Wednesday 7 December 2011

Times Change


Once the word 'café' suggested good food -
a meal or a snack which would match with your mood -
or your poor rumbling tummy. You’d hear it complain
to remind you, you really should fill it again!
Now 'internet cafés', those new fangled fashions,
tempt customers who'll be left short of food rations!

The menus of yesteryear offered you toast
or whatever fast food you might fancy the most.
You chose from eggs, bacon, beans, coffee and ham.
Now menus show "copy", "paste" "select"-
And "SPAM"!
Thanks to the illustration by George Tooker which Tess used on her Magpie Tales #94 this week, it set The Trellis Household thinking, and they combined to come up with the above 'comic strip' (?) in picture and words.
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23 comments:

  1. Helen7 December 2011 at 16:41

    Very nice ... syndicate that strip!!!

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  2. Margaret7 December 2011 at 17:31

    Wow! Clever with words and the photo-editing! I'm impressed.

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  3. Friko7 December 2011 at 18:32

    Internet cafe? Can't you have spam in them too? Spam and ketchup on white sliced, hm, copy that.

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  4. geraldine snape7 December 2011 at 20:33

    I like what you have done with the prompt!...

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  5. Laurie Kolp8 December 2011 at 00:19

    Ahh... this is very clever. I love the contrast!

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  6. Anonymous8 December 2011 at 01:23

    Ha! Very clever! K.

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  7. susan m hinckley8 December 2011 at 02:09

    Hahaha! Loved what you did with the photo in addition to the poem. Nice!

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  8. Charleen8 December 2011 at 03:49

    Nostalgia...

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  9. Susie Clevenger8 December 2011 at 03:49

    Love how you have brought "cafe" to the present. :)

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  10. anthonynorth8 December 2011 at 08:41

    Very true.

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  11. CHummelKornell8 December 2011 at 16:50

    You are the first to make me smile, well done!

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  12. Berowne8 December 2011 at 19:43

    Clever and imaginative take on the prompt...

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  13. hyperCRYPTICal8 December 2011 at 21:34

    Brilliant! Big smile at the end and still smiling!

    Anna :o]

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  14. Mary Ann Potter8 December 2011 at 23:59

    Oh, very cool, and a comic strip, too! Loved it and laughed with it.

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  15. Isabel Doyle9 December 2011 at 07:11

    perfect!

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  16. Doctor FTSE9 December 2011 at 07:15

    Great little verse, Mr.Trellissimo. But what's happened to Ada and Caddoc this week?

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  17. Trellissimo9 December 2011 at 07:21

    Doctor FTSE - Caddoc played with the pictures, Ada supplied us all with tea, Spam sandwiches and witty rhymes, and I posted their efforts on the blog. Don't we make a good team?

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  18. Tess Kincaid10 December 2011 at 22:09

    Giggle!

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  19. Other Mary12 December 2011 at 13:15

    lol, makes me think of the Monty Python spam skit!

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  20. Mary12 December 2011 at 22:37

    Very creative! Loved it.

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  21. Lady In Read13 December 2011 at 06:24

    Innovative! Now it has set me rethinking this week's image. Thanks for the smile...

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  22. jabblog14 December 2011 at 10:52

    There was a time when I thought Internet cafes served food as well as online time . . .

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  23. Christine24 December 2011 at 19:12

    The more things change, the more they stay the same?
    Internet cafes, the window to the world and home for weary travellers along with bad coffee and toasted cheese sandwiches. Not so different to lonely cafes where one could get a bit of shelter from the cold.

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