I lost my blinkie

[Claire Petersky]

"Brian Huntley" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> (to the tune of "On Top of Spaghetti")

[snip]

> So farewell old blinkie
> You served me so well.
> But this always happens
> With cheap crap from Bell.

We're on the same wave length -- I was mentally composing another version of
my saga to this tune while in the shower -- and now I found you beat me to
it.

Alas, I wish it had been cheap crap from Bell. Instead, it was a Cat Eye
TL-LD600.


--
Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky

Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/
See the books I've set free at:
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[Claire]

To the tune of "I left my heart in San Francisco":

I lost my blinkie
On Second Av'nue
I hit a bump -- it flew away
Then a city metro bus
Crunched it; let me cuss
It was cheap, it wasn't rare
I don't care!

My blinkie's crushed
On Second Av'nue
I will mourn its loss, and heave a sigh
When I buy a new, replacement blinkie
The old will always shine in mem-o-ry!

Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky )
Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/
See the books I've set free at:
http://bookcrossing.com/referr=ADal/Cpetersky

[Pat Lamb]

Claire wrote:
> To the tune of "I left my heart in San Francisco":
>
> I lost my blinkie
> On Second Av'nue
> I hit a bump -- it flew away
> Then a city metro bus
> Crunched it; let me cuss
> It was cheap, it wasn't rare
> I don't care!
>
> My blinkie's crushed
> On Second Av'nue
> I will mourn its loss, and heave a sigh
> When I buy a new, replacement blinkie
> The old will always shine in mem-o-ry!

:)

Lost a few like that. Is there a corollary to Murphy's law that
whenever you lose a blinkie there's a vehicle ready to pulverize it?
Two of the three I lost were ground up like that. The third smashed on
impact -- I only ever found one battery...

Pat

[D. Dub]

"Claire" > wrote in message
ups.com...
To the tune of "I left my heart in San Francisco":

I lost my blinkie
On Second Av'nue
I hit a bump -- it flew away
Then a city metro bus
Crunched it; let me cuss
It was cheap, it wasn't rare
I don't care!

My blinkie's crushed
On Second Av'nue
I will mourn its loss, and heave a sigh
When I buy a new, replacement blinkie
The old will always shine in mem-o-ry!

Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky )
Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/
See the books I've set free at:
http://bookcrossing.com/referr*al/Cpetersky


How about a blinky haiku?

bright beautiful blinky,

broken and busted,

bye blinkie

[catzz66]

D. Dub wrote:
>
>
> How about a blinky haiku?
>
> bright beautiful blinky,
>
> broken and busted,
>
> bye blinkie
>
>

or a limerick:

there once was a blinkie from seattle
whose bracket had started to rattle
a flight it did take
but wound up a pancake
mister gravity won the last battle

[Bill Sornson]

D. Dub wrote:

> How about a blinky haiku?
>
> bright beautiful blinky,
>
> broken and busted,
>
> bye blinkie

http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/#whatishaiku

I lost my blinkie

It fell off the bike and got

crushed like a walnut

Conventional Bill

[Maggie]

Bill Sornson wrote:
>
> I lost my blinkie
>
> It fell off the bike and got
>
> crushed like a walnut
>
> Conventional Bill

How about......

What the heck is a blinkie?

Maggie

[Claire]

http://images.google.com/images?hl=3Den&lr=3D&safe=3Dactive&q=3Dbicycle+bli=
nkie

HTH

Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpete=ADrsky/
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[Zoot Katz]

Tue, 10 May 2005 17:42:37 GMT,
>, "Bill Sornson"
> wrote:

>D. Dub wrote:
>
>> How about a blinky haiku?
>>
>> bright beautiful blinky,
>>
>> broken and busted,
>>
>> bye blinkie
>
>http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/#whatishaiku
>
>I lost my blinkie
>
>It fell off the bike and got
>
>crushed like a walnut
>
>Conventional Bill
>

http://www.honku.org/

blinky suicides
under a dastardly bus
blankety blank blank
--
zk

[Leo Lichtman]

"D. Dub" wrote: How about a blinky haiku?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
My little red light
Says I'm trying to get home
Safely after dark.

[Brian Huntley]

(to the tune of "On Top of Spaghetti")

In downtown Se-att-le
All covered with rain
I lost my poor blinkie
Now ain't that a pain?

It fell off the fen-der
And onto the ground
And then a bus crushed it
It'll never be found.

