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    The prison officer addressed the assembled prisoners, "This mornings presentation will be given by Professor Slock, Head of the Literature Department at the University, on the subject of Keats. I don't suppose any of you bone-headed crims would have a clue what a Keat is, or what they're used for."

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    Back in the day, the pollsters rang up to ask what I thought of Keating. I told them I'd never keated.
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    Nice one!

    Similarly;

    Irony is writing "Your an idiot"
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    Well obviously I am a boneheaded woodworker,
    What's a Keat?
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    Ah, now I remember you Crocy, you were sitting just to my left at that lecture!

    John Keats was a poet, the prison officer was the bonehead.

    Cheers,
    Geoff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boringgeoff View Post
    Ah, now I remember you Crocy, you were sitting just to my left at that lecture!

    John Keats was a poet, the prison officer was the bonehead.

    Cheers,
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    Oh, excuse my ignorance, a purveyor of poetry I am definitely not.
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    Probably not funny, but only one of John Keats' quotes have stuck with me over the 52 years since studying his work.

    ...and can I ever bid these joys farewell?
    Yes, I must pass them for a nobler life,
    where I may find the agonies,
    the strife, of human hearts.

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    All this culture about literature……
    Reminds me of the time I asked a young girl if she liked Dickens…
    She replied,,,Don’t really know, never been to one!
    And my head I'd be a scratchin'
    While my thoughts were busy hatchin'
    If I only had a brain.

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    Probably a sign of our age when we can say that we know about Keats.
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    Going back even further (for anyone, anywhere, who was ever subjected to Latin at school)....

    6006284_keep_calm_quod_caecilius_est_in_horto.png

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    As the original advise to the prisoners was verbal, it may not have been Keats but instead Keets and the talk was to be about Guinea fowl.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Brush View Post
    Going back even further (for anyone, anywhere, who was ever subjected to Latin at school)....

    6006284_keep_calm_quod_caecilius_est_in_horto.png
    I did Latin for 5 years at High School thinking that I would need it to do Pharmacy.
    One of the first text books bought was "Latin for Pharmacy Students"
    Tom

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    The only thing I can remember of Keating, is "What's the difference between Paul Keating and his Mother"???
    Nothing, they both raised pigs!!!!!
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