Anyone have a particular favourite outside the half-dozen best-known?
On a related note, would it be heresy to suggest that Burton reading both Voices possibly doesn't yield the intended effect? (Not that this idiot on the Internet knows the intentions of a man now sixty years dead.)
>>5460 Happy birthday, old chap. Anyone west of the Dyke is probably going to see this in the news quite a bit over the next fortnight.
Here's one of his less appreciated works:
There was an old bugger called God
Who put a young virgin in pod
This disgraceful behaviour
Produced Christ our saviour
Who died on a cross, poor old sod.
Another quote of his you don't find put up much around my parts is the fact he called his hometown 'the graveyard of ambition'. You don't see that quote alongside the poor bastards face when it's plastered along the sides of Swansea buses.
>>5827 >the fact he called his hometown 'the graveyard of ambition'.
Apparently he didn't. Plaid Cymru were quite publicly bollocked when they pinned both that, and the punning "ambition is critical" (to be found outside the station) on him. The writer of the latter is both known and still alive. On a similar note, Stephen Fry ended QI with the legend of "eighteen straight whiskies" - while he did say it, it was a full two days before being hospitalised. On thing he did say of his heritage was "Wales: Land of my fathers; my fathers can keep it."
I was tempted to adorn his statue in the marina with a sash, a balloon, a birthday card and a party hat. I'm sure some would think it vandalism, but I couldn't help but think it the sort of gesture that he'd have appreciated.
