August 3, 200719 yr Ok, You got everyone's attn. Who's Birthday is it? Did I forget a special someone? Share with us all.
August 3, 200719 yr Active Members Ok,Who's Birthday is it? Did I forget a special someone? It ain't me babe... it ain't me your lookin' for... babe.
August 4, 200719 yr Active Members The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on. LOLOL! A quote (well modified to the 21st century) dear to my heart. There's a lot of wisdom in that "Rubayat" .... but I guess speaking to guys who do what we do, that's preaching to the choir!
August 4, 200719 yr There's a lot of wisdom in that "Rubayat" .... but I guess speaking to guys who do what we do, that's preaching to the choir! ...and not to omit thanks to his translator FitzGerald, whose Edwardian sensibility highlighted those elements of Khayyam that we like most. Irrelevantly... The moving finger writes and, having writ, Is badly stained with ink, you must admit. -- Richard Armour http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armour_(poet) Further... That's my last Duchess painted on the wall. I've scraped, but cannot get her off at all. I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he -- I sat on Joris, the third guy on me! Full fathom five thy father lies. I pushed him. I apologize.
August 6, 200719 yr LOLOL! A quote (well modified to the 21st century) dear to my heart.There's a lot of wisdom in that "Rubayat" .... but I guess speaking to guys who do what we do, that's preaching to the choir! I speak as one who has never come close to reading even a major portion of those quatrains, let alone all of them. But is your implication that Omar was gay? I thought that he was just long-winded, and that he had no truck with numbers aside from those he needed for his math.
August 6, 200719 yr I speak as one who has never come close to reading even a major portion of those quatrains, let alone all of them. Who has? But is your implication that Omar was gay? I thought that he was just long-winded, and that he had no truck with numbers aside from those he needed for his math. My guess -- marc is alluding to Omar's gather-ye-rosebuds-while-ye-may philosophy. (Heightened, again, in FitzGerald's translation.) Without regard to what else may be proximate to said rosebud!
August 6, 200719 yr Active Members Who has?My guess -- marc is alluding to Omar's gather-ye-rosebuds-while-ye-may philosophy. (Heightened, again, in FitzGerald's translation.) Without regard to what else may be proximate to said rosebud! Yes, exactly. I am all for gathering rosebuds.
August 6, 200719 yr Yes, exactly. I am all for gathering rosebuds. Especially the ones that look like 8-inch cocks? No argument here.
August 6, 200719 yr Especially the ones that look like 8-inch cocks? No argument here. I was thinking of the ones on the posterior side of the perineum. But why choose? Let many flowers bloom!
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