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Official BBQ Ode, 2002
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From: Mary Kemp <m...@ajl-electronics.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: uk.media.radio.archers
Subject: Re: Official BBQ Ode, 2002
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 23:57:47 +0100
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In article <20020520143912.0458877573992...@firedrake.org>,
<URL:mailto:anon2...@firedrake.org> wrote:
> In message <ant1902510b0d...@julie.local.net> SODAM proclaimed and declaimed:
>
> >SODAM emerges blinking into the sunlight to the rapturous applause of the huge
> >throng.
> >She adopts Declamatory Stance no. 34 but one of the assembly calls for her to
> >adopt no.36 (similar to 34, but with left arm extended.) SODAM obliges, smiles
> >at the crowd, then unfurls the Scroll and declaims:
> >Official BBQ Ode 2002
> It was reassuring, when I arrived so very late as I did, to find SODAM
> still in Her Aspect as Thalia, Muse of Comedy, Playful & Idyllic Poetry,
> signalised by her wearing of the ivy wreath about her brow; but I think we
> must provide her with the other essential for Thalia, the shepherd's staff,
> next year. Otherwise she might be mistaken for Melpomene, and that would
> _never_ do.
Oh dear me, no.
She let that Kenton down good and proper.
> "In addition to being a Muse, she is also considered to be one of the
> Three Graces. When you look at ancient Greek paintings and sculptures,
> she is often depicted holding a comic mask in her left hand and a staff
> in her right hand...and seems always to be wearing an ivy crown."
Would a Mickey Mouse mask do? I know where I can get one.
> Alas, this leaves no hand free to hold the Scroll. Perhaps if we can
> manage to get Mr Sheep to come to the BBQ, he might carry the shepherd's
> staff for her and stand respectfully behind her during the Declamation. He
> could use it to beat back the hordes of admirers trying to kiss the hem of
> her robe
What a charming picture this conjures up. Perhaps Mr Sheep could act as bearer,
but let him not repel all boarders. Suffer the umrats to come unto me.
<I was a little pertubed by the antics of one, but he explained that he was
trying to kiss my new garter.>
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SODAM LG - LSS
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