbent intent to anagram a word, I became rather looked at in the way of this eccentric joke. Then, in truth, the bully'd finally alter their uncivil view.

Maurice Goddard with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
In the letter line R-O-Y-G-B-I-V,
I feel latter joy, enchanted in beauty!
The color arc! The rich thrill of the rainbow!
The joy! The marvel! And then I'd trust, and know,
I'm beautiful in my rich dark glow.

Maurice Goddard with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
In the front: Truth.
Honor birth.
Acknowledge the truth.
Value all.
Education.
All bond. Belief in
Dignity. My hint:
Reject racism! Hit hate!
Enjoy kind worth,
A better richer life,
My way: REAL LOVE.

Meyran Kraus with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
"Hey boy!"
"Jungle-bunny!"
"Get a job!"
"Addict!"
"Crack-ho!"
"Viral filth!"
"Rot in hell!"
"Uncivil!"
"White-dole thief!"
"Tar-skin!"
"Not my brother!"
"We matter here!"
"Idiot!"
"Entitled!"
"Whiner!"
-- More than half a century later.


Meyran Kraus with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
Officer reacting to...

The white joyrider:
"Hey there...
Can't allow this.
Run home then, dear."
[Tiny fine]

Any black driver:
"Halt!
That your car here?
Bull. Think I'm blind?
DON'T MOVE!!"
[Bullet\Jail]

Get it now?

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
Half a century later that dream turned into a bloody Jim Crow nightmare when that flabby ill-bred Jerk-in-Chief rolled into the White House through evil intent in a very tricky election.

Rosie Perera with:
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
Horrible incident: Abject arrant hothead white officer Chauvin killed George Floyd in the end. Hey, white brethren, hurry! All humanity won't matter jointly until Black Lives Matter too.

Tony Crafter with:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
Ain't that the truth. However, I reject artwork being horribly defiled in the name of BLM, and I'll ever deride that. You can't change ethnic history but I think you can jolly well learn from it.

View with:
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
=
Ebony and ivory...
We can be brothers under all that!
I think we might be!
No difference, none at all -
Every child like any other!
Faulty hate?
Ditch it! Reject it!
Join mutual growth,
Mirth or thrill!


THE LONG CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
A few key programs impaired, rolled back or eliminated by the Trump administration:

The National Environmental Policy act
The Endangered Species act
The Clean Water act
The National Historic Preservation act
The Bird Conservation act
The Clean Air act
The Archeological Resources Protection act
The Paleontological Resources Preservation act
The Safe Drinking Water act
The Noise Control act
The Antiquities act
The Farmland Protection Policy act
The Coastal Zone Management act
The National Fish and Wildlife act
The Eagle Protection act
The River and Harbors act
The American Indian Religious Freedom act

=

Then again, old Donald did announce nice new programs instead, like:

The Grotesque Combover Appreciation act
The Corona Spread Acceleration act
The Orange Tans Aren't So Creepy act
The 'Overweight' Redefinition act
The Lord Putin Canonization act
The Trillionaires Are People Too act
The Immigrant Toddler Incarceration act
The Hillary Incarceration act
The Melania Bedroom-Incarceration act
The "No Child Of Mine Left Behind" (AKA "Support Nepotism") act
The "A Wall Solves Everything" act
The Critics Are Fake News act
The Polls Are Incorrect If They're Against Me act
The It's All Obama's Fault act
The Racist Lives Matter act

2nd - Tony Crafter with:
Emily was a bit of a demon in her wheelchair, and loved to race around the care home, taking corners on one wheel and getting up to maximum speed on the long corridors.

Because the freewheeling Emily was 'one sandwich short of a picnic', the other residents tolerated her, and some of the males actually joined in.

One day, Emily was speeding down the corridor when a door opened and Senseless Cecil stepped out with his arm outstretched. "STOP!" he shouted in a firm voice. "Have you got a licence for that vehicle?"

Emily rummaged through her handbag, extracted a Mars Bar wrapper and held it up to him. "Yes, that's okay," said Cecil, and Emily sped away down the hall.

As she negotiated the bend by the residents' lounge on one wheel, Weird Wesley leapt out in front of her and shouted out: "STOP! Have you got insurance for that?"

Emily dug into her handbag, pulled out a drinks coaster and held it up to him. "Okay," said Wesley, "Carry on, ma'am."

As Emily neared the final corridor, Crazy Stewart stepped out in front of her, stark naked, holding Captain Willy in his hand.

