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- Subject: Re: Our Apologies for Mr. Dailey's Post...
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- 28 Jan 1993 11:18:04 -0500 from <jsmith@Q415.BETHESDAM.EDU>
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- The Ballad of Otto Dailey von Tuscaloosa
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- Oh, Otto Dailey knew no fear,
- He said, "I must get out of here--
- The inmates have taken over this zoo
- God give me strength to see me through.
- God give me strength to make it through.
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- He stole an account at random at Mayo,
- And fashioned an effigy made from Play-Doh,
- To give the lie that he'd not crept
- From his cell to do some intrept,
- From his cell to fare Intrepid.
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- The Doctors were having a celestial wake,
- The Nurses were eating some baked bean cake,
- And Otto flew to the terminal and saw
- His escape from the wrong arm of the law,
- He saw his escape from the law.
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- He typed, deranged, as diagnosed before
- And hoped the sound could not be heard through the door,
- And found that Mayo was more than willing
- To allow him access to nodes a-thrilling,
- To give his heart a shock most thrilling.
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- But it was all a set-up, Otto soon found
- And his hopes, such as they were, were dashed unmercifully to the ground,
- Not by Jaclyn, who had no authority to threaten him with anything when
- she herself was guilty of unlawful imprisonment,
- But by Arthur, who the way of semantic derision went,
- But by Arthur, a stickler for what he saw as declining standards in
- schools, and would always his ear a listen bend.
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- I should have been Scottish.
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- gm
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