Article 1641 of eunet.jokes: Path: santra!tut!draken!kth!enea!mcvax!ukc!stl!stc!idec!prlhp1!millsad From: millsad@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (millsad) Newsgroups: eunet.jokes Subject: Re: Graffiti Art Message-ID: 759@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk Date: 12 Jan 89 09:22:07 GMT References: 171@maths.tcd.ie 7763@boring.cwi.nl 1424@tmpmbx.UUCP 2365@gos.ukc.ac.uk Reply-To: millsad@prlhp1.UUCP () Distribution: eunet.jokes Organization: Philips Research Laboratories, Redhill, UK Lines: 57
In article 2365@gos.ukc.ac.uk ifj@ukc.ac.uk (I.F.James) writes:
With reference to he sign "If you how I am stoned knew" or similar
which was seen on the back of a Volkswagen golf. This must be descended
from a poem of about five stanzas, called "I'm not so think as you drunk
I am " which was collected in a book called Penguin Comic and Curious
verse. If anybody has a copy of this, could they post it, as it is a very
well done and witty piece of work, but the book is now out of print.
Fraser James
Looking through my copy of The Penguin Book of Comic and Curious Verse, selected by J.M.Cohen (1958), I think this is the poem you are thinking of,
Ballade of Soporific Absorption
Ho! Ho! Yes! Yes! It's very all well, You may drunk I am think, but I tell you I'm not, I'm as sound as a fiddle and fit as a bell, And stable quite ill to see what's what. I under do stand you surprise a got When I headed my smear with gooseberry jam; And I've swallowed, I grant, a beer of lot - But I'm not so think as you drunk I am.
Can I liquor my stand? Why, yes, like hell! I care not how many a tossed I've pot, I shall stralk quite weight and not yutter an ell, My feech will not spalter the least little jot: If you knownly had own! - well, I gave him a dot, And I said to him, 'Sergeant, I'll come like a lamb - The floor it seems like a storm in a yacht, But I'm not so think as you drunk I am.
For example, to prove it I'll tale you a tell - I once knew a fellow named Apricot - I'm sorry, I just chair over a fell - A trifle - this chap, on a very day hot - If I hadn't consumed that last whisky of tot! - As I said now, this fellow, called Abraham - Ah? One more? Since it's you! Just a do me will spot - But I'm not so think as you drunk I am.
Envoi
So, Prince, you suggest I've bolted my shot? Well, like what you say, and soul your damn! I'm an upple litset by the talk you rot - But I'm not so think as you drunk I am.
SIR J.C.SQUIRE
I hope I've typed it in correctly - it's not the thing of sort that can be spelled with a checker!
Alan Mills