Ode on war

yes indeed fish ... a kind of spike milligan ode. - actually I suspect stuart is just getting his own back. we will all be called tossers very soon -

er.... you are all tossers... OK?

excellent! thanks Stuart.

*quickly translating to croatian and back*

And the result, Fish?

Oh! the fall of the bombs of the sky: confetti poisoned of intolerance places the heads of the children and points with respect to the screw of the east above of its hatred of vice black color, rose and tangled through the dawn azure: Jesus weeps hmmmm .... interesting

Well, at least they got the 'Jesus weeps' bit right. Cripes!

now it has been into german and back ... OH -! the case of the bombs of the sky: confetti, which by the intolerance is poisoned, places the headings of the children and the points regarding the screw of the east above his hate of the black vice-colour, rose and confused by dawn-azure: Jesus cries i do apologise stuart ... please blame liana ... she has caused a rash of translation obsession to sweep the site ... i am seeing the shrink in the morning ...

Er...how about the Clog version, Fish? ...and what's all this screwing of the East thang? *curious but lazy*

doesn't translate to cloggy sorry andrea ... although you can do a whole web page and "poetry rocks" translates to "Rocas de los Poemas" or something like that ... perhaps my blood sugar is low???

Huh! We always get left out...

you realise we have hijacked this thread andrea? ... i was just wondering if this translation obsession of mine is down to the fact that i cannot speak any other languages? i bought "Teach Yourself Russian" not so long ago ... haven't read it yet ...

The kettle calls the Pot Black version: Screw the white onto the pink and off the cushion onto the black. across the green baize. Jesus Wept.

Did you know, Fish (bet you did, tho') that Richard Burton (the explorer, not the actor), spoke about 26 languages fluently and all learned by poring, by candlight, over letters and dictionaries? He was so fluent, in fact, in one of the more obscure Arabic tongues, that he managed to get to Mecca undetected...an unheard of feat never before (or since) achieved by a 'westener'. So get working on that Russian thingy, girl...

it's clever: it might be art; but it's not smart. Jesus pockets.

If it's anything like Cz (and I know it is) expect sleepless nights matey.....

nice work fish. now...... we just need a target for this hijacked verse I have an idea...... but it might mean you going down.... with the thread though...

ah yes .... a strategic ode ... show me how ...

will it be one of those smart odes that destroys masonry but miraculously doesn't harm little children or other people?

...just spotted it...aaarrrggghhh, meant 'Westerner' of course (slip of the finger). Sorry, Eric.

richard burton the actor was fluent in eyebrow language wasn't he?

Oh, but such a luvverly dark-brown voice he had (to match the eyebrows - not an easy language to perfect at the best of times). The actor, you understand, not the intrepid explorer...