| Poem for Monday |
[Mar. 29th, 2004|09:19 am] |
Colors
By Shel Silverstein
My skin is kind of sort of brownish
Pinkish yellowish white.
My eyes are greyish blueish green,
but I'm told they look orange in the night.
My hair is reddish blondish brown,
But it's silver when it's wet.
And all the colors I am inside
Have not been invented yet.
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A day late, but still for ![[info]](http://piktures.deadjournal.com/userinfo.gif) ashinae. Look, he spelled "colors" right! Hee! I'm curious, Canadian and British people who protest that here in the U.S. we get your books published with the spelling corrected to American standard: when you read our poets, has the spelling been Britishized (or Britishised as the case may be)? Is this poem called "Colours" in your editions?
This awesome, rocking Master and Commander meme gacked from anglepoiselamp among many others:
I had to do it again with the spanker as my favorite sail (so perkypaduan would be proud of me, heh). But then I was sailing with Mr. Lamb and looking for Jack Sparrow and helping Killick in the kitchen, which was just not nearly so satisfying. Plus my kangaroo died. I am so much happier keeping Diana occupied while Jack is swooning over his S, whether or not we commandeer the ship, though I am curious about exactly what happens to the coffee...
Gacked from fileg:
Boy the Bear's Age Gauge
You said your birthday is 12 / 11 / 1966
which means you are 37 years old and about:
50 years 1 month younger than Walter Cronkite, age 87
46 years 7 months younger than Pope John Paul II, age 83
42 years 6 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 79
35 years 3 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 72
33 years 1 month younger than Larry King, age 70
26 years 10 months younger than Ted Koppel, age 64
23 years 5 months younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 60
20 years 5 months younger than George W. Bush, age 57
15 years 5 months younger than Jesse Ventura, age 52
11 years 1 month younger than Bill Gates, age 48
6 years 4 months younger than Cal Ripken Jr., age 43
0 years 5 months younger than Mike Tyson, age 37
3 years 7 months older than Jennifer Lopez, age 33
9 years 1 month older than Tiger Woods, age 28
15 years 6 months older than Prince William, age 21
and that you were:
34 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
33 years old on the first day of Y2K
30 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
28 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
27 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
26 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
24 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
22 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
19 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
17 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
16 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
14 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
12 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
9 years old on the U.S.'s bicentennial Fourth of July
7 years old when President Nixon left office
5 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
2 years old at the time the first man stepped on the moon
a 1 year old when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
And from jiffy_spiffy, who will have a better night out, a quiz with that alternate spelling of color which undoubtedly affected my outcome:
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