Two drunken professors were leaning on a bar arguing about the relative merits of their favourite poets. The rest of the patrons joined in and challenged the profs to make up a couplet in the style of their favourite, winner to be given the right to call his poet the best.
The subject was decided on -- a man with bowed legs walking down a road.
Prof #1, who taught the Romantics, declaimed
'Over the hill and down the road
Walks a man whose legs are bowed.'
He received much acclaim, but the Shakespearean prof was declared a winner with this submission:
'Lo, what manner of man is this
Who wears his balls in parenthesis'.
Sorry!
Thursday 17 May 2007
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Many years ago now, when I was young(er) and strong and agile, I took a solo trip to England. It was early summer, and I had spent the fall ...
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Worse than that, I'm an anachronism. I have another song running through my head, Dolly Parton this time (take that up with me later, ok...
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He he he he he he he he. I'm off to show the MadDad now. He likes a good Elizabethan joke.
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Excellent.
ReplyDeletetwo well placed poetic lines, but i fear that "alas" would be preferable to "Lo"
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