Not amused

[tectak]

I see that elsewhere you have almost been begging to be thrashed on the Serious Board; your punishment from me, will be, that I won't. I think it a nice poem. In your last reply, you meant 'cherchez la femme'. Is that any good?

Did you ever trouble to ask you teacher why he thought that there should be such sparse punctuation? Did he have a Bumper Poetry Guide for Boys?

Merdre.
Now that is a howler worthy of a good thrashing. I am at your mercie....er...mercy. At the very least I shall turn of my predictive phonetic dumbed down texting facility.
Got me Abu!
Thanks for kind unkind words.
Best,
Tectak

I shall not ask you to examine the spellings in that comment--that would be petty. But that teacher?

He was an excellent tutor and much respected. We are talking 5th year Grammar school. He ran an extra curriculum debating society and a poetry appreciation group. The tendency was to write our feeble efforts with ever decreasing line lengths as anything which by good fortune rhymed became relegated to a line end; the greatest sin of all was forcing. Rather than crush our loquatious tendencies, which were required for the debating society, he introduced Farrington's Second Law which simply put limited the use of the line end full stop to one per stanza. His first law was even more restrictive....no words at line end ending with the abhorrently frog "ation".
Oh. He was also the scout master and gave the favoured toasted stilton cheese.
I am alright now.
Best,
Tectak