Hi All,
Sorry for being a little late but still catching up with my E-mails.
Mike Dawson wrote:
> this reminds me of a topic I've been meaning to start: Who has examples of hero
> descriptions found in unlikely places in the mundane world?
>
This is one I may use in some up and coming Pulp Adventures.
'I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
>From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.'
103 words.
Cheers,
DARRAN SIMS
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