From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) wrote in   
   news:4oSdnaPU2eUR7eL0nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@giganews.com:   
      
   >> Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:   
   >> will.dockery@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Will-Dockery) wrote in   
   >> news:bM2dneJ_p90KSuP0nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com:   
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   >>   
   >>> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> NancyGene wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> NancyGene wrote:   
   >>> The Poor Boy's Christmas   
   >>> by Ellis Parker Butler   
   >>>   
   >>> Observe, my child, this pretty scene,   
   >>> And note the air of pleasure keen   
   >>> With which the widow's orphan boy   
   >>> Toots his tin horn, his only toy.   
   >>> What need of costly gifts has he?   
   >>> The widow has nowhere to flee.   
   >>> And ample noise his horn emits   
   >>> To drive the widow into fits.   
   >>>   
   >>> MORAL:   
   >>>   
   >>> The philosophic mind can see   
   >>> The uses of adversity.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> George   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> GJD posted this poem two days ago, on Thursday.   
   >>>   
   >>> HTH and HAND.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Father Dunce must be at work, since little Dunces should be seen   
   >>> only when doing chores, and not heard.   
   >>>   
   >>> I see that Little Boy George is only able to get part of one butt   
   >>> cheek on the chair.   
   >>>   
   >>> He must have gotten a good whipping the night before.   
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   >>   
   >> Childish name-calling noted and troll content removed.   
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   > Restored!   
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   > What a childish little crybaby you are![/quote]   
   >   
   > In George Dunce's mind, there is no such thing as a "bad" whipping.   
   > They are all good in Canuckistan.  Yes, Little Boy George, blowing   
   > (his horn), had tender buns that day, but he was allowed to sit on a   
   > chair, rather than on the floor.  The Moose (obviously a Moose and not   
   > a cat) is doing a call and response.   
      
   Note how cleverly the moose hid one of his antlers and made the other   
   look like a cat tail. That moose clearly outsmarts the Dunce family   
   regularly.   
      
      
   --   
   "The fact that it doesn't apply to the poem is of little consequence to   
   you, because your poems don't have a literary basis, because you're   
   functionally illiterate and haven't got a clue as to what a poem is." -   
   Little Willie Douchebag gets another asskicking from Pendragon   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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