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COPYRIGHT 2002 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
IN COMPETITION NO. 2269 you were invited to supply an amusing poem entitled `Fancy Dress Party'.
`There was a young man from Bengal/Who went to a fancy dress ball./He thought he could risk it/Dressed up as a biscuit,/But a dog ate him up in the hall.' Some of you know that limerick, but Jaspistos's clerihew on the same theme is hitherto unpublished:
James Thurber Once left home for a party dressed as a Berber, But by the time he'd found the right address What he was was anybody's guess.
The prizewinners, printed below, win 30 [pounds sterling] each, and the bottle of single malt Scotch whisky, the gift of Vintage Hallmark, St James's, goes to Ralph Rochester. A happy New Year...
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