[ross hamilton hill]

If only Monty Python were still around, they could make this hilarious, as is it's still pretty funny. I got to the 4th stanza, then stopped, I'm not that desperate for a laugh.

[David Anthony]

Originally Posted by John Whitworth

Is he the one who wrote:

Across the wire the electric message came.
'She is no better. She is much the same.'

Actually it turns out that Austin didn't write this: it was by an anonymous parodist.

[John Whitworth]

He may not have been much of a poet but he did have a really terrific moustache.

[Steve Bucknell]

Elgar's moustache was greater: a touch of wildness with genius beneath it.

[John Whitworth]

I trust you are not forgetting Jimmy Edwards. Was he an artist? Of course he was.

[Steve Bucknell]

Who can forget the Professor? His rendition of Nimrod on the euphonium is an abiding memory.

[Paddy Raghunathan]

David,

I would rather memorize Jabberwocky.

Cheers,

Paddy