04-12-2012, 02:38 PM
Bless you for making Ray think of Monty Python before I got a chance to say anything 
I must ask, though, what your ideas are on the etymology of the saying "pissed as a newt"... although you probably don't have it in your part of the world... perhaps newts in Commonwealth countries are more partial to the demon drink...
Anyway. How much simpler life would be if one were only there to be contemplated. No worries beyond the possibility of dessication, which of course one would not be concerned with if one's brain were newt-sized...
You need to watch words like "just" and "that" -- they become fillers and should really be replaced by more specific words. I am deliberately avoiding all thoughts of regular meter, because I quite like the way this gently meanders along.
I must ask, though, what your ideas are on the etymology of the saying "pissed as a newt"... although you probably don't have it in your part of the world... perhaps newts in Commonwealth countries are more partial to the demon drink...
Anyway. How much simpler life would be if one were only there to be contemplated. No worries beyond the possibility of dessication, which of course one would not be concerned with if one's brain were newt-sized...
You need to watch words like "just" and "that" -- they become fillers and should really be replaced by more specific words. I am deliberately avoiding all thoughts of regular meter, because I quite like the way this gently meanders along.
It could be worse