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Grex > Poetry > #211: Boy do these suck, if I were you I'd demand my money back. | |
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remmers
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Boy do these suck, if I were you I'd demand my money back.
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Sep 20 23:05 UTC 2000 |
1.
Brent Bannister burned his bed,
Opting for a fouton instead.
2.
Database system concepts
Come in many shapes and sizes,
A designer chooses among them
Based on the data he analyzes.
3.
Tom's Party Store: cold beer, wine, grocery,
In winter Tom keeps it warm and toasty.
Summertime the AC runs full blast -
Tom's climate control is never outclassed.
4.
Harvey the hobo rode the rails,
Stayed now and then in various jails,
Then invested a buck in an internet startup,
Now he's no longer quite so hard up.
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arianna
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response 1 of 9:
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Sep 20 23:09 UTC 2000 |
<laughs> Bad in a good way, though. d=
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lumen
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response 2 of 9:
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Sep 21 07:10 UTC 2000 |
Oh, yes. Delightfully tacky and a fine example of blunt humor. #1
tickles my taste for the bizaare in particular, perhaps because it is
especially pithy.
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brighn
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response 3 of 9:
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Sep 21 13:43 UTC 2000 |
Bad in a bad way.
But John already knows my opinion of his poetry. ;} Shel Silverstein has been
and gone, and nobody gonna bring him back.
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snowth
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response 4 of 9:
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Sep 28 17:46 UTC 2000 |
I wouldn't demand my money back, for not having payed anything, I think I got
exactly my money's worth. :)
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flem
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response 5 of 9:
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Oct 4 18:41 UTC 2000 |
The fourth one reminds me of Piet Hein's "Grooks". Anyone else remember
them? :)
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arianna
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response 6 of 9:
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Oct 4 19:33 UTC 2000 |
never seen Grooks. care to educate me?
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flem
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response 7 of 9:
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Oct 4 19:55 UTC 2000 |
They're these great little books of extremely short poems, with odd little
illustrations. The poems are somewhere between funny, cute, and profound,
without being nauseating. A selection can be found at
http://www.cybercom.net/~klb/grooks.html
Here's one of my favourites:
MEETING THE EYE
You'll probably find
that it suits your book
to be a bit cleverer
than you look.
Observe that the easiest
method by far
is to look a bit stupider
than you are.
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arianna
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response 8 of 9:
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Oct 4 21:31 UTC 2000 |
aw, cute
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orinoco
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response 9 of 9:
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Oct 5 15:06 UTC 2000 |
Ouch. Funny.
Rhyming "hard up" with "startup" is a low blow, tho....
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