Ignore it?!
Not while I'm enjoying it that much, eh.
Doug
On 1-Jun-05, at 10:12 AM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> Ooops!!!
>
> Ignore this -- it escaped before it was finished!!!
>
> R.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 5:03 PM
> Subject: Transshot
>
>
>> MONSTER RAMMY FLYTING
>>
>> (vaguely after BEOWULF ll. 449-558)
>>
>>
>> The big yin got tae Heorot, nae problem:
>> "Ahm here fur the monster rammy, but."
>>
>> "Aye," grunted Unferth intae his beard,
>> "Aw we bloody need.
>> Soddin mental that yin.
>> Think's he's a hard man:
>> Aw haw, aw the way frae Brigton."
>>
>> "So," said Unferth, "come tae deal wi yon
>> Grendel bummer, huv yi?"
>>
>> "Hear yi hid a match wi Brecca,
>> swimming or something?"
>>
>> "Aye," smarmed Beowulf, buffin his nails
>> oan his sleeve,
>> "No a bad show, that."
>>
>> So Unferth spoke
>> (pittin the semantic heid oan Wulfy):
>>
>> "See you, yi couldnae swim
>> across a puddle in ra fog."
>>
>>
>>
>> There wiz Beowulf, face like a midden,
>> glowrin somethin awfu --
>> till he came back wi a pit-doon:
>> "Despite yir gallus wit, Unferth, yir damned."
>>
>> Then Beowulf spoke:
>>
>> "See us a pint o heavy, jimmy,
>> an Ahl tell youz aw
>> how it *really* wiz ... "
>>
>> TAE BE CONTINUED
>>
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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