I too am deeply touched by your kind remarks, Ms Rutledge, all the more touching for being gratuitous and over-generous in the best English manner.

In response, I believe it was fair and kind of Mr Rapaire to introduce you to our colonial mythology concerning the many escapades and frequent deaths of Little Willy, the forerunner and archetypal paradigm for North Park and the Simpsons.

Willie saw some dynamite
And didn't understand it, quite;
Curiosity never pays;
It rained Willie seven days.

There was also some doggerel about his early experimentation with a home chemistry kit:

Here lie the remnants of our Will
With us, he is no more;
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4



Truly, BS from a Golden Era of same!


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