Religions
(a Martian poem)
The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.
The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.
The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.
Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.
Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess
And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.
~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
George J. Dance wrote:
Religions
(a Martian poem)
The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.
The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.
The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.
Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.
Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess
And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.
~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
Nice one, sort of an Ogden Nash feel.
Still drawing a blank on the "Martian" catchphrase, though.
Religions
(a Martian poem)
The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.
The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.
The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.
Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.
Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess
And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.
~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
On 2022-09-23 6:14 a.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Religions
(a Martian poem)
The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.
The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.
The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.
Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.
Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess
And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.
~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
Nice one, sort of an Ogden Nash feel.
Still drawing a blank on the "Martian" catchphrase, though.
Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in the late 1970s
and early 1980s, in which everyday things and human behaviour are
described in a strange way, as if by a visiting Martian who does not understand them. Poets most closely associated with it are Craig Raine
and Christopher Reid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_poetry
I'll probably copy it onto PPP later today. I replaced one of their
articles yesterday, which gives me room to add another.
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-09-23 6:14 a.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Religions
(a Martian poem)
The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.
The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.
The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.
Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.
Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess
And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.
~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
Nice one, sort of an Ogden Nash feel.
Still drawing a blank on the "Martian" catchphrase, though.
Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in the late
1970s and early 1980s, in which everyday things and human behaviour
are described in a strange way, as if by a visiting Martian who does
not understand them. Poets most closely associated with it are Craig
Raine and Christopher Reid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_poetry
I'll probably copy it onto PPP later today. I replaced one of their
articles yesterday, which gives me room to add another.
You have a policy of limiting the importation of Wikipedia articles to
the Penny Wiki now?
On 2022-09-23 9:18 p.m., W.Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-09-23 6:14 a.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Religions
(a Martian poem)
The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.
The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.
The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.
Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.
Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess
And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.
~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
Nice one, sort of an Ogden Nash feel.
Still drawing a blank on the "Martian" catchphrase, though.
Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in the late
1970s and early 1980s, in which everyday things and human behaviour
are described in a strange way, as if by a visiting Martian who does
not understand them. Poets most closely associated with it are Craig
Raine and Christopher Reid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_poetry
I'll probably copy it onto PPP later today. I replaced one of their
articles yesterday, which gives me room to add another.
You have a policy of limiting the importation of Wikipedia articles to
the Penny Wiki now?
Not a global policy. It's a personal policy. I've been looking for other sources of licensed articles, so that we wouldn't be just a clone of Wikipedia, and substituting those for Wikipedia when I can find them.
I actually started that back when we had 9,000 articles, of which more
than 7,000 were from Wikipedia, and it's worked. Now we're up to more
than 11,000, of which 6,500 are Wikipedia. But there's no limit on
anyone else importing Wikipedia articles; those are such a small
percentage of new articles that they don't make a big difference. (Not
to trivialize or disparage those contributions.)
Turns out I didn't have to import this one, as it turns out it's been on
the wiki, virtually word-for-word) for over a decade. I discovered that
when I tried to add it. One neat touch is the illustration I'd added
back then, of a Martian tripod from /War of the Worlds/. Another, which
I just added, is an embedded video of Raine reading "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home".
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-09-23 9:18 p.m., W.Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-09-23 6:14 a.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Religions
(a Martian poem)
The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.
The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.
The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.
Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.
Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess
And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.
~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
Nice one, sort of an Ogden Nash feel.
Still drawing a blank on the "Martian" catchphrase, though.
Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in the late
1970s and early 1980s, in which everyday things and human behaviour
are described in a strange way, as if by a visiting Martian who does
not understand them. Poets most closely associated with it are Craig
Raine and Christopher Reid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_poetry
I'll probably copy it onto PPP later today. I replaced one of their
articles yesterday, which gives me room to add another.
You have a policy of limiting the importation of Wikipedia articles
to the Penny Wiki now?
Not a global policy. It's a personal policy. I've been looking for
other sources of licensed articles, so that we wouldn't be just a
clone of Wikipedia, and substituting those for Wikipedia when I can
find them.
I actually started that back when we had 9,000 articles, of which more
than 7,000 were from Wikipedia, and it's worked. Now we're up to more
than 11,000, of which 6,500 are Wikipedia. But there's no limit on
anyone else importing Wikipedia articles; those are such a small
percentage of new articles that they don't make a big difference. (Not
to trivialize or disparage those contributions.)
