inspired by Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC) of 10 February 2022, renounce.
A promising boxer called Bert,
Fought the champ, with a mind to cause hurt,
But young Bert got knocked down,
In the very first round,
Which meant, sadly, that I lost my shirt.
Mister Bump 
Good thing you didn’t bet your pants……
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Beaten to the punch!
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🤣🤣 Not that promising then!
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I love that, when you see the guy run his mouth off, give the evil eyes etc. Then lasts 10 seconds in the ring.
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🤣 My grandson is a big fan of that American stuff. That’s even worse!
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I have one of my Age UK clients into it too. In her seventies! I can’t resist laughing.
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🤣
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Poetic justice indeed
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Truthfully, the only boxer I ever liked was Ali. And that was him as a person, rather than as a boxer. You could fill a blog with Ali’s quotes and really have something decent.
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Now there’s a great post idea 💡
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Never bet on a chump.
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unless he wins
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I love limericks but rarely remember to write them.
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There’s a rhythm gets stuck inside you. I find I have to think hard before writing anything else these days.
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Funny you say so because I find that many of my poems have 7 or 8 syllables per line just by the rhythm in my head.
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Oh, definitely. From time to time I have written sonnets and to get into that iambic pentameter mindset is far and away the biggest challenge.
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