Last night I watched a DVD film called 'The Wipers Times', based on a true story about a small group of British soldiers in WWI Belgium. The term 'wipers' was what the soldiers referred to the place Ypres as they weren't sure how it should be pronounced.
Well this group of soldiers stumbled upon an old hand operated printing press & piles of paper. The captain and his superior thought it would be nice to produce a newspaper for all the lads in the trenches and it so happened their sergeant was a printer in civvie street.
Long story short, they produced many copies of the Wipers Times filled with irreverent stories made up by the lads and many jibes & limericks poking fun at the generals sat in comfort well away from any danger. It was a great hit with the lads but not the top brass.
Anyway, whilst watching the film I made up 2 limericks myself on the same theme (WWI) and tidied them up later whilst watching the news. The third one I made up this morning. Here they are...
Fritz the one armed Hun
Was given a left handed gun
With his arm on the right
He was unable to fight
So no wonder the Allies won
There was a German from Bonn
Who found a bloody great bomb
T'was only when he farted
That the timer was started
And then he was totally gone
The Germans were sat by the fire
Behind their rows of barbed wire
Cooking their beans
By whatever means
Whilst wallowing in the mud and mire
So come on guys....scratch your heads and knock up some witty ditties
Regards,
Jay.
Well this group of soldiers stumbled upon an old hand operated printing press & piles of paper. The captain and his superior thought it would be nice to produce a newspaper for all the lads in the trenches and it so happened their sergeant was a printer in civvie street.
Long story short, they produced many copies of the Wipers Times filled with irreverent stories made up by the lads and many jibes & limericks poking fun at the generals sat in comfort well away from any danger. It was a great hit with the lads but not the top brass.
Anyway, whilst watching the film I made up 2 limericks myself on the same theme (WWI) and tidied them up later whilst watching the news. The third one I made up this morning. Here they are...
Fritz the one armed Hun
Was given a left handed gun
With his arm on the right
He was unable to fight
So no wonder the Allies won
There was a German from Bonn
Who found a bloody great bomb
T'was only when he farted
That the timer was started
And then he was totally gone
The Germans were sat by the fire
Behind their rows of barbed wire
Cooking their beans
By whatever means
Whilst wallowing in the mud and mire
So come on guys....scratch your heads and knock up some witty ditties
Regards,
Jay.
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