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Unread 02-21-2014, 08:48 AM
Rob Stuart Rob Stuart is offline
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I'm fascinated to learn that there's a banned member. What horrendous poetic crime did they commit?
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Unread 02-21-2014, 10:24 AM
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I believe quite a few people have been unpersoned.
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I'm fascinated to learn that there's a banned member. What horrendous poetic crime did they commit?
Lèse-majesté, I believe.
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Max Ross and Bazza are 'us'. I don't know about Ralph Rochester.

..I bear a prophet’s name and, like the Roman in Virgil’s Aeniad, I myself have the gift of augury. My friends tell me I am not so much charming as fascinating. I have gimlet eyes..
Ralph Rochester
Did Ralph Rochester really write 'Aeniad' instead of Aeneid (wich is the corekt speling as any fule kno) - and did the Spectator really publish that uncorrected? Shame!
However I shall forgive Ralph. He wins kudos in my eyes for subtly punning augury and gimlet.
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