So farewell old blinkie
You served me so well.
But this always happens
With cheap crap from Bell.

[Michael]

Claire wrote:
>
> To the tune of "I left my heart in San Francisco":
>
> I lost my blinkie
> On Second Av'nue
> I hit a bump -- it flew away

(snip)

Heh! I might have found it! Just before going beneath an unlit double overpass
one wet and miserable night last winter, I saw a red flash on the path ahead.
Followed by another a second or two later. I slowed down and rolled on until I
was abreast of the flashing. It was a wet, salt- and sand-encrusted blinkie,
cracked and otherwise the worse for wear. Apparently it had vibrated loose
from, and fallen off, a vehicle on the interstate highway above. It was still
doing its thing. I took it home, wiped it off, and put it on the bedroom
chest. That sucker kept going for many weeks. When it finally succumbed I gave
it a decent burial.

[Brian Sanderson]

....and finally, my .02$:

Thanks to whomever lost the blinkie on the Alex Fraser Bridge February last,
it was still in good working order (rechargeable batteries and all) when I
came along and picked it up. How lucky I was that it fell on the walkway
and not into the river!

[Maggie]

Claire wrote:
>
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&safe=active&q=bicycle+blinkie
>

I bought my firt Blinkie....Thank you Claire. :-)

Maggie

[Bill Sornson]

Maggie wrote:
> Claire wrote:
>>
> http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&safe=active&q=bicycle+blinkie
>>
>
> I bought my firt Blinkie....Thank you Claire. :-)

Silly typo. Did you buy a /flirt/ blinkie, or a /fart/ blinkie?

Bill "slow morning" S.

[Maggie]

Bill Sornson wrote:
> Maggie wrote:
> > Claire wrote:
> >>
> >
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&safe=active&q=bicycle+blinkie
> >>
> >
> > I bought my firt Blinkie....Thank you Claire. :-)
>
> Silly typo. Did you buy a /flirt/ blinkie, or a /fart/ blinkie?
>
> Bill "slow morning" S.

What are you? The NG proofreader. I farted on my first blinkie
while I was flirting with the blinkie salesman.

Love and Stuff
Maggie

[Bill Sornson]

Maggie wrote:
> Bill Sornson wrote:
>> Maggie wrote:
>>> Claire wrote:
>>>>
>>>
> http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&safe=active&q=bicycle+blinkie
>>>>
>>>
>>> I bought my firt Blinkie....Thank you Claire. :-)
>>
>> Silly typo. Did you buy a /flirt/ blinkie, or a /fart/ blinkie?
>>
>> Bill "slow morning" S.
>
> What are you? The NG proofreader. I farted on my first blinkie
> while I was flirting with the blinkie salesman.
>
> Love and Stuff
> Maggie

"STUFF YOUR LOVE IN A SACK, SISTER!"

(Seinfeldian quote adapted for rbm.)

Bill "slower still morning" S.

[Claire Petersky]

"Alex Colvin" > wrote in message
...
> >How about a blinky haiku?
>
> > bright beautiful blinky,
> > broken and busted,
> > bye blinkie
>
> nice imagery.
> needs a seasonal reference, though.
>
> Second Ave in Spring
> Potholes and a metro bus
> Death of a Blinkie

A well-executed haiku is rooted in the physical world of our senses, yet
suggests something deeper, often evoking the mysterious, transitory nature
of all existence. By invoking the images of spring, of grey potholes perhaps
filled with rain, and contrasting that the bright blinkie turning to shards
of plastic, we are rewarded not just with the required kigo of haiku, but
its satori moment of the blinkie's destruction. We are left with a feeling
of melancholy, the shunshu of spring.


--
Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky

Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/
See the books I've set free at:
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[Alex Colvin]

>How about a blinky haiku?

> bright beautiful blinky,
> broken and busted,
> bye blinkie

nice imagery.
needs a seasonal reference, though.

Second Ave in Spring
Potholes and a metro bus
Death of a Blinkie

--
mac the naïf

[D. Dub]

"Alex Colvin" > wrote in message
...
> >How about a blinky haiku?
>
>> bright beautiful blinky,
>> broken and busted,
>> bye blinkie
>
> nice imagery.
> needs a seasonal reference, though.
>
> Second Ave in Spring
> Potholes and a metro bus
> Death of a Blinkie
>
> --

very nice thank you!!