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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Ilse[/i] [br]Andrew Motion, poet laureate (national poet) of Great Britain, dated April 3, 2003 Regime Change Advancing down the road from Niniveh Death paused a while and said 'Now listen here. You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out. Take Eden, further south: at dawn today I ordered up my troops to tear away its walls and gates so everyone can see that gorgeous fruit which dangles from its tree. You want it, don't you? Go and eat it then, and lick your lips, and pick the same again. Take Tigris and Euphrates; once they ran through childhood-coloured slats of sand and sun. Not any more they don't; I've filled them up with countless different kinds of human crap. Take Babylon, the palace sprouting flowers which sweetened empires in their peaceful hours - I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair. Which leaves Baghdad - the star-tipped minarets, the marble courts and halls, the mirage-heat. These places, and the ancient things you know, you won't know soon. I'm working on it now.' [url]http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/04/npoet04.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/04/ixnewstop.html[/url] [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.