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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341849" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Man Who Discovered The Use Of A Chair</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man who discovered the use of a chair,<br>_Odds--bobs--<br>What a wonderful man!_<br>He used to sit down on it, tearing his hair,<br>Till he thought of a highly original plan.<br>For years he had sat on his chair, like you,<br>_Quite--still!<br>But his looks were grim_<br>For he wished to be famous (as great men do)<br>And nobody ever would listen to him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now he went one night to a dinner of state<br>_Hear! hear!<br>In the proud Guildhall!_<br>And he sat on his chair, and he ate from a plate;<br>But nobody heard his opinions at all;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were ten fat aldermen down for a speech<br>(_Grouse! Grouse!<br>What a dreary bird!_)<br>With five fair minutes allotted to each,<br>But never a moment for him to be heard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, each being ready to talk, I suppose,<br>_Order! Order!_<br>They cried, _for the Chair!_<br>And, much to their wonder, our friend arose<br>And fastened his eye on the eye of the Mayor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'We have come,' he said, 'to the fourteenth course!<br>'_High--time,<br>for the Chair_,' he said.<br>Then, with both of his hands, and with all of his force,<br>He hurled his chair at the Lord Mayor's head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It missed that head by the width of a hair.<br>_Gee--whizz!<br>What a horrible squeak!_<br>But it crashed through the big bay-window there<br>And smashed a bus into Wednesday week.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the very next day, in the decorous Times<br>(_Great--Guns--<br>How the headlines ran!_)<br>In spite of the kings and the wars and the crimes,<br>There were five full columns about that man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>ENVOI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, if you get dizzy when authors write<br>(_My stars!<br>And you very well may!_)<br>That white is black and that black is white,<br>You should sit, quite still, in your chair and say:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is easy enough to be famous now,<br>(_Puff--Puff!<br>How the trumpets blare!_)<br>Provided, of course, that you don't care how,<br>Like the man who discovered the use of a chair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Noyes">Alfred Noyes</a><div class=q>
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_Odds--bobs--
What a wonderful man!_
He used to sit down on it, tearing his hair,
Till he thought of a highly original plan.
For years he had sat on his chair, like you,
_Quite--still!
But his looks were ..."></div>
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