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Posted by Tim Robinson
on 1/4/2008, 8:44 pm, in reply to "Rabbit and his habit"
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You are quite right that Dick Blundell was the author of the aforementioned verse. Whether it was all his own or he borrowed it I don't know! It was entered for the poetry competition but dismissed as unworthy and didn't get awarded a 'standard point'. However, the magazine production committee felt that his talent deserved a wider audience and so it was included as an advertisement feature with a specially commissioned illustration - as we had control of that part of the magazine. Alan Tisdall, who edited the 'original work' section was thus bypassed, and was rather upset when he realised what had happened! You are right that it is the silly things that stick in your mind - I too can recite it but can remember very little else. What did Dick end up doing with his life? Presumably not a poet although that would have some kind of delicious irony.
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