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The Celebrity ("The Illustrious Dragon of England and W
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:38 am    Post subject: The Celebrity ("The Illustrious Dragon of England and W Reply with quote

[strikethrough](As far as I have been able to find out this is by Gayle Williams. I know she wrote the music; I'm not sure she wrote the words but I cannot find them credited to anyone else.)[/strikethrough]

"The Celebrity", written and illusrated by Edgar Parker (1961);
music by Gayle Williams (date unknown)


The Illustrious Dragon of England and Wales
Has two awful heads, and eleven long tails,*
And nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine scales,
And spangles and warts without measure.

The King and the Queen are as proud as can be:
They often invite him to join them for tea.
No land has a dragon as awful as he!
They think him a national treasure.

Wherever he wanders, there follows a crowd
Of jubilant citizens, equally proud,
Delightedly singing his praises aloud,
And strewing his pathway with flowers.

You may search: high and low, near and far; everywhere:
And find a few demons to give you a scare:
But none of them awful enough to compare
With ours, with ours, with ours.
With ours.

*[EDIT]: corrected from "tales". [/EDIT]

EDIT2:
Gayle Williams wrote:
Did you add the blog text? The poem, "The Celebrity", was written by Edgar Parker and is included in 1961 a collection of his work called "Stuff and Nonsense". My parents had the book and I was fascinated by the illustrations that are, apparently, also done by Mr. Parker. Thanks for the credit, but you should have asked me first!

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

(The slash on the second line was because I translated it as "tales" and then "tails", not sure if it is a typo.)

Lung iahad desi ingelan oun wéiyals
Ainatgakhon agusa’aza’ak, oun nouvelquanga nilgsok/yuéjga nilgsok doriomak candilanan
Oun fuevutga ectaro ectsam-ectarect
Oun shigohiga oun fayolga su’doasho

Véu oun Niseta zelect qanzé minangungan
Boyi as hojo néowilanan geegeel geel-barcangungan
Su’muka lung qanzé agusa’aza qanzé gee candangungan
Geel tachisholul shajaran amenangungan

Nachura harundajaran, tri asilifai supakalangungan
Desi jarasusga zalbindak, zelect sumukuk,
Qahaugeemart boéhangungan aruchaluk madalu
Oun hajuageemart o chaloga qayanokungunbat

Ekugé tel, vaivan oun uono’o, kap oun toaj, stina
Oun zaxajgakaru napé itwao’ou bila charangun
Cansa sugeegeel agusa’aza holioa o naégamart,
O naégamart, o naégamart, o naégamart
Wodangu’ulngan
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd like to see that in the script! *Drools at the thought of it.*


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



Here you go, I'll try and get a written version up later.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is beautiful! I can't wait to see the hand-written version.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shocked That is fucking drop dead gorgeous!


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 2:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And here you go!

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's pretty. It's really pretty.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGGG!

You know what comes next. Mr. Green


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tolkien_Freak wrote:
It's pretty. It's really pretty.


Its not just pretty, Its beautiful! Fucking drop dead gorgeous like Serali said.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Serali wrote:
OOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGGG!

You know what comes next. Mr. Green



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aeetlrcreejl wrote:
Serali wrote:
OOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGGG!

You know what comes next. Mr. Green



Are you going to melt?


Pfft..What?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

StrangeMagic wrote:
(The slash on the second line was because I translated it as "tales" and then "tails", not sure if it is a typo.)
I'm pretty sure it was a typo. Or a thinko. I'll change it.

"Lung" sounds Chinese (don't know which "dialect"); "desi" sounds Japanese. But Google can't translate it as either of them.
Looks like some of your numbers are Romance-ish. (Just in case, I tried to get Google to translate it from Spanish: no-go.)
What language is that in?
One of your conlangs? (Maybe Eleypherion?)
Or a natlang?
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aeetlrcreejl wrote:
Are you going to melt?


XD I already have! Twisted Evil


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

eldin raigmore wrote:
StrangeMagic wrote:
(The slash on the second line was because I translated it as "tales" and then "tails", not sure if it is a typo.)
I'm pretty sure it was a typo. Or a thinko. I'll change it.

"Lung" sounds Chinese (don't know which "dialect"); "desi" sounds Japanese. But Google can't translate it as either of them.
Looks like some of your numbers are Romance-ish. (Just in case, I tried to get Google to translate it from Spanish: no-go.)
What language is that in?
One of your conlangs? (Maybe Eleypherion?)
Or a natlang?


Yeah, I borrowed a few words from Chinese, "lung" is somewhat like Cantonese.

Ectaro ectsam-ectarect is basically - 9-thousand 9-hundred 9-ten 9.

And it is in Eleypherion. ^_^
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

StrangeMagic wrote:
Yeah, I borrowed a few words from Chinese, "lung" is somewhat like Cantonese.
Ectaro ectsam-ectarect is basically - 9-thousand 9-hundred 9-ten 9.
And it is in Eleypherion. ^_^
I want to send it to Gayle Williams. May I?
Also, would you mind giving us an "Interlinear Morphemic Gloss" of the first and last verses?
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That request is more conlangish than conscriptish. A good conscriptish request would be to ask you to do for one (or more) line(s) of your orthographic version whatever the conscriptish version of an IMG is. I guess that means; show it in orthography; then show it in romanisation or IPA or Z-SAMPA or CXS; then continue with an IMG.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Okay, I have been busy during the period of no internet. ^_^

I have been able to make a recording of the poem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVg9E7dj7QA
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

StrangeMagic wrote:
Okay, I have been busy during the period of no internet. ^_^

I have been able to make a recording of the poem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVg9E7dj7QA


See my reply on Youtube (I am UndeadYakboy.)
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

StrangeMagic wrote:
Okay, I have been busy during the period of no internet. ^_^

I have been able to make a recording of the poem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVg9E7dj7QA


OMG! That is awesome! And the ending with the script *Drools* I also commented on it. You'll know it's me by the very content of what I wrote.

^_________^ Look! A boingy! YAY! Mr. Green


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

StrangeMagic wrote:
Okay, I have been busy during the period of no internet. ^_^

I have been able to make a recording of the poem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVg9E7dj7QA
I like this.
I just found out the real name of the poem is "The Celebrity".
And the poet -- and illustrator -- was Edgar Parker.
He did it in 1961 in a book called "Stuff and Nonsense".
I can't find it online.
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