And just in case you decide to try something foolish like ignoring me and hoping I just go away, let me remind you that I was an only child, and am more than adept at entertaining myself:
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, (bothered for a rhyme) And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
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I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XachobSN8co&safe=active