Bongo Fury

These jolly German monologues are just the thing to scare the bejeebers out of your children:

https://germanstories.vcu.edu/struwwel/daumen_e.html

Bob wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2018 11:36 am These jolly German monologues are just the thing to scare the bejeebers out of your children:

https://germanstories.vcu.edu/struwwel/daumen_e.html

I was read those as a kid and have never forgotten them.

My favourite is Little Johnny Head in Bongo

Bill, it's like it was yesterday.

Us two little Flower Pot Boys would settle down in our tiny flower pots and Weed would read us this bed time story:

Little Johnny Head in Bongo

When a Bongo parked upon his street
Young Johnny clapped and stamped his feet
He begged his Mother, how he cried
Until he had his head inside

He'd ask the owners, you and me
"Please let me in the AFT"
Most polite, he'd never swear
But had to get his head in there

A bonnet up, he'd use his charm
To check the low coolant alarm
Doors wide open, both seats raised
The Bongo engine Johnny praised

And when in June the stars align
The Bongos meet up, yours and mine
Johnny thought this must be Heaven
Down beside the River Severn

And in the field, with hair receding
A northern chap was Bongo bleeding
You should have heard his Mother sigh
"John's boiling coolant in his eye"

But then the rain came, un-remitting
And jacks came out for mud tyre fitting
And as we stared in disbelief
Our Johnny's head went underneath

Now something known to you and me
Is Mr Newton's gravity
And with the jack on slippery field
Something simply had to yield

"Come out young John", we prayed and wished
"We just don't want you to get squished"
But Johnny found, despite his hat
His head was squashed, his brains were flat

Now young Johnny's long since dead
For beneath a Bongo stuck his head
And one thing Johnny understands
Is always use your axle stands

To call that brilliant would not be praise enough. As you know Ben, I fancy myself as a bit of a shining wit. But that is outa my league.



Dear Bongomeister. Can we start a new annual award for Bongoist Laureate. First winer to be Bob aka Ben. And all these great works could be added to an evergrowing tome of Best Bongo Poems.



P.S. Think I've dropped an 'n' sonewhere but can't seem to find it

Thanks Mike.

Edit: Have you looked down the back of the sofa for the 'n'?

absolutely brilliant bob. .



ps ive got a tall forehead, a bit like these guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKodMvfpKPI.

Might not be you Ady.

But here we see some Bongonaughts learn English:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0k1eicbZqfA

Cracking!

Who would have thought
That Bill and Ben
Would be poetic
Flower pot men....

Brilliant Ben.....

Alan

Young Bill went and planted the seed
The subject looked good, I agreed
A fun tale, then surprise
At young Johnny's demise
And a lesson we Bongonaughts heed

Thanks for kind comments.