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    18 years is a while add another year and u got my whole lifetime hehehe doesnt make you old thought tbh old is when you are 70 - 80 tbh.. heh ^ ^

    Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon were the two that got me in to this aswell the way they word and string together centences is amazing

    In winter trenches, cowed and glum
    With crumps and lice and lack of rum
    He put a bullet through his brain
    No one spoke of him again
    Its reading lines like this which make me think alot about what was going though the guys head and what he is seeing, sends shivers through me reading them for some reason

    iirc thats how it goes its been a while since i read them but its things like this what they say that stick in my head

    I also have a link here to my favorite poem by Wilfred Owen, reallllly like this one
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    What the hell does "WTH" mean

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    Wilfred Owen was born in our hometown ( Oswestry ) they named the Weatherspoons Pub there after him

    We never studied any great poets in School! it's only now that my eldest is at secondary school studying greats like Owen and Geoffrey Chaucer that i realise what we missed out on!

    I love poetry, used to write it myself but havent now in a long time

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    Zaks first post was just on Des and Mel on ITV
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    I think being british and having these gangs etc, mimicking America's Gangsters - they have G-Unit we Britian has the *Local Park Massive

    USA has guns

    Only thing Brits can have are knives.........................................


    *may vary upon location

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    Chaucer? Bill Bailey done Chaucer thusly:

    Bill Bailey

    Three fellows wenten into a pubbe,
    and gleefully their hands did rubbe,
    in expectacion of revelry,
    for twas the hour known as happy.

    Great bottles of wine did they quaff,
    and hadde a really goode laff,
    'till drunkenness held full dominion,
    for 'twas two for the price of one.

    Yet after wine and meade and sack,
    man must have a massive snack,
    great pasties from Cornwall,
    Scottish eggs, round like a ball.

    Great hams, quail, duck and geese,
    they sucked the bones and drank the grease.
    One fellow stood all pale and wan,
    for he was a vegiterian.

    Yet man knoweth that gluttony stoketh the fire of lechery,
    upon three young wenches round and sly the fellows cast a wanton eye,
    One did approach with drunken wink,
    'allow daaahlin – you fancy a drink?

    Soon they court them on their knee – 'twas like some grotesque puppetry,
    such was the lewdness and debauchery 'twas like a sketch by Dick Emery,
    Except Dick Emery is not yet born,
    so that comparison may not be drawn.

    But then the fellows began to pale,
    for Quale are not the friend of ale,
    And in their bellies much confusion,
    from their throats, vile extruision!

    Stinking foul coruption,
    came spewing forth from drooling lips,
    the fettid stench did fill the pubbe,
    'twas the very arse of Belzibubbe.

    Thrown they were, from the Whore and Trumpet,
    In the street, no coin, no strumpet,
    homeward bound must quickly go,
    and to that end, a donkey stole.

    Their hands all with vomit greased,
    the donkey – was not pleased,
    and threw them into a ditch of ****e,
    they all agreed – "what a brilliant night!"

    Quote Originally Posted by The Quentos
    "My udder is growing. Quick pass me the parsely sauce." Said Oliver.

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    Bill Bailey is a genious The Pub gag in the style of Geoffrey Chaucer was on his Bewilderment DVD i do believe ?

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    was indeed.. just got Cosmic Jam... comes with a full length bewilderness DVD too - the bit about being a "Relaxed Empiricist" cracked me up summat awful

    Quote Originally Posted by The Quentos
    "My udder is growing. Quick pass me the parsely sauce." Said Oliver.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tumble
    was indeed.. just got Cosmic Jam... comes with a full length bewilderness DVD too - the bit about being a "Relaxed Empiricist" cracked me up summat awful
    I bought Jon Cosmic Jam for christmas! Relaxed Empiricist was hilariousi cracked me up as much as The Cockney Intro

    We have Part Troll too, i'd love to see him live

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