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Thread #107473   Message #2229162
Posted By: john f weldon
05-Jan-08 - 02:03 PM
Thread Name: Most inane couplet
Subject: RE: Most inane couplet
Oh my. I once wrote...

I would like to purchase an orange
Do you have one of diameter four-inch?

...but I wish I hadn't, or even mentioned it here.

But this is from a quite serious poem on the Death of Queen Victoria...

Dust to dust and ashes to ashes..
Into the tomb the great Queen dashes!