Mark is clearly possessed of extreme analytical skills indeed -- an analytical exremist par maximus.

The truth is even stranger and one of those things that make certain pieces of art suddeny become valuable beyoind all measure, like the stamps they print upside down in error.

You are fortunate, here in this thread, that you have had a first edition on your screen, before the corrections come out and restore the work to its merely astronomical value. I would suggest you center the monitor on the original version and freeze it to capture those immortal but flawed lines on their == put the whole monitor in the freezer and leave it there. It will be worth a LOT some day, I am telling you right now!!

OK -- the truth is that I was briefly visited by an alien who spoke a tongue in which "Two" and "L" are not only whyming but identical. He was so enamored of the original line that he interrupted me just as I was going to update it with something more assimilable by earthlings, and he insisted it was more than perfect just as written.


"We will not heed this spawn of hell,
Nor turn on poor BeeDubya-Ell
But Rumsfeld turn around again
And send him back to Dumbo Ten"

would work, and also please the alien, whose home planet is actually called Dumbo Ten. Wouldn't mean much to Urflinks though.

I am inclined to prefer.

...
"But Rumsfeld give the Bummer's Rush
And back to Bushie quickly flush"

and decree it shall be so.

How's that for a lucky guess?

A