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My father once gave me a book. He gave it to me because he opened it in the shop and saw:
'A mosquito was heard to complain
That a chemist had poisoned his brain;
The cause of his sorrow
Was Para-dichloro-
Diphenyltrichlorothane'
-Anon
and thought that they would all be like that, and that therefore I would enjoy it thoroughly, at the ripe old age of 9 or 10 or thereabouts. Had he opened it 8 pages earlier in the book, he would have read:
'A student from Pembroke once said:
'I'll take my mathematics to bed.
My girl isn't willing,
But I still want thrilling,
I'll integrate, quietly, instead.' '
-Andrew Stoker
or 7 pages later, where he would have seen:
'A crusader's wife slipped from the garrison
And had an affair with a Saracen;
She was not over-sexed,
Or jealous, or vexed,
She just wanted to make a comparison.'
-Ogden Nash
The fact that these are some of the cleaner collections of rhyming words in the book leads me to suppose that receiving it probably had an effect of some kind on the way I turned out... Even if I am no longer quite so good at the rhyming conversation game.
'A mosquito was heard to complain
That a chemist had poisoned his brain;
The cause of his sorrow
Was Para-dichloro-
Diphenyltrichlorothane'
-Anon
and thought that they would all be like that, and that therefore I would enjoy it thoroughly, at the ripe old age of 9 or 10 or thereabouts. Had he opened it 8 pages earlier in the book, he would have read:
'A student from Pembroke once said:
'I'll take my mathematics to bed.
My girl isn't willing,
But I still want thrilling,
I'll integrate, quietly, instead.' '
-Andrew Stoker
or 7 pages later, where he would have seen:
'A crusader's wife slipped from the garrison
And had an affair with a Saracen;
She was not over-sexed,
Or jealous, or vexed,
She just wanted to make a comparison.'
-Ogden Nash
The fact that these are some of the cleaner collections of rhyming words in the book leads me to suppose that receiving it probably had an effect of some kind on the way I turned out... Even if I am no longer quite so good at the rhyming conversation game.
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From: (Anonymous)
no subject
he isn't anymore,
'cause what he thought was H2O
was H2SO4.
Was the book "The Lure of the Limerick?"
Iestyn