Just like mother used to make...cheap at twice the price & good for what ails you!
From the Old Time Adverts challenge. See all 168 entries (closed)
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From the Old Time Adverts challenge. See all 168 entries (closed)
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John Keats?
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness!
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flow'ry tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone
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Wed 6 Apr 2011, 11:42,
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Thou foster-child of silence and slow time
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flow'ry tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone
It's a type of clay receptacle used in Ancient Greece for the storage of wine and foodstuffs.
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Wed 6 Apr 2011, 12:00,
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It's alright,
Was only messing. I used to get my pocket money in 'the old money'.
:)
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Wed 6 Apr 2011, 11:11,
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:)
Denarii, I believe.
Just as the pound sign is a fancy L for Lira.
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Wed 6 Apr 2011, 11:08,
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Once again, you provide
Illumination to a seemingly intractible conundrum.
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Wed 6 Apr 2011, 11:12,
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41/2DPER1/4LBTIN41/2D
And people say that the metric system makes no sense.
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Wed 6 Apr 2011, 11:10,
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^ This!
I'm constantly foxed by the number of metres in a kilometre.
Nowhere near as easy as yards to a mile.
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Wed 6 Apr 2011, 11:13,
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Nowhere near as easy as yards to a mile.