From my old files...
Nancy Wooton
I'm looking for some stuff on guns, and ran across this, from 2005:
> ...from the Washington Post Style
> Invitational contest that asks readers to submit "instructions" for
> something (anything), but written in the style of a famous person.
> The winning entry was
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> The Hokey Pokey (as written by W. Shakespeare).
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> O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
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> Then soon upon a backward journey lithe.
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> Anon, once more the gesture, then begin:
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> Command sinistral pedestal to writhe.
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> Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke,
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> A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl.
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> To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke.
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> Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl.
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> The Hoke, the poke -- banish now thy doubt
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> Verily, I say, 'tis what it's all about.
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> -- by William Shakespeare
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> (Jeff Brechlin, Potomac Falls)
Sandra Dodd
-=-> Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl.
Ah...
Forsooth.
I can use this for a Shakespeare discussion I'm doing one of these
winter Wednesdays. Thanks!
Sandra
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> The Hoke, the poke -- banish now thy doubt
>
> Verily, I say, 'tis what it's all about.
>
Ah...
Forsooth.
I can use this for a Shakespeare discussion I'm doing one of these
winter Wednesdays. Thanks!
Sandra
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