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1 posted on 04/03/2007 1:06:16 PM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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Lines Inscribed Upon A Cup Formed From A Skull
of one of his ancestors by Lord Byron
(1788-1824)

Start not—nor deem my spirit fled:
In me behold the only skull
From which, unlike a living head,
Whatever flows is never dull.

I lived, I loved, I quaffed like thee;
I died: let earth my bones resign:
Fill up—thou canst not injure me;
The worm hath fouler lips than thine.

Better to hold the sparkling grape
Than nurse the earthworm’s slimy brood,
And circle in the goblet’s shape
The drink of gods than reptile’s food.

Where once my wit, perchance, hath shone,
In aid of others’ let me shine;
And when, alas! our brains are gone,
What nobler substitute than wine?

Quaff while thou canst; another race,
When thou and thine like me are sped,
May rescue thee from earth’s embrace,
And rhyme and revel with the dead.

Why not—since through life’s little day
Our heads such sad effects produce?
Redeemed from worms and wasting clay,
This chance is theirs to be of use.

37 posted on 04/03/2007 1:31:58 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball

I don’t know that this is so wierd, my dad rides with me in the glove compartment of my truck.


40 posted on 04/03/2007 1:37:23 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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From Dennis Leary, “No Cure For Cancer”:

“I was reading an interview with Keith Richards in a magazine and in the interview Keith Richards intimated that kids should not do drugs. Keith Richards! Says that kids should not do drugs! Keith, we can’t do any more drugs because you already f-—ing did them all, alright! There’s none left! We have to wait ‘till you die and smoke your ashes! Jesus Christ! Talk about the pot and the f-—in’ kettle.”


41 posted on 04/03/2007 1:38:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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The night show hosts are going to go nuts with this one


44 posted on 04/03/2007 1:51:39 PM PDT by Uncledave
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