From: Stuatr Ulph
Date: 29 Sep 2002
Time: 09:36:09
Remote Name: 193.237.136.145
I am sure you will soon have the text of this Limerick. Just a note on pronounciation. When I first heard the rhyme in question (I Was a Teenage Heptaphile at the time) my middle English accent made it sound pretty clunky. Some years later I was visiting a friend who lived in the servants' quarters of a country house. The owner of the house appeared (very nice chap it transpired), saw my car and exclaimed "Ah! A Baby Orstin!" in a splendidly languid Oxford drawl. Suddenly the penny dropped. I think the limerick should be recited as if by Sir Percy Blakeney when he's busy not being the Scarlet Pimpernel. Give it a try. Regards, Stuart