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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Too late! But you can save us from the final seven verses if you act swiftly.
[McGonagal. A terrible poet and apparently a bigot too.]
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Ooh, McGonagall. When I was a student in Dundee, we used to regularly drink in a pub called McGonagall's. It had copies of his 'poetry' up on the walls and I must have read all of them over the many. many visits we made there (too many, really, for the health of both my liver and my studies). My favourite one, I recall, was about the Tay Bridge disaster, which ends (I had to google this, my memory's not that good);
I must now conclude my lay
By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,
That your central girders would not have given way,
At least many sensible men do say,
Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,
At least many sensible men confesses,
For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed.