[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 178 (Friday, November 10, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H12089]
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             THE PRESIDENT, THE SPEAKER, AND WARTY BLIGGENS

  (Mr. OBEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, the silly flap about whether the President 
paid enough attention to the Speaker on Air Force One reminds me of a 
poem written by my favorite philosopher, Archy the Cockroach.
  It goes as follows:

     i met a toad
     the other day by the name
     of warty bliggens
     he was sitting under
     a toadstool
     feeling contented
     he explained that when the cosmos
     was created
     that toadstool was especially
     planned for his personal
     shelter from sun and rain
     thought out and prepared
     for him

     do not tell me
     said warty bliggens
     that there is not a purpose
     in the universe
     the thought is blasphemy

     a little more
     conversation revealed
     that warty bliggens
     considers himself to be
     the center of the said
     universe
     the earth exists
     to grow toadstools for him
     to sit under
     the sun to give him light
     by day, and the moon
     and wheeling constellations
     to make beautiful
     the night all for the sake of
     warty bliggens

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