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Lovely. Made it worth visiting today. Thanks. :) |
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[+] This seems like a marketable idea --and advertising with Poetry- love it. |
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Love the poem, except for the two rhyme inconsistencies. (sorry, I don't think "serener" is a word, and it doesn't fit into the melody.) And it's a good idea. Just one question: How do you clean the thing? If it split in half, that would be perfect. |
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Sorry, I'm a bit of a poet myself, and I can be a little OCD about melodic structure. |
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'aft' and 'draught' rhyme perfectly well [21
Quest]. See link. |
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"Aft" and "draught" rhyme, don't be daft. |
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(However, how is it that "laughter" and "slaughter" don't?) |
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My apologies, I honestly thought it was pronounced differently. Fucking English language with all its inconsistencies. I thought "draught" was prounced like "slaughter". Well, thank you for the lesson, always good to learn something new. |
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Bah! I say, mere details. [+] |
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My great-auntie Maggie used to stroke her dog with a coal shovel, because the daft mutt got itself all tangled up in a pile of fish-hooks and to have stroked it with her hand would have resulted in bloodshed. |
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For the Fastidious:
To clean it you could either use your hand (getting hi-tech here), like you would pull fluff out of any brush or you could use this thing I just happen to have here that looks like a loo-brush with very stiff bristles. You stick it in the tube (first making sure cat is absent) and twizzle it to rake the cat hair out of the tube's bristles. |
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The OED doesn't include the word "serener," but poetic license may extend far enough to cover. |
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"Never saw the grass look greener,
Never saw the sky serener
What a lot of fun for everyone
Sleeping in the Sun all day" - The Sun has got his hat on - Ambrose & his Orchestra. (Also Nemo aka Jonathan King) |
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Puss also seems to undergo a sex change between first and last stanzas, but that's a mere pedantic stylistic quibble. |
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It's probably through mistaken identity, cleared up once puss's undercarriage has had a thorough brushing in the tube. |
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They are two different cats. |
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In the first two stanzas I am clearly talking about my personal experience of a cat that I know who happens to be female. In fact, I actually say "*I* know a little pussy". |
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In the third verse, the line "Lets *the felines* push on through" equally clearly refers to all cats. I am speaking of cats in general. |
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The last two stanzas contain references to "your kitty" and "your pet", I am manifestly now speaking of a different beast than in the first verse (also sneakily moving from *my* problem of cat brushing to *your* problem of cat brushing convincing you that this is a necessary item and making you all say how marvellous this invention is and how did we ever do without it, did you notice?) and may call him male if I so please. |
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//I actually say "*I* know a little pussy".// |
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Well, many of us do, but gentlemen don't brag about it. |
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