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> Rubrick – your limerick sent me to my overflowing bookshelves to find Conrad Aiken’s wonderful collection "A seizure of
limericks"
> There are 50 of his quirky, witty, sensual limericks in this collection published in the mid-60s – try to find a copy if you
don’t have it.
Thanks Paul,
I can get it through our college library this evening. If I find some good ones I may post them on a new thread next week. For everyone's info the book is published by W.H. Allen (1965) and may be out of print.
Mr. Aiken seems to have been quite a prolific writer and I counted 37 compilations of his works on my library server. It looks like he's going to be reading material for this summer!
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> Well, Rubrick, I see that after Tsuwm started us on the
downslope, you have taken us all the way to the gutter!
Apologies Jackie...
But to quote Oscar Wilde - 'we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars'.
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Is it true that Oscar Wilde's last words were -
"Either this wallpaper goes or I go"
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'Brick,
That wasn't a complaint, just a comment.
Sometimes there treasures to be found in the gutter!
I thought it was a good limerick.
Glad you're heart's in the right place!
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Jo,
Apparently the wallpaper is still there!
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>But to quote Oscar Wilde
to qutoe Oscar Levant, "So little time and so little to do."
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> "Either this wallpaper goes or I go"
I've heard that story before and I can't give you an honest answer. Oscar Wilde died in disgrace and exile in Paris of meningitis when he was only 44 (his anniversary comes up next month). Though his life was well documented his final days seem to have been spent in relative obscurity. Those that knew him said that he kept his sharp wit with him to the end so he may have actually said the quote above. There are plenty of Wildean scholars in these hallowed walls. I'll accost a few once they are sober and get the truth out of them.
Speaking of death bed words (and I really think we should start a new thread on this subject) I'm reminded of the joke about Robin Hood who is lying on his death bed. His merry men are crowded around him. He pulls out his bow and arrow and tells them 'I will fire this arrow and where it lands that will be my resting place'.........
......So they buried him on top of the wardrobe.
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Last words of Pancho Villa:
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
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Okay, that's it. Off-topic. Let's start a new thread!!!!
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> 'Brick,
That wasn't a complaint, just a comment.
I know that, Jackie.
'Brick, I lke that - very macho like Chuck or Rock. How about the new blockbuster movie - 'AWAD board' starring Brick Journeyman and a cast of thousands. It has a certain ring to it, don't you think? - or am I drifting away from reality here?
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