Oh, my goodness, said Emily, "Not the breathalyser again!"=
Two old people, a widow and a widower, had known each other as friends for a number of years.

One evening there was a community supper in the village hall, and the pair were on the same table space, though sitting opposite each other.

During the meal, the man chanced a few admiring glances in the woman's direction and finally gathered the courage to ask: "Will you marry me?"

After six seconds of 'careful consideration,' she nodded: "I will!"

The night ended and, after a couple of final pleasantries, they said goodbye and returned to their respective homes.

Next morning, he awoke generally troubled. "Did she say 'yes' or 'no' to his proposal?" Try as he might he just couldn't recollect all the conversation.

So, with much trepidation, he went to the phone and called her.

First, he candidly admitted that his memory was rather hazy. They continued to converse and, as he gained a bit more courage, he said, "I know I asked you to marry me last night, but did you say 'Yes' or 'No' to my proposal?"

He was thrilled to hear her reply: "I said 'Yes'!" Then she continued, "And I am so glad you phoned, because I couldn't remember who'd asked me!"

3rd - Christopher Sturdy with:
"No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
Nelson Mandela
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All through history there has been real unfairness. No more!

One can't help but hope to change all those attitudes, none too soon, in honour of one inspiring man.

He took on tyranny, overcame Apartheid to become President of South Africa, to laugh.

Black Lives Shall Matter

Christopher Sturdy with:
"No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
Nelson Mandela
=
All through history there has been real unfairness. No more!

One can't help but hope to change all those attitudes, none too soon, in honour of one inspiring man.

He took on tyranny, overcame Apartheid to become President of South Africa, to laugh.

Black Lives Shall Matter

Dharam Khalsa with:
Five pieces of dumb financial advice that most people believe (The Penny Hoarder):
1. Put your money in a savings account.
2. Keep wasting hundreds of dollars on homeowner's insurance.
3. You'll never be able to give your family a million dollars.
4. You should get three auto insurance quotes.
5. Only rich people can invest in the Stock Market.
=
Helpful money outline. Have a look:
1. Aspiration: An ethical one (or, put money under the mattress).
2. Policy.genius: Save every month.
3. Bestow: Indulge in a term life insurance policy.
4. Gabi: Look at forty such known businesses.
5. Stash: Build your portfolio. Even get a share of Apple revenue each quarter, commonly called 'dividend'.


Meyran Kraus with:
A few key programs impaired, rolled back or eliminated by the Trump administration:

The National Environmental Policy act
The Endangered Species act
The Clean Water act
The National Historic Preservation act
The Bird Conservation act
The Clean Air act
The Archeological Resources Protection act
The Paleontological Resources Preservation act
The Safe Drinking Water act
The Noise Control act
The Antiquities act
The Farmland Protection Policy act
The Coastal Zone Management act
The National Fish and Wildlife act
The Eagle Protection act
The River and Harbors act
The American Indian Religious Freedom act

=

Then again, old Donald did announce nice new programs instead, like:

The Grotesque Combover Appreciation act
The Corona Spread Acceleration act
The Orange Tans Aren't So Creepy act
The 'Overweight' Redefinition act
The Lord Putin Canonization act
The Trillionaires Are People Too act
The Immigrant Toddler Incarceration act
The Hillary Incarceration act
The Melania Bedroom-Incarceration act
The "No Child Of Mine Left Behind" (AKA "Support Nepotism") act
The "A Wall Solves Everything" act
The Critics Are Fake News act
The Polls Are Incorrect If They're Against Me act
The It's All Obama's Fault act
The Racist Lives Matter act

Rosie Perera with:
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. -- Frederick Douglass
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Gun, handcuffs, taser, baton, hate, and soon has a solid authoritarian knee with full weight on one black man's neck. WTF?! Time to defund the police!

Tony Crafter with:
Emily was a bit of a demon in her wheelchair, and loved to race around the care home, taking corners on one wheel and getting up to maximum speed on the long corridors.

Because the freewheeling Emily was 'one sandwich short of a picnic', the other residents tolerated her, and some of the males actually joined in.

One day, Emily was speeding down the corridor when a door opened and Senseless Cecil stepped out with his arm outstretched. "STOP!" he shouted in a firm voice. "Have you got a licence for that vehicle?"

Emily rummaged through her handbag, extracted a Mars Bar wrapper and held it up to him. "Yes, that's okay," said Cecil, and Emily sped away down the hall.

