Bat Goddess, Found this on the internet. It purports to be the complete version. Once upon a midnight cautious, while I pondered weak and nauseous, Over some advertising copy I had wrote for Macy's Store, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a yapping, As of someone loudly yapping, yapping at my office door. "'Tis some client there," I muttered, "yapping at my office door - Only this and nothing more." Then I felt my terror worsen, for my guest was not a person! In there stepped a cocker spaniel; naturally I jumped in fear. Tried to climb an oaken panel, ripping there my new grey flannel; But the spaniel merely stood there, speaking out with voice so clear - Speaking out like Jack Lescoulie, in a voice both loud and clear - Quoth the spaniel- _"Drink Blatz Beer!"_ How I marveled this ungainly dog who did commercials plainly; How he spoke the message clearly; selling points he underscored. For I could not help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet could mouth a slogan without sounding slightly bored - Quoth the spaniel: _"Buy a Ford!"_ Thus this dog with voice like Murrow made my heavy brow unfurrow; Thoughts of fortunes I could make now made me shake down to my knees. But the spaniel set me grieving then by turning tail and leaving. Naturally, I begged him tarry, crying out, "Stay with me, please!" Quoth the spaniel, _"Eat Kraft Cheese!"_ Roger in Baltimore
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