This Is This

While the simplest things are often the hardest to define, they can be the easiest to understand.

Quality. Value. Style. Love. You know what they are but I couldn’t explain any one of these better than anyone else, and yet they make us human beyond tears, toes and thumbs.

Love. Men of science as recently as Haddaway have pondered its nature.

In song you get “Love Will Keep Us Together” and less than a decade later they’re saying “Love Will Tear Us Apart”. Oh, and it spreads, can build a bridge, don’t cost a thing and does it good.

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Three Word Story

“You don’t understand your power over the common man,” said Alistair Campbell.   

The words seemed to echo endlessly around their cell. Digging a tunnel had proved fruitless and oddly phallic. Finding a vein had been the laborious task ahead, but they opted to forge ahead while singing “We Are The Champions”.

It wasn’t until they stopped singing that they realised they were never going to see Gdansk. In the dark, damp silence, the candles sputtered out. “Bugger,” said the slightly balder spelunker, “we need tallow - and FAST!”

“WAIT!! What’s THIS!?” Alistair exclaimed, puzzled.

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