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Here's another, Rollo - same author as your first.

Beware the jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that snatch!
Beware the Jubjub bird and shun
The frumious Bamdersnatch.

The slaying comes later in the poem!!! :-D :-D :-D

I had to google that Rollo, though I should have known what it was :-)

Nobody came from the EU not even Italy.
No EU correspondents of any note came - they were with Barnier in Rome.
A speech spun from torn and tattered cloth meant for those Tory cnference delegates who had got past Janet and John.

"She wore a torn and tattered cloth around a leopard hide,
And a coat of many colors, blue, green on either side

She moved with some uncertainty, as if she didn't know
Just what she was there for, or where she ought to go
Once she reached for something golden, hanging from a tree,
And her hand came down empty

Soon within her tapestry, along the rutted road,
She sat down on a river rock and turned into a toad
It seemed that she had fallen into someone's wicked spell,
And I wept to see her suffer, though I didn't know her well

:-D

I don't understand you," said Alice. "It's dreadfully confusing!"
"That's the effect of living backwards," the Queen said kindly: "it always makes one a little giddy at first."

"Living backwards!" Alice repeated in great astonishment. "I never heard of such a thing!"
"—but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways."
"I'm sure mine only works one way," Alice remarked. "I can't remember things before they happen."
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked.
"What sort of things do you remember best?" Alice ventured to ask.
"Oh, things that happened the week after next," the Queen replied in a careless tone.

"Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come to-day. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!"
Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. "Can you keep from crying by considering things?" she asked.
"That's the way it's done," the Queen said with great decision: "nobody can do two things at once, you know."

"I'm just one hundred and one, five months and a day."
"I can't believe that!" said Alice.
"Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."
Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Repeat a phrase often enough and it'll stick in your mind. That's how advertising works.

"Go to work on an egg" :-D

I agree, Nyx, although I don't find it annoying so much as boring, and I just "switch off". So anything else she says doesn't register!!

And I don't mind "per se". :-)

TM is having a struggle, with the Brexit and its problems AND problems within her

cabinet, from people who should be pleased they were appointed in the first place.

to "Orderly and smooth"

Clearly Mrs May was brought up on the rule that the more often you repeat something the more likely it is to become true ;-) ( or maybe she was reared on Janet & John books?).

This is not a thread about brexit or otherwise, per se ( is "per se" annoying btw?), it's just an observation that repetition of certain phrases becomes really annoying . :-D