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[The Fighting Temeraire - Turner] So, Cornwall, February...

1) don't mention the war - 2) - them hamburglers can munch on some carpet bombing) - 3) - rubble rubble) - 4) - no, really, don't mention the war - 5) - my bird's yellow bird thinks he's got a callback from hitchcock - 6) - he thinks i'm hitchcock - 7) - 's okay, he don't draw skin, he don't break blood - 8) - ( don't mention the war ) - 9) - ding - 10) - and i said, my name is billy bathos, a greek of slender years - 11) - olympian in stature, athenian by nature, spartan to the core - 12) - let me at them paltry germans! achilles! hand me thy sword - 13) - 14) - ah, love again, that woman from troy again... (and so it goes) - 15) - should i make a run for it on my non-nike heels i wonder? (or ride that horse?) - 16) - i take the fast train to crewe alexandra (where will shakespeare was born) - 17) - who's will shakespeare you ask? a q 'n a here - 18) - he's only the fastest milkman in the west i said. he can sperm words like a frog on a float, whooosh... and i'm gone, half-pasteurized already, a crock of croaking... olden, and golden to the end - 19) - goodbye goodbye i said. i gotta go. i got some people to meet under the railway arches, a man from verona with a sidekick from sicilly. i got a contract out on some fiendish germans. terms to talk - 20) - 21) - jesus christ! the prophet muhammad, mahatma ghandi, yahweh yahweh, president bush - 22) - i'm locked in a cupboard in colditz castle - 23) - get me outta here - 24) - 25) - blindfolded, they lead me out... they put me on a plane, headed for guantanamo bay - 26) - is orange my favourite colour? is it green, is it blue? an african hue? is white's cream soda my favourite fizz? i'm looking for my dark lady i said, do you know where she is? you're coming with us, this one man said, the guy with the crewcut, the club and the crucifix - jesus! - 27) - 28) - let me outta here (and i won't mention the war)

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& born in february =

february 5th, 1808 karl spitzweg
february 8th, 1880 franz marc
february 25th, 1841 pierre-auguste renoir
february 26th, 1841 honore daumier


& died in february =

february 1st, 1944 piet mondrian
february 6th, 1918 gustav klimt
february 10th, 1917 john william waterhouse
february 18th, 1455 fra angelico
february 18th, 1564 michelangelo buonarroti
february 23rd, 1792 joshua reynolds
february 23rd, 1820 john keats