tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10928393.post2228574354979693201..comments2023-12-29T10:13:54.118-07:00Comments on <center>Walled-In Pond</center>: More Than Six Thousand Three Hundred Wells In The GulfWoody (Tokin Librul/Rogue Scholar/ Helluvafella!)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09205896988142798901noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10928393.post-59576689606813002672010-05-30T13:21:44.138-06:002010-05-30T13:21:44.138-06:00If "Spillow's Are Run Of The Millow"...If "Spillow's Are Run Of The Millow"<br />Sung to the Gilbert & Sullivan tune<br />"Tit Willow" from "The Mikado"<br />(On a tree by a river a little tom-tit sang, "Willow, tit-willow, tit-willow")<br /><br />Why would his predecessor, old Lickety-Split,<br /> say "spillows are run of the millow"<br />When we've seen that this president simply would sit,<br /> if all spillows were run of the millow?<br /><br />With his marvelous intellect he must have tried<br />To explain to the lackeys he keeps by his side,<br />"The G.O.P. must come along for the ride.<br /> This spillow's not run of the millow."<br /><br />Is it fair to suggest MMS would allow<br /> more spillows the run of the millow?<br />Could exasperation ever wrinkle his brow<br /> that this could become his peccadillo?<br /><br />But the spillows continued to billow like mad,<br />And his great reputation was about to be had,<br />So how to convince ev'ry one he was sad<br /> that this spillow's not run of the millow?<br /><br />He'd try to persuade us that he's in control<br /> when spillows aren't run of the millow;<br />But that he'll be to blame for tarring Woods Hole<br /> soon as spillows are run of the millow,<br /><br />Like when BP's 'surprised' that it's happened again,<br />And Shell's all done drooling at the prospect of when,<br />Letting Exxon sit back like a proud mother hen<br /> and sing, "All spillows are run of the millow."<br /><br />Music by Arthur Sullivan<br />Original Lyric by W. S. Gilbert<br />Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson<br />www.politicalboondoggles.com<br />5/28/10<br />To 'British Petoleum Imcompetence'<br />To 'Oil Industry Mafia'<br />To 'Calls to shut down BHP's Atlantis oilfield'<br />To 'Slick Operator: The BP I've Known Too Well'<br />To 'Obama: I'm Angry, Frustrated But In Charge;<br /> Still, Questions Remain'<br />To 'Obama too slow to act'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com