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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (92451)	9/25/2001 3:46:11 PM
From: Night Trader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

KT, I think it goes like this: "Please Sir, can I have some more?" "More boy? More!"

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (92451)	9/25/2001 7:06:33 PM
From: starhawke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

The "pudding" reference was pretty specific to Pink Floyd. But Pink Floyd had to have been influenced by the second helping of gruel request in Oliver Twist: "The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered each other, and winked at Oliver; while his next neighbours nudged him. Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery. He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: "Please, sir, I want some more." The master was a fat, healthy man; but he turned very pale. He gazed in stupefied astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper. The assistants were paralysed with wonder; the boys with fear. "What!" said the master at length, in a faint voice. "Please, sir," replied Oliver, "I want some more." The master aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arms; and shrieked aloud for the beadle." Dickens was definitely the man, even if he added extraneous u's all over the place. ("neighbours", etc. <g> ) I'll have to re-read A Tale of Two Cities soon, my last read was in the 3rd grade. Decades ago, that. <sigh> S