I need happy thoughts in these nasty times...

What do you call the man with the shovel at the bottom of a pit?

Dougal

In response to David's introduction of some literacy legitimacy to this litany of light-hearted linguistic lunacy (isn't our language just fun all by itself?) there is another poem, dated in its associations and values, but one I nevertheless find both comforting and inspiring, for its simple encouragement: It's "If" by Rudyard Kipling.

It is one everybody knows the first or last lines of, or makes part-references to, but the whole is also worth reading, if only once. Perhaps in our situation today permitting a tentative (and slightly humorous) change of the phrase "you'll be a man..." in its last line to: "you'll be HR...".

(...and forgiving its dated sexism).

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---

P

In response to David's introduction of some literacy legitimacy to this litany of light-hearted linguistic lunacy (isn't our language just fun all by itself?) there is another poem, dated in its associations and values, but one I nevertheless find both comforting and inspiring, for its simple encouragement: It's "If" by Rudyard Kipling.

It is one everybody knows the first or last lines of, or makes part-references to, but the whole is also worth reading, if only once. Perhaps in our situation today permitting a tentative (and slightly humorous) change of the phrase "you'll be a man..." in its last line to: "you'll be HR...".

(...and forgiving its dated sexism).

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---

P