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I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news, With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. I'm very good at integral and differential calculus; I know the scientific names of beings animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's; I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous; I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes! Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore. Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform, And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus' uniform: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin", When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle[*] from a javelin, When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at, And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat", When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery, When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery— In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy— You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a-gee. For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury, Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century; But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
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While the old form, jujutsu, was studied solely for fighting purposes, Kano's new system is found to promote the mental as well as the physical faculties. T. Shidachi, 1892 |
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sounds like something Les Claypool would write.
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i dont know why things liike that ever become famous.
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The Major-General's Song is a patter song from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance.
This thread was started so I could familiarize myself with moderator tools. LOL ![]()
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Hehehe... Cut and paste!
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cut and paste is not a moderator tool!
sack him! sack him! sack him!
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![]() Are you opposed to my superior position? ![]() ![]()
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i think you should be sacked for your inept copy and paste skills. ![]()
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At least I didn't cut and paste the Google version; "I am the very model of a modern major googler" I am the very model of a modern major Googler, We're going to organize the world's information to be sure. The PageRank secrets that I know there's no way that I will expose, Not even if they tortured me would competition reach such goals. ![]()
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Did I mention this thread was started to practice with the moderating tools.
LMAO... I wonder if I could get away with changing your status from registered user to something else, like .... Ghost Writer? Phantom menace? Hmmm. Time to get creative... Any suggestions? Major General? Registered offender? Hehehe... This could be fun.
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