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| | From: -TinCan (Original Message) | Sent: 10/3/2007 12:14 PM |
Mark, Here's something I'd like your opinion on. I had always thought that when William I defeated Harold Godwinson at Hastings in 1066 he, William, became King of England. Looking thru the list of English Kings I find Edgar the Atheling, someone I've never heard of who seems to have held the job from, 15 October 1066, the day Harold's ticket got punched, until 10 December 1066. It shows he died in 1125 and was the son of Edward the Exile. Do you know much about him you can tell us? |
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I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT YOU WOULD BE AN ALISTER MACLEAN TYPE FLASH?? |
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No His books are crap Animated film scripts "here I am in the cupboard listening to the villain" forget The Land God gave to Cain Nope only 3 Authors MacDonald Fraser (Writes my biographies born only a few miles from my Father) Bernard Cornwell (lives in Essex and Sharpe's my Regiment) Graham Shelby.(Pure beauty) |
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Mark This is by John Donne. Put to music by John Renbourne in the '60s. GO and catch a falling star, | | Get with child a mandrake root, | | Tell me where all past years are, | | Or who cleft the Devil's foot; | | Teach me to hear mermaids singing, | 5 | Or to keep off envy's stinging, | | And find | | What wind | | Serves to advance an honest mind. | | | If thou be'st born to strange sights, | 10 | Things invisible to see, | | Ride ten thousand days and nights | | Till Age snow white hairs on thee; | | Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me | | All strange wonders that befell thee, | 15 | And swear | | No where | | Lives a woman true and fair. | | | If thou find'st one, let me know; | | Such a pilgrimage were sweet. | 20 | Yet do not; I would not go, | | Though at next door we might meet. | | Though she were true when you met her, | | And last till you write your letter, | | Yet she | 25 | Will be | | False, ere I come, to two or three. Now, if you don't find that beautifully mysogonistic, you've blown your accolcade as site intellectual. Typical Midlander. | |
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Mark, just make sure it is fact a flannel, they have found that a plastic bag can have rather dubious effects upon a person. |
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Nothing wrong with a plastic bag. Now die, Pervert!! To his Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day; Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood; And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest; An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate.
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserv'd virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball; And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. Really Mark And you to set an example??
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Khyyam said the same things only used less words. |
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Philistinism is alive and well........Don't forget these jokers get paid by the word. And Kayyam was a queer as a 9 dollar note |
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Queer? Khyyam? Nah, he was just a man of his time and place in a civilization whose motto was "A Woman for children, a boy for pleasure, and a melon for Ecstacy.' |
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I heard that as "A woman for duty, a camel for cleanliness, and a boy for joy" I thuink we'd better ask Mark |
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Add 19 & 20 together and you'd get a hell of a family reunion. |
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John Masters quotes an old Pathan song "There's a boy across the river With a bottom like a peach But alas, I cannot swim" For Mark to think about when he does the 2,000 meter backstroke. |
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