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Could this blog get any verse?
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Blog Guy, I notice some of your readers submit their comments in haiku and limericks, and a couple of times you’ve done entire blog posts in verse.
Sure. I’m not averse to verse. That would be perverse. I’m a versatile pro, and pros write prose and vice versa.
That’s easy for you to say. But what if the going gets tough?
If it gets adverse, I would reverse myself and be averse to verse and vice versa. Conversely, I would say…
Excuse me. So your advice on verse is?
Diversify…
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Top: A 1640 copy, in contemporary sheep binding, of William Shakespeare’s first collected edition of his Poems sits on display at Sotheby’s auction house in New York, April 19, 2006. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Left: The European Union’s President Herman Van Rompuy presents a book collecting haiku he wrote, during a ceremony in Brussels, April 15, 2010. His expertise in haiku, written in Flemish, has also made him famous as the poet Belgian prime minister. REUTERS/Yves Herman
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It plays well, but in
dotted rhythm, minor key.
Pass the Malox, please.
Mr B, the fact that your column on verse has garnered more responses than any other attests to the refined sensibilities of your readers. Some bloggers pander to the lowest common denominator, but you, monsieur? Jamais! I take off my chapeau to you.
Wait, pandering to verse and haiku isn’t the Lowest Common Denominator? We’re actually getting classy?
That’s it, back to doughnuts, Lamar, and shoes for Mr. Basler.
RED
Spin, I’m glad to see you haven’t lost your zest for lemon wordplay. If I do, I hope you’ll come to my ade.
Hang on. In addition to buttering our bread one bite at a time, now we need to know which SIDE is the right one?
http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/20 11/01/11/you-stuck-him-with-the-wrong-kn ife-fool/
@Spin re the “Sh-Boom” song: I have tears in my eyes. Could you change the “yada” to “lala” and sing it at Lamar’s and my wedding?
I don’t want to speak out of turn, but I believe Lamar has always planned to have Barry Manilow sing at his wedding.
What? Manilow!!? How intolerable is that? Is Lamar going to have the ceremony performed by mimes, too?
Spin, could you teach Barry Manilow how to sing the..well, just to sing?
Lamar can compromise on Barry Manilow, cant he Lady? I mean, you could always tell him that Spin would sing the Sh-boom song… and Manilow could shake his booty to it?
@Shra: That sounds fair. Grotesque, but fair.