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That Old-Time Religion
God and His angels stroll in the garden
before turning in for the night.
They’ve adopted the style
of rich and gifted young Englishmen this evening
and also, bizarrely even for them, decided that they’ll speak
in nothing but Sumerian to each other
which all are agreed was a truly heavenly language.It isn’t long before God starts boasting,
in Sumerian of course, that He’s the only Being He knows
Who knows by heart The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich,
and is about to prove it when Lucifer intercedes
to make the points thata) they’ve all agreed to speak Sumerian, which was never the
tongue of that estimable poem, and that unless He wants to
pay the usual forfeit, which wouldn’t really be consonant
with his Divinity, He’s better give up the idea;b) should he decide to do it into
instantaneous and perfect Sumerian metres,
a feat of which they’re all aware He’s capable,
He wouldn’t be proving His grasp of the original
and would run the risk of them thinking Him a show-off;& c) since He, God, and not Arthur Hugh Clough must be regarded
as the only true author of The Bothie, as of all things,
he, Satan, doesn’t see what the point of it would be anyway.In the silence which follows the Creator is keenly aware
of the voice of the nightingale, then murmurs of consensus,
then much delighted laughter from the angels.Lucifer bows.
The nightingale stops singing.
God sighs. He could really do without these bi/tches sometimes
but then where would He be ?As if to answer this question to Himself
He withdraws to the farthest reaches of the garden
and leans on the parapet, smoking in fitful gloom,
for what seems like an eternity.
He lights each gasper from the butt of His last
then flicks the glowing end far into the dark,
displeased at His foreknowledge of where it will fall.
To KNOW what his more intelligent creatures have thought
of these lights that appear in August out of Perseus
and not to have disabused them of it, as He’s always meant to,
is unforgivable. He gazes in their direction in the dark
and gives them His Word that soon He will change all that,
silent at first, then whispered, then shouted in Sumerian.Peter Didsbury
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@cath 55 wrote:
you didnt give me the fairy tale
you gave me much much more
you gave me something money cant buy
you gave me you
you gave me your hand when I was unsteady
you gave me your trust that I will always hold
you gave me something my dear dear friend
more valuable than gold
you gave me your time
you gave me a precious gift you may never understand
but I will always remember, that moment, when
you stood upon the sand.Genuine, moving, and most touching.
=D>
No you can’t.
You CAN receive a Private Message from another member threatening to “Rip ya F*^king Face Off “,
but I think that’s as far as it goes.
:lol:
@minim wrote:
The man is obviously a nutter. Completely barking mad. And dangerous.
Undeniably.
Thankfully, there’s also a whole list of very good reasons for why the reporter shouldn’t have ‘stomped his head in’.
It would appear from the facts that it wasn’t in the public interest for the CPS to prosecute, but that’s only based on the facts reported in the article. I saw a different piece headlined “Ex-soldier waves gun around in police station”, which certainly has a different slant to that of the Guardian’s.
There must be a back history, maybe even beyond that of his previous court appearance for assault. In a statement read to the court (but not it seems tested in cross-examination), he claims he found the shotgun in his garden and further that by taking the shotgun to the police station he was simply performing his civic duty.
But I would say that it was NOT his civic duty to carry a shotgun and ammunition through the streets of a Surrey town. What if he had been mugged ?
If most of us had found a shotgun and ammunition in our gardens, with a strong likelihood of previous criminal use, surely the last thing we would do is take it inside, play around with it and keep it overnight ?
The prosecution and minimum punishment with regards to the liability issue may be a joke, but not the actual law itself which seems sound to me.
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very cool lotty
x
sorry to hear this soully
best wishes
x x x
hehe
yep ! spent the whole time searching for PP1’s spreadsheet
:wink:
a man who had fallen among thieves
a man who had fallen among thieves
lay by the roadside on his back
dressed in fifteenthrate ideas
wearing a round jeer for a hatfate per a somewhat more than less
emancipated evening
had in return for consciousness
endowed him with a changeless grinwhereon a dozen staunch and meal
citizens did graze at pause
then fired by hypercivic zeal
sought newer pastures or becauseswaddled with a frozen brook
of pinkest vomit out of eyes
which noticed nobody he looked
as if he did not care to riseone hand did nothing on the vest
its wideflung friend clenched weakly dirt
while the mute trouserfly confessed
a button solemnly inert.brushing from whom the stiffened puke
i put him all into my arms
and staggered banged with terror through
a million billion trillion stars.
Susie came in like a whirlwind and did a top notch and very fast Cryptic Music quiz on the spot.
I believe these were the results . .1. Lovely Lady
2. big bear
3. barney
4. circus
5. brian
6. PP1
7. Bob
8. Kim
9. Female 43
10. Flipper
11. Steve UK
12. Yoda
13. souldeep
14. angelinaballerina
15. tina:lol:
