101 and Still Rhyming Along

Not bad for 101, eh? Well I'm talking beBee long form posts, of course.  Before I arrive at a century in years, I trust that somebody will probably have taken pity on me and shot me, that is if we still have a planet by then.

101 posts in just under three years means about three posts every month. In actuality, like many long term 'producers' on beBee, my post production rate varies much more extensively, with periods of feverish activity interspersed with periods of relative non-productivity. Throughout the last three years, however, I have rarely been away from beBee (even when not actively posting), preferring to spend my time dreaming up appropriate comments in response to the posts of others, whether they are those whose posts I choose to read keenly and frequently, or the occasional newBee or infrequent visitor to the ongoing beBee party.

So it is to my record of comments on the posts of others upon which I have drawn this current 102nd post, in keeping with previous similar listings, which you can find at the following links:  

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ken-boddie/some-o-me-poems-and-proverbs-vol-i

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ken-boddie/more-o-me-rhymes-and-other-word-crimes-vol-ii-66872  

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ken-boddie/more-o-me-rhyming-comments-fact-fun-or-farce  

Some of these comments are, hopefully, comical, some perhaps poetic, and others .... well you decide.

So let's start this party with a few old friends and a small taste of their works .....

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Gert Scholtz in his

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@gert-scholtz/africa-awaits  gave us a magical pictorial tour of his homeland, to which I commented:

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Ian Weinberg in his

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ian-weinberg/the-perch-on-your-shoulder  gave us some sage advice on our focus in life, which I summarised with:

The road from womb to tomb,
Should not be gloom and doom,
It’s how we go, not where, and what discloses,

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Ian Weinberg in her

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@renee-cormier/the-power-of-reflection  suggested how we may most meaningfully reflect, to which I commented:

Good sound advice as always, Renée. We should all look deeply at ourseves from time to time. Perhaps I’ll start by looking in the mirror every morning, as that’s something I can see myself doing.

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Susan 🐝 Rooks, the Grammar Goddess in her

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@susan-rooks/thursday-thought-every-day-should-be-gratiday  described to us the things for which she is grateful and asked us to respond in kind, to which I commented:

For Gratitude, Rabbie Burns says it all with the following:
“Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be Thankit!”

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Renée 🐝 Cormier in his

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@randall-burns/zen-and-the-flow-state-of-cooking  introduced us to the spiritual side of his work and suggested how to attain Nirvana in the kitchen, to which I commented:

I envy you your spiritual enlightenment, Randy. If I come into your restaurant can you make me [at] one with everything?

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Claire L Cardwell in her

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@claire-cardwell/why-round-buildings-are-better  delighted in demonstrating the beauty of curved architecture., whereas I have been pulling her leg for quite some time about the difficulties which the engineer and builder experience when deviating from the straight and true, and so the banter continued:

Just like Joni Mitchell, we’re going “round and round and round in the circle game”.
And so .....
Curves are cute,
And fun to boot,
Aesthetic fun to share,
But their paradigm,
At construction time,
Is a builder’s worst nightmare.

Furthermore .....
Curves are very fine,
If you use them all the time,
And you have the maths to work out how they’re weighted,
But .....
If you’re not a frequent user,
You could end up quite a loser,
And be absolutely discombobulated.  

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Susan 🐝 Rooks, the Grammar Goddess in her

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@lada-prkic/just-a-few-thoughts  bemoaned the lack of well written and original posts on SM these days, to which I commented:

Like you, Lada, I hate poor grammar and spelling, but only in my own blogs. I am much more forgiving of others, provided that they open up and reveal their character in the telling of the tale. I love writers who tell us their own personal experiences, good and bad, in their own words, without ‘photocopying’ the experiences of others; who feed us enough tasty personal treats to leave us begging for more; who, in essence, show us their strengths and weaknesses openly. If I want listicles, how to’s, cold lifeless bullshit chest puffing, and the preachings and biased advice of marketers and self barrow pushing snake oil sellers, I’ll go buy a text book, download a user manual, or go back to Linked In. Keep delivering your heart and soul onto the page, Lada, and you’ll always have an audience, whatever your subject matter.

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Paul Walters in his

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@https-twitter-com-paulvwalters/a-letter-to-my-bank-manager  brilliantly narrates a letter of complaint he ‘wrote’ to his bank manager, to which I commented:

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Randall Burns in her

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@franci-hoffman/let-the-music-play  gave us a poetic rendering of her love for music and days gone by, to which I commented:

It’s true that old time rock and roll,
Is gonna help to sooth the soul,
But when a muso’s on the dole,
He needs an old time sausage roll.

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Cyndi wilkins in her

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@cyndi-wilkins/in-honor-and-loving-memory-of-roxy  wrote a beautifully poetic tribute to Ian Weinberg’s four legged companion who recently passed, and told how she is passing her name onto the latest doggy adopted by her family, to which I commented:

Beautiful poem selection, Cyndi, and an apt tribute to old mate, @Ian Weinberg, and the recent loss of his treasured Roxy.
Blue heelers (also known as Australian cattle dogs) are very protective of family members, but also have a natural instinct to herd. So if you have any errant children (I believe your daughter may now be a bit old) they tend to keep then in check by lightly nipping at their heels. Good on ya, Cyndi, for 'saving' her from an animal shelter and not getting her from a pet shop where, in many countries, they have links to cruel puppy production lines.

