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BS: Get Your Bids In!

16 May 08 - 02:02 PM (#2342282)
Subject: BS: Get Your Bids In!
From: jeffp

This fellow has been an occasional topic of discussion here. Now you have a chance to own a collection of his poems.

http://real-us.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080516/ennew_afp/entertainmentbritainpoetryauction


16 May 08 - 02:40 PM (#2342303)
Subject: RE: BS: Get Your Bids In!
From: John MacKenzie

"before dying penniless in an unmarked grave in Edinburgh in 1902."

How considerate of him to save them the bother of lowering him in, post mortem!

G


16 May 08 - 02:56 PM (#2342312)
Subject: RE: BS: Get Your Bids In!
From: jeffp

Maybe he fell in and broke his neck. It was unmarked, after all.