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This be the shameless steal...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: November 11, 2002 11:41PM
<HTML>They feck you up, the chronoguard,
They may not mean to but they do,
They give you histories they had,
And shaft the future, just for you.
And they were fecked up in their turn,
By operatives from Spec-Ops One,
Who half the time are vicious brutes,
And half the time are, er... more or less the same, now you come to mention it.
Man hands on misery to man,
It deepens like Goliath's wealth.
Get out as early as you can,
And find a good book for yourself.</HTML>
They may not mean to but they do,
They give you histories they had,
And shaft the future, just for you.
And they were fecked up in their turn,
By operatives from Spec-Ops One,
Who half the time are vicious brutes,
And half the time are, er... more or less the same, now you come to mention it.
Man hands on misery to man,
It deepens like Goliath's wealth.
Get out as early as you can,
And find a good book for yourself.</HTML>
Re: This be the shameless steal...
Posted by: jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: November 12, 2002 09:29AM
<HTML>They do you in, the poets do;
They mean to make you sad and mad;
They write bad verse, and torture you
With all the nasty thoughts they’ve had
But they were done in in the past,
By teachers filling them with Keats
Half hating it, half loving it
They fill with rhyme their paper sheets.
Man hands on poetry to man;
It multiplies, grows ever worse;
Don’t take up teaching literature
And never ever write in verse.</HTML>
They mean to make you sad and mad;
They write bad verse, and torture you
With all the nasty thoughts they’ve had
But they were done in in the past,
By teachers filling them with Keats
Half hating it, half loving it
They fill with rhyme their paper sheets.
Man hands on poetry to man;
It multiplies, grows ever worse;
Don’t take up teaching literature
And never ever write in verse.</HTML>
Re: This be the shameless steal...
Posted by: katie (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: November 12, 2002 04:53PM
<HTML>re your mum and dad ----ing you up, can I just say that my mother made me a lesbian.
And if you give her the wool, she'll make you one, too!
(aaagh groan etc)</HTML>
And if you give her the wool, she'll make you one, too!
(aaagh groan etc)</HTML>
Re: This be the shameless steal...
Posted by: ScarletBea (---.telepac.pt)
Date: November 12, 2002 09:04PM
<HTML>katie, shouldn't it be your dad? lol
anyway, mine didn't have anything to do with that fact for me, lol</HTML>
anyway, mine didn't have anything to do with that fact for me, lol</HTML>
Re: old wool joke
Posted by: katie (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: November 12, 2002 09:47PM
<HTML>neither did mine, really.... and the joke doesn't work if you day 'dad'....anyway still hankering after Thursday. Her brother's gay, why can't she be, too?</HTML>
Re: old wool joke
Posted by: ScarletBea (---.be.jnj.com)
Date: November 13, 2002 12:49PM
<HTML>lol katie... you're not a GB, are you?</HTML>
Re: GB
Posted by: katie (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: November 13, 2002 08:50PM
<HTML>we don't has ginger beer in Devon, we only has suicider....</HTML>
Re: GB
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: November 13, 2002 09:09PM
<HTML>Zoider, zoider; zoo-izoider lalalalala....</HTML>
Re: GB
Posted by: Anne (---.dc1-cache2.syd.dav.net.au)
Date: November 13, 2002 11:39PM
<HTML>Que?!</HTML>
Re: GB
Posted by: ScarletBea (---.be.jnj.com)
Date: November 14, 2002 08:09AM
<HTML>Ben is being attacked by the virus of ... erm... some sort LOL
(sorry Ben ;) *hugs* )
Katie, I'm one and I'm in Portugal, lol, so it's not the location that counts ;) that's the beauty of the net :D</HTML>
(sorry Ben ;) *hugs* )
Katie, I'm one and I'm in Portugal, lol, so it's not the location that counts ;) that's the beauty of the net :D</HTML>
Re: GB
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: November 15, 2002 12:27AM
<HTML>Er, probe through millions of postings for an explanation. Basically I come form a zoider making part of the country, where everyone sings songs about farmyard machinery and drinks fermented apple juice before marrying their close relations....</HTML>
Re: GB
Posted by: dave (212.158.104.---)
Date: November 15, 2002 09:40AM
<HTML>of course, if you drink too much fermented apple juice (especially the kind with bits in), you end up marrying the farmyard machinery and singing songs about hedgehogs (semi-obscure Terry Pratchett reference, for the uninitiated)</HTML>
Re Larkin poem
Posted by: Karen and Dan (---.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net)
Date: November 18, 2002 10:48AM
<HTML>Hi PSD
I loved this which you did - the Larkin-esque poem - you still kept the sad and wistful tone too.</HTML>
I loved this which you did - the Larkin-esque poem - you still kept the sad and wistful tone too.</HTML>
Re: Re Larkin poem
Posted by: Rob (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: November 18, 2002 01:09PM
<HTML>Thought everyone should know...
A competition where altering one letter made the biggest change to a poem
was won by
'They tuck you up, your mum and dad'</HTML>
A competition where altering one letter made the biggest change to a poem
was won by
'They tuck you up, your mum and dad'</HTML>
Re: Re Larkin poem
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: November 20, 2002 12:32PM
<HTML>I don't know - The Change of the Light Brigade could have inspired a whole new poem...
Half a crown, Half a crown!
Half a crown upward!
(continue for several uneven and deeply unfunny stanzas)</HTML>
Half a crown, Half a crown!
Half a crown upward!
(continue for several uneven and deeply unfunny stanzas)</HTML>
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