Philip Larkin - Discuss? Not 'arf.

Oh! A vanishing thread. I am off to Snide which is next to Snottingham.It is the only place that remains unblurred when the world is shaken like the snowdome of doom.

The blog was removed unintentionally, or at least the comments were. If there is anyway the 'techi' guys can retrieve it then by all means let them do so.
A member of the admin team asked me to put the essay on the discussion forum. If i thought for one minute even that would force some kind of snide comment then I wouldn't have bothered.
Now, if you will excuse me...

Unfortunately the techies can't recover the comments from the original blog - sorry about that.

Darren, I only asked your opinion (along with several others) about whether it would be better to use the Discussion forum rather than blogs for such an item as, at the moment, people would not necessarily be aware of comments in what I thought was an interesting discussion.

Paul

Pffffffffffuffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff (ie swirly smoke) Enter the Genie of the Lamp (Philip Larkin in turquoise chiffon harem pants and gold-trimmed shrug with fish-reading-a-book motif signifying his employment as a librarian at Hull University).

PHILIP GENIE: I am the Genie of the Damp -- well, it is damp in Hull. Who rubbed me up the wrong way?You? Right, I grant you three reprimands or a couple of library fines. Then I will take you where-ever you so wish on my magic flying semantic field which is a like a flying carpet but it's made of astroturf and used dictaphone tapes filled with messages-to-self.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! And isn't that Father Christmas cruising at 10,000 feet in civilian air space? Are those stealth bombers escorting him or merely dispproportionately large photograph- mounting corners?

Oh no -- can you see that figure emerging from the cave of treasures? It's Ebenezer Good, a fug-fuelled Faux-Victorian gent who wishes to enslave the genie -- Mr Good's footprints are as thin as stripes! He is as disheveled as a chiropractor after a session with Mr Merrick, the so-called Elephant Man. He has been UP TO NO GOOD, despite his name! His mouth is crammed with the wrong sort of sweets!

EPAULETTES: What's that Buttons? Too dislillusioned about women to want to marry Cinders?

BUTTONS: Yes.

EPAULETTES: So what's your plan?

BUTTONS: You can't accuse me of being anti--semantic, but...

(A HUGE 1000LB WEIGHT DROPS ON HIM)

EPAULETTES: Now you bear the burden of your argument, Buttons.

BUTTONS (MUFFLED): Why can't a woman be more like soup?

EPAULETTES: Soup?

(To be continued)

You're just larkin about.

Oh no I'm not...

Oh yes you are!

He's behind you....oohh er missus (copyright Stephen Fry)

seems like the discussion lost some of its value when moved.

Why thank you, Clarissa! Merry Christmas to you. The discussion was destroyed so we're doing pantomime because, in the UK, this is panto season. Think of a favourite fairytale style story and choose a character and a catchphrase and post it on this thread. We'll all join in...

Hi Foxy Moxy,
thanks, you have a Merry Christmas too! Do you have big plans for the day? Family? cooking etc????

Hello Clarissa. A quiet Christmas. I'm going to transfer into the chat thread now to tell you more.

Sorry Moxy I was away reading the frog king! I will go into chat

Now if only Philip Larkin had written The Frog King!

ah but it was the brothers Grimm

He could have been the third Grimm.