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   "Robert Peffers."  wrote in message   
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   > Seems it most certainly is not Scots. If it had been he would not have   
   > called Robert Burns, "Robbie".   
      
   You mean to tell me he is not Jewish? I swear I heard of Rabi Bernz.   
      
   > In fact there is no evidence that the bard had ever referred to himself   
   > as, "Rabbie".   
      
   He needed to protect his origins, no?   
      
   > Indeed, the bard's words may fit the bill on this occasion -   
   >   
   > "My Son, these maxims make a rule,   
   > An' lump them aye thegither;   
   > The Rigid Righteous is a fool,   
   > The Rigid Wise anither:   
   > The cleanest corn that ere was dight   
   > May hae some pyles o' caff in;   
   > So ne'er a fellow-creature slight   
   > For random fits o' daffin"   
      
   What happened to old Polonius in Hamlet? He was good at admonition too, and   
   least he had lots of them to cast around and to spare, though slight of   
   immediate wit it seemed, though I seem to remember he got the point, at   
   length...   
      
   But for sure, he had the pontificator's sunstroke!   
      
       A priest from a different land   
       Fulminated   
       Against heather, black stones, blown water.   
      
       Excommunicated the clouds   
       Damned the wind   
       Cast the bog pools into outer darkness   
       Smote the horizons   
       With the jawbone of emptiness   
      
       Till he ran out of breath -   
      
   Phil Innes   
      
      
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   > Robert Peffers,   
   > Kelty,   
   > Fife,   
   > Scotland, (UK).   
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