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Claire L Cardwell in her

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@joyce-bowen/the-depot-diner  had our mouth’s watering over her depiction of the staff and menu at her favourite local diner, to which I commented:

Glad to see you out and about and enjoying yourself, Joyce. Such a pity that we don't have your famous diners here in Oz, but I've heard all about them from my vegetarian Chinese friend, Brocco Lee.

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Lisa Vanderburg in her

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@lisa-vanderburg/but-how-to-get-rid-of-the-body  asks us how the bad guys get away with murder in the movies, to which I commented:

Ashes to ashes,
Dust to dust,
Hilarious post, girl,
An absolute must.
Call me a cab,
Then steal all my money,
Then call me a liar,
If this post ain’t ‘dead funny’.

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Lada 🏡 Prkic in his

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@jerry-fletcher/attack-of-the-terabytes  gave us his thoughts on recent improvements in computer memory, appetisingly constructed bite by bite, to which I commented:

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Jennifer Leach-Trask in her

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@jennifer-leach-trask/first-impressions-for-better-or-for-worse  gave us some key strategies for creating a good first impression on SM and turning readers into our “fan base and potential customers”, but I couldn’t resist pulling her leg:

As a recent cave dweller, Jennifer, used to hanging out with my ancient homo sapiens buddies, and dragging our respective knuckles along the ground, I can assure you that our human psyche has not, as yet, developed beyond the 'Naked Ape' stage, and so we are still hard wired to quickly classify new acquaintances (based on first impressions) as either safe (ie they are well suited to join our intimate cave party) or unsafe (ie they may end up clubbing us to death or, worse still, dragging our women folk by the hair, out of our respective caves, kicking and screaming). Hence I suspect that our modern day social media dalliance merely taps into this pre-neanderthal predisposed neutron line-up inside our archaic brains. Until such time as our psyche develops beyond a 'comfort circle' of no more than about 5 or 6 cave dwellers, perhaps we need to constantly remind ourselves of the potential benefits of diversity, and welcome more newcomers into our inner circle ..... while, hopefully, stopping short of hugging psychopaths and mass murderers?

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Paul Walters in his

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@iamgpe/spelling-doesn-t-count-on-flip-charts  told of the dangers of using flip top charts, to which I commented:

When you ain’t got time to Google it,

The dictionary’s lost,

And your spelling’s getting worse and worse each day,

Why don’t you phone a friend,

Use a whiteboard to amend,

And throw that bloody flip top chart away?

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Joel Anderson in his

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@joel-anderson/the-simple-joy-of-a-smile-or-several-part-ii  told of time spent with his niece after her participation in the special Olympics:

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Franci🐝Eugenia Hoffman, beBee Brand Ambassador in his

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@royce-shook/some-idle-thoughts  told us how an old lady from Wisconsin won an advertising competition with a rudely hilarious poem, to which I commented:

Hey Royce .....
Your dairy farm lady just had me in fits,
With tales of hard chores, moving shit and cows’ tits,
But what I can’t fathom, no matter the hour,
Is how to get milk from a carnation flower.

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Don Philpott☘️ in his

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@dphilpott/the-world-according-to-carp-my-first-job  told how his first boss appeared to take delight in maximizing his inefficiency, to which I commented:

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Cyndi wilkins in his

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@preston-vander-ven/finishing-the-race  suggested how we might set goals and go for them, to which I commented:

The sad fact, Preston, is that only 'a small number of us' actually set goals and, of those who do, only 'a small number of us' actually write our goals down, so that we can remind ourselves and work on them.
And what do you get when you multiply 'a small number' by 'a small number'? Diddly squat, that's what!
As for the 'race' from start to finish, as you have pointed out, first we need to stop procrastinating and take the fist step. As I stated in @Gert Scholtz's post "About Time" earlier today:

There's just no time like the present,
'Cause tomorrow, for sure, never comes,
So let's all ensure life is pleasant,
By removing our thumbs from our bums.

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Bill King in his

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@bill-king/the-moral-of-the-story-is  tells how he rather comically lost his swimming trunks while water skiing, and asked us what lesson could be learned:

Can’t find the moral, Bill?
Too hard to define?
Why not have a look,
Where the sun doesn’t shine?

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@Ian Weinberg in his

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@donald-grandy/how-to-catch-a-monkey  tells us of a simple monkey trap in India where the monkey only has to let go of its prize to set itself free:

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Gert Scholtz, one of them, in his

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@gert-scholtz/interview-with-ian-weinberg  interviewed the other, Ian Weinberg, our unique and ubiquitous, multi-functioning neuro-medic:

Ian Weinberg and Gert Scholtz. Really glad this one resurfaced 18 months down the track. Can’t understand how I missed this obvious classic. Filing it away in Café beBee for later reference. You have a rare knack for interviewing, Gert, and you, Ian, have a rare aptitude for giving us an enticing flip-top peep into the biomechanics, dynamics, organics, and no doubt occasional panics, associated with the inner workings of our grey matter. Always a pleasure to see more of how the neuro-ticks.

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I hope you'll take time out to read these posts of your fellow bees, if you haven't done so already, and respond in similar ilk by proffering a comment or two.

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The author of the above, Ken Boddie, besides being a sometime poet and occasional writer, is an enthusiastic photographer, rarely leisure-travelling without his Canon, and loves to interact with other like-minded people with diverse interests.

Ken's three day work week (part time commitment) as a consulting engineer allows him to follow his photography interests, and to plan trips to an ever increasing list of countries and places of scenic beauty and cultural diversity.