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

[Halvard Johnson]

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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