Weekend boredom buster

[Julia]

Ten Brownie Points to the first person who can rewrite the following correcting the errors:

Marmaduke Witherspoon was not only intellectually brilliant, he was also very talented in the fields of music and dance. At the age of four he could already sing the tenor lead in Beethoven's Twelfth Symphony.

He was very fond of Mozart's music which he loved for its violent and dramatic atonal, discordant majesty. Not for Marmaduke were the delicate, gentle movements of Wagner, the composer so despised by Hitler.

He also demonstrated a fondness for literature, his reading ability being some years ahead of his peers. Unusually for a boy, he enjoyed Little Ladies by Louise P. Allworthy, The Gale in the Pine Trees by Kenneth Gardiner, and Alicia in Dreamland by Lawrence Carroll.

When he had outgrown these, he would progress to such fine literature as The Great Godsby by F. Tucker Fitzgerald, Catch 33 by John Keller, Of Rats and Women, by John Steingarten, The Old Man and the Ocean by Ernest Byway, and ultimately Battle and Accord by the famous Swedish writer Leo Tolhurst.

His parents were confident that as he grew up he would reaidly take to reading such dramatic words as The Unimportance of being Ernie by Oscar Williams, and The Ballad of Tyneside Gaol by the same renowned author who also wrote The Photograph of Doris Green.
By that time he would be old enough to understand the persecution of this famous author for being heterosexual, a state much frowned on in those times.

Marmaduke's parents hoped that soon they would have a daughter who would also appreciate all these fine works and in addition follow the notions of slavery campaigner for women Geraldine Greer.

A daughter would also be encouraged to participate in the elegant art of ballet, aspiring one day to such roles as Siegfried in Swan Lake, perhaps partnered by her brother as Odette. She might also be the Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. The parents so enjoyed their fantasy of their two children dancing the famous Duck Pond Ballet to the music of Mahler, who was also famous for writing the 1812 Overture.

OK? Apologies for not wrapping titles in quotation marks.

 

[MrBurns]

I had a huge reply for you but I've been having connection problems all day and it timed out and I lost it.
I hate Telstra with a passion, Sol created a worlds worst practice company thats for sure.

 

[singlefished]

I had a huge reply for you but I've been having connection problems all day and it timed out and I lost it.
I hate Telstra with a passion, Sol created a worlds worst practice company thats for sure.

everytime before I submit/preview, I highlight everything and then right-click-copy... been burned too many times before

 

[Julia]

I had a huge reply for you but I've been having connection problems all day and it timed out and I lost it.
I hate Telstra with a passion, Sol created a worlds worst practice company thats for sure.

Yep, it's pretty hard to see how Sol earned his big bucks.
Could you have another go Mr Burns? It would take your mind off dieting, maybe? Just a bit of fun.

 

[MrBurns]

Yep, it's pretty hard to see how Sol earned his big bucks.
Could you have another go Mr Burns? It would take your mind off dieting, maybe? Just a bit of fun.

I just haven't got the time or patience to Google everything and run to the dictionary all over again, so I'll leave it to someone else.:

 

[Julia]

I just haven't got the time or patience to Google everything and run to the dictionary all over again, so I'll leave it to someone else.:

Google everything? I thought you'd just know that stuff, Mr Burns.
So we don't have too many people on ASF who off the top of their heads
know what the obvious errors should be replaced with? Surely, someone???

 

[Calliope]

So we don't have too many people on ASF who off the top of their heads
know what the obvious errors should be replaced with? Surely, someone???

As Basil Fawlty said, some people wouldn't know a bordeaux from a claret.

 

[MrBurns]

Google everything? I thought you'd just know that stuff, Mr Burns.
So we don't have too many people on ASF who off the top of their heads
know what the obvious errors should be replaced with? Surely, someone???

I know most of it but let's face it all human knowledge is in Google, we dont have to store any in our brains any more

 

[MrBurns]

As Basil Fawlty said, some people wouldn't know a bordeaux from a claret.

riff raff.........

