On the Fleetingness of Fame

[Subdeacon Joe]

From "Homeward Bound" by Harry Turtledove:

"Some Englishman had gained immortality of a sort by calling vanished Petra a rose-red city half as old as time. (It was immortality only of a sort, for nobody bothered to remember the rest of the poem these days, or even the Englishman's name.)

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Jimmy who?

[Subdeacon Joe]

17 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Jimmy who?

 

Hoffa. 

 

But, about the poem:

http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3771/petra.html

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

A rose-red city hall? Ours I'd call brick red.

[Subdeacon Joe]

54 minutes ago, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said:

A rose-red city hall? Ours I'd call brick red.

 

 

Thanks.  Fixed.  Darned that OTTO!  

And darned my eyes!   I need to increase the font size on my phone.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

5 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Jimmy who?

I was thinking about Carter....but whatever.

 

Hoffa is still alive.  He plays poker every Friday night with Amelia Earhart, Elvis, and Judge J. F. Crater. 

[Rye Miles #13621]

20 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Jimmy who?

Jimmy the Greek