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# Excellent, in an
Ogden Nash style.
(I helped save b3ta! 0% Interest Expand Reply Retweet Favorite More, Fri 8 Aug 2003, 11:51, archived)
# he did a hippopotamus one too
it's very good
(I helped save b3ta! Sunshine Elephant, Fri 8 Aug 2003, 11:53, archived)
# Behold the hippopotamus!
We laugh at how he looks to us,
And yet in moments dank and grim,
I wonder how we look to him.

Peace, peace, thou hippopotamus!
We really look all right to us,
As you no doubt delight the eye
Of other hippopotami.
(I helped save b3ta! 0% Interest Expand Reply Retweet Favorite More, Fri 8 Aug 2003, 11:54, archived)
# They dived all at once with an ear-splitting splash,
Then rose to the surface again,
A regular army of Hippopotami
All singing this haunting refrain.

Mud! Mud! Glorious mud!
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
So, follow me, follow, down to the hollow,
And there let us wallow in glorious mud
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Fri 8 Aug 2003, 11:55, archived)
# The first person to quote TS Eliot
gets a slap.
(I helped save b3ta! 0% Interest Expand Reply Retweet Favorite More, Fri 8 Aug 2003, 11:57, archived)
# Which reveals
the HP-quoted poem above is by Hilaire Belloc.
What a culturally enriching Friday we're all having.
(I helped save b3ta! 0% Interest Expand Reply Retweet Favorite More, Fri 8 Aug 2003, 12:03, archived)
# Flanders and Swan
innit?
(I helped save b3ta! MizEmma, Fri 8 Aug 2003, 12:06, archived)
# ya
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Fri 8 Aug 2003, 12:11, archived)
# Part of my childhood that...
listening to Radio 4, Flanders and Swan, Round the Horne, Listen with Mother....
(I helped save b3ta! MizEmma, Fri 8 Aug 2003, 12:21, archived)
# So did Milligan
I'm not afraid of Pussy Cats
They only eat up Mice and Rats
But a Hippopotamus
Could eat the Lotofus!
(I helped save b3ta! MissPrism, Fri 8 Aug 2003, 11:55, archived)
# What was that one he wrote about termites?
About Cousin Mae falling through the parlour floor one day.
(Dawn Syndrome, Fri 8 Aug 2003, 11:53, archived)
# Some primal termite knocked on wood
And tasted it, and found it good!
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.
(I helped save b3ta! 0% Interest Expand Reply Retweet Favorite More, Fri 8 Aug 2003, 11:56, archived)
# I love that one.
I like Stevie Smith:

Croft sits aloft
In the loft
He is soft.
(Dawn Syndrome, Fri 8 Aug 2003, 11:58, archived)
# I certainly can't claim credit for that
but I can't remember who wrote it though.
(I helped save b3ta! HP hasn't been here in aaaaaages, Fri 8 Aug 2003, 11:54, archived)
# Was it not Hillaire Belloc?
from the Bad Child's Book of Beasts?
(I helped save b3ta! MissPrism, Fri 8 Aug 2003, 12:01, archived)