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Unread 09-28-2010, 03:14 AM
Holly Martins Holly Martins is offline
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Spike Milligan was very good at the parody that plunges sharply in tone:

I must go down to the sea again,
to the lonely sea and the sky,
I left my vest and socks there,
I wonder if they're dry?


The boy stood on the burning deck
whence all but he had fled:- the twit!
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