Re: Religions / George J. Dance

George J. Dance wrote:
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Will Dockery wrote:

George J. Dance wrote:
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On 2022-09-23 6:14 a.m., W-Dockery wrote:

George J. Dance wrote:

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Religions

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(a Martian poem)

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The Hindu takes a sacred vow,
And never, ever eats a cow.

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The Muslim thinks a cow's too big,
And so he never eats a pig.

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The Jew does like the Muslim, though
You mustn't ever tell them so.

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Wafers'n'wine for Christian God,
Except on Fridays, when it's cod.

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Religions are the same, I guess:
First you sin, and then confess

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And then a holy man will bless,
Dressed up in a fancy dress.

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~~
George J. Dance
from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015

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Nice one, sort of an Ogden Nash feel.
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Still drawing a blank on the "Martian" catchphrase, though.

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Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in the late
1970s and early 1980s, in which everyday things and human behaviour
are described in a strange way, as if by a visiting Martian who does
not understand them. Poets most closely associated with it are Craig
Raine and Christopher Reid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_poetry

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I'll probably copy it onto PPP later today. I replaced one of their
articles yesterday, which gives me room to add another.

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You have a policy of limiting the importation of Wikipedia articles to
the Penny Wiki now?

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Not a global policy. It's a personal policy. I've been looking for other
sources of licensed articles, so that we wouldn't be just a clone of
Wikipedia, and substituting those for Wikipedia when I can find them.
I actually started that back when we had 9,000 articles, of which more
than 7,000 were from Wikipedia, and it's worked. Now we're up to more
than 11,000, of which 6,500 are Wikipedia. But there's no limit on
anyone else importing Wikipedia articles; those are such a small
percentage of new articles that they don't make a big difference. (Not
to trivialize or disparage those contributions.)

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Turns out I didn't have to import this one, as it turns out it's been on
the wiki, virtually word-for-word) for over a decade. I discovered that
when I tried to add it. One neat touch is the illustration I'd added
back then, of a Martian tripod from /War of the Worlds/. Another, which
I just added, is an embedded video of Raine reading "A Martian Sends a
Postcard Home".

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Interestin info....!