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There's competition for landmark numbers, like 7777. There'll probably be someone sitting up all night when we get to 9997. Strictly speaking, we're not supposed to use multiple posts to get the magic number (like someone just did, for 7777) but we're not really sticklers for the thread rules here.
Originally posted by coquetteNotice: Please go to the replacement thread. This one is hereby c
thread ruined. mods please lock.
Thread 149841
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Originally posted by coquetteTheir Lonely Betters
game
As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade
To all the noises that my garden made,
It seemed to me only proper that words
Should be withheld from vegetables and birds
A robin with no Christian name ran through
The Robin-Anthem which was all it knew,
And rustling flowers for some third party waited
To say which pairs, if any, should get mated.
Not one of them was capable of lying,
There was not one which knew that it was dying
Or could have with a rhythm or a rhyme
Assumed responsibility for time.
Let them leave language to their lonely betters
Who count some days and long for certain letters;
We, too, make noises when we laugh or weep:
Words are for those with promises to keep.
(W.H. Auden)
Note: Apparently, word games are even played in the garden.
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyWhen you stick a seed in the ground it often grows.
[b]Their Lonely Betters
As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade
To all the noises that my garden made,
It seemed to me only proper that words
Should be withheld from vegetables and birds
A robin with no Christian name ran through
The Robin-Anthem which was all it knew,
And rustling flowers for some third party waited
To say which p ...[text shortened]... promises to keep.
(W.H. Auden)
Note: Apparently, word games are even played in the garden.[/b]