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Eagleton, as discussed before.

Wow, that is a doozy, that thread.Just over 2 years and 53 pages and who would've thunk that it would be about Dawkins.

In other news, one of the lads on my course wants to apply to Oxford to study bacterial flagellum in order to counter any ID arguments. Rather comically, he asked me to proof-read his personal statement. My strong yearning for truth forbad me from sabotaging him ("You spell Darwin with two "N"s, mate)

Listen pal, can you stop saying LOL?

I think that's the first time I've ever read one of Wyatt's posts in a scouse accent.

Now eh, soft lad.

To me "pal" always reads as Scottish.

Jimmy Bignutz wrote:

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To me "pal" always reads as Scottish.

It's derived from the Romany for brother, isn't it? Not especially Scottish, I feel. But certainly aggressive. Listen, pal ... I hear that as Manc.

"Listen, pal" isn't Scouse. Scottish, Manc even cockney before scouse.

Indeed, talking about cockney, "mate" is shared by the two as the main term

"Listen, pal" isn't Scouse.

My Scouse mate says it all the time. I'll tell him to stop.

It's "paow" in Cockney, though.

I hope you're using the "if the great poets only wrote limericks" thread as a handy reference for your poetry studies, by the way, Bored.

I like to think you directed your classmates' attention to the version of The Snake therein. [Coughs modestly].

It is, I have to say, absolutely superb.

Anyone got a link to the liumerick thread?

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I think, but I could be wrong, that Andy's post should be adorned with a nice picture of Eric Bartholemew's home-town statue.

Happy to help, especially as self-promotion is involved:


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That Snake limerick is excellent and I shall be using it next week.

Having enjoyed the Snake, I thought that, after the Betjemen week, I was actually enjoying some poetry.Yesterday, however, we did "Bavarian Gratians"

Fuck me, that is shit

"Blue, dark, blue, dark
blue, dark, blue, dark,
Classical Greek reference
Blue, dark, blue, dark
blue, dark, blue, dark,
Classical Greek reference"
....repeat ad nauseum

Not even any innuendo in there.

(My critique is going to have to be a bit fleshed out here, I feel)

Apropos of that, of course, the lecturer said "Did anyone else see the sexual imagery in 'The Snake'" to which I remarked that I was the only person on our study group to. The lecturer said "I thought you might, you always do"

I was astonished. I think she fancies me

Gentians.

Apologies, this assignment is really going to need a lot of redrafting. Where the fuck did I get "Gratians" from? I know less about that than I do gentians

Anyway, this week's poem is "Pike" by Ted Hughes

Bored Of Discipline wrote:

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Apologies, this assignment is really going to need a lot of redrafting.

Not my field or anything, but all that repetition that Lawrence sometimes goes in for, in prose as well as poetry, is of course quite deliberate, and it wouldn't do to say it's crap without trying to understand the effect he's after. (A similar point was made, I think, at the Lady Chatterley trial, by one of the defence witnesses.)

That said, it ain't my cup of tea neither.