John_Stone Report This Comment Date: April 05, 2006 07:43PM
*Pied Beauty*
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
Praise him.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 06, 2006 05:13AM
How much does he pay for his gas??
John_Stone Report This Comment Date: April 07, 2006 12:28AM
No, you have it wrong, how much to =other= people pay for his gas. His farts
are $33 per cubic foot.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 08, 2006 01:31PM
Oh, if only they had the wit to see the course they are on has no real future.
If they had any imagination they would realise they could invest their
gargantuan profits into alternate energy and create a whole new growth area of
opportunity, which would actually be good for business.
But, like the the Apartheid governments, they will dig in harder as their
position is challenged and become increasingly untenable.