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September 11, 2006, 10:42
BobHale
bowdlerised quiz question
On today's Weakest Link

"Who was the author of the poem that begins 'They muck you up, your mum and dad'?"

I don't think they'd have taken my answer of "there's no such poem".

As a sidenote I did a check on this bowdlerised version and discovered several websites repeating it, some without mentioning the fact that it had been changed.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
September 11, 2006, 11:01
arnie
This page mentions an even more bowdlerised version: They tuck you up ... which also destroys the meaning.


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.