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   Message 44,821 of 45,517   
   Cujo DeSockpuppet to NancyGene   
   Re: "The Poor Boy's Christmas," by Ellis   
   02 Feb 26 01:30:05   
   
   From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) wrote in   
   news:6e2dnYaVwd22YeL0nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com:   
      
   >> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >> nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) posted:   
   >>   
   >>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>> nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) posted:   
   >>>   
   >>> 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 Dunce again   
   >>>   
   >>> Posted this poem weeks ago.   
   >>>   
   >>> No, George Dunce didn't post the poem.  We posted the poem first.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> You're mistaken.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > You are blind.  Look at George Dunce's post.  He did NOT post the   
   > poem.  We did.   
      
   I suspect you would be bettwer off screaming at a wall, that might give   
   you an echo. His blubber would likely absorb the sound.   
      
   --   
   "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   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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