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Rob Evans <rre@mla001.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<goJoJHTqagt$Ewq7@mla001.demon.co.uk>...
> In message <670584bc.0311150133.47a8ab96@posting.google.com>,
> yyyiiinnnggg@yahoo.com writes
> >>
> >hey rob, when was your first post?
> >
> God knows.  I was lurking around RAP almost since its inception but I
>
God must. it was only 1997. Do you remember this is one of your early
posts? Wasn't Tim Peddyson anno*ying? My point is who are you to tell
me about rap history?

ying

Rob Evans wrote:
>
> In article <8E4cPHA58WOzEwiE@mla001.demon.co.uk>, Rob Evans
> <Rob@mla001.demon.co.uk> re-writes with one slight alteration
> >Antipasto Torino
> >
> >Fresh black pepper,
> >ground coarsely over
> >a finely-chopped mixture
> >of rockett and tomato,
> >olive oil and oregano,
> >all lightly drizzled onto
> >thin translucent pieces
> >of oak-smoked swordfish,
> >resting on a bed of crisp
> >dark green lettuce
> >on a plain white plate
> >in the slim bronzed hand
> >of a long-legged,
> >henna-headed
> >sweet surprise
> >with wide brown eyes,
> >warm enough to melt the ice
> >in my campari-soda.
> >
> Thanks to those who commented - I think replacing tan with thin in the
> seventh line does make it easier to read out (although I don't know
> why). To those who feel that the rhythm stumbles in the fifth line, I
> can only say that this is due to differences in US/UK pronunciation. The
> former stress the reg in oregano whereas the latter stress the gan.
>
> Rob
> --
> Rob Evans

You could also place "of rockett and tomato" with
"rughetta and tomato" if you wanted to use the Italian
and impress the easily impressed ;)

(Although rughetta sounds so much nicer and works
well  with "mixture" in the preceding line too, so it does have
some poetic value too :)

 Tim  who can't find rughetta at
  any of his local supermarkets :(





> can't remember when I first posted, though I'm pretty sure it wasn't
> with windows-based software.  Is it possible to google back to RAP's big
> bang?
>
> Rob