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Post: # 1431374Post loris »

Dave McNamara wrote:
loris wrote: Don't delete you old posts young man............. you are part of our Saintsational history. I'm one who respects history be it good/bad or indifferent.

Was it Omar Kyham who wrote a poem that went something along these lines.....................?

"The moving finger have writ, moves on
Nor all thy piety, nor wit
can lure it back, to cancel but one line.

Bit hazy on the actual verse these days.....but these were the sentiments JR :wink: :wink:
Plus one to what Loris wrote, James! 8-)


And Loris, not very hazy at all... :wink:
Omar Khayyám wrote: The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
 Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit,
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
 Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

But helpless pieces in the game He plays,
 Upon this chequer-board of Nights and Days,
He hither and thither moves, and checks… and slays,
 Then one by one, back in the Closet lays.

And, as the c**k crew, those who stood before
 The Tavern shouted— “Open then the Door!
You know how little time we have to stay,
 And once departed, may return no more.”

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
 A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou,
Beside me singing in the Wilderness,
 And oh, Wilderness is Paradise enow.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent
 Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and about: but evermore
 Came out of the same Door as in I went.

With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
 And with my own hand labour’d it to grow:
And this was all the Harvest that I reap’d—
 “I came like Water, and like Wind I go.”

Into this Universe, and why not knowing,
 Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing:
And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,
 I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.

And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,
 Whereunder crawling coop’t we live and die,
Lift not thy hands to It for help—for It
 Rolls impotently on as Thou or I.


(Hey, that's not bad for an Arab...)
Thanks ever so much Davey Mac for unearthing it......................... I was going to research it later this weekend.

Isn't it truly wonderful (yep for an Arab :wink: )?

I was in my 1st year of High School when an English teacher sprouted forth this poem to his class of pimply faced disinterested teenagers, most giggled and laughed with comments like...........Sir what does it mean? Is he a Wog or a Gypo Sir/ He has a funny name. etc, etc........... however, for this pimply , freckly faced kid, it started a life long love affair with poetry.

Also it started a school-girl crush on Mr White......... he was, short, chubby and bald, not the usual teacher a school girl would get a crush on :oops: :oops: :oops: Neverless, I hung on every word Mr White uttered throught my whole time at high school. I don't think I have re-visited that poem since 1961......when I left school.

Ah that's the beauty of poetry............ one can always summons up some long lost lines, stanzas, verses to elaborate a contemporary point.

Mr White would have been very annoyed that I couldn't spell Omar's surname correctly.................. thanks for guiding me along the path of accuracy Davey Mac :wink:


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Reincarnated, Zac Attack, Saints Premiers 2007


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2008


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Part of me wishes we could get the Muppet thread back...


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Post: # 1431670Post The Redeemer »

SainterK wrote:2008
Oh yeah.

Those were the days whereby every Reincarnated thread turned into a shitfight over the undeniable fact the Jason Gram could not kick straight or McQ was terrible at everything or Dawson was only good because of the zone around him,

Oh wait...


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Buckets wrote:Part of me wishes we could get the Muppet thread back...
I agree


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Post: # 1431736Post Cairnsman »

True Believer wrote:
Buckets wrote:Part of me wishes we could get the Muppet thread back...
I agree
Can someone remind me what muppet thread was all about.


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BradWa, Inkersaint, Harvey's Deciple


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Cairnsman wrote:
True Believer wrote:
Buckets wrote:Part of me wishes we could get the Muppet thread back...
I agree
Can someone remind me what muppet thread was all about.

Someone (can't remember who) had a go at the whole forum, claiming that if we thought that the Saints list was good enough to make a GF that we were all muppets (this was around 2006 or so). Everyone joyfully agreed and started adopting muppet characters to have as their avatar.


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I'd like to hear more from Cowboy18. Pretty much never failed to make me laugh. Haven't seen anything from him/her for a while.


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Post: # 1431821Post The Craw »

True Believer wrote:
Cairnsman wrote:
True Believer wrote:
I agree
Can someone remind me what muppet thread was all about.

Someone (can't remember who) had a go at the whole forum, claiming that if we thought that the Saints list was good enough to make a GF that we were all muppets (this was around 2006 or so). Everyone joyfully agreed and started adopting muppet characters to have as their avatar.
CarlosA


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Austinn is one of the greats. I think he lives in France.
Hopefully he is just staying quiet during the off season.


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I can see bigred lurking ;)

Also quizzed thinline where he'd been, said he'd drop by


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Disco Stu!!


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Post: # 1431999Post Eastern »

skeptic wrote:BradWa, Inkersaint, Harvey's Deciple
Harvey's Deciple still lurks. Has contacts in high places at Saintsational too !!


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Post: # 1432020Post saintbart »

I'm back...anyone remember me?


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Post: # 1432022Post saintbrat »

saintbart wrote:I'm back...anyone remember me?
I was just rereading the confusion we caused StFid Jnr the other day- in the trivia thread- how is Luke doing?


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Hey Brat...I've PM'd you


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saintbart wrote:I'm back...anyone remember me?
Before my time, nice to ummm.....post you?


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The Craw wrote:
True Believer wrote:


Someone (can't remember who) had a go at the whole forum, claiming that if we thought that the Saints list was good enough to make a GF that we were all muppets (this was around 2006 or so). Everyone joyfully agreed and started adopting muppet characters to have as their avatar.
CarlosA

Would have to be one of, if not the, funniest threads to grace the board. Pity we lost it! All the newer members could have joined in the fun of adopting their own muppet!


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Eastern wrote:Harvey's Deciple still lurks. Has contacts in high places at Saintsational too !!
Don't flatter yourself :wink:


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I miss St Fid.


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I've been round since this joints inception and did the Saints chat for while which was ok

Worth remembering while we all wear the rose colored glasses of years gone by..... along with our team this forum was rising or about to with many predicting our young guns the best crop they'd seen for a long time (well over shadowing the Cats.....) so robust debates, popularity, controversy (the frustration/pain of Blight) or the joy when we snared Gehrig and Hamill in a "coup" as we were clearly now the club of choice!!!

I don't doubt social media has hit us but the cycle has to be taken into account

We will rise again and when we do so many flogs you wish you couldn't remember will lurch out if dark corners bemoaning "they were here all along..,"


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aah Saints chat ....


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love history

also love the future because there is one... despuite the protestations of some saints fans who can only see gloom

a little look back courtesy of teh way back machine
http://web.archive.org/web/200506251155 ... 55659bdf28

this was linked from this page
http://web.archive.org/web/200406101419 ... ional.com/


t aken as a grab from http://web.archive.org/web/200405010000 ... tional.com

any date with a blue circle or the sparkline at the top is a hit on a page from saintsational
some forum pages link- others don't

but even my links in this thread viewtopic.php?f=7&t=59041
have dropped of with the many changes over the years.


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