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Dateline: 19 June 2017 @ 20:17:18
Quoth Hayley Turner, “I wonder how they got that name from. Percy B Shelley.”
Quoth Mark Chapman, ” Someone will be googling it right now. I don’t know if it’s anyone in particular.”
Could attheraces please, if at all possible, send all their presenters on a literature course, following which they should at least be able to identify the most famous of the Group 1 poets of the early 19th century.
I wouldn’t normally point out such presenter shortcomings, but I’ve had a bottle of wine and I have an urgent need to complain about people not doing their poetry homework.
I know sod all about poetry and even I’ve heard of Shelley. In fact he’s one of my stock answers on University Challenge
Remember this…
As far as racing goes:
A “poet” once said:“Keats and Yeats are on your side
but you lose”Value Is EverythingApologies to Kipling, but this is a prime case of What do they know of racing, who only racing know?
Mike
Remember this…
As far as racing goes:
A “poet” once said:“Keats and Yeats are on your side
but you lose”Morrissey no less I believe
I often look on Chapman’s works and despair.
Well, Gladiateur, even university educated PBS didn’t know his Balboa from his Cortez!
Seriously, though, this was shocking stuff. If they’re going to comment on names, they should do some elementary homework first.
On First Looking into Chapman’s Manner
Er…Quoth Hayley Turner, “I wonder how they got that name from. Percy B Shelley.”
Quoth Mark Chapman, ” Someone will be googling it right now. I don’t know if it’s anyone in particular.”
Great stuff Guys! See you in Private Eye’s ‘Dumb Britain’ column
nce said:
“Keats and Yeats are on your side
but you lose”Morrissey no less I believe
Well if Chappers isn’t interested a flight on the viewless wings of Poesy, at least he can fall back on the alternative- “Bacchus” is running today.
I’ve sobered up sufficiently to note some nicely observed comments above.
If the current relevance of poetry to horse racing is to move forward, it seems to me that Percy B Shelley must surely one day line up against Gordon Lord Byron. Let’s get it on. Then at last, after a couple of hundred years or so, we can establish beyond doubt which of the two was the better poet.
Well, Gladiateur, even university educated PBS didn’t know his Balboa from his Cortez!
I do believe that was Keats, not Shelley.
Great stuff Guys! See you in Private Eye’s ‘Dumb Britain’ column
They recently had a Dumb Australia sub-section:
WSFM, Sydney
DJ: Which Mediterranean country, who’s name sounds like a musical, owns the island of Rhodes?
Caller: Fiddler on the RoofMike
Like it, Mike. My personal favourite came from ITV’s Family Fortunes many years ago:
Q: Name a famous Irishman.
A: Trevor Mcdonald.I do believe that was Keats, not Shelley.
Indeed, Gladiateur, an English graduate blushes.
But it was a long, long time ago, alas!
Quoth Mark Chapman, ” Someone will be googling it right now. I don’t know if it’s anyone in particular.”
Don’t blame me Seasider, it was my brother Matt.
Value Is Everything
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