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"Imagine my Surprise..."

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(For those who remember the Letters pages of soft porn mags like Penthouse, Mayfair and Men Only.  This phrase populated every letter!).

 

Dear Fiona Millicent, I write about an incident

Which happened on a golfing holiday I took in Troon

I’d mentioned to the hotel staff

The unmade bed, the dirty bath

The Manager said he’d address the matter very soon;

So shortly after that I let the cleaner in the room.

I’d guess her age about 18; she looked a star of stage or screen

Her blouse was full to bursting and she’d legs up to the hilt;

She tidied round with mop and broom

She cleaned the bath, the sink, the room;

She bent across my king-sized bed and straightened up the quilt;

Image my surprise when she lifted up her kilt.

 

Dear Fiona Millicent, I’m normally quite reticent

To talk of my experiences few and far between;

But I was shopping at my butcher’s

And I’d bought about as much as

I needed when the butcher seemed to eye me very keen

He asked me out so sweetly that I felt just like a queen.

He picked me up dead sharp at 8

And for a treat on our first date

He took me to the pictures in a town they call Moncrieff

The film was called “All Hands on Deck”

And starred Jean Harlow, Gregory Peck;

We said that from this boredom we would both need some relief;

Imagine my surprise when he offered me his beef.

 

Dear Fiona Millicent, your column is magnificent;

Please let me share my story of our vicar and his wife;

Moving lately to our parish

Came the vicar and wife, Alice,

Who invited me for card games at the vicarage in Fife;

She’d worked in Ayr casino and was sharper than a knife.

We played a hand or two of whist, “Just for matchsticks,” he’d insist;

She shuffled cards so dextrously, with certainty of touch

But dealt the last card in my lap

(A ruse to see my hand, perhaps?)

I put it down to nervousness – an accident as such.

Imagine my surprise when his hand dropped to my crotch.

 

Dear Fiona Millicent I’m really rather innocent

Of matters of the flesh since I come from Tunbridge Wells

But beauty far beyond mere speech

Appeared to me upon the beach

Bedecked in pink and purple reins and tinkliest of bells;

The sweetest donkey ever on the sands of Ingoldmells.

It was the prettiest I’ve seen, its coat a luscious, golden sheen

I stroked it on its forehead and I gazed into its eyes

I dropped my coin into the sand

(Which, truly, was not what I’d planned)

The donkey got quite frisky and its plonker grew in size

As I bent to pick the pound up – well, imagine my surprise.

◄ "Widening the Circle of Friends"

The Things We Do For Love ►

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John Coopey

Sun 16th Oct 2011 22:26

I wrote this while I was in Malta last week. Since I've got back and had the chance to "research the porn" a little I have discovered that the Editor's name was, in fact, Fiona Richmond and not Millicent.
BUT YOU BLOKES ALL KNEW THAT DIDN'T YOU???!!!

Yours sincerely
John and Donkey

Terry White

Sun 16th Oct 2011 18:38

Coopey! Love it man, smiled the whole time I was reading!!

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Isobel

Sun 16th Oct 2011 17:27

Heh heh - be careful where you think of performing this John. If I was a vicar with a card sharp wife, I'd wouldn't take kindly to this. Or if I owned that donkey on Blackpool beach...

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Joy France

Sun 16th Oct 2011 15:27

A tonic - so much poetry is "worthy" and navel gazing. This is the perfect tone for the subject!

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Isobel

Sun 16th Oct 2011 11:13

Lol - I can imagine the reading groups you lot must belong to!

I've read this more than once and it always makes me laugh. What is it about Tunbridge Wells? I bet they're just as rampant as any other town - probably worse cos it's all pent up.

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Lynn Dye

Sun 16th Oct 2011 00:12

Hee hee, wicked, John.

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Sat 15th Oct 2011 23:21

I thought you'd be more of the "H&E" generation ;) .......sorry

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M.C. Newberry

Fri 14th Oct 2011 20:48

Having read your lines, it was even better to
listen to you reading them. Super. Like "Stinker" Murdoch (remember him?) on acid!

Philipos

Fri 14th Oct 2011 20:08

Dear Mr Coopey, I hope the nag was droopy and didn't hurt your eye. Cos when I read your naughty words I laughed until I cried.

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M.C. Newberry

Fri 14th Oct 2011 20:01

I knew I must finish or I'd be bereft
Before I made my excuses and left.
Keep 'em coming. This is good for the health.
M.C.

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Ray Miller

Fri 14th Oct 2011 19:52

You're a wicked man, John Coopey, a wicked, wicked man. Fiona Millicent is brilliant!

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