1849
by Kelly Chapman (copyright 2007) 🙂
It was in 1849
that the miners went to mine
they lived in camps
on the river banks
And there they mined for gold. For shining, shimmering gold.
Then blow ye winds hi-ho, they sang
For Californ-i-o, they sang
There’s plenty of gold so I’ve been told on the banks of the Sacramento.
And then they mined for gold. For shining, shimmering gold
And there in the old boom town
they grew old, stooping, brown
with large straw hats
and red bare backs
But still they mined for gold. For shining, shimmering gold.
Some did not find their prize
In it’s gold-yellow guise
But “I’ll always” said they
above the donkey’s bray
“I’ll always mine for gold. For shining, shimmering gold.”
SUPER DUPER!
I drive my car to SUPER market
the way I take is SUPER HIGH
SUPER SUDS are what I buy!
SUPER TONIC for relief…
SUPER DRANO for my grief…
SUPER SLIMING for my girth…
SUPER SAVINGS for my worth!
SUPER deals on every isle!
SUPER COUPONS make me smile!
SUPER.. SUPER… SUPER MAN…
would you prefer paper or plastic?
Bryan, you missed your calling!!!!
I finally found a way to work around my problem. I use Microsoft Visual C# to edit my forms, and I use Sharpdevelop to write the program!
Without using Mac?!!! (gasp!)
Incredible. You are getting very good at this. We really need you to give us a weekly poem! Did you know your great, great, great grandfather, Steve Jenkins went to the gold rush in California from Oregon in 1949?
Good job Christian. That is a super solution. I will try to give you a primer on boolean algebra this weekend so you can work with the AND, OR, XOR, and NOT operators that you ran into in your text book.
But now there is a new problem. I get how the first three encodings of the ENIGMA machine work, but after I get to the replicator and the inversed motors, it drops off completely.
I used this http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/enigma/example1.htm
Wowee Kelly, these poems seem to get deeper and deeper. But they are all about DEAD PEOPLE Kelly!(Talk about NEGATIVE!) And you just keep making new stuff! Why can’t you just stick to the classics like I told you to? An example of a good one:
Off with the head,
Marie is now dead.
See!?!? This deep, illustrious, brilliant, classic poem on the French Revolution bores down into the happiness of life. At least it takes a GOOD approach to things. And its EDUCATIONAL!! THIS POEM talks about something that REALLY HAPPENED!! Not some made up joke like yours. Kelly, I suggest you get a (poetic) life.
P.S. Anything older than a month is a classic
Cool Dad! Thanks. I’ll pretend to ignore your comment Christian. I didn’t know that about Grandpa Jenkins. I thought that the gold rush had dispersed by then! That’s like 100 years after! How strange!
P.S.S Kelly, “Banks” and “Camps” doesn’t rhyme you know.
P.S.S.S Kelly, neither does “hats” and “backs”. I suppose you think you are a country song writer.
Cool Dad! Thanks. I’ll pretend to ignore your comments Kelly. I didn’t know that about Grandpa Jenkins. I thought that the gold rush had dispersed by then! That’s like 100 years after! How strange!
But anyway Kelly, you see, any other ORDINARY brother would just say to stick to the classics and not to try out anything new, saying that your poems are terrible and based on fictional events. I however, the one brother full of the milk of human kindness, thinks that your marvelous poems are wonderful as I described in the comment before.
Kelly, think of the year that your great, great, great grandfather got out here to Oregon. Then think of the year of the gold rush. Comments?
Christian, your Enigma thing is sounding very, very grand.
BUT HOW DO I SOLVE THE PROBLEM!?!?!?!?!!?
When I read how it works from one source, it tells me one thing, but when I read about it from the other it tells me something else! HOW DOES THE ENIGMA AND ITS REFLECTOR WORK?
But Dad! you put 1949 instead of 1849! 🙂