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|    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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