FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for July 17, 2009

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    tbree  over 15 years ago

    Poetic Justice (?) or Poetic License!

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    shagless2  over 15 years ago

    Has he ever heard of the Dead Poet’s society? He is about to be inducted by his sister.

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    Rakkav  over 15 years ago

    …and where it falls, he does not care!

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    LibrarianInTraining  over 15 years ago

    I love that poem “The Arrow and the Song”!

    We had to memorize it in high school English, and I still recite it to myself sometimes.

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    makariosTX  over 15 years ago

    LAME.

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    mbne08  over 15 years ago

    I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight.

    I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song?

    Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

    by henry wadsworth longfellow

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 15 years ago

    Oh, Jason. If you shot an arrow into Paige’s hair in yesterday’s or day before yesterday’s strip, and got chased by Paige, shouldn’t you just give up archery? Go with a more sophisticated and civilized sport. Like… oh, I don’t know… chess.

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    josh_bisbee  over 15 years ago

    The problem with chess is that nobody can give him a challenge.

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    Ray_C  over 15 years ago

    A more sophisticated and civilized sport, like rugby?

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    yyyguy  over 15 years ago

    cage fighting

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    yyyguy  over 15 years ago

    though i remember a bumper sticker that said, “Give Blood. Play Rugby.”

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    Sternvogel  over 15 years ago

    I sneezed a sneeze into the air. It fell to Earth I know not where. But hard and cold were the looks of those In whose vicinity I snoze.

    – Author undetermined

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    lewisbower  over 15 years ago

    Paige deserves everything she gets

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    LibrarianInTraining  over 15 years ago

    Sternvogel, that poem you quoted was written by Merwyn Bogue AKA Ish Kabibble.

    Still funny, though!

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    mrprongs  over 15 years ago

    “For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song?”

    Superman?

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    4deerinmyyard  over 15 years ago

    Librarian said, …that poem you quoted was written by Merwyn Bogue AKA Ish Kabibble.

    Still funny, though!

    And with better meter than Longfellow’s version.

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    Ray_C  over 15 years ago

    4deerinmyyard: It really is forced, isn’t it? He didn’t seem to worry that much about meter. My favorite of his is The Chamber Over the Gate, which has the meter but sounds almost like doggerel. I guess it’s the thoughts in those poems that make them great, not the music.

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    4deerinmyyard  over 15 years ago

    I’m old-fashioned. I like his story-poems–Evangeline, Miles Standish, Paul Revere. (But not Hiawatha.) Also Arsenal at Springfield.

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    unidawn10  over 15 years ago

    Jason really needs to stop bothering Paige before she really hurts him.

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    jimboylan  over 12 years ago

    I shot an arrow in the air. It stuck. Darned smog.

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