Cabbages & Kings #2 - Page 2

susie123 · 24-03-2013, 16:40

Maybe I just don't appreciate poetry, but I find the junior high school offerings of Miss Bates (hehe good thing she's female not male) a load of pretentious codswallop - just what you'd expect from a 15 or 16 year old.

Give me Spike Milligan any day.

DtheP47 · 24-03-2013, 16:54

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Maybe I just don't appreciate poetry, but I find the junior high school offerings of Miss Bates (hehe good thing she's female not male) a load of pretentious codswallop - just what you'd expect from a 15 or 16 year old.

Give me Spike Milligan any day.

What about Tenniel's drawings on my original link then Susie? Could be Morecambe Bay

Hey and some of his cartoons in Punch were pretty sparky too !!!

susie123 · 24-03-2013, 17:14

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What about Tenniel's drawings on my original link then Susie? Could be Morecambe Bay

Hey and some of his cartoons in Punch were pretty sparky too !!!

I'd already come to that conclusion about the illustrations to the poem. There must be some oysters out there somewhere. Not really keen on the Victorian Punch stuff though.

jaysay · 24-03-2013, 17:24

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Maybe I just don't appreciate poetry, but I find the junior high school offerings of Miss Bates (hehe good thing she's female not male) a load of pretentious codswallop - just what you'd expect from a 15 or 16 year old.

Give me Spike Milligan any day.

Um Miss Bates, was she Master Bates Brother Susie

susie123 · 24-03-2013, 17:26

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Um Miss Bates, was she Master Bates Brother Susie

Nothing escapes you does it John... except she was his sister.

jaysay · 24-03-2013, 17:49

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Nothing escapes you does it John... except she was his sister.

Ya I notice when that little time for changing had gone

Margaret Pilkington · 24-03-2013, 18:03

I like Spike Milloigan stuff too.
I can remember buying a book of his about Ireland(Puckoon it was)...and was reading on the bus on the way to BRI for a night shift......I was crying with laughing...it was a good job I had the top deck of the bus to myself.

gpick24 · 24-03-2013, 19:15

Not really into peotry myself, except I do quite like Mr Kiplings exceedingly good verse.
Poetry - Rudyard Kipling - If - If you can keep your head when all about you

DtheP47 · 24-03-2013, 21:01

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(hehe good thing she's female not male) a load of pretentious codswallop - just what you'd expect from a 15 or 16 year old.

excuseer me ..like Chopin?

DtheP47 · 24-03-2013, 21:07

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codswallop .

My mind runs riot... codswallop

Must be something washed up on the sand of Morecambe Bay

Then again I have been in the Forts drinking.

cashman · 24-03-2013, 21:08

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excuseer me ..like Chopin?

Mrs Mills were better n him.

DtheP47 · 24-03-2013, 21:10

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Mrs Mills were better n him.

Who tickled your ivories Mr c

Margaret Pilkington · 24-03-2013, 21:29

Probably Russ Conway!

cashman · 24-03-2013, 21:49

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Probably Russ Conway!

Well he was n ex Borstal Boy.

susie123 · 24-03-2013, 22:14

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excuseer me ..like Chopin?

Even Chopin, can't think of much of note that he wrote before the age of twenty. He wrote the two piano concertos around then, but they're not exactly typical of his output.