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Unread 12-16-2009, 05:41 PM
Martin Elster Martin Elster is offline
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Originally Posted by John Whitworth View Post
Perhaps

bugger all depends
upon

Cue for legai joke. Judge asks if the prisoner has anything to say before he passes sentence on him

Prisoner (mumbling): Bugger all
Judge: What did he say?
Clerk of the Court: He said 'Bugger all', my Lord.
Judge: That's funny. I could have sworn he said something.
That's funny, John. Bugger all is too many syllables, though. Did you ever think that the W.C.W. poem can be reformatted to a pentameter couplet?

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow
glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
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