It has to be perch, as when the time comes I have be able to lurch off
the purch. Sorry, best I could come up with in the few minutes before we
leave to go wildflower spectating.
raymo
Great thread Warren. I think Tycho had a guernsey in the play gallileo when they bought up Copernicus. Astronomy has become a popular theme in drama once more.
Great thread Warren. I think Tycho had a guernsey in the play gallileo when they bought up Copernicus. Astronomy has become a popular theme in drama once more.
Hence why Shakespeare wrote the play, 'The Taming of the Shrew', when he acquired his first telescope.....
Great thread Warren. I think Tycho had a guernsey in the play gallileo when they bought up Copernicus. Astronomy has become a popular theme in drama once more.
Cheers mate! It's caused a bit more inspiration than I thought!
There once was a man from Nantucket,
Who bought a quite large photon bucket.
At its very first light,
Clouds covered the night.
“This is a joke”, he said. “F*** it”.
A little before James Cook was dispatched to observe the transit of Venus, and while he was at it, see if he could find Australia. A pair of Englishmen sailed to Philadelphia to survey what was to be called the Mason-Dixon line...having no clue that their seminal work would effectively be used to divide the North and South during the American civil war.
Mark Knopfler wrote a song about Mason and Dixon's epic survey....and while not strictly poetry...the lyrics have a delightful Astronomical theme:
I am Jeremiah Dixon
I am a Geordie Boy
A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies I'll enjoy
All Durham and Northumberland
Is measured up by my own hand
It was my fate from birth
To make my mark upon the earth
He calls me Charlie Mason
A stargazer am I
It seems that I was born
To chart the evening sky
They'd cut me out for baking bread
But I had other dreams instead
This baker's boy from the west country
Would join the Royal Society
Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon
But I swear you'll make me mad
The West will kill us both
You gullible Geordie lad
You talk of liberty
How can America be free
A Geordie and a baker's boy
In the forest of the Iroquois
Now hold your head up, Mason
See America lies there
The morning tide has raised
The capes of Delaware
Come up and feel the sun
A new morning is begun
Another day will make it clear
Why your stars should guide us here....
Very funny. Really telegraphs the punchline that one. I suppose that is what a limerick does. Is a limerick poetry?
Some would disagree but I like it. I like all of them really.
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Originally Posted by gaseous
There once was a man from Nantucket,
Who bought a quite large photon bucket.
At its very first light,
Clouds covered the night.
“This is a joke”, he said. “F*** it”.
There once was a man from Nantucket,
Who bought a quite large photon bucket.
At its very first light,
Clouds covered the night.
“This is a joke”, he said. “F*** it”.
Two thumbs up from me!
(You can never go wrong with any song / poem / Limerick which mentions "Nantucket"!)
With my Heart pounding -
Tonight's sky's are astounding.
But, I must leave, with sorrow.
As it is work, tomorrow.
I shall be back soon.
Maybe with the first New Moon.
Till then my Astro. Mate - Guys
Keep your eyes to the sky's.
There was once a singing lawyer around Sydney who sang in cafes about catching the ferry to work which mentions the same rhyme. I agree . Nantucket gets my vote every time.
Let’s sing and be merry
On the rose bay ferry
If we run about of fuel we will row ho ho
Well it’s off to Nantucket
Better get a bucket
As it’s choppy on the open sea.
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Originally Posted by julianh72
Two thumbs up from me!
(You can never go wrong with any song / poem / Limerick which mentions "Nantucket"!)
