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Ballad of Barty Jordan

Submitted by Bart on Fri, 18/06/2010 - 10:08
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At the age of thirty-seven1
he realised he would soon2
Ride through Paris3
in a sports car4
with the warm wind5
in his hair6.

(Ballad of Lucy Jordan, by Marianne Faithfull)

1 Thirty-eight, actually
2 Day after tomorrow, just one more day at work and there are tonnes of deadlines to meet!
3 Not exactly through Paris, but we'll zip7 along the périphérique to Bretagne
4 A Peugeot Partner is kinda like a sports car, isn't it?
5 Weather man says it's going to be cold, windy and wet for the next couple of days. Yay!
6 Receding
7 When was the last time anyone 'zipped' over the périphérique? We'll be lucky if we'll get out of the traffic jams before the end of our holidays.
 

Comments

I like all the corrections.

Submitted by Invader_Stu (not verified) on Fri, 18/06/2010 - 16:18.

I like all the corrections. Very funny :)

7. last year in April, on a

Submitted by Goya (not verified) on Sat, 26/06/2010 - 22:29.

7. last year in April, on a sunny Sunday: in half an hour we drove past Paris. We loved le Périphérique...

Jets Not Permitted

Submitted by Bart on Tue, 06/07/2010 - 10:38.

Half an hour? What kind of car do you have? Or more importantly, how many jet engines does your car have?

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