Answers.com’s highlight for today shone on William McGonagall, a Scottish weaver, actor, and poet who must have been quite a character. This is what Answers had to say:
“William McGonagall, gleefully known as one of English language’s worst poets, continues to get no respect. Last month, plans for a memorial to him at the Writers Museum in Edinburgh (alongside those honoring Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Walter Scott) were blocked by the Saltire Society in Scotland. In an epithet on a volume of his works, McGonagall’s own publisher called him the world’s worst poet. In spite of his detractors, McGonagall’s works have remained in print for over a hundred years. He used to carry an umbrella everywhere he went, because there was always a chance he would be pelted with tomatoes.”
I don’t think there’s much of a chance for the Americans to wake up to realise that George Bush could be crowned the most stupid president in US history. Despite his many gaffes he seems to be pelted with reverence and awe wherever he turns up, rather than with eggs and vegetables.
[go to Answers.com for a series of images from the 2002 McGonagall exhibition]
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