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    Quote Originally Posted by meinfs View Post
    you told me you loved me
    so i don't understand
    why promises are snapped in two
    and words are made to bend
    (the bigger, the better)
    some stolen from japan (CDNsushi? )
    collected from around the world,
    they'll catch you if they can
    (chorus)
    lice, lice, lice* yeah (they're gonna get you)
    lice, lice, lice yeah (they won't forget you)
    lice, lice, lice yeah (they're gonna get you)
    lice, lice, lice yeah


    Well, I dunno anything about THAT but I DO know that in Japanese, head lice are called atamajirami 頭虱. (atama means 'head' by the way)

    The common louse is just a jirami 虱.

    Well, now I'd feel bad without contributing something at least as cool as meinfs, so here goes...

    *ahem*

    To a Louse
    By Robert Burns

    Ha! whaur ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie?
    Your impudence protects you sairly;
    I canna say but ye strunt rarely,
    Owre gauze and lace;
    Tho', faith! I fear ye dine but sparely
    On sic a place.

    Ye ugly, creepin, blastit wonner,
    Detested, shunn'd by saunt an' sinner,
    How daur ye set your fit upon her-
    Sae fine a lady?
    Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner
    On some poor body.

    Swith! in some beggar's haffet squattle;
    There ye may creep, and sprawl, and sprattle,
    Wi' ither kindred, jumping cattle,
    In shoals and nations;
    Whaur horn nor bane ne'er daur unsettle
    Your thick plantations.

    Now haud you there, ye're out o' sight,
    Below the fatt'rels, snug and tight;
    Na, faith ye yet! ye'll no be right,
    Till ye've got on it-
    The verra tapmost, tow'rin height
    O' Miss' bonnet.

    My sooth! right bauld ye set your nose out,
    As plump an' grey as ony groset:
    O for some rank, mercurial rozet,
    Or fell, red smeddum,
    I'd gie you sic a hearty dose o't,
    Wad dress your droddum.

    I wad na been surpris'd to spy
    You on an auld wife's flainen toy;
    Or aiblins some bit dubbie boy,
    On's wyliecoat;
    But Miss' fine Lunardi! fye!
    How daur ye do't?

    O Jeany, dinna toss your head,
    An' set your beauties a' abread!
    Ye little ken what cursed speed
    The blastie's makin:
    Thae winks an' finger-ends, I dread,
    Are notice takin.

    O wad some Power the giftie gie us
    To see oursels as ithers see us!
    It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
    An' foolish notion:
    What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
    An' ev'n devotion!

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    That's cool. I didn't know that...

    Quote Originally Posted by CDNSushi View Post
    ...

    *ahem*

    To a Louse
    By Robert Burns

    Ha! whaur ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie?
    Your impudence protects you sairly;
    I canna say but ye strunt rarely,
    Owre gauze and lace;
    Tho', faith! I fear ye dine but sparely
    On sic a place.
    [...]

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