The Poetry Bus goes on a month long world tour in April starting off on the east coast of Scotland at Rachel Fox's blog.Tickets for the bus cost a poem (loose or otherwise) with your favourite word as a starting point.
My favourite word is a double-barrelled word shouted out by Fr. Jack in one episode of Father Ted. Arse-biscuit. The Arse bit prounced by scrunching up your face into a snarl.
My son is now known as Arse Biscuit. So is the canary. And my boss. It is a lovely graphic word, but I doubt I can write a poem about it.
I don't think we ever use the word "drink" in this house without giving it the ol' Father Jack inflection.
ReplyDeleteI have to go and watch them all again now to hear that "Arse-biscuit". (What a shame!) (One of my favourite scenes involves the game of "Buckaroo".)
A favourite quote of ours came from some obscure Irish film: "'Tis a sad arse that can't rejoice." (That gets said quite a bit around here too.)
Kat
Tell me you've seen the actual real life arse biscuits from English Mum blog http://englishmum.com/2010/03/09/arsebiscuits/
ReplyDeleteThat's a great quote, Kat, never heard of it, but it certainly has a ring to it, if you pardon the expression.
ReplyDeleteKate, just checked it out! Brilliant!