From: utzoo!decvax!cca!csin!cjh Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: Little Willie Article-I.D.: csin.177 Posted: Mon Aug 9 11:50:21 1982 Received: Tue Aug 10 02:31:19 1982 In response to your message of Fri Aug 6 15:56:08 1982: Making toast by the fireside Bill fell on the grate and died. Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't the heart to poke poor Willy. Some of these go a long way back; I remember getting a copy of RUTHLESS RHYMES FOR HEARTLESS HOMES & MORE RRfHH in 1964 and much of the stuff in it looked Victorian (the drawings could be faked, but Little Willy is not recent). The verses weren't all LW; another I recall: Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off the bus: "The step is short from the sublime To the ridiculous."