[quote=John Whitworth;139042]The Strad competition was won by Bill Greenwell Post it here, Bill, so that we can all gape.
Here you are:
It'sd about David Garrett who tripped and smashed his Strad (altho it transpires it was a Guadagnini, but they let me off...
His case (far better ironclad)
Contained three hundred years of Strad,
But Garrett, skipping just a tad
Like some eccentric oread
Or else a sozzled undergrad
Following some foolish fad,
Tripped up - as if a gwyniad
Or possibly some salty scad
Lay on the stairs: the silly lad,
Destroyed his love, and on the gad,
Like Helen in The Iliad,
And smashed it up like Stalingrad.
And, helplessly, like Paula Rad-
cliffe in the Greek Olympiad,
Was sad and mad. It was too bad.
There’s really nothing else to add.
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