0I have spent months toiling over these exquisite gems only to find that the thread on short poems had been locked. So that the world should not be deprived of them I have opened a new thread.02br 02br 01b00An excited child on being asked which letter of the alphabet follows ‘n’02b02br 02br 01b00 02b02br 02br 00O!02br 02br 00O!02br 02br 00 02br 02br 01b00A Frenchman on emerging from the Sahara Desert02b02br 02br 01b00 02b02br 02br 00Eau!02br 02br 00Eau!02br 02br 00 02br 02br 01b00A literate gentleman on being asked to comment on the spelling “boutane”02b02br 02br 00 02br 02br 00No02br 02br 00O02br 02br 00 02br 02br 01b00A stockbroker on being informed that the market had crashed02b02br 02br 01b00 02b02br 02br 00Oh02br 02br 00No!02br 02br 00 02br 02br 01b00A disgruntled instore Santa Claus who failed to negotiate a contract under which he was paid by the word02b02br 02br 01b00 02b02br 02br 00Ho!02br 02br 00Ho!02br 02br 00 02br 02br 01b00A gardener addressing his favourite horticultural implement02b02br 02br 00 02br 02br 00Oh02br 02br 00Hoe!02br 02br 00 02br 02br 01b00An actor forgetting his lines in King Lear02b02br 02br 01b00 02b02br 02br 00No,02br 02br 00No…02br 02br 00 02br 02br 01b00A disappointed critic at an arts festival on discovering that the Japanese drama was cancelled02b02br 02br 01b00 02b02br 02br 00No02br 02br 00Noh.02br 02br 00 02br 02br 00 02br 02br 00 02br 02br 00 0-
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