Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception - Annual Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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ODCATHEDRAL C OLLEGE You've borne with me for quite a time Throughout this jingle's tinkle. So be at rest, you must have guessed- 96 That this is by D. Dinkle. 'k 'k k Explanatory Notes laid him low: To render prone as by a blow. mud: i.e. clay. quoddie: O. E. for jail. hell is full of holes: there is no satisfactory scientific proof of this. Whose bones are dust: in all probability not really dust but amorphous calcium. berry: A now extinct species of bird, once indigenous to the Bronx. Eugene Molloy: There was a Eugene Molloy at the siege of Dunboy. Probably no relation of the same. Belloc . . . Chesterton: Two British Wrestlers who invented the famous triple Nelson, a combination hammerlock, roundhouse curve and brain fag. Chief Molloy: Evidently of Indian extraction. mind . . . non-existent: The author was not given to exaggeration. O'Connor: A boy orator of note, later known as the Wizard of Winfield. A famed poet of the last century, often called Doggerel Dengle. Rubie: from the Latin erubescere meaning fluster. Cathedral: probably a once famous prep school, now a stamp and chess club. turning in his grave: No evidence has yet been found to support this. No trace has ever been found of the correct name employed here. Close research has uncovered the name of a Mr. Muldoon who flourished at this age. Perhaps the familiar derivative Muldoonie was used, in order to rhyme with O'Looney. Stan Forl-:er Ioe Buckley lim Heneghan Roddy Greene Frank Williams Ioe McGowan Ray Morgan Robbie Bausch Iack Hagan George La Flare Freddie Meconi Ed Haggerty Lou Ferber GUESS WHO? CSee pages 35-375 122 Rob Barnwell Hercules Conroy Frank Tyrrell Herb Travis Syl Benack Iim Skelly Don Crynes Tommy Cribbin Bill Lohmann Felix Lopez Mike Fleming Ioe Daly Iohnny McPartland

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U A L l 9 3 And then there's Dengle, Dutch and dour, Whose brow is not unhandsome. Yet when he woos the lyric muse She flies right out the transom. Close by sits Rubie, Kid McGee, Whose blush disturbs the censors. He inks the floors and breaks the doors But balks at painting fences.. And that's not all. Full twenty more Use words like octahedral. They're only few of many who Do murder in Cathedral. No matter what the subject be ln essay, verse or drama, lt write they will, they aim to kill Or wound you with a comma. Poor Thomas More ot saintly name Was truly bold and brave, But still he moans and sadly groans While turning in his grave. Ah, where the cause? Oh, Whose the crime? Where shall we lay the blame? The world would gasp with throaty rasp Were we to name that name. lt isn't Smith, it isn't Tones. lt isn't Pat O'Looney. lust bend your ear and you shall hear 'Twas -- -- -llll My work is done, a goodly deed, And now l am at peace. Sir Thomas More can now endure, His soul will gain surcease. My rhythm's gone from bad to verse, My rhyme is rather wowzy. But think of those who hold the nose Because their pomes are . . . frowzy. l2l

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