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To: NicknamedBob
Ogden Nash, a favorite!

There was a ditty I encountered in some magazine (Life, Look, Post?) around '61 to '64 I wish I could remember, called "Ode to a Code", in part:

You may liefer(?) be a lifer
Than a sentimental cypher
But the pressures ever rifer
intervene
To change your rage to umbrage
And your identity to numb(e)rage
as you... (forgotten)
(?) machine.

6,205 posted on 08/31/2005 12:37:47 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity! || Iran Azadi)
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To: sionnsar

Hi! One of Anoreth's gerbils just died. An unexpected tragedy; they're supposed to live four years or so.


6,206 posted on 08/31/2005 2:25:58 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Learning to type is very important.)
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To: sionnsar
I couldn't find it, but you are welcome to peruse his work here.
6,208 posted on 08/31/2005 3:13:28 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I am impervious to insult, being extraordinarily dense, rather like Superman.)
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