Tim Worstall » Biting the Hand That Feeds http://timworstall.com It is all obvious or trivial except... Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:59:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Times Watch http://timworstall.com/2008/07/27/times-watch-8/ http://timworstall.com/2008/07/27/times-watch-8/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:21:20 +0000 Tim Worstall http://timworstall.com/2008/07/27/times-watch-8/

Whoever becomes the next president of the United States will have to get China on his side

Erm, that’s Bill Emmott.

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Personally, I’d think primary school children would be rather better off starting on Spike Milligan’s charming Ning Nang Nong than The Rime of the Ancient Mariner or Daffodils. The first joy of poetry is in its sound-effects – which is why kids love silly rhymes and limericks. It introduces the idea of language as play.

Clearly the young shaver doesn’t actually know his Spike from his elbow. The finest piece of poetry produced in the 20 th century was indeed by the aforementioned Mr. Milligan, but it’s not Ning Nang Nong, rather:

A thousand hairy savages

Sitting down for lunch

Gobble gobble, glup glup,

Munch, munch, munch.

I ask you, the young of today, eh?

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