h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Jabberwock, you're quoting Mervyn Peake!

I've been trying to find an excuse to slip him in somewhere. You got there before me!

That's to get you back for beating me to Peter Reading!

Jab

As it happens, I've just spent the weekend creating Gormenghast on my Sims programme.

I saw your post Daffodils by Wordsworth.Many moons ago when i was at school we all had to do a project in the easter hols.As i like painting i did a painting of the lakes and daffodils,then over the top,in my best caligraphy i wrote that poem,it took me ages.It was pretty good.I showed it to my parents,i was as pleased as punch with myself,then came the bombshell,''What is a clod?''Asked my all critical father,i had left out the U.That wretched poem is known as the 'clod'poem in our family.The picture still survives,it hangs in the toilet!

Just to remind you again sue, here's the 1807 version:

I wander'd lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of dancing Daffodils;
Along the Lake, beneath the Trees,
Ten thousand dancing in the breeze.

(not meant for the Poetry Conversation Game)

Jab

I'm still wandering lonley as a CLOD.

That must be the 1960 version. I'm not sure I don't prefer it!

Jab

It has a certain something, doesn't it? Glad you kept it, bluesue.

Oh! there loads of those daft mistakes in our house and they have all stuck.There's the Fourty Winks song,which was a misunderstanding by my son .....Oh! fourty winks,fourty winks of a dove,quite catchy dont you think?

That reminds me of the time when I found out, in my late teens, that a particular hymn is not about the Lord of the Dance-settee.

Snails, you might find this interesting iof you can plough through it:
http://www.dylanthomasboathouse.com/download/essay3.pdf

Jab

Thanks for that. Looks interesting, though it'll probably be a week or so before I have a chance to read it.

By the way, your groan jokes thread provided me with a stack of material for this week's creative writing lesson on comic prose.

Good! So you're off soon to the dole queue then

Jab

No comment.

btw -

AAaaarrrrggghhhhhhhh! Snails, you got Dreamsongs into the Poetry Con - I've bin tryin' for ages - it's very def one of my favourites


Jab

Yay, now you've gone and done it too.