As she negotiated the bend by the residents' lounge on one wheel, Weird Wesley leapt out in front of her and shouted out: "STOP! Have you got insurance for that?"

Emily dug into her handbag, pulled out a drinks coaster and held it up to him. "Okay," said Wesley, "Carry on, ma'am."

As Emily neared the final corridor, Crazy Stewart stepped out in front of her, stark naked, holding Captain Willy in his hand.

Oh, my goodness, said Emily, "Not the breathalyser again!"=
Two old people, a widow and a widower, had known each other as friends for a number of years.

One evening there was a community supper in the village hall, and the pair were on the same table space, though sitting opposite each other.

During the meal, the man chanced a few admiring glances in the woman's direction and finally gathered the courage to ask: "Will you marry me?"

After six seconds of 'careful consideration,' she nodded: "I will!"

The night ended and, after a couple of final pleasantries, they said goodbye and returned to their respective homes.

Next morning, he awoke generally troubled. "Did she say 'yes' or 'no' to his proposal?" Try as he might he just couldn't recollect all the conversation.

So, with much trepidation, he went to the phone and called her.

First, he candidly admitted that his memory was rather hazy. They continued to converse and, as he gained a bit more courage, he said, "I know I asked you to marry me last night, but did you say 'Yes' or 'No' to my proposal?"

He was thrilled to hear her reply: "I said 'Yes'!" Then she continued, "And I am so glad you phoned, because I couldn't remember who'd asked me!"


THE SPECIAL CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slandered with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on nature's power,
Fairing the foul with art's false borrow'd face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress' brows are raven black,
Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem
At such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,
Slandering creation with a false esteem:
Yet so they mourn, becoming of their woe,
That every tongue says beauty should look so.=
The Sin of the Forbidden Voice Within

You'd hear the fierce cop was "the only one",
But they don't know you got no other choice.
The mob could echo "I can't breathe", but none
Will think about one inner, awful voice:
It burns as bad as brine; as sly as fleas
In beds at dawn, an urge as crude as rum;
It nips at serfs as well as snobs at ease
Who look at men as bright as you as "dumb".
Yeah, even after screams of angry mothers
Reverberate and beg: "Please act, try more",
We don't look at your faces as our brothers -
But rather fume at crimes as if they're yours.
If we want bliss, alerting is the key
To how we'd redefine humanity.

2nd - Tony Crafter with:
THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'
A Song by Bob Dylan

Come gather 'round, people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin'
And you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
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TIME MARCHES ON
A hymn to a lost tradition

They yell: "Come you brothers,
We'll all hit the town,
And in the name of black lives
Tear the old statues down.
Those statues of racist,
White-privileged clowns
Will soon crash loud to the pavin',
And you'd better wake up to
What's soon comin' round,
Wake up, for the times are changin!"

I do not hold with
Their frenzied outrage,
You can't alter the past,
You can't turn back the page,
We are tolerant now,
That was another age,
There are different
Laws now pertainin',
Most for the better
And some for the worse,
But, the bad old days are changin'.

They march against racism,
And for gay rights,
They warn of the climate
Some turn up to fight,
Despite all of that,
Whether you're black or white,
There's a bothersome pandemic ragin',
With deaths in the thousands,
And they may die too,
Don't they see it's they who need changin'?

The world has turned crazy,
The genders are blurred,
We don't call women 'she'
Or men 'he', how absurd,
If this all continues,
Soon books'll be burned,
The lunatics will end up reignin',
We'll lose all free speech
And they'll censor our words,
Sayin' only: "Times are changin'."

Oppression in China
And Iran is dire,
Yet no one here protests,
At all, oddly, why?
In tolerant England
It's easy as pie,
You do what you want, no restrainin',
No loyalty is owed
To your home country, oh I
Fear today times are a-changin'

3rd - Dharam Khalsa with:
From a distance, the world looks blue and green,
And the snow-capped mountains white.
From a distance the ocean meets the stream,
And the eagle takes to flight.

From a distance, there is harmony,
And it echoes through the land.
It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace,
It's the voice of every man.
=
From here, I watched my mother pass of cancer;
If I phoned, she was too sick to answer.
From here, I needed to be attentive,
Thoughtful, pleasant and meditative.

From here, I sought to send love
To change the agony thereof.
COVID kept me held at a social distance;
Hence, it meant no health assistance.

Christopher Sturdy with:
If.

If they were not English tongued
If their strength was slight
If they had no dollars or guns
We would not fear their might.

