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  • Keith Wilson
    Trying to be reasonable
    • Oct 1999
    • 64114

    Alas, it's gone!

    Scott apparently doesn't appreciate poetry.

    I can't entirely blame him, it was a bit cruel, but to think of those immortal products of Erato's inspiration dissolved into an amorphous cloud of electrons! What a loss to civilization! My first clerihew!
    "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,
    for nature cannot be fooled."

    Richard Feynman
  • LeeG
    Senior Member
    • May 2002
    • 72781

    #2
    Re: Alas, it's gone!

    cruel? heck it was healthy celebration

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    • Paul Pless
      pinko commie tree hugger
      • Oct 2003
      • 124805

      #3
      Re: Alas, it's gone!

      Originally posted by Keith Wilson
      Scott apparently doesn't appreciate poetry.
      i'd be surprised if he didn't at least chuckle at the thread before its deletion
      Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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      • shamus
        Member
        • Jul 2001
        • 3141

        #4
        Re: Alas, it's gone!

        I had heard the Humphrey Davy Clerihew before but had no idea it was a genre.
        I'm very pleased Mr Newt introduced the subject.

        Stazzer Newt
        Plays the flute
        With talents many and failings few
        He taught the meaning of Clerihew.

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        • Keith Wilson
          Trying to be reasonable
          • Oct 1999
          • 64114

          #5
          Re: Alas, it's gone!

          When Scott old T.D. banned anew,
          Bilge poets, (there are quite a few)
          soon posted with good will
          the most wretched doggerel,
          haikus, lim'ricks, and one clerihew.
          "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,
          for nature cannot be fooled."

          Richard Feynman

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          • johnw
            Senior Member
            • Nov 2001
            • 28589

            #6
            Re: Alas, it's gone!

            A friend and former employee of mine is working diligently to revive the Clerihew:

            "I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme." -- Henry James
            On the trailing edge of technology.

            https://www.amazon.com/Outlaw-John-L.../dp/B07LC6Y934

            http://www.scribd.com/johnmwatkins/documents

            http://booksellersvsbestsellers.blogspot.com/

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            • johnw
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2001
              • 28589

              #7
              Re: Alas, it's gone!

              Could someone pm me the offending Clerihew?
              On the trailing edge of technology.

              https://www.amazon.com/Outlaw-John-L.../dp/B07LC6Y934

              http://www.scribd.com/johnmwatkins/documents

              http://booksellersvsbestsellers.blogspot.com/

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              • Mrleft8
                Banned
                • Feb 2000
                • 31864

                #8
                Re: Alas, it's gone!

                Was that just a forum sneeze? If so, God bless Clerihew!

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                • McMike
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2009
                  • 11713

                  #9
                  Re: Alas, it's gone!

                  Originally posted by johnw
                  Could someone pm me the offending Clerihew?
                  Me to!!
                  In the US this perverted idea of “blood and soil” over “constitutional principles” is the most radical and anti-democratic and anti-Conservative idea I have heard in my lifetime.

                  ~C. Ross

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                  • B_B
                    Banned
                    • Sep 2001
                    • 6506

                    #10
                    Re: Alas, it's gone!

                    Originally posted by The Bigfella
                    nah... be brave... post it here
                    or PM it Bigfella and let him be brave

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                    • Flying Orca
                      Ruth, feck, and gorm
                      • Jan 2007
                      • 21319

                      #11
                      Re: Alas, it's gone!

                      Geez, I go to Mexico for a coupla weeks and I miss all the fun. Mark veered over the line again, I presume... how long is he gone for this time? Oh, and put me on the PM list for the clerihew, please!

                      What are you doing about it?



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                      • Keith Wilson
                        Trying to be reasonable
                        • Oct 1999
                        • 64114

                        #12
                        Re: Alas, it's gone!

                        Why not? Copy it quick. This is the clerihew, to the best of my recollection; but I have no idea if that's what caused our hosts to delete the thread.

                        Tyler Durden
                        the Forum's greatest burden
                        posts disaster and dread
                        but it's only in his head.

                        It's not that offensive, is it?
                        Last edited by Keith Wilson; 12-09-2009, 06:57 AM.
                        "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,
                        for nature cannot be fooled."

                        Richard Feynman

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                        • David G
                          Senior Member
                          • Dec 2003
                          • 89687

                          #13
                          Re: Alas, it's gone!

                          A lady friend (she was an English major) in college introduced me to the Clerihew. We had great fun with them for months... till we moved on to haiku - which are a whole different, animal - more serious and subtle, even when being playful.

                          In honor of those college days:

                          The Oregon Ducks
                          Well... they don't suck
                          After a game one meltdown
                          On their opponents they made points pelt down.


                          And, in honor of the lively lady herself, and her matched pair of borzoi:

                          Michael Vick
                          Had a favorite trick
                          With man's best friend
                          He'd torture and abuse till their grisly end.
                          David G
                          Harbor Woodworks
                          https://www.facebook.com/HarborWoodworks/

                          "It was a Sunday morning and Goddard gave thanks that there were still places where one could worship in temples not made by human hands." -- L. F. Herreshoff (The Compleat Cruiser)

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                          • James McMullen
                            老板
                            • Apr 2007
                            • 12054

                            #14
                            Re: Alas, it's gone!

                            That was the finest thread I've ever had the honor of participating in. It's all downhill from here. Damned censorship!

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                            • Vince Brennan
                              Seymour TN 37865
                              • Jun 2005
                              • 10318

                              #15
                              Re: Alas, it's gone!

                              I suspect it was the passing reference to a "certain female poster with a 'B'" that did the thread in.

                              (Although it was rather an apt, apposite and well-deserved appellation.)

                              (IMHO)
                              http://www.frayedknotarts.com

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