Doug thanks -that info is lost in the thousands of years - a scrap f
paper lodged in between sheets of glass
it's raining and cold here
On 08/08/2017 15:30, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Yes, but who printed it off?
>
> Doug
>> On Aug 8, 2017, at 7:28 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Witty ditty :-)
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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>> On 8 August 2017 at 16:04, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> *FRAGMENT*
>>>
>>> it was
>>>
>>> a fragment
>>>
>>> an ancient
>>>
>>> piece of writing
>>>
>>> miraculously
>>>
>>> spared in the
>>>
>>> seven world wars
>>>
>>> and by time itself
>>>
>>> translated carefully
>>>
>>> by archaeologists
>>>
>>> it said
>>>
>>> ‘Poetryet
>>>
>>> Sna’
>>>
>>> perhaps it related
>>>
>>> to some obscure
>>>
>>> writers sect
>>>
>>> ‘yet’
>>>
>>> seems hopeful
>>>
>>> but ‘Sna’
>>>
>>> leads to confusion
>>>
>>> is generally accepted
>>>
>>> that it should read
>>>
>>> ‘Snafu’
>>>
>>> /pmcmanus/
>>>
>>> /s190/
>>>
>>> /still can't get this to do single spacing -EEK!!!/
>>>
>>> /torments and trialings
>>> /
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andrew
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Will be replaced by
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> To be sorted out later,
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