 

[moXJO]

So we don't have too many people on ASF who off the top of their heads
know what the obvious errors should be replaced with? Surely, someone???

Being a tradie, I can spot the error with that text a mile away. My rewritten summery is below.

Marmaduke Witherspoon was a prancing fairy

The end

 

[nomore4s]

Being a tradie, I can spot the error with that text a mile away. My rewritten summery is below.

rotflmao

 

[Julia]

Being a tradie, I can spot the error with that text a mile away. My rewritten summery is below.

MoXJO: That's very funny
Now have a title for this little literary gem.

I'm still disappointed that no one will flash back a corrected version??

 

[gfresh]

Marking kids essays or something are we Julia? I think I have missed a couple.. initially I was looking at the grammatical structure, then I thought, hang on a sec..

Marmaduke Witherspoon was not only intellectually brilliant, he was also very talented in the fields of music and dance. At the age of four he could already sing the lead tenor in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

He was very fond of Wagner's music. This he loved for its violent and dramatic atonality, and discordant majesty. Not for Marmaduke were the delicate, and gentle movements of Beethoven, the composer so despised by Hitler.

He also demonstrated a fondness for literature, his reading ability being some years ahead of his peers. Unusually for a boy, he enjoyed Little Women by Louisa P. Alcott, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, and Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

When he had outgrown these, he would progress to such fine literature as The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway, and ultimately War and Peace by the famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.

His parents were confident that as he grew up he would readily take to reading such dramatic words as The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, and The Ballad of Reading Gaol. This was written by the same renowned author who also wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray. By that time he would be old enough to understand the persecution of this famous author for being homosexual, a state much frowned on in those times.

Marmaduke's parents hoped that soon they would have a daughter who would also appreciate all these fine works and in addition follow the notions of Germaine Greer, campaigner for women's rights.

A daughter would also be encouraged to participate in the elegant art of ballet, aspiring one day to such roles as Odette in Swan Lake, perhaps partnered by her brother as Siegfried. She might also be the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. The parents so enjoyed their fantasy of their two children dancing the famous Swan Lake Ballet to the music of Tchaikovsky, who was also famous for writing the 1812 Overture.

 

[MrBurns]

What he said......

 

[singlefished]

He was very fond of Mozart's music which he loved for its violent and dramatic atonal, discordant majesty. Not for Marmaduke were the delicate, gentle movements of Wagner, the composer so admired by Hitler.

possibly?

 

[MrBurns]

Cant fool me ....Marmaduke was a cat.

 

[Julia]

Marking kids essays or something are we Julia? I think I have missed a couple.. initially I was looking at the grammatical structure, then I thought, hang on a sec..

Hey, gfresh, goodonya, you got what you were supposed to.

I had a slightly different interpretation of this bit where you changed it to:

He was very fond of Wagner's music. This he loved for its violent and dramatic atonality, and discordant majesty. Not for Marmaduke were the delicate, and gentle movements of Beethoven, the composer so despised by Hitler.

Here all I had in mind was the swapping of Wagner with Mozart, the latter being on the whole gentle and ordered. Beethoven gets quite dramatic, e.g. the Fifth Symphony. And the connection between Wagner and Hitler was that the Fuehrer was passionately fond of Wagner, not despised as I mis-suggested.

Thanks a lot for doing it.

See Mr Burns - how easy was that, huh?

 

[Julia]

possibly?

Yep, singlefished, exactly right. Thanks.

 

[Julia]

Cant fool me ....Marmaduke was a cat.

Well, you'll have to have this out with moXJO who has determined Marmaduke to be a 'Prancing Fairy'. Personally, I'm pretty taken with the latter interpretation.

Might be a bit about Marmaduke's equally talented sister, Heavenly Carolina, some time.
Good to be a bit absurd occasionally.

 

[MrBurns]

See Mr Burns - how easy was that, huh?

My web connection just came back in after 4 hours off otherwise I would have had this cleared up a ong time ago