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("8,0 BBC Brains Trust: Al Rowse, . . " from a programme announcement in The Listener). Froerk guys and a doll sat round the mike, Al Rowse, Cy. Joad, Bert Russell, Ba Ward, and McCullough (or Spike), Al was strictly. a campus type, P Harris tweed, history, cherry-wood pipe. » Bert was hep to systems of think From Platonic blue to Marxian pink. Ba was the gonest chick alive, Sterling and dollar was her jive, Spike was around to crack the whip And pull the quizzes {rom the lucky dip. He pulled them out and he laid them down, But the gang was strictly from out of town. Al didn’t know who Palmerston was, Bert thought Hegel discovered because, Ba pulled a boner over Ricardo, .~ Most of Spike’s wisecracks were retardo, But Cy knew this and Cy knew that, Cy yanked seven muses out of his hat, Cy was top man, he was the woiks, He showed ’em all up for a bunch of’ joiks. Those four rubes who sat round the. mike, Al Rowse, Bert Russell, Ba Ward, and McCullough (or Spike) , Were dumber than spare cups baked in Spode. Who knows why the chicken crossed the road? Only Cy (ril Edwin Mitchinson) Joad.
G. leF.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 467, 4 June 1948, Page 9
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