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02-26-2014, 12:58 AM
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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.
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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.
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He may not have been much of a poet but he did have a really terrific moustache.
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I trust you are not forgetting Jimmy Edwards. Was he an artist? Of course he was.
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Who can forget the Professor? His rendition of Nimrod on the euphonium is an abiding memory.
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David,
I would rather memorize Jabberwocky.
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