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well, as long as we're waxing poetic in our associations...

Should the wide world roll away,
Leaving black terror,
Limitless night,
Nor God, nor man, nor place to stand
Would be to me essential,
If thou and thy white arms were there,
And the fall to doom a long way.

(Stephen Crane)

And one from Philip Larkin ...

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Day by day your estimation clocks up
Who deserves a smile and who a frown,
And girls you have to tell to pull their socks up
And those whose pants you'd most like to pull down.
 
And one from Philip Larkin ...

Administration

Day by day your estimation clocks up
Who deserves a smile and who a frown,
And girls you have to tell to pull their socks up
And those whose pants you'd most like to pull down.

Hmm, Larkin coming after Crane means can't do Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal. How about a bit of :devil::

The fall of Satan from grace (Milton's Paradise Lost)

Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky
With hideous ruin and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Nine times the space that measures day and night
To mortal men, he with his horrid crew
Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf,
Confounded though immortal. But his doom
Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought
Both of lost happiness and lasting pain
Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes,
That witnessed huge affliction and dismay
Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate.

Worth reading the whole thing for dark despair, but to summarise, he comes to the famous conclusion:

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven
 
And now, Ladies and Gentlemen we take you back to the Palm Court, Scarborough, to listen to the music of the Max Jaffa trio.
 
(for just bein' you?):confused:

In response to my being tickled by a very old-fashioned and British-centric gag, Michael... Only us old fogies will get it... ;)

(I'll Be Your) Long-haired Lover from Liverpool

God help me for unearthing that childhood memory... :rolleyes:
 
In response to my being tickled by a very old-fashioned and British-centric gag, Michael... Only us old fogies will get it... ;)

(I'll Be Your) Long-haired Lover from Liverpool

God help me for unearthing that childhood memory... :rolleyes:

haha we are the same vintage?

The Long Jumping Jeweller of Lavender Bay.
 
In response to my being tickled by a very old-fashioned and British-centric gag, Michael... Only us old fogies will get it... ;)

(I'll Be Your) Long-haired Lover from Liverpool

God help me for unearthing that childhood memory... :rolleyes:

Ferry 'Cross the Mersey
 
That SO sounds like it ought to be a euphemism for something...

Shirley Bassey, the Girl from Tiger Bay

I don't know, Michael. I'm a child of the 'sixties, myself...

Yes, the 60s...I seem to remember something about them...now what was it???
 
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