davy (08/19/82)
#N:pur-ee:12900004:000:1066 pur-ee!davy Aug 19 10:44:00 1982 Here's something for you spelling nuts -- I pulled it out of an old Bennet Cerf (ever heard of him?) joke book. -------------------------- The maddening intricacies of English spelling are highlighted in this clever little poem, contributed to the publishers of Webster's Dictionary by Katherine Buxbaum of Iowa State Teachers College: I came beneath a pine tree bough When I was searching for my cough. I could not reach the pine cones, though, The branch was high and I was lough. "Ah, me," I cried, with rueful laugh, "Would that I were a tall giraugh." Just then a wind came hurtling through, The branches cracked, so fierce it blough. This blast, so shrill it made me cough, And on it went with angry sough; I put my treasure in my mough And started home across the slough Forgetting what I'd come to dough. Bossy was standing by her trough; Did I mistake or did she scough? -------------------------- For what it's worth....... --Dave Curry, Purdue E.E. Department decvax!pur-ee!davy ihnss!pur-ee!davy