| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
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| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
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By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
from Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha
But in addition to the "real thing", there is a parody,
that includes, as best I can remember:
And she made him furry mittens,
Made them with the skinside inside,
Made them with the fur side outside,
Made them ??? inside outside.
Does anybody know where the complete parody can be found?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 613.1 | I have one | AKOV13::MCGARGHAN | Gentle Reader | Tue Jan 17 1989 20:20 | 6 |
There's at least one place: The Brand X Anthology of Literature.
It was published somewhere around 1982, and I have it at home and
will try to dig it out for you.
Kim
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| 613.2 | In many a used book store you'll find | CLOSET::T_PARMENTER | Gonna set my chickens free! | Wed Jan 18 1989 19:25 | 1 |
The Subtreasury of American Humor by K.S. and E.B. White. | |||||
| 613.3 | Two for the price of one | RABBIT::SEIDMAN | Aaron Seidman | Thu Jan 19 1989 18:25 | 29 |
He slew the noble Mudjekeewis,
With his skin he made them mittens;
Made them with the fur-side inside,
Made them with the skin-side outside;
He, to keep the warm side inside,
Put the cold side, skin-side, outside;
He, to keep the cold side outside,
Put the warm side, fur-side, inside:--
That's why he put the cold side outside,
Why he put the warm side inside,
Why he turned them inside outside.
George A. Strong
[ p. 59, _The Antic Muse_, R. P. Falk, ed.
Grove Press, New York, 1955 ]
And while we're at it, an anonymous piece from the same
anthology [p. 62]:
This is the meter Columbian. The soft-flowing trochees and dactyls,
Blended with fragments spondaic, and here and there an iambus,
Syllables often sixteen, or more or less, as it happens,
Difficult always to scan, and depending greatly on accent,
Being a close imitation, in English, of Latin hexameters--
Fluent in sound and avoiding the stiffness of blank verse,
Having the grandeur and flow of America's mountains and rivers,
Such as no bard could achieve in a mean little island like England;
Oft, at the end of a line, the sentence dividing abruptly
Breaks, and accents mellifluous, follow the thoughts of the author.
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| 613.4 | ugh | EAGLE1::EGGERS | Tom, VAX & MIPS architecture | Thu Jan 19 1989 18:47 | 3 |
Thank you.
(With my warmside, inside, outside)
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| 613.5 | FDR is green | CAM::MAZUR | Thu Jan 19 1989 19:13 | 2 | |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be envious of that fur-side chat.
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| 613.6 | by the way | AITG::DERAMO | Daniel V. {AITG,ZFC}:: D'Eramo | Fri Jan 20 1989 02:55 | 3 |
How does the original go?
Dan
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| 613.7 | EAGLE1::EGGERS | Tom, VAX & MIPS architecture | Fri Jan 20 1989 05:47 | 1 | |
The original goes forever and ever. | |||||