The saddest thing about a blog is that people read it. The saddest thing about a diary is that no one reads it.
So I was recently mocked for my version of the Pete and Repeat joke. How does it go?
Also this has been in mind lately and I thought it might be a nice thing to be on someone else's mind as well. No reason, but Art in the Park was this weekend. There was no sculpture for sale, but I did buy some pottery.
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so the Louvre or this particular piece?...on your mind, that is
That particular piece which is in the Louvre. I picked that page because you can enlarge from different angles. Prof Donnelly in classical humanities explained that this statue is why the Greeks are better than the Romans. I remember gasping the first time I saw it. But how do you tell the the Pete/Repeat joke?
"Pete and Repeat were on a boat Pete fell off who was left?"
"Repeat"
"Pete and Repeat were on a boat Pete fell off who was left?"
"Repeat"
"Pete and Repeat were on a boat Pete fell off who was left?"
"Repeat"
"Pete and Repeat were on a boat Pete fell off who was left?"
"Repeat"
"Pete and Repeat were on a boat Pete fell off who was left?"
"Repeat"
"Pete and Repeat were on a boat Pete fell off who was left?"
"Repeat"
"Pete and Repeat were on a boat Pete fell off who was left?"
"Repeat"
"Pete and Repeat were on a boat Pete fell off who was left?"
"Repeat"
"Pete and Repeat were on a boat Pete fell off who was left?"
"Repeat"
"Pete and Repeat were on a boat Pete fell off who was left?"
"Repeat"
AD INFINITUM
That piece is stunning.
That is a beautiful image to have on one’s mind. Lobiwan-- “Stunning” is a great word. Unfortunately, the word "stunning" has been ruined for me ever since John Kerry misused it to describe something. I am glad you are not equally jaded.
lobiwan-- i already knew your version happened on a boat, you big mocker. "Boat" does not rhyme with Pete or repeat.
I have no idea what jmlo is talking about, but, "so that we may not offend," let me say breathtaking, although Linda already literally described it as such.
It makes me think of the Catholic view that beauty is intrinsic to God, and thus such a piece should be valued as a revelation of the Divine.
"Pete got run over by a car" lacks a certain poetic quality...
Poetry is both rhyme and rhythm
I have also heard "Pete and Repeat were on a bench". I suppose you could interject "seat"...
Who was left also does not rhyme
I thought they were on a fence.
You see I thought they were walking down the street.
You were mocked not because of the rhyme scheme of your version, but for it's macabre nature. Pete does not have to die. Incidentally, for some reason in the shower this morning I kept coming up with worse versions.
Pete and Repeat are in a bar, Pete is brutally stabbed, who is left?
Pete and Repeat are walking up a hill, Pete is taken, who is left?
etc. The second may have been because of all of the "Armageddon" talk.
I never said that Pete died. I said Pete got run over. Who was left?
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