Ties of tongue would bind us not
Our tongues untied would be
Then what tongues we would find we had
To set our brothers free =
Our new duty's to be furious
To show the future's in our hands
The White House git is nefarious
And all's not well in the land

George Floyd - murdered with no thought.
Get base stuff right; it went wrong.
If we don't, he died for nought.
We will need to be strong.

Dharam Khalsa with:
Ten John F. Kennedy quotes:
* My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
* The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
* Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
* The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
* The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
* Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
* Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
* There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
* Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
* Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
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Top ten known authentic remarks focused on colour and oneness, offered upon occasion by an outspoken contemporary of northerner Kennedy, Martin Luther King, a fearless, loud, powerful, if peaceful, preacher.
The prayerful churchman was persistently theatened, then soon senselessly taken out, fatally assassinated by a shot at a Memphis motel (As pro-conspiracy and kooky counter-conspiracy theories are out there, I say seek proof):
* In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
* I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
* We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
* We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
* Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
* Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
* I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
* The time is always right to do what is right.
* Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
* We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Maurice Goddard with:
***** Kahlil Gibran on Death *****

You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?
Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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***** Where is God? *****

The Prophet here in arousing words sublime,
On life and death, in truth, unitedly are one,
May yield one needy consolation in our time,
All over Earth with Corona's terrible run.

But human suffering, a never-ending threat,
The genocide and crimes against humanity,
The myriads of dead throughout all times, man has met,
Violent terrors that prevail with brutality.

Mass killings here; The Holocaust where Jews were gassed.
And Red Mao Tse-tung's. Then Pol Pot's with his Khmer Rouge.
Tyrant Stalin's, then more amassed.
Lost life in innumerous millions has been huge.

With infinite dead in days gone by, Black Death's too!
History, filled with unrelenting death, death, death,
The killed of WW I, then the Spanish Flu!
You suffer! The filth of battle! The blood! The depth!

The extent of offence, in bye bye bye bye bye!
Oh! A dark fouled Earth. The cemetery fields! No end!
The push-button H-bomb! The wounded! View of blood!
Oh! The added knotty life-end want! Oh! No end!
The filthy knotty stuff of horror! Oh! Shudder!
Think of it! Unbounded bad knotty Hell! Rubbish!
The Dead! Oh! Shudder! Oh! Puke! You suffer, no end.

One now may ask in all this pain; If there *is* a God,
One Deity being, then where *is* He?
One can so herein wonder that He has no eyes?
To see the Earth in all its death and misery?

Maurice Goddard with:
***** The Window *****

Sometimes I sit and stare out my window,
when life is in despair.
I go to that window when I feel depressed,
but no one is aware.
Everyday, I stare at the trees and the birds and the sky,
to escape from a world of unhappiness.
I press my forehead against the glass and sigh,
"Why does life have to be like this?"
I gaze out the window at the twinkling stars,
all is far away.
I wish I could be up there with them,
but instead, I'm stuck here everyday,
with nothing but my window.

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***** The Widow *****

I'm a minute shy widow within four walls,
and here, no one calls.
I eat breakfast with two pieces of bread,
tea, and a hard boiled egg.
With the Coronavirus this year, things might be worse,
to end up in a hearse.
Widowed at eighty, it wasn't fun,
with many tasks yet to be done.
Up dozy I wash, I dress, I may hum, sew and knit,
Unfussy, I try to keep fit.
When my time's over and I die, dressed in white,
I'll go to hereafter's blessed sleep rest,
As that happiest widow in Heaven's light.



THE RUDE CATEGORY

1st - Tony Crafter with:
He came in his pants =
Mishap - hence stain!

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
Presidential Master Bedroom in the White House =
Trump wished to be in Melania here (she's "too tired").

3rd - Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
Toilets For Paying Customers Only =
Call on your money first to get piss

Christopher Sturdy with:
Run the risk of being caught =
Rat's fucking the neighbour!

Meyran Kraus with:
He's the president that'd likely cut Corona aid =
He really puts the "Dick" in "A dictator", doesn't he?

Meyran Kraus with:
Presidential Master Bedroom in the White House =
Trump wished to be in Melania here (she's "too tired").

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with:
Toilets For Paying Customers Only =
Call on your money first to get piss

Tom Myers with:
Discover your true potential ‡
To pursue an erotic dirty love.

Tom Myers with:
A sign from god ‡
Go find orgasm.

Tony Crafter with:
He came in his pants =
Mishap - hence stain!


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