{"id":1978,"date":"2014-02-12T19:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T19:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2015-06-29T19:03:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T19:03:31","slug":"willie-rimes-meets-his-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/willie-rimes-meets-his-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Rimes Meets His Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The bould Willie Rimes, the love of his life, a lot of Russian chaps, an empty bank account, couple of cops and the strange Russian state of Mari El&#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2957\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2957\" style=\"width: 782px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willie-Rimes-Russian-Valentine.jpg\" alt=\"Picture from Russian scam brides website! \" width=\"782\" height=\"191\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2957\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture from Russian scam brides website!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She arrived in straight from Russia, on an Aer Lingus plane<br \/>\nTo meet the bould Willie, her very own James Bond<br \/>\nThey had spoken by letters sent from some dodgy website&#8230;<br \/>\nHer name it was Nastya, she was short, sexy and blond!<br \/>\nHis racing heart was thumping &#8211; it was nearly bursting<br \/>\nHe ran to her like the pounding wheels of hell<br \/>\nHertofor she was just a picture, printed from the website, in his hand&#8230;<br \/>\nThe sexy Russian lady from the state of Mari El.<\/p>\n<p>They settled in a flat, a little home for two<br \/>\nAllbeit it was cheap, on the wrong side of town,<br \/>\nNastya was very popular among her own folk<br \/>\nThe apartment became a partyhouse of renown<br \/>\nWhile Willie was out working, or out on the beer<br \/>\nThere was fellas by the dozen come to call<br \/>\nAnd it wasnt very long before they bought a BMW<br \/>\nEven though the bould Willie earned feck all.<\/p>\n<p>Willie borrowed money &#8211; his woman found a job<br \/>\nShe was &#8220;translating&#8221; for all the visiting men&#8230;<br \/>\nWillie suspected nothing, of her was very proud&#8230;<br \/>\nSaid he&#8217;d get a Russian missus earlier if living his life again.<br \/>\nThey got a great big mortgage&#8230; then borrowed a little more<br \/>\nThey wanted to build a nest egg of a nice amount<br \/>\nTo buy a new home for her parents where they could holiday in Mari El<br \/>\nThey lodged all the money in to the bould Nastya&#8217;s account!<\/p>\n<p>One day the Guards came calling, a man and women two<br \/>\nLady Nastya herself it was that they did seek<br \/>\nWillies nose was out of joint, it was not to him they came to call<br \/>\nAs normally his antics would give cause for them to him to speak!<br \/>\nThere was a smash of glass,\u00c2\u00a0 Nastya\u00c2\u00a0 made good her escape<br \/>\nShe was last seen jumping the garden wall<br \/>\nShes not been seen since by heartbroken Willie or his friends<br \/>\nShe never answers her mobile either when he does call&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Its a tale of caution Willie tells down in the bar,<br \/>\nHe thought the good guys sometimes win in love&#8230;<br \/>\nAs he says himself though a pigeon a bird may be,<br \/>\nSometimes its just a pigeon, and not a dove&#8230;<br \/>\nHe drinks alone in the bar, until hes thrown out&#8230;<br \/>\nFor the Nasty girl called Nastya he still does pine&#8230;<br \/>\nBe wary he tells us of the girls from Mari El&#8230;<br \/>\nDo not get yourself a Russian Valentine!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bould Willie Rimes, the love of his life, a lot of Russian chaps, an empty bank account, couple of cops and the strange Russian state of Mari El&#8230; She arrived in straight from Russia, on an Aer Lingus plane To meet the bould Willie, her very own James Bond &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[2163,2159,2165,93,2164,2162,2157,18,922,2166,2161,2158,2160,2156,318],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-poems","tag-comedy-poem","tag-dating-websites","tag-february-14","tag-funny-poem","tag-funny-verse","tag-looking-for-love","tag-love-gone-wrong","tag-love-poem","tag-love-story","tag-mari-el","tag-nastya","tag-romantics","tag-russian-dating-scam","tag-valentines","tag-willie-rimes","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-vU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4446,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/willie-rimes-goes-to-confession\/","url_meta":{"origin":1978,"position":0},"title":"Willie Rimes Goes to Confession","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"2nd February 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 A legend in his own lifetime Afraid he'd go to hell The bold Willie went in to the church All his sins to the priest to tell The priest thought he had heard it all That he did by then you'd think: Its said after hearing Willies confession The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Funny Poems&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Funny Poems","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/funny-poems\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Willie Rimes went to confession - that wasnt going to end well...","src":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/ab\/St.leonhard-ffm-beichtstuhl001.jpg\/647px-St.leonhard-ffm-beichtstuhl001.jpg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/ab\/St.leonhard-ffm-beichtstuhl001.jpg\/647px-St.leonhard-ffm-beichtstuhl001.jpg 1x, https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/ab\/St.leonhard-ffm-beichtstuhl001.jpg\/647px-St.leonhard-ffm-beichtstuhl001.jpg 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3624,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/willie-rimes-wrecks-christmas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1978,"position":1},"title":"Willie Rimes Wrecks Christmas","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"1st April 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This verse is dedicated to Ray, a.k.a. Bildoar over at the Jesters Castel at Disqus , who recently passed away. He was a big fan of Willie and his antics, his last comment on my pieces making reference to the infamous Russian Valentine our hero got mixed up with!!! 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He remembered being on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Funny Poems&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Funny Poems","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/funny-poems\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Leprechaun who gave Willie Rimes his gold","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Leprechaun-who-gave-Willie-Rimes-his-gold.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Leprechaun-who-gave-Willie-Rimes-his-gold.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Leprechaun-who-gave-Willie-Rimes-his-gold.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Leprechaun-who-gave-Willie-Rimes-his-gold.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Leprechaun-who-gave-Willie-Rimes-his-gold.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2590,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/willie-rimes-and-the-masons-goat\/","url_meta":{"origin":1978,"position":3},"title":"Willie Rimes and the Masons Goat","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"12th March 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Like many good men before him To join the local lodge our Willie did inquire The mystery of the rituals and the history Had set his imagination and interest on fire... Me met the lads from the local lodge one day Where it was - it was under his nose\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Freemasonry&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Freemasonry","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/freemasonry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Ever am an of his word... Wilie Rimes brought some carrots for the Masons Goat when joing his local lodge. 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