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Re: and old one

Posted By: Howard, on host 209.86.12.206
Date: Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 07:14:04
In Reply To: Re: and old one posted by Adam Bomb on Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 06:26:05:

Good for you, Adam and Nyperold! I knew somebody would get it. I think Whittier is being left out of American lit these days. I always put him right up there with Longfellow, Emerson, and Poe.
But it really is a bad, bad, bad, bad pun.
Howard

> > > I don't get it.
> > >
> > > Don "Not sure if it is the joke, or me" Monkey
> >
> > It's... something... that contains the line, "barefoot boy with cheek of tan". Don't know what, though.
> >
> > Nyperold
>
> I looked it up. The line comes from an 1855 poem by John Greenleaf Whittier.
>
> Adam "Blessings on thee little man, barefoot boy with cheek of tan" Bomb

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Message:	> Good for you, Adam and Nyperold! I knew somebody would get it. I think Whittier is being left out of American lit these days. I always put him right up there with Longfellow, Emerson, and Poe. > But it really is a bad, bad, bad, bad pun. > Howard > > > > > I don't get it. > > > > > > > > Don "Not sure if it is the joke, or me" Monkey > > > > > > It's... something... that contains the line, "barefoot boy with cheek of tan". Don't know what, though. > > > > > > Nyperold > > > > I looked it up. The line comes from an 1855 poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. > > > > Adam "Blessings on thee little man, barefoot boy with cheek of tan" Bomb
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