In Memory of Che, The Forum is not the same without her

[mickey_one]

DEATH TO ALL CHAIRS

with their 4 legs
and their wooden looks,
some say "good old chairs"
but others tell the truth.

Chairs aren't faithful,
they let anyone sit on them,
they don't believe in mahogany

let's all agree, for a day, not to sit on a chair,
talk to a chair, or play with a chair,
Che would be proud

but she has returned to Spain
and doesn't visit us
any more

[damellon]

Michael
I have discussed your comments with my various chairs. My antique mahogany dining chair, a thing of beauty, takes pride in her ancestor. My easy chair is forever welcoming. My swivel chair declares its fitness for the job noiselessly and elegantly and is a source of 360 degree pleasure to both serious and frivolous occupants. My garden chair is steadfast, thinking me a mere fair-weather friend.
What is faithfulness or the lack of it as compared with these attributes?
In chorus they say they are more sinned against than sinning, referring to angry kicks, careless spills, heavy bags, feet in shoes that have been God knows where, abandoned clothes, bed linen airing and activities hinted at in Leonard’s line ‘she tied you to a kitchen chair’.
For fear of reprisals - wobbly legs, lumpy upholstery, castors stricken immobile - I cannot join your boycott.
Why would Che be proud of me if I could?

[mickey_one]

Michael
I have discussed your comments with my various chairs. My antique mahogany dining chair, a thing of beauty, takes pride in her ancestor. My easy chair is forever welcoming. My swivel chair declares its fitness for the job noiselessly and elegantly and is a source of 360 degree pleasure to both serious and frivolous occupants. My garden chair is steadfast, thinking me a mere fair-weather friend.
What is faithfulness or the lack of it as compared with these attributes?
In chorus they say they are more sinned against than sinning, referring to angry kicks, careless spills, heavy bags, feet in shoes that have been God knows where, abandoned clothes, bed linen airing and activities hinted at in Leonard’s line ‘she tied you to a kitchen chair’.
For fear of reprisals - wobbly legs, lumpy upholstery, castors stricken immobile - I cannot join your boycott.
Why would Che be proud of me if I could?

Dear Madam, with reference to your frivolous and, indeed, somewhat promiscuous post on the important subject of chairs, I beg to differ on every important particular. All furniture takes a vow of fidelity at the point of its creation, none more so than the mahogany which by its very name forswears betrayal (NB this joke will not go away until properly acknowledged), yet what is the sad truth? You, Miss Damellon, have invited across the threshold of your private domain many a travelling merchant who seeks to display unto you his wares and you allow such unquantified stranger in your midst to enseat himself upon a chair.

Doth the chair protesteth, doth the beech beseech you to deny unauthorised access or does it allow any ol' itinerant bum or hobo to squat wily-nily upon it, oh I can't be bothered to continue this boring response to your enchanting provocation.

Che would be proud because she left England, so she told me, partly because of the aggressive nature of the local chairs. Back in Spain she reposes peacefully, safe from attack by random upholstery.

yours etc etc

Lord Mickey of One

(qualified to speak on this subject as I have just taken the chairmanship of an interesting educational charity)

[damellon]

Chairman Michael

Because the subject is of undoubted importance, I am bound (not to the said chair) to come to the defence of my candid and accommodating friends thus -

1. Why should the standard for fidelity be higher for chairs than for humans?
2. Travellers of every hue are welcome across my threshold. We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, the best we can find in our travels is an honest chair. (sort of Robert Louis Stevenson)

Further - are you sure Che was speaking English/Spanish and not French when, possibly reclining on her chaise longue, she described English ‘chairs‘ as aggressive? Since ‘le chair’ translates as ‘secrets of the flesh’, she may have been referring to persistent and unwelcome advances of Englishmen.

Must go - my favourite friend awaits with open arms.

[mickey_one]

Dame LLon posed 2 tricky little questionthingys


1. Why should the standard for fidelity be higher for chairs than for humans?

because for chairs mahogany comes naturally but for humans, (ok, ok, for men we like to share our wood all over the place)and are genetically disposed to be disloyal

2. Travellers of every hue are welcome across my threshold. We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, the best we can find in our travels is an honest chair. (sort of Robert Louis Stevenson)


We are all wanderers on this earth.
Our hearts are full of wonder, and our
souls are deep with dreams.
-Gypsy Proverb

We are all sausages on this earth
Our trousers are full of wonder, and our
fat-fryers are deep with chips
- Michael Nonsense

and then she closed with this libellous Scandalatum Magnatum
Further - are you sure Che was speaking English/Spanish and not French when, possibly reclining on her chaise longue, she described English ‘chairs‘ as aggressive? Since ‘le chair’ translates as ‘secrets of the flesh’, she may have been referring to persistent and unwelcome advances of Englishmen.

My dignity, my virginity, and my chair remain in tact. I will not descend to the gutter to respond to your calumny (other than with the appropriate High Court Writ when the shops are open in the morning.

I bid you Good Night (and see your Good Night and raise you one Good Morning as well).

[che]

Mickey_one
Thanks to you for the lines of missing Che.
It is nice to see these lines and thank you.
I am in B. Aires in Argentina with visiting my aunt and is beautiful here. I hope London is not so rainy as it was.
Greeting to all my forum friend
Che

[mickey_one]

Mickey_one
Thanks to you for the lines of missing Che.
It is nice to see these lines and thank you.
I am in B. Aires in Argentina with visiting my aunt and is beautiful here. I hope London is not so rainy as it was.
Greeting to all my forum friend
Che

greeting back from all your forum friend!

i am not in London now but working in rainy Sheffield, I hope B. Aries is beuno beuno for you

Lord Mickey of One