[New-Poetry] And a little trivia for the new year...

[TheOldMole]

Wait -- you may be right. I had forgotten this verse:

Time, that with this strange excuse
Pardoned Kipling and his views,
And will pardon Ogden Nash,
Pardon him for writing trash.


and this one:

To war! To war! Freedonia's going to war!
If Ogden Nash coughs up the cash
Freedonia's going to war!

Halvard Johnson wrote:
> I'd love to take your word for it, Tad, but first kindly
> show that the two of them never referenced Shakespeare
> and/or Nash.
>
> Hal
>
> "Imagination is more important
>  than knowledge."
>         --Albert Einstein
>
> Halvard Johnson
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>
>
> On Jan 3, 2008, at 1:14 PM, TheOldMole wrote:
>
>> They certainly both should have reference Anny. But the answer lies 
>> elsewhere. It's mad Nijinksy, about shom Auden tells us that what he 
>> wrote about Diaghilev is true of the human heart. and who appears on 
>> the epidermis of  Lydia the tattooed lady doing the rhumba, right 
>> next to Lydia's Social Security numba. Sung by Groucho, written by 
>> Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg.
>>
>> For reasons obscure to me now, I was once invited to Yip Harburg's 
>> Christmas party, which involved singing carols around the piano, with 
>> Yip, octogenarian but still lively, at the piano. Among the guests 
>> was Paul Robeson Jr., who looked very much like his father, had a 
>> deep baritone voice...and couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.
>>
>>
>>
>> Anny Ballardini wrote:
>>> _me_
>>>  !
>>>
>>> From: "Halvard Johnson" <halvard at earthlink.net>
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:18 PM
>>>
>>>
>>>> Best guess: Shakespeare
>>>> Second-best guess: Ogden Nash
>>>>
>>>> Hal
>>>>
>>>> "In America, it's the bottom of the ninth,
>>>> we're five runs behind, there are two outs,
>>>> nobody on base, weak hitter at the plate,
>>>> and the fat lady's getting up to sing."
>>>>                --Anon.
>>>>
>>>> Halvard Johnson
>>>> ================
>>>> halvard at earthlink.net
>>>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html
>>>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
>>>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>>>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
>>>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 1, 2008, at 3:42 PM, TheOldMole wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Who is referenced by both Auden and Groucho Marx?
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Tad Richards
>>>>> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
>>>>> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> The moral is this: in American verse,
>>>>> The better you are, the pay is worse.
>>>>> --Corey Ford
>>>
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>> -- 
>> Tad Richards
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>>
>> The moral is this: in American verse,
>> The better you are, the pay is worse.
>> --Corey Ford
>>
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-- 
Tad Richards
http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
http://opusforty.blogspot.com/

The moral is this: in American verse,
The better you are, the pay is worse.
  --Corey Ford