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<<had you but posted
But it didn't belong in animal safari, it was a response, a reflection on the sticky price of rules; it was a smile (true), a winged intending for your beloved--fated sadly to home to roost in a province beyond authorial intent.
All of that and more: it was toad-bit maxim* mishappen and ugly, clumsly--a maxim so out-maxed as to occupy the space of three proverbs with the substance none.
*Disclaimer: as a greeting it was not toad-bit. [care-in-speech emoticon]
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Wa-al, I've heard of flea-bit, and I've heard of rarebit, but I ain't never heard o' no toad-bit.
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toad bits,
fard bits,
sex bits,
a dullard...
or, what this world needs is a good two-bit computer.
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Darn it, tsuwm, puns are MY territory. As soon as I saw the other post the exact same words, or darned close, flashed in my mind, and luckily I saw your post before I made a fuel out of myself.
TEd
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what this world needs is a good two-bit computer. Nah, we have you... 
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The last poet laureate I had anything at all to do with was John Masefield. And what I had to do with him was to memorise those boring lines "I must go down to the sea ..." to order in English classes. I have now mercifully forgotten most of them. I took an instant dislike to all poetry bar limericks at that point and have only grudgingly retreated from that position since.
Anyway, to get to my point, who the hey says anyone is a Poet Laureate. And what does it get them? And us?
Just asking ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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it gets him (in this case and in the US) something like a $35,000 stipend for a year and then replacement, but that's from memory and may be a little orff. it also gets him (in this case) a bit of a push for his latest collection.
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$35k? bloody Yanks! I think the English version gets 3 silver farthings and the right to drive pigs over Tower Bridge on a Sunday, or some such quaintery 
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here it is then, mtywtk (more than you wanted to know) about the position of poet laureate in the US> http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate.html
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