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Alan
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2004/09/02 18:06 It's an old thread, but I''m new around these parts . . .

My favorite Jake line is the much quotable:

"If you must put people on pedestals, wear a big hat!" (The Bull)

(I wonder what brought that to mind, he mused, while watching reportage of the Republican convention.)

But if you go for poetic effect, is this a good place to bring up Jake's brilliance with internal rhymes?

"There's no such one-caress-and-leave-me-breathless woman,
No such tender godsend friend as you." (To Do WIth You)

"Chick of the bric-a-brac, pick of the vicar's knick-knacks." (The Jumble Sale, cited earlier in this thread as a source of great lines)

. . . and assonance:

"Lapwing shivers in the dripping thicket." (The Rain is on the Mountainside)

Yes, I know, it's cheating to get in four favorite sentences, but start as you mean to go on, I say. Want to hear the eight discs I'd take to a desert island?


Alan
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philreckless
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2004/09/02 19:22 Yes please www.philmcginity.co.uk
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Pam
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2004/09/02 20:38 Hear! hear! Now that could be a whole new thread - what records would any of us take to a desert island................. :0)

(..........................why aren't the smileys working???)
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claresdad
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2004/09/03 03:19 The smileys are on a work to rule. One out All Out!

Ah they appear to be working for me perhaps you didn't ask nicely enough
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Pam
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2004/09/03 09:12 Okay, here goes, try again (pretty please...............)




nope, it seems. So what am I doing wrong then? (and what are you doing up at 3 o'clock in the morning??? or shouldn't I ask....)

Is it because it says "HTML is disabled" just below the smileys? And if so, how do I re-enable them, or will they be entitled to free parking forever?
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KeithD
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 Re:Favourite Sentence - 2004/09/03 12:39

No idea what you're doing wrong, Pam. The disabled HTML is not relevant. Are you perchance using a Mac? Mine used to refuse to insert an emoticon in already typed text, but was OK inserting them in situ while I was typing.

Try drafting a new message and clicking on an emoticon or two before you type anything, then try the preview.
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