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A quick google reveals it to be from Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass. Well not the last bit...I'm guessing that's not in the original. If I could persuade them to use my lyrics, I might shift a few more albums to the one handed typists out there.
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...worth a try
P.S I mean one-handed typists as a euphemism, I'm not being manualist. I have nothing against people with one hand. My early gigs seem to have been full of them.
So, does that mean that we can't Ask You Tom anything any longer?
ReplyDeleteBecause I have had a question for you which came up to my mind in a dream a couple of nights ago.
Too bad, really.
What do you think about this one ;)
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apparently creating poems from spam has been going on for a while: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoetry
ReplyDeleteand there are a few folk who've made a name for themselves as spoets
Morton Hurley: http://poemsmadefromspam.blogspot.com/
Kristin Thomas:
http://www.spam-poetry.com/
There's an article explaining why purveyors of spam began to use excerpts of books at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3247200.stm
Not at all related... but have you seen the news that London has banned apostrophes from all its street signs? They are claiming it is confusing and old fashioned.
ReplyDeletehttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090131/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_no_apostrophe
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