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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 2 – Intermediate)
Topic: Write for the HUMOR Genre (10/09/14)
(To be sung to the tune of ‘My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean’)

[Mum] Has anyone seen my blue hairbrush?
I left it beside the settee.
My tresses resemble a rat’s nest,
Oh bring back my hairbrush to me!

[Dad] Oh, guess what? My car keys are hiding,
And I am as late as can be!
I swear they were left on the table,
Oh bring back my car keys to me!

[Daughter] My mobile’s been half-inched* by someone!
‘Fess up, ‘cos I’m very displeased!
My boyfriend will text any minute,
Oh bring back my mobile to me!

[Son] My school shoes are not on the shoe rack,
I cannot think where they could be!
I’ve ransacked my room and my floordrobe**,
Oh bring back my school shoes to me!

[Dog] I’ve misplaced my favourite squeaky,
I buried it somewhere ... the tree?
The cat’s sitting there, pulling faces.
Oh bring back my squeaky to me!

[Son] No way! I’ve not hidden your mobile!
[Daughter] You did it to irritate me!
[Dad] Oh, shut up and help find my car keys!
[Mum] Oh, bring back my sanity, please!!

[Son] Has anyone looked on the bookcase?
I think I see something shiny...
[Dad] Thank heavens, so there are my car keys!
[Dog] But where is my yucky squeaky?

[Daughter] What’s under this mountain of clutter...
[Mum] The one I asked YOU to tidy?
[Daughter] Oh give over, Mum! There’s those school shoes!
[pulls face of disgust] One yucky, disgusting squeaky!

[Dad] One hairbrush and mobile still missing,
Now, where in this house could they be?
[Mum] Ouch! What’s this thing under the cushion?
My hairbrush! It came back to me!

[Son] Dad, why don’t you call up the mobile?
[Daughter] My boyfriend has just texted me!
I heard a faint ‘ping’ near the Xbox
It bought back my mobile to me!

[Mum] We’ve found all our things, let’s get moving
We all have got places to be
I’m glad we found everything missing...
[Dad] This house needs a mega tidy!

[Son] Let’s do more together in future,
Not sitting there, watching TV.
[Daughter] In helping to find all the lost things,
We found time for our family!

So Dad headed out to his workplace
The kids, off to school until three.
Mum’s day off, so she does the shopping
Then home to a hot cup of tea.

[Mum] It’s been such a long, stressful morning,
I’ll chill out, watch trash on TV.
Play ‘fetch’ with the dog – oh, you’re kidding!
No remote! Where could the thing be?

Author’s notes:
*Cockney rhyming slang for ‘pinched’.
** Clothes ‘stored’ on the floor. Parents of teenagers especially will recognise this phenomenon.
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Date
alan kane
10/17/14
sounds like a fun place to be, well written and flows well just do not ask me to sing it please.
Toni Babcock 
10/17/14
Very clever and fun reading! Thanks for your creative touch for the humor category.
Rachel Barrett
10/18/14
Oh boy...I am still laughing over that one.
Lindsey Ruby 
10/18/14
This is really great! I'm a sucker for the feel of a poem or song. I don't think I could do this kind of thing. Very creative! I bet it was fun to write!

Great job!
C D Swanson 
10/18/14
Creative entry well done!

God bless~
Noel Mitaxa 
10/19/14
It's Monday morning down here, and now you've got me singing.

Very creative and a lot of fun.
Sheldon Bass 
10/20/14
Brilliantly funny and easily relatable. I was fully hooked by the second quatrain. A really fun piece!
Sheldon Bass 
10/20/14
Brilliantly funny and easily relatable. I was fully hooked by the second quatrain. A really fun piece!
Nancy Sullivan 
10/23/14
This is so fun and something many of us understand. Excellent writing. Congratulations on your 1st Place!
C D Swanson 
10/23/14
Kat, congratulations!

Well done.

God bless~
Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom 
10/23/14
You had me snorting and that is always a good thing (unless I'm drinking Coke or Mt. Dew) Congratulations and a big Happy Dance!
Noel Mitaxa 
10/23/14
Congratulations on your EC. Well done.
Kon Michailidis
10/23/14
Well done! I really want to see this done on stage. Especially with the dog. It would work so well.
Judith Gayle Smith-Owens Vitouswykegardinerclark
10/23/14
Keep wry-ting! Funny!
Congratulations!

KJV 1 Timothy 3:16
"And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory."
Tracy Nunes 
10/24/14
I so enjoyed this! Congratulations!
Gregory Kane
10/31/14
Loved the floordrobe, could well imagine that!
Congrats on your EC, excellent going.