Re: For larrys 80th

On Saturday, September 16, 2023 at 8:32:21 PM UTC-7, Larry in the News wrote:
> Seldum have i made sin sear remarks about ire swell and extrrmely bright pal larry. Readon bean that the world is grnerally in a sad spiral downward on serious ignerce. 
> 
> So i will sneak into my real thawts of admiration and fondness for the old geezer. 
> 
> Pleeze subsyitute Larrys personn uh for edward lear in this writing and i thank we may see some of larrys brilliunce... 
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> "How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!" 
> ⁠Who has written such volumes of stuff! 
> Some think him ill-tempered and queer, 
> ⁠But a few think him pleasant enough. 
> 
> His mind is concrete and fastidious, 
> ⁠His nose is remarkably big; 
> His visage is more or less hideous, 
> ⁠His beard it resembles a wig. 
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> He has ears, and two eyes, and ten fingers, 
> ⁠Leastways if you reckon two thumbs; 
> Long ago he was one of the singers, 
> ⁠But now he is one of the dumbs. 
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> He sits in a beautiful parlour. 
> ⁠With hundreds of books on the wall; 
> He drinks a great deal of Marsala, 
> ⁠But never gets tipsy at all. 
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> He has many friends, laymen and clerical, 
> ⁠Old Foss is the name of his cat: 
> His body is perfectly spherical, 
> ⁠He weareth a runcible hat. 
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> When he walks in a waterproof white, 
> ⁠The children run after him so! 
> Calling out, "He's come out in his night- 
> ⁠gown, that crazy old Englishman, oh!" 
> 
> He weeps by the side of the ocean, 
> ⁠He weeps on the top of the hill; 
> He purchases pancakes and lotion, 
> ⁠And chocolate shrimps from the mill. 
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> He reads but he cannot speak Spanish, 
> ⁠He cannot abide ginger-beer: 
> Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish, 
> ⁠How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! 
> 
> 
> https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Nonsense/By_Way_of_Preface

I got chew uh lap top!!