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Scottish Dubliner Posted Mon 01 Oct, 2007 8:11 PM |
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son
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I Came in Through the Bathroom Window Posted Mon 01 Oct, 2007 8:44 PM |
| Kipling! Great poem :o) |
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Esteban Posted Mon 01 Oct, 2007 8:54 PM |
| Did you watch University Challenge tonight Dubz? |
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Gladly (the cross-eyed bear) Posted Mon 01 Oct, 2007 9:03 PM |
I got away with a verse from the Stranger at my Gate for about 2 years on here. Not one person complained. Which either means there is a really uneducated lot on this board. Or they agreed with the sentiments of myself and the poem.
*Ponders* :) |
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Ursina Posted Mon 01 Oct, 2007 9:54 PM |
| count me as one of the uneducated :-P |
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Scottish Dubliner Posted Mon 01 Oct, 2007 10:11 PM |
Esteban wrote: Did you watch University Challenge tonight Dubz?
haha how'd ya guess
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Esteban Posted Mon 01 Oct, 2007 10:31 PM |
Scottish Dubliner wrote: Esteban wrote: Did you watch University Challenge tonight Dubz?
haha how'd ya guess
Dubz
Answer to one of the Q's and I saw the time you posted was the same time it was on ;-)
I'm a regular fucking Columbo.
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Scottish Dubliner Posted Mon 01 Oct, 2007 10:37 PM |
Esteban wrote: Scottish Dubliner wrote: Esteban wrote: Did you watch University Challenge tonight Dubz?
haha how'd ya guess
Dubz
Answer to one of the Q's and I saw the time you posted was the same time it was on ;-)
I'm a regular fucking Columbo.
yeah but there happens to be something that doesn't quite add up, maybe you can help me with it...
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Esteban Posted Mon 01 Oct, 2007 10:38 PM |
Scottish Dubliner wrote: Esteban wrote: Scottish Dubliner wrote: Esteban wrote: Did you watch University Challenge tonight Dubz?
haha how'd ya guess
Dubz
Answer to one of the Q's and I saw the time you posted was the same time it was on ;-)
I'm a regular fucking Columbo.
yeah but there happens to be something that doesn't quite add up, maybe you can help me with it...
Dubz
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Scottish Dubliner Posted Mon 01 Oct, 2007 11:06 PM |
fantastic hungover viewing when ther's no sport of a Sunday afternon
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Sunny Posted Tue 02 Oct, 2007 2:26 PM |
Gladly (the cross-eyed bear) wrote: I got away with a verse from the Stranger at my Gate for about 2 years on here. Not one person complained. Which either means there is a really uneducated lot on this board. Or they agreed with the sentiments of myself and the poem.
*Ponders* :)
They wouldn't dare complain to you, Gladders ;)
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I thought this thread was about the Bluetones song (which is obviously better than the poem ;))
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Kirsty McKenzie Posted Tue 02 Oct, 2007 2:35 PM |
| this poem remineds me of the film 'mike basset' lol i knew the poem befor i saw the film but funny fims allways stick in my head xx |
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