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Thread #38364   Message #540482
Posted By: Snuffy
02-Sep-01 - 08:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: I'nt Morris Dancin Crap
Subject: RE: BS: I'nt Morris Dancin Crap
I wouldn't describe my Morris Dancing performances as crap, but sometimes they can be on the ropy side.

Now my whistle playing is usually crap, and my singing isn't always quite as good as I would like, but:

I DO ALL OF THEM TO GIVE PLEASURE TO MYSELF. If anyone else gets pleasure out of them, that's a beneficial side effect, not the point of the activity.

And Bagpuss, Lewis Carroll definitely used sha'n't rather than shan't. But I don't think anyone would seriously use it today.

Wassail! V