The funny thing is, the Germans don't have an April Narr (fool).
All the Anglo-Saxon media attempts at such jokes (& this one) I saw
yesterday were terribly obvious, as if there were a fear to create such an
insidious & verisimilitudinous deception that people would turn on the
perpetrator when s/he revealed her/his deceit.
mj
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But I am but a nameless sort of person
(A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:18 AM
Subject: Re: Stimulus plans to include poetry
> April April fools.
>
> --- On Wed, 4/1/09, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Stimulus plans to include poetry
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 4:35 PM
>
> LOL
>
> KS
>
> 2009/4/1 Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> Thought this might be of interest ....
>>
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>> Washington (CNS) - In a surprising twist on the administration's
>> economic stimulus plan, a proposal is being floated to include funds
>> for the purchase of poetry in the program.
>>
>> According to White House congressional liaison aide April Narr, the
>> proposal is still under development, but it is conceived as involving
>> substantial grants to American poetry publications to pass on to their
>> contributing poets in payment for their work. "The working
> idea,"
>> said Narr, "is to consult experts to draw up a list of the hundred
>> best established poetry journals in the country, and give them federal
>> economic stimulus grants so they can pay their poets much more for
>> their work. The target figure is $1,000 per line."
>>
>> Though some may question the effectiveness of trying to restart the
>> American economy by paying money to poets, Narr maintained that "the
>> whole idea of the economic stimulus plan is to get people to buy
>> things, and why should buying poetry be any different from buying
>> apples or toothpaste?"
>>
>> Since poets are typically starving artists, Narr continued, they would
>> be likely to spend their increased revenues on basic foodstuffs, such
>> as bread, and usually being bohemian types they would also spend the
>> money on wine and cheese, making this part of the stimulus
>> "potentially of significant benefit to our nation's baking,
>> wine-making, and dairy industries."
>>
>> Narr admitted, though, that there was some concern that the proposed
>> $1,000 per line payments might result in a proliferation of poems with
>> very short lines.
>>
>> Asked if she herself is a poetry fan, Narr replied, "Yes, I am a
> great
>> fan. In school I got to recite The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe in a
>> pageant."
>>
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>>
>> Jon Corelis http://jcorelis.googlepages.com/joncorelis
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