Thanks for the compliment. I thought it was a great clue too! I suspected werewolf but I saw that Botti beat me to it and added Dracula......just in case.
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Thanks for the compliment. I thought it was a great clue too! I suspected werewolf but I saw that Botti beat me to it and added Dracula......just in case.Henry Spira?
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Oscar Wilde would’ve been my first guess, so from the list of other Brits championing various rights, I guess Jeremy Bentham fits the clues.
I don’t mind Bentham’s stand on keeping church out of government. Rights for animals are okay, too. He was also right that homosexuals have just as much right to private sex lives as heterosexuals.
But equal rights and schooling for women is just WRONG!
Um . . . er . . . my wild guess is Jeremy Bentham (the dirty traitor).
I don’t mind Bentham’s stand on keeping church out of government. Rights for animals are okay, too. He was also right that homosexuals have just as much right to private sex lives as heterosexuals.
But equal rights and schooling for women is just WRONG!
Um . . . er . . . my wild guess is Jeremy Bentham (the dirty traitor).
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Right Chase. I love him because he is a mummy. Political views are secondary.
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Ha ha ha, good one, Bott. Here's another mummy, at least for the last 90 years:
1. “I think that I shall never see/a poem as lovely as a tree. . . .”
2. Thought by some to be a lady poetess instead of a male poet.
3. Sergeant in the U.S. Army killed in WWI.
1. “I think that I shall never see/a poem as lovely as a tree. . . .”
2. Thought by some to be a lady poetess instead of a male poet.
3. Sergeant in the U.S. Army killed in WWI.
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After hearing Nelson Eddy sing "Trees" in a Canadian Mountie movie, I made up a song that went:
"I think that I shall never see, cherries on an apple tree. A tree that has to stand all day, while doggies lift their legs to spray."
I was a real brat! But at least by the parody, I had the poem memorized to astound English teachers later.
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"I think that I shall never see, cherries on an apple tree. A tree that has to stand all day, while doggies lift their legs to spray."
I was a real brat! But at least by the parody, I had the poem memorized to astound English teachers later.
Your turn, Botti.
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Because you're an avid kiddie lit reader, I was thinking Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-born author of the wonderful Wind in the Willows and The Reluctant Dragon. Loved reading those to little ones, but I always laughed at Mr. Toad myself.
Probably wrong, as I don't think Grahame moved to Canada. I think he lived, died, and was buried in England.
How 'bout another clue?
Probably wrong, as I don't think Grahame moved to Canada. I think he lived, died, and was buried in England.
How 'bout another clue?
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Yes. Your Joyce Kilmer one made me think of him. My Dad taught me those two you mentioned. He also did one "The boy stood on the burning deck" I don't know the author and "Under the spreading chestnut tree, the village smithy stands". If possible please tell me who wrote those two.
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Love to show off literary stuff:
“Casabianca” by Felicia Dorothea Hemans begins, “The boy stood on the burning deck.” Always liked her heroic ode to faithfulness.
“The Village Blacksmith” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins “Under the spreading chestnut tree, the villiage smithy stands/The smith, a mighty man is he with large and sinewy hands.” I learned it all by heart, as I did “Paul Revere’s Ride.”
From his poems come the ditty:
She's a poet
But don't know it,
Though her feet show it . . .
Longfellows.
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1. It waxes and wanes.
2. It only shows us one face.
3. Said to cause lunacy.
“Casabianca” by Felicia Dorothea Hemans begins, “The boy stood on the burning deck.” Always liked her heroic ode to faithfulness.
“The Village Blacksmith” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins “Under the spreading chestnut tree, the villiage smithy stands/The smith, a mighty man is he with large and sinewy hands.” I learned it all by heart, as I did “Paul Revere’s Ride.”
From his poems come the ditty:
She's a poet
But don't know it,
Though her feet show it . . .
Longfellows.
New clues:
1. It waxes and wanes.
2. It only shows us one face.
3. Said to cause lunacy.
The moon?