Turns out I didn't have to import this one, as it turns out it's been
on the wiki, virtually word-for-word) for over a decade. I discovered
that when I tried to add it. One neat touch is the illustration I'd
added back then, of a Martian tripod from /War of the Worlds/.
Another, which I just added, is an embedded video of Raine reading "A
Martian Sends a Postcard Home".
Okay, and Wikipedia articles can serve as place holders, eventually to
be replaced by original material.
On 2022-09-23 9:18 p.m., W.Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-09-23 6:14 a.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Religions
(a Martian poem)
The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.
The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.
The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.
Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.
Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess
And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.
~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
Nice one, sort of an Ogden Nash feel.
Still drawing a blank on the "Martian" catchphrase, though.
Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in the late
1970s and early 1980s, in which everyday things and human behaviour
are described in a strange way, as if by a visiting Martian who does
not understand them. Poets most closely associated with it are Craig
Raine and Christopher Reid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_poetry
I'll probably copy it onto PPP later today. I replaced one of their
articles yesterday, which gives me room to add another.
You have a policy of limiting the importation of Wikipedia articles to
the Penny Wiki now?
Not a global policy. It's a personal policy. I've been looking for other sources of licensed articles, so that we wouldn't be just a clone of Wikipedia, and substituting those for Wikipedia when I can find them.
I actually started that back when we had 9,000 articles, of which more
than 7,000 were from Wikipedia, and it's worked. Now we're up to more
than 11,000, of which 6,500 are Wikipedia. But there's no limit on
anyone else importing Wikipedia articles; those are such a small
percentage of new articles that they don't make a big difference. (Not
to trivialize or disparage those contributions.)
Turns out I didn't have to import this one, as it turns out it's been on
the wiki, virtually word-for-word) for over a decade. I discovered that
when I tried to add it. One neat touch is the illustration I'd added
back then, of a Martian tripod from /War of the Worlds/. Another, which
I just added, is an embedded video of Raine reading "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home".
On 2022-09-24 1:22 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-09-23 9:18 p.m., W.Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-09-23 6:14 a.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Religions
(a Martian poem)
The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.
The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.
The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.
Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.
Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess
And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.
~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
Nice one, sort of an Ogden Nash feel.
Still drawing a blank on the "Martian" catchphrase, though.
Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in the late
1970s and early 1980s, in which everyday things and human behaviour
are described in a strange way, as if by a visiting Martian who does >>>>> not understand them. Poets most closely associated with it are Craig >>>>> Raine and Christopher Reid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_poetry
I'll probably copy it onto PPP later today. I replaced one of their
articles yesterday, which gives me room to add another.
You have a policy of limiting the importation of Wikipedia articles
to the Penny Wiki now?
Not a global policy. It's a personal policy. I've been looking for
other sources of licensed articles, so that we wouldn't be just a
clone of Wikipedia, and substituting those for Wikipedia when I can
find them.
I actually started that back when we had 9,000 articles, of which more
than 7,000 were from Wikipedia, and it's worked. Now we're up to more
than 11,000, of which 6,500 are Wikipedia. But there's no limit on
anyone else importing Wikipedia articles; those are such a small
percentage of new articles that they don't make a big difference. (Not
to trivialize or disparage those contributions.)
Turns out I didn't have to import this one, as it turns out it's been
on the wiki, virtually word-for-word) for over a decade. I discovered
that when I tried to add it. One neat touch is the illustration I'd
added back then, of a Martian tripod from /War of the Worlds/.
Another, which I just added, is an embedded video of Raine reading "A
Martian Sends a Postcard Home".
Okay, and Wikipedia articles can serve as place holders, eventually to
be replaced by original material.
Yes, of course; and some will never be replaced. The articles on the top poets, usually attract a group effort, are usually very good, and
there's no need to get rid of them.
I'd like to get the Wikipedia/non-Wikipedia ratio down to under 50% eventually, so that people going to PPP don't expect they'll just be
getting the same info as Wikipedia; but I'm quietly working on that one article at a time.
Religions
(a Martian poem)
The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.
The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.
The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.
Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.
Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess
And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.
~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
On 2022-09-23 6:14 a.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Religions
(a Martian poem)
The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.
The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.
The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.
Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.
Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess
And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.
~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
Nice one, sort of an Ogden Nash feel.
Still drawing a blank on the "Martian" catchphrase, though.
Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in the late 1970s
and early 1980s, in which everyday things and human behaviour are
described in a strange way, as if by a visiting Martian who does not understand them. Poets most closely associated with it are Craig Raine
and Christopher Reid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_poetry
I'll probably copy it onto PPP later today. I replaced one of their
articles yesterday, which gives me room to add another.
