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To: Shanda
I love Burns although I have read that he really did love the ladies. Maybe a little too much.

Well, put it this way... He had three daughters named Anne -- that he acknowledged.

Thing is, the man dropped the F-bomb in his works.... Take, for example his "Ode to Spring":

When maukin bucks, at early f***s,
In dewy grass are seen, Sir,
And birds, on boughs, take off their mows
Among the leaves sae green, Sir;
Latona's sun looks liquorish on
Dame Nature's grand impetus
Till his p***k go rise, then westward flies
To roger Madame Thetis.

(Rather appropriately, I just realized, "maukin" is a variant of "malkin" which was Scots dialect for several off-color things.)

118 posted on 05/04/2005 7:06:11 AM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian (Shake Hands with the Serpent: Poetry by Charles Lipsig aka Celtjew http://books.lulu.com/lipsig)
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To: Celtjew Libertarian

And there you go.

Standards change.

Shakespeare was pretty blue as well.

As Americans, we really didn't get the current stick up our collective butts until the Victorian era.


129 posted on 05/04/2005 7:13:04 AM PDT by tiamat (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
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