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Brown Snake as requested by Margo

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Mr Stillwater
 
Reply Thu 10 Jun, 2004 07:34 pm
Margo asked me to draw on some of my reference/research skills to locate a poem for her. I did. Great work hey?
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 10 Jun, 2004 07:35 pm
Where is it?
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Thu 10 Jun, 2004 07:36 pm
But seriously, I feel that I should share this with the wider A2K community as it is an Australian poem and speaks to all of us Aussies. It tells of a wide, flat brown land filled with venomous brown snakes that can't easily be spotted. It also relates a story that is timeless, that reaches back to the Dreamtime of the Rainbow Serpent and yet startles us like a goddam huge King Brown lunging up from the grass to bite its victim, leaving them to die a horrible (but distinctly Australian) death as their blood clots and the heart fails.
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Thu 10 Jun, 2004 07:37 pm
I was touched by its simplicity and humanity. So for all of us, Douglas Stewart's 'The Brown Snake'.
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Thu 10 Jun, 2004 07:37 pm
Everyone comfortable? Ahem.......
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Thu 10 Jun, 2004 07:40 pm
Don't tease Gustav, Deb. He was born looking that way...
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Thu 10 Jun, 2004 07:41 pm
And get your finger out of your nose....
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Thu 10 Jun, 2004 07:48 pm
Don't fidget 'Tana. And I hope you bought enough gum along for everyone Slappy. You did? No-one likes a smart-arse, son. Do you little bastids WANT to hear this poem or not??
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Thu 10 Jun, 2004 08:02 pm
Quote:
Brown snake slithers along the grass
and bites the bunny on the ass.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 10 Jun, 2004 09:55 pm
It is my considered opinion that that is NOT the poem.
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OCCOM BILL
 
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Reply Thu 10 Jun, 2004 09:57 pm
Laughing
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margo
 
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Reply Thu 10 Jun, 2004 10:59 pm
Mr Stillwater wrote:
Quote:
Brown snake slithers along the grass
and bites the bunny on the ass.


Jeez - didn't sound like that when Douglas Stewart wrote it!

[list]Smooth, high as my waist[/list][list]Rearing with lightning tongue[/list]
or summat like that I remember

Deb - you don't happen to have it in your collection, do you?

Stilly - does this mean it ain't around?
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Thu 10 Jun, 2004 11:06 pm
Check behind you buns - could still be hanging on there amongst the dags!
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Jim
 
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Reply Thu 10 Jun, 2004 11:47 pm
Looks like Nobel Prize quality literature to me.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 10 Jun, 2004 11:51 pm
Had it in me kiddy poetry books, Margo - canna find it online. I remember it though.
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Fri 11 Jun, 2004 12:04 am
dlowan wrote:
Had it in me kiddy poetry books...


Found one of them!!

http://www.library.arizona.edu/branches/spc/homepage/myheart/orlando583th.JPG

Lets see.......

Quote:
Whenn coney uponne the grasse wath sittyng
The browne serpent onn hith bum wath byting
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Fri 11 Jun, 2004 12:22 am
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

Ahhhh, ya kill me placidpond.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 11 Jun, 2004 01:04 am
Mr Stillwater wrote:
dlowan wrote:
Had it in me kiddy poetry books...


Found one of them!!

http://www.library.arizona.edu/branches/spc/homepage/myheart/orlando583th.JPG

Lets see.......

Quote:
Whenn coney uponne the grasse wath sittyng
The browne serpent onn hith bum wath byting


You're obsessed with my bum, Pondy!

Settle down there. It's just a bum.

Ultimate argument clincher: You need to get laid.




That is a way cute bit of verse, though.
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Fri 11 Jun, 2004 01:08 am
Your right on counts 1 & 2 Bun-Huns. 5pm EST and I must depart. Have a great Long Weekend folks!! I hope I can get online at some point.



Craven, it is a pleasure! I love this place!!
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 11 Jun, 2004 01:13 am
God save the goddamn queen - for she giveth us long weekends.
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