in response to Dorothy Parker, my favorite has always been Ogden Nash.
i've never seen a purple cow
and i hope to never see one
but i can tell you this, my friend
i'd rather see than be one.
tell me, octopus, i begs
is those arms, or is they legs
i tell you this, o octopus
if i were you, i'd call me us.
in the sixth grade we learned a song about walking in the jungle and
being eaten by a lion. i learned several years ago the words were Nash.
there is also Edward Lear, but i like Nash better.
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:Hexe
:Thought for the journey:
But I Just Can’t Get My Head That Far Up My *****
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| User: "Contrarian" |
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| Title: Re: Ogden Nash |
27 Mar 2006 05:33:37 PM |
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Hexe <greywitche@yahoo.com> wrote:
in response to Dorothy Parker, my favorite has always been Ogden Nash.
Nash is great, e.g.:
CATULUS
Ea questio catulus SIT
Denique ista felis FIT
Vocabula:
catulus: young animal esp. of dog or cat
denique: in the order of succession, at length, at last
questio --> quaestio: inquiry, judicial proceeding
ex libellus _ Ave Ogden _ (MCMLXXIII)
tr. James C. Gleason atque Brian N. Meyer
Remember this .sig? Hope w. is doing well.
If laughter is the best medicine,
then kittens should be covered by our health insurance. :-)
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02 May 2006 12:35:19 AM |
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Hexe <greywitche@yahoo.com> wrote:
tell me, octopus, i begs
is those arms, or is they legs
i tell you this, o octopus
if i were you, i'd call me us.
OCTIPES
Peto, Octope, mi narra
est* sit bracchia an crura?
Admiror te, tu Octope
Si ego tu, nos vocarem me.
*plural to conform with Nash's sing. verb and plural noun
from _ Ave Ogden _ Nash in Latin
James C. Gleeson and Brian N. Meyer, tr.
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| User: "neoholistic" |
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| Title: Re: Ogden Nash |
02 May 2006 06:22:35 AM |
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Contrarian ha escrito:
Hexe <greywitche@yahoo.com> wrote:
tell me, octopus, i begs
is those arms, or is they legs
i tell you this, o octopus
if i were you, i'd call me us.
OCTIPES
Peto, Octope, mi narra
est* sit bracchia an crura?
shouldn't that be something like 'ista' or 'istaec' or 'illa',
rather than 'sit'?
Admiror te, tu Octope
Si ego tu, nos vocarem me.
*plural to conform with Nash's sing. verb and plural noun
from _ Ave Ogden _ Nash in Latin
James C. Gleeson and Brian N. Meyer, tr.
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08 May 2006 01:11:24 AM |
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OCTIPES
Peto, Octope, mi narra
est* sit bracchia an crura?
That should be:
est* illa bracchia an crura?
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08 May 2006 01:10:17 AM |
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neoholistic <neoholistic@hotmail.com> wrote:
est* sit bracchia an crura?
shouldn't that be something like 'ista' or 'istaec' or 'illa',
rather than 'sit'?
yes.
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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| Title: Re: Ogden Nash |
02 May 2006 03:38:54 PM |
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Hexe wrote:
in response to Dorothy Parker, my favorite has always been Ogden Nash.
i've never seen a purple cow
and i hope to never see one
but i can tell you this, my friend
i'd rather see than be one.
tell me, octopus, i begs
is those arms, or is they legs
i tell you this, o octopus
if i were you, i'd call me us.
in the sixth grade we learned a song about walking in the jungle and
being eaten by a lion. i learned several years ago the words were Nash.
there is also Edward Lear, but i like Nash better.
I tried to buy something from Bike Nashbar today and they didn't have
the tire in their ad in stock anymore. It sucks too, it would have been
thinner AND have a nice safety feature -- a reflective sidewall.
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| User: "ponette" |
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| Title: Re: Ogden Nash |
27 Mar 2006 07:28:06 PM |
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:43:05 +0200, Hexe <greywitche@yahoo.com> wrote:
i've never seen a purple cow
and i hope to never see one
but i can tell you this, my friend
i'd rather see than be one.
"The Purple Cow" was penned by Gelett Burgess and not by Ogden Nash.
And in doing some Googling, I found that Burgess followed it up with:
Ah yes, I wrote The Purple Cow,
I'm sorry now I wrote it;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'll kill you if you quote it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelett_Burgess
Burgess has always been one of my favorites. Here's another of his
that I've always liked:
I wish that my room had a floor!
I don't so much care for a door,
But this crawling around
Without touching the ground
Is getting to be quite a bore!
And finally, my top favorite:
There is little in afternoon tea
To appeal to a person like me
Polite conversation evokes the elation
A cow might enjoy in a tree.
p
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