Celebrating MacGonagall at the ‘Graun’
From today’s Graun ‘Letters and emails’ page:
Here on the beautiful banks of the silvery Tay / We the Guardian readers of the bonnie city of Dundee would just like to say / That your paper has paid us a great compliment and done much honour to us all / By writing an editorial in the style of our great poet William MacGonagall (26 February). / The only criticism we might make (and we think we probably should) / Is that the metre was too regular and the rhymes far too good.” Andrew Johnstone Dundee
Here’s what Mr Johnstone was on about…
…and here’s a taste of the wonderful original …
NB: If I was from Dundee, I’d be a lot happier to be associated with William MacGonagall than with George Galloway.
Lobby Ludd said,
February 27, 2009 at 10:08 pm
William Topaz McGonagall
Were his parents some kind of early 19th Century hippies?
It would explain much.
resistor said,
February 28, 2009 at 2:16 am
He was a better poet than Sean ‘The Vogon’ Matgamna.
Ponder this VP!
http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2008/07/31/oedipus-regrets
Submitted on 31 July, 2008 – 16:10
Author:
Sean Matgamna
OEDIPUS REGRETS
Oh, Mum, Mum,
I did you wrong;
Mum, Mum:
You didn’t cum!
charliethechulo said,
February 28, 2009 at 2:38 am
I think that’s rather good.