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Thread #117188 Message #2522043
Posted By: Richard Bridge
22-Dec-08 - 05:25 AM
Thread Name: Review: Blackleg Miner revisited
Subject: Review: Blackleg Miner revisited
The remarks about "blackleg librarians" got me thinking a bit.
The expression doesn't scan easily, to start with.
Then I was drawn by the vituperation WMD (sorry, WLD) heaps upon the middle classes in general and those at teacher training college in particular - now joined by Romany Man - (although I don't know where they get the idea that teachers are in the higher echelons of society) - and then it sort of happened.
See what you think:
The Trainee Teacher
Tis in the morning, still quite dark,
When the blackleg teacher gets the bus
Threadbare elbows, threadbare cuffs
There goes the trainee teacher.
He grabs his chalk and in he goes
To quell the children's rioting rows
There's no woman, nor town whore
Will look at the trainee teacher.
So don't go near the Swanscombe schools
The children don't obey the rules
They terrorise and then abuse
The quaking trainee teacher
Swanscombe is a terrible place
Where evolution ne'er took place
Pale chimps from tattoo parlours race
To mock the trainee teacher.
They grab his lesson plans to throw
Them in the Swanscombe pit below
A whole year's work – but down it goes
Poor quaking trainee teacher
So be a banker while ye may
The bailouts support their pay
Learn to steal: child's play
You stupid trainee teacher.