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Would you expect any less from me? Ogden Nash is one of my favourite poets and a lot of my favourites of his poems are in this collection. It's also a collection that reminds me very much of my grandfather, who is fond of reciting poems from it. "Barber, barber, come and get me / Hairy torrents irk and fret me." One of those books I'd probably snap up at a library book sale or in a secondhand shop.

Ogden Nash is great fun to read when you like playing with words. Not too many deep thoughts, but many thoughts common to most of us. He was a man of his times and the poems reflect that, so, not necessarily politically correct. However, I believe he rags men as much as he does women.

Wonderful! Every time I hear the old-fashioned phrase "supper club", I think of Ogden Nash.

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