#36733
07/27/2001 10:14 AM
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Here’s my silly sonnet, written for a bet during the week-long summer school that forms part of the Open University course A103. When I read it out, I introduced it as a late addition to the canon, of uncertain provenance, which had therefore been tentatively described as
Sonnet 103
To Summer School
Shall I compare thee to a week’s full pay?
Thou art more challenging and much more fun:
Work’s stress may mar our marks at TMA,
And all the background reading is not done:
Sometime too hot the glare of TV shines,
And often causes studious eyes to dim;
And every spouse from fair sometime declines,
By blocks’ and units’ pressing rush made grim;
But summer-school’s lasting lustre shall not fade,
Nor prick the passions that a week did grow;
Nor shall the hangovers be far from aid
When all the lectures by your notes you’ll know:
---So long as students laugh, and share their glee,
---So long lives this, in praise of 103.
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#36734
07/27/2001 10:44 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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Ah, yes - I recognise the stryle: written by a Welsh descendent of the great bard, know as the Duck of Afon :-)
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#36735
07/27/2001 12:18 PM
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addict
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and first performed at the great festival of standins and delegates, the Insteddfod.
Rod
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#36736
07/27/2001 1:54 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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I believe that Shaksper was refused entry to it, which may be why he was known as "the bar'd."
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#36737
07/27/2001 2:44 PM
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the Duck of Afon you surely mean Webster 
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#36738
07/27/2001 2:56 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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That's the feller - his name was Bill, too. 
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#36739
07/27/2001 3:13 PM
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Bill 2? - sort of like Dai Hard With A Vest On 
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#36740
07/27/2001 3:32 PM
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Oh, mav, don't you mean Dai-vest with the.. nah!  Ohmigawd, you guys, I am rolling! I LOVE this place!
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#36741
07/27/2001 11:52 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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yeah, that's the one, Jackie - stars Braced Willies or sumptin
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