In households where small kids abound There is an oft-repeated sound A gasping and a muffled curse A strangled sobbing for a nurse
If you live in a house like this You'll know that with parental bliss There comes a pain this state inflicts Cos where there's kids, there's lego bricks.
No matter how often every day You gather them, they get away To skulk unseen and plot unchecked And leap out when you least expect
When shoes are off they lurk like pike Till you walk past and then they strike You tread on them and curse afresh And rub the imprint on your flesh
What price would we not gladly pay To see the bricks all put away Without exception, every one Well, here's a thought to ponder on
It could, it would be all so simple To collect those bricks with dimples If Lego would agree to stick A metal strip in every brick
A wand to be used in conjunction Has a strong magnetic function Switch on to use and sweep the floor Beneath the chairs, behind the door
See the lego pieces leap Like flying fish or bounding sheep And to the magnet rod affix Like cubist candy floss... but bricks
Once you have retrieved a crop Hold over box, switch off to drop And wander without fear of pain Your house, barefoot, at night again-- squeak, Mar 31 2005 how legos are made http://www.popandco.com/archive/moab/ [ato_de, Jun 23 2005] Bravo! Bun for the summary alone!-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Mar 31 2005 just beautifull!-- zeno, Mar 31 2005 squeaky clean fun-- po, Mar 31 2005 [po] Squeaky clean? I've never thought of my name in that way, somehow, and now I'm rather worried that people will get the wrong impression. Please note, I am not an overly tidy person, I'm just rather attached to using my feet.-- squeak, Mar 31 2005 thats what neil armstrong said before i severed his feet with a pruning saw, and licked the moon fungus from beneath his toe nails.-- benfrost, Mar 31 2005 squeak - ha ha!
benfrost - ha ha ha ha!
Buns all round-- energy guy, Mar 31 2005 +-- Zimmy, Mar 31 2005 I think I speak for all, dear squeak, that what you've done deserves a bun. +-- k_sra, Mar 31 2005 Lovely.-- moomintroll, Mar 31 2005 sharp sided legosfalling like bright colored leavesturn to sticky buns-- ldischler, Mar 31 2005 pointy cornered bricksleft out and uncollectedparents scream in pain
Don't know how feasible this is, but [+] for the poetry.-- Freefall, Mar 31 2005 Wow! 0- 2.5 buns in less than 24 hours! Neat, [squeak].-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Apr 01 2005 Gee, thanks guys. Guess what I trod on this morning.-- squeak, Apr 01 2005 Apparently, the correct spelling of LEGO is entirely in capitals. Makes it more intense. LEGO!-- harderthanjesus, Apr 01 2005 Bravo squeak. Bravo.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Apr 03 2005 [htj] You mean LEGO™-- hippo, Apr 03 2005 My dad used to step on our LEGO all the time, then at a friends house he witnessed the kids playing with it on a blanket.
When done they just folded up the lego in the blanket and tied it off for later use.
No more pain.-- Giblet, Apr 03 2005 Yeah, we tried that when I was a kid (and LEGO fiend). In my own experience it was found that the universal nature of the marvellous toy (limited only by imagination, as the tagline goes) also applied to its location. The blanket, sadly, was never sufficiently ubiquitous.
Men with yellow heads Smile knowingly from the floor; I suggest slippers.-- moomintroll, Apr 03 2005 On TV they read halfbakery.com, sprayed LEGOs with magnetic spray paint, and they were magnetic. Not sure about how that affected the interlockability.-- joeforker, Jun 22 2005 [joeforker], about that magnetic paint, what happens when the little ones start sucking the LEGO?-- oldchina, Jun 22 2005 [oldchina] obviously you get magnetic kids, which would be another fine halfbakery idea.-- joeforker, Jun 22 2005 They Baked this on TV last night. Incredible Idea. You get my bun +-- Xcubeds, Jun 22 2005 Oh, but what about those with magnetic feet? What about those?!?!
Seriously, though, now you should think about putting mag. strips on all your buns to clean up your earnings!
[+]-- daseva, Jun 22 2005 Tears of joy, not of pain! Bun for you!-- DesertFox, Jun 22 2005 Charming poetry (I myself have given up on it).
+-- soliloquy, Jun 23 2005 He should write a book :)-- Thoughtnaper_1, Jun 23 2005 To write that much in rhyme for me, takes too much time So I drafted this reply In hopes to let time fly And seeing as I have no job and am looking at stores to rob I ought to write my resume which is what I intended to do today Yet at the half baked cite my time was spent Instead of trying to make the rent
I like your poem and your idea to boot LEGOs are awesome but one can never keep track of the tiny plastic dealies-- The Acrimonious Obfuscator, Jun 24 2005 How did I miss this one? Featured on G4TV.
Nice category, btw.-- RayfordSteele, Aug 19 2005 Toss it in the oven! [+]-- Gryph, Aug 21 2005 Oh very well done! [+]-- Dog, Aug 22 2005 Fab.-- elhigh, Aug 22 2005 oooh, I wish I could rhyme as well as you!.-- chocolateraindrops, Aug 22 2005 nicely done!-- quantum_flux, Oct 23 2007 I can't beleive thhat I missed this one. Standing on LEGO bricks used to infuriate my parents. I can still see their expression: scrunched up face - followed by glowering look at me...
(+)-- Jinbish, Oct 23 2007 Great, well-written and just great!-- evilpenguin, Oct 23 2007 random, halfbakery