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...a question.

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Zookeeper Saves Tiny Monkey By Licking Its Butt Until It Poops. 

I shall say no more.

 The Lord O' Bones has finally been persuaded to return to LJ - by the name of lipssan , for anyone that may want to add him!

The Guardian recently had a thing where they reprinted old comics from the 70s-80s and gave them away with the main paper for a week or so - that's kids' comics like the Beano, not the regular kind of geek comic. It was funny and sad at the same time to see the attitudes and innocence (and plain awful jokes) from back then, so here's Adrian ( Read more... )

My favourite sinister poem (OK, maybe not counting Auden's The Witnesses, but I've already put up too much Auden). Not actually sure who this is by, I just know that Stephen King is fond of quoting it, but it gives me a pleasantly unpleasant shiver every time ( Read more... )

The Watership Down thread has reminded me of Mr Keyes' (relatively obscure) existence; he did the poem that (IIRC) starts off the Efrafa chapter, which goes:

He said "Dance for me," and he said
"You are too beautiful for the wind
To pick at, or the sun to burn," he said
"I'm a poor, tattered thing, but not unkind
To the sad dancer and the dancing dead."

( Poor Sidney... )

The title I used for my LJ is "But they don't sparkle, they burn", which is from a rather nice/sinister little poem by John Agard:

Beneath my clown's disguise
I have things in my eyes
Resembling diamonds
But they don't sparkle
they burn

...it being a Friday and me wanting to muck about, I googled the phrase to see how obscure the poem might be. What came ( Read more... )

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