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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Mar 21, 2002
Hi Sal,
Nice to see you again 
Hope you're well enough soon to give that computer a good kicking 
Hull 
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Mar 22, 2002
Back to 'Petroglyphs' Name of the poet please?
Last chance Beth, then I'll have to tell you.
Hull
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Beth Posted Mar 22, 2002
This one has been really taxing my brain. Could it be be Peter Reading?
Beth
Sal - I hope that you and your computer are better soon.
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Mar 22, 2002
Brilliant!!!
Yes, Beth, 
it was Peter Reading. Not an easy one because so recently published.
Now it's your turn...
Hull
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shazzPRME Posted Mar 22, 2002
Well done Beth
Sorry Hull , Mid-week is really a busy time for me sorting out <./>The Post</.>... it just grows and grows! 
shazz 
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Mar 22, 2002
shazz
You're obviously a victim of your own success
Hull
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Beth Posted Mar 23, 2002
Thank you Hull and Shazz - It was a guess as I've never seen the poem before. I have since checked and, as far as I can find, the book isn't even for sale anywhere in Canada.
I suppose I now have to come up with something! How about this oddity that I came accross today -
If you lift an guinea pig up by the ears
His eyes drop out.
Beth
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Beth Posted Mar 23, 2002
Oops sorry, got the wrong end of the guinea pig!! That should have been -
If you lift a guinea pig up by the tail,
His eyes fall out.
Beth
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Mar 25, 2002
Looks a bit too hard, Beth
Would any clues help?
Hull 
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Beth Posted Mar 26, 2002
Oh Dear!
Mid to late nineteenth century English. double barrelled last name having added the maiden name of his second wife to his name at some point.
Obscure but quoted in the Oxford book of quotations.
Beth
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Mar 26, 2002
Thanks Beth
It's from A Garden Lyric by Frederick Locker-Lampson, neither of which I've heard of!
My turn:
...The deep blue lakes, above which more darkly
Rolls the sun: the night embraces
Dying warriors, the wild lament
Of their broken mouths......
German, male, First World War (but only just - he committed suicide in 1914). Extremely famous in Germany, relatively little known in English until recently. Another of my all-time fave brill writers! This is from his best-known poem.
Hull
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Mar 26, 2002
Sorry, he was Austrian - but he wrote in German of course.
Hull
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Beth Posted Mar 27, 2002
It is from Grodek by Georg Trakl. I don't know him too well but I did have a book of his in the shop not so long ago. Interestingly it was a collection that was published right here in Eastern Canada.
I suppose this means that I have to come up with something else - I'll find something tomorrow.
Beth
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Apr 13, 2002
why are we waiting? why-y are we waiting??
Hull
ps great stuff, Beth - Trakl is a rare treat 'n not many people outside Germany/Austria know about him
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Apr 25, 2002
Anybody know this?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to min'?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' lang syne?
I would just like to point out that the final line is correct, before anyone starts!
Hull
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Beth Posted Apr 27, 2002
of course it is right!
The great Hull would not err when reciting Burns!
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Apr 27, 2002
Hi Beth
Well done . Have one on me
Funny one that, since in both the title and the chorus it IS 'Auld' lang syne. This was the first verse, as you undoubtedly know.
Your turn?
Hull
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