This is for all those employed by cats here, by Henry Beard;

Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
from Hamlet's Cat
by William Shakespeare's Cat

To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to remain within: that is the question:
Whether 'tis better for a cat to suffer
The cuffs and buffets of inclement weather
That Nature rains on those who roam abroad,
Or take a nap upon a scrap of carpet,
And so by dozing melt the solid hours
That clog the clock's bright gears with sullen time
And stall the dinner bell.

To sit, to stare
Outdoors, and by a stare to seem to state
A wish to venture forth without delay,
Then when the portal's opened up, to stand
As if transfixed by doubt.

To prowl; to sleep;
To choose not knowing when we may once more
Our readmittance gain: aye, there's the hairball;
For if a paw were shaped to turn a knob,
Or work a lock or slip a window-catch,
And going out and coming in were made
As simple as the breaking of a bowl,
What cat would bear the household's petty plagues,
The cook's well-practiced kicks, the butler's broom,
The infant's careless pokes, the tickled ears,
The trampled tail, and all the daily shocks
That fur is heir to, when, of his own free will,
He might his exodus or entrance make
With a mere mitten?

Who would spaniels fear,
Or strays trespassing from a neighbor's yard,
But that the dread of our unheeded cries
And scratches at a barricaded door
No claw can open up, dispels our nerve
And makes us rather bear our humans' faults
Than run away to unguessed miseries?

Thus caution doth make house cats of us all;
And thus the bristling hair of resolution
Is softened up with the pale brush of thought,
And since our choices hinge on weighty things,
We pause upon the threshold of decision.

From the book: Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

B R A V O !!!

YAYAYAY!!!

*claps*

Well, I can't take any of the credit, I only found the thing. Good though, innit?



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Compl;etely unrelated poetry question: Do you want stuff for WN asap to fill a hole, or for the edition after that? I'm working on a parody. And it isn't a song for a change.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Yes. Asap. More holes than a Daphne Farquitt plot here.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Okay, give me twenty hours or so...



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

would appreciate any submissions it can get ASAP


having fun, can you tell!?

Huh? How are you doing this - or have I been blocked from formatting? I can get bold and italics but not anything else, no matter what I try...



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

<img src="http://jasperffordeffanclub.com/graphics/WN-letters-glow.gif" />

hmm, that didn't work...



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[img src="http://jasperffordeffanclub.com/graphics/WN-letters-glow.gif"]

Nope, doesn't work for me either, even with square brackets.



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&quot;I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around.&quot;
--Ross Smith

tee hee hee hee

Right. Someone grab her and we'll tickle until she tells.

Sounds like someone already is......

ask my brother what happens when you tickle me now....


NOTHING (I'm not ticklish anymore...he cured me of it!)

Haven't tried on here yet, but on the forum I manage the image url needs to be surrounded by [ img] at the beginning and [ /img] at the end, but minus the spaces I've included in this example. Similar thing goes for bold and italic text

Let's see:





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* I'm backing the campaign to get the official Stalker for 2007 evicted *

How can you be cured of being ticklish? It's always been a life-long disease for me.

like this?

Yep, looks like you've got it Dave! (onooooooo what have we started?!)

mwahaha! It works!