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On 03/04/2012 22:32, Jerry Friedman wrote:
> On Apr 3, 1:57 pm, R H Draney<dadoc...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>> Peter Young filted:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 3 Apr 2012 Peter Moylan<inva...@peter.pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>> A one-n canon preaches loud
>>>> A two-n cannon disperses the crowd
>>>> But I will bet my silk pyjama
>>>> (Remainder deleted because I couldn't find a rhyme.)
>>
>>> A cannon was never fired by a llama.
>>
>>> Cue poem about lamas and llamas.
>>
>> Once upon a noontime lunchin'
>> With my bestest bud, the Panchen....
>
> Talking over quaint and curious quipus of the Inca lore,
> While we jawed, serenely eating, suddenly there came a bleating,
> As of some Katahdin greeting, bleating at my kitchen door.
> "'Tis on-topic, for we're eating--bleating at my kitchen door.
> Only this, and nothing more."
>
<applause!>
--
Katy Jennison