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Poet & comedian Hovis Presley has died.  Never heard of him but after reading this I wish I had....

Tribute To Hovis

A comic died,

he died

he died

And when he did

I cried

I cried

A moose or raven,

neither one

He sampled life

(he may have run)

A loss so great

a loss so hard

A moment here

they've closed his card

A poet with

a comic net

and now his maker

he has met.

No more linens

goats or grog

he's stiffened now

just as a log.

A comic gone

a poet too

so ends a life

like morning dew.

A comic died

he died he died

and oh tis sad

I sighed

I sighed

yes it is sad

that he has died.

Rest peacefully Hovis.

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Poet & comedian Hovis Presley has died.  Never heard of him but after reading this I wish I had....

Tribute To Hovis

A comic died,

he died

he died

And when he did

I cried

I cried

A moose or raven,

neither one

He sampled life

(he may have run)

A loss so great

a loss so hard

A moment here

they've closed his card

A poet with

a comic net

and now his maker

he has met.

No more linens

goats or grog

he's stiffened now

just as a log.

A comic gone

a poet too

so ends a life

like morning dew.

A comic died

he died he died

and oh tis sad

I sighed

I sighed

yes it is sad

that he has died.

<span style='font-family:Impact'>Rest peacefully Hovis</span>.

aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh that's lovely

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Poet & comedian Hovis Presley has died.  Never heard of him but after reading this I wish I had....

Tribute To Hovis

A comic died,

he died

he died

And when he did

I cried

I cried

A moose or raven,

neither one

He sampled life

(he may have run)

A loss so great

a loss so hard

A moment here

they've closed his card

A poet with

a comic net

and now his maker

he has met.

No more linens

goats or grog

he's stiffened now

just as a log.

A comic gone

a poet too

so ends a life

like morning dew.

A comic died

he died he died

and oh tis sad

I sighed

I sighed

yes it is sad

that he has died.

<span style='font-family:Impact'>Rest peacefully Hovis</span>.

aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh that's lovely

Lovely...well i guess that could be the word for it.

 

But how come all so much for Hovis Presley?

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But how come all so much for Hovis Presley?

Why not? It makes a change from Ladybird Johnson.

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I don't understand - did Hovis write the poem? And if so, who was it about? Was he writing his own elegy? ;)

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I don't understand - did Hovis write the poem? And if so, who was it about? Was he writing his own elegy? ;)

Hovis Presley...

Brown Bread.

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I don't understand - did Hovis write the poem? And if so, who was it about? Was he writing his own elegy? 

No, I am sad to say he never had the chance to write his final thoughts. I chose to write it as a way to express a simple remembrance of him and presented it for all to enjoy and to use as they think on the meaning of life.

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percy arrowsmith

 

Not famous enough, but a fantastic achievment. Married 80 years.

Was it really 80 years or did it just seem that way?

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percy arrowsmith

 

Not famous enough, but a fantastic achievment.  Married 80 years.

Was it really 80 years or did it just seem that way?

Don't think Mrs Arrowsmith will last long now...

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Another cricketer dies...

 

Legendary cricketer Mushtaq Ali dies in sleep

 

INDORE: India's oldest living Test cricketer, the legendary all-rounder Syed Mushtaq Ali, age 90, passed away in his sleep, early Saturday morning.

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Another cricketer dies...

Maybe there are a couple of those antique cricketers

left for the 2006 list?

 

I guess the DL never took it into consideration after

Don Bradman?

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Microchip inventor dies

 

Jack Kilby, 81, who pioneered the development of the microchip and helped create the first hand-held calculator, has died.

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Guest IYG

My internet was dead for about two days, does that count? :ph34r:

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William Donaldson

 

Creator of Henry Root, wet fish merchant, and producer of 'Beyond the Fringe'

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Voice of Winnie the Pooh's Tigger dies

 

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Paul Winchell, a ventriloquist, inventor and children's TV show host best known for creating the lispy voice of Winnie the Pooh's animated friend Tigger, has died. He was 82.

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