http://www.marketpoetry.com/archives/24 Investors havin' a little fun Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:39:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.marketpoetry.com/archives/24#comment-59 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:42:21 +0000 http://www.marketpoetry.com/archives/24#comment-59 Forty years ago, during my college years, we girls occasionally had to invite a boy for a formal party. Normally we used to write some flowery letter to invite our 'prince', ending same with an appropriate quote of some sorts. Of course my date-to-be should never get the feeling that I might be in love with him, therefor I invariably ended my request with: 'Better to go down dignified With boughten friendship at your side Than none at all. Provide, provide!' Ah, those were the days.... Trudi (the Netherlands) Forty years ago, during my college years, we girls occasionally had to invite a boy for a formal party. Normally we used to write some flowery letter to invite our ‘prince’, ending same with an appropriate quote of some sorts. Of course my date-to-be should never get the feeling that I might be in love with him, therefor I invariably ended my request with:
‘Better to go down dignified
With boughten friendship at your side
Than none at all. Provide, provide!’
Ah, those were the days….
Trudi (the Netherlands)

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