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Robert Casey
 
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I think I'll never see a poem as lovely as a tube.
A tube whose hungry cathode is pressed against
the Earth's sweet flowing current.

A tube that amplifies God all day and lifts its
plate to pray all day.
A tube that may in Summer's wear
an ultralinear connection on her screens.

On whose glass bulb getter has lain
who intimately lives with vacuum.
Poem are made by plagiarists like me,
but only God can make a tube....

(this is payback for having been forced to memorize
crap like this in grammar school!)

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Fred Nachbaur
 
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Robert Casey wrote:

[...]

(this is payback for having been forced to memorize
crap like this in grammar school!)


Thanks. Logged.

I can still recite "I am Odysseus, great Laertes' son, for cunning plans
of every kind known among men; and even to heaven has spread my fame...."

It's truly amazing what kind of stuff sticks to one's brain.

Cheers,
Fred
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It's truly amazing what kind of stuff sticks to one's brain.

It's truly amazing what kind of brain sticks to an ugly face ;-))))))


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Ronald wrote:
It's truly amazing what kind of stuff sticks to one's brain.



It's truly amazing what kind of brain sticks to an ugly face ;-))))))


Hey! I resemble that remark!

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Hi RATs!

After six years of hypoperfusion of blood in my brain, I can report that just
because stuff sticks in my head doesn't prove I have any brains

Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but, names can all desert me.

Or something like that.

Happy Ears!
Al


Alan J. Marcy
Phoenix, AZ

PWC/mystic/Earhead


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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:02:49 +0000, the highly esteemed Fred Nachbaur
enlightened us with these pearls of wisdom:



Robert Casey wrote:

[...]

(this is payback for having been forced to memorize
crap like this in grammar school!)


Thanks. Logged.

I can still recite "I am Odysseus, great Laertes' son, for cunning plans
of every kind known among men; and even to heaven has spread my fame...."

It's truly amazing what kind of stuff sticks to one's brain.

Cheers,
Fred


One of my faves that I still remember:

Gaily bedight
A gallant knight
In sunshine and in shadow
Had journeyed long
Singing a song
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old
This knight so bold
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And as his strength
Failed him at length
He met a pilgrim shadow
"Shadow," said he
"Where can it be
This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon
Down the Valley of the Shadow
Ride, boldly ride"
The shade replied
"If you seek for Eldorado!"

--
Greg

--The software said it requires Win2000 or better, so I installed Linux.

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Jesus, man, that was ****ing *awful*.

Don't do that again.

Lord Valve
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Robert Casey wrote:

I think I'll never see a poem as lovely as a tube.
A tube whose hungry cathode is pressed against
the Earth's sweet flowing current.

A tube that amplifies God all day and lifts its
plate to pray all day.
A tube that may in Summer's wear
an ultralinear connection on her screens.

On whose glass bulb getter has lain
who intimately lives with vacuum.
Poem are made by plagiarists like me,
but only God can make a tube....

(this is payback for having been forced to memorize
crap like this in grammar school!)




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I sit here
Think and dream
In front of me
Two tubes gleam

Soft sounds
They do fill
My little room
What a thrill

The sounds to take
Me to places
Far from here
Wide open spaces

Glowing tubes
Filaments bright
In the dark
Lighting my night

I now doze
Tired and weary
Their warm sounds
My heart cheery

I see the pentodes
Glowing bright
My dreamship goes
Second to the right

And on into the morning

--
Gregg
*It's probably useful, even if it can't be SPICE'd*
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****in' linnn axe poem!
hehe
"Gregg" wrote in message
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I sit here
Think and dream
In front of me
Two tubes gleam

Soft sounds
They do fill
My little room
What a thrill

The sounds to take
Me to places
Far from here
Wide open spaces

Glowing tubes
Filaments bright
In the dark
Lighting my night

I now doze
Tired and weary
Their warm sounds
My heart cheery

I see the pentodes
Glowing bright
My dreamship goes
Second to the right

And on into the morning

--
Gregg
*It's probably useful, even if it can't be SPICE'd*
http://geek.scorpiorising.ca



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Gregg wrote:
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Thanks Gregg. Logged.

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Behold, Choky signalled from keyed 4-1000A filament:

****in' linnn axe poem!
hehe


;-)

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You must have been in the same 7th grade English class, I had to memorize that exact same version of the Odyssey! ...my native land is Ithica, a sun bright island low of shore, which lies far out to sea, and towards the west. Rugged it is, this land of mine, yet breeds a sturdy youth, and I can find no land more sweet to me than this, my native Ithaca.... I have been trying to find this translation, and ran across your post....do you remember what edition this is? Thanks! Desuma

I can still recite "I am Odysseus, great Laertes' son, for cunning plans
of every kind known among men; and even to heaven has spread my fame...."

It's truly amazing what kind of stuff sticks to one's brain.

Cheers,
Fred
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