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-09-23 6:14 a.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Religions
(a Martian poem)
The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.
The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.
The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.
Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.
Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess
And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.
~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
Nice one, sort of an Ogden Nash feel.
Still drawing a blank on the "Martian" catchphrase, though.
Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in the late
1970s and early 1980s, in which everyday things and human behaviour
are described in a strange way, as if by a visiting Martian who does
not understand them. Poets most closely associated with it are Craig
Raine and Christopher Reid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_poetry
I'll probably copy it onto PPP later today. I replaced one of their
articles yesterday, which gives me room to add another.
I haven't had a chance to get back to the Wiki for a few days.
You've probably seen the more obscure Weird Tales poets I added last
week, all of those need details added, but at least they are in the
archives.
On 2022-09-30 6:41 a.m., W.Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-09-23 6:14 a.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Religions
(a Martian poem)
The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.
The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.
The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.
Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.
Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess
And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.
~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
Nice one, sort of an Ogden Nash feel.
Still drawing a blank on the "Martian" catchphrase, though.
Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in the late
1970s and early 1980s, in which everyday things and human behaviour
are described in a strange way, as if by a visiting Martian who does
not understand them. Poets most closely associated with it are Craig
Raine and Christopher Reid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_poetry
I'll probably copy it onto PPP later today. I replaced one of their
articles yesterday, which gives me room to add another.
I haven't had a chance to get back to the Wiki for a few days.
You've probably seen the more obscure Weird Tales poets I added last
week, all of those need details added, but at least they are in the
archives.
Actually, I hadn't seen those. The main screen for PPP just tells me
about the last two articles (or five, if I expand it) that got added or modified, and I don't remember noticing anyone but me on it. (Except two /Clockwork Orange/ articles, which are on-topic since Anthony Burgess is
on PPP.)
I can see who worked on what article at a special page, and review the
new ones. Are they all from Wikipedia? The reason I'm asking, is I'd
like to give each of them a couple of templates, {{2022}} and
{{Wikipedia}} if applicable, to assign them to the right categories.
On 2022-09-23 6:14 a.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Religions
(a Martian poem)
The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.
The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.
The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.
Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.
Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess
And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.
~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
Nice one, sort of an Ogden Nash feel.
Still drawing a blank on the "Martian" catchphrase, though.
Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in the late 1970s
and early 1980s, in which everyday things and human behaviour are
described in a strange way, as if by a visiting Martian who does not understand them. Poets most closely associated with it are Craig Raine
and Christopher Reid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_poetry
I'll probably copy it onto PPP later today. I replaced one of their
articles yesterday, which gives me room to add another.
On 2022-09-23 9:18 p.m., W.Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-09-23 6:14 a.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Religions
(a Martian poem)
The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.
The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.
The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.
Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.
Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess
And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.
~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015
Nice one, sort of an Ogden Nash feel.
Still drawing a blank on the "Martian" catchphrase, though.
Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in the late
1970s and early 1980s, in which everyday things and human behaviour
are described in a strange way, as if by a visiting Martian who does
not understand them. Poets most closely associated with it are Craig
Raine and Christopher Reid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_poetry
I'll probably copy it onto PPP later today. I replaced one of their
articles yesterday, which gives me room to add another.
You have a policy of limiting the importation of Wikipedia articles to
the Penny Wiki now?
Not a global policy. It's a personal policy. I've been looking for other sources of licensed articles, so that we wouldn't be just a clone of Wikipedia, and substituting those for Wikipedia when I can find them.
I actually started that back when we had 9,000 articles, of which more
than 7,000 were from Wikipedia, and it's worked. Now we're up to more
than 11,000, of which 6,500 are Wikipedia. But there's no limit on
anyone else importing Wikipedia articles; those are such a small
percentage of new articles that they don't make a big difference. (Not
to trivialize or disparage those contributions.)
Turns out I didn't have to import this one, as it turns out it's been on
the wiki, virtually word-for-word) for over a decade. I discovered that
when I tried to add it. One neat touch is the illustration I'd added
back then, of a Martian tripod from /War of the Worlds/. Another, which
I just added, is an embedded video of Raine reading "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home".
| Sysop: | Keyop |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
| Users: | 546 |
| Nodes: | 16 (0 / 16) |
| Uptime: | 161:10:50 |
| Calls: | 10,385 |
| Calls today: | 2 |
| Files: | 14,057 |
| Messages: | 6,416,498 |