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3Hotdogs

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2. Actually, William Dawes took part in the ride to alert the Minutemen. He would be more famous than

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Apr 18, 2023, 07:31 AM

Apr 2023

Revere 'cept his name didn't rhyme.

Longfellow tried it ---"Listen my children and you shall hear,
of the midnight ride of William Dawes....

See what I mean?

So Paul gets the credit and as for Dawes, bollocks. (Bollocks is actually an early English contraction for bull's balls.)

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"Listen, my children, and you shall hear ..." [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 OP

Thank you! ..."the 18th of April...." Tanuki Apr 2023 #1

Actually, William Dawes took part in the ride to alert the Minutemen. He would be more famous than 3Hotdogs Apr 2023 #2

"The rhyming is bad; you might say it gnaws; so nada 'bout the ride of my peeps William Dawes." mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 #3

Dawes did not have a good agent. Sneederbunk Apr 2023 #7

I memorized that poem in the 5th. Grade. I can still recite the sinkingfeeling Apr 2023 #4

Another poem about historical event with inaccuracies, The Charge of the Light Brigade, spike jones Apr 2023 #5

I was playing poker in Camp Ellis, Maine one evening, with old friends. cachukis Apr 2023 #6

I memorized it sometime in my early school years, probably yellowdogintexas Apr 2023 #8