Great Western Railway (GWR) 6800 Class locomotives:
6801 = 3 x 2267
before I’ve said goodbye
[Same thing I was thinking, until yesterday he resurfaced. Good!]
6802
[Something] to complete the song
[Good to hear. I’ve got an idea for the next, unless you want to take it, @Pardel-Lux .]
6803, prime.
But I’m afraid my little lungs will burst before to long if
I am tempted to suggest Tom Waits The Piano Has Been Drinking, just to imagine how you would play it with spoons, but I am happy to defer to you if you have any suggestion. There is plenty of space for many songs ahead. The first link, btw, contains the interview where Tom deadpans to the interviewer remarking something about his drinking in the studio “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy”. That made my day.]
6804 = 23 x 3 x 271
Only I can last the scale
6805 = 5 x 1361
I won’t have failed to sing the minute waltz!
6806 = 2 × 41 × 83
[What’s next? The last was mine.]
6807
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
(I was rereading Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot recently, and thought this poem from that book might make for a fun one.)
6808 = 23 x 23 x 37
It isn’t just one of your holiday games;
6809
You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter
6810 = 2 x 3 x 5 x 227
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
6811
First of all, there’s the name that the family use daily,
6812 = 22 × 13 × 131
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo, or James,
6813
Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey–
6814 = 2 x 3407
All of them sensible everyday names.
6815
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter
6816
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
6817 = 17 x 401
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter—
6818
But all of them sensible everyday names.
6819 = 3 × 2273
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that’s particular,