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[SQLGeek]

There was a young lady named Alice
Who used dynamite as a ...

LOLOL. Poor Dallas.

 

[jrbfishn]

Did someone say something?


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Nothing important.

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[BRD@66]

LOLOL. Poor Dallas.

Actually, it begins with Alice who by the 5th line, partially winds up in Dallas.

 

[Wildcat Diva]

Actually, it begins with Alice who by the 5th line, partially winds up in Dallas.

Or, alternatively, she can start in Dallas and (partially) end up at Buckingham Palace.

 

[SQLGeek]

Actually, it begins with Alice who by the 5th line, partially winds up in Dallas.

Yes but Dallas got the butt of the joke as it were.

 

[mad88minute]

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[glenbo]

Rod McKuen: Little Spider

"Little spider on the wall,
you ain't got no hair at all.

You ain't got no comb your hair.
But what do you care?

You ain't got no hair."

 

[candcallen]

Deep

 

[benenglish]

The Road Not Taken

I don't consider myself to be a real aficionado of poetry but that particular poem means a great deal to me. I consider it a sign of maturity when people reach the point in their lives they realize it's the poet complaining about how much he's screwed up his life.

 

[Hoji]

My poetic tastes run to;
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[candcallen]

I don't consider myself to be a real aficionado of poetry but that particular poem means a great deal to me. I consider it a sign of maturity when people reach the point in their lives they realize it's the poet complaining about how much he's screwed up his life.

All roads eventually lead to the great path, many cross along the way.

Shifu, harsesis child.

 

[benenglish]

Shifu, harsesis child.

As much as I love every iteration of Stargate, the word salad spouted by that character was one of the lowest points in the franchise.

All roads most assuredly do not lead to The Great Path. Lots of 'em go straight to oblivion.

 

[kbaxter60]

This was read at a memorial I attended years back. It meant so much to the departed that he had asked that the last few lines be read at his service:


Invictus
By William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

 

[BRD@66]

Rod McKuen: Little Spider

"Little spider on the wall,
you ain't got no hair at all.

You ain't got no comb your hair.
But what do you care?

You ain't got no hair."

The way I heard it:
Little spider on the wall.
Ain't you got no sense at all?
Can't you see that wall is plastered?
Get off that wall you silly spider.

 

[Glenn B]

This is as best I can recall it off the top of my head.

To ---
by Edgar Allan Poe

I heed not my earthly lot
hath little of earth in it

nor that years of love have been forgot
in the hatred of a minute

I mourn not the desolate
are happier sweet than I

but that you sorrow for my fate
who am a passer by.

He wrote several similar versions. I'd like it on my tombstone should I be buried under one or on the urn should I be cremated.

Just checked to see if I got it right, I was pretty close:

TO — [D]

I heed not that my earthly lot
Hath — little of Earth in it —

That years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute: —

I mourn not that the desolate
Are happier, sweet, than I,

But that you sorrow for my fate
Who am a passer by.

[1828-1849] Source.

 

[candcallen]

As much as I love every iteration of Stargate, the word salad spouted by that character was one of the lowest points in the franchise.

All roads most assuredly do not lead to The Great Path. Lots of 'em go straight to oblivion.

Untill you get there how do you know? Could you report back?

Anyways,
I was wondering if anyone would catch it.

Shifu is Definitely a future Democrat politician. Lol. Not a jedi. Although some would say beware of Democrat mind tricks.

 

[Glenn B]

Another of my favorites by EAP:

Eldorado
By Edgar Allan Poe

Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old—
This knight so bold—
And o’er his heart a shadow—
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow—
‘Shadow,’ said he,
‘Where can it be—
This land of Eldorado?

‘Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,’
The shade replied,—
‘If you seek for Eldorado!

Just a fun fact that many do not realize about EAP, as well as being a poet and a writer of horror stories and a single novel, he was the father of the modern detective mystery story. His three detective tales predate those of Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes stories, and the character of Holmes was probably in great part based on Poe's C. Auguste Dupin.

 

[vmax]

As much as I love every iteration of Stargate, the word salad spouted by that character was one of the lowest points in the franchise.

All roads most assuredly do not lead to The Great Path. Lots of 'em go straight to oblivion.

Absolutely. Teal'c and Master Bra'tac were much more profound at times