From: Henriette Kress Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [rec.humor.oracle.d] Re: A tribute on this auspicious day, to one who's left and gone away. Date: 12 Mar 1999 17:04:50 GMT Subject: Re: A tribute on this auspicious day, to one who's left and gone away. From: "Mike Jewell" Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d Screwtape wrote in message ... >Stuff written by Mike Jewell: >> >>Gregory Lindsey wrote in message ... >>>Woe was the day of Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:10:27 -0500, when E McCann >>>(emccann@iag.net) uttered the infamous words: >>>> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Michael G. Thompson wrote: >>>> >>>> > Ken Harlan wrote: >>>> > > >>>> > > >> >>>> > > >> : And squeezing too many syllables into a line >>>> > > >> : His meter still would come out fine. >>>> > > >> >>>> > > >> : I loved them all, in fact, I still do >>>> > > >> : And so Dr. Seuss, Happy birthday to you! >>>> > > >> >>>> > > >> Ho! Wot? Now here's a cascade >>>> > > >> A metrical game for the whole rhod parade! >>>> > > >> >>>> > > >> Posting in couplets and meters and rhyme >>>> > > >> Good show, Al! Now I've run out of time. >>>> > > >> >>>> > > >> JIM >>>> > > >> >>>> > > >Unfortunately, I'm off to my bed >>>> > > >While visions of Karnaugh maps dance in my head! >>>> > > >>>> > > >I have an exam, tomorrow -- a fright >>>> > > >But I will return, so I bid you good night! >>>> > > >>>> > > Here I am stuck at work >>>> > > I think I might just delurk. >>>> > > >>>> > > And add a line to this cascade >>>> > > To see who adds to the parade. >>>> > >>>> > And to the land of RHOD came >>>> > a guy named Mike scanning for his name. >>>> > >>>> > Seeing straight lines everywhere, >>>> > with a w**dch*ck, combed his hair. >>>> >>>> Being used such, this poor critter >>>> Turned quite spiteful, turned quite bitter. >>>> >>>> Deciding then there was no God >>>> This poor 'chuck then prayed to RHOD. >>> >>>But no, alas, it had no luck >>>For RHOD just hates the damned w**dch*ck >>> >>>And with a ZAP -- no wait, a ZOT -- >>>The rodent was now sizzling hot. >> >> >>Huzzah! Yippee! Woohoo! Hooray! >>We've learned to cook /another/ way! >> >>(And if you thought that verse was bad, >>Just wait for the next post, my lad!) > >I regret the implication that >this post is terrible and bad. > >I'd like to know just how you knew >the worst reply would follow soon? A psychic can get sea-sick if the sea-saw isn't swinging, And the cynic can greet Sussex with the sound of seagulls singing, But the petulant parameters that persuasively start pinging Let lurkers like the look of all the lyrics that are winging! So when you greet the greatful great who grudgingly implore That you tell them all the titilating 'trocitities in store, Just jettison the jelly and the jello on the floor, And pity the poor poster who has posted what is poor! And so with Seuss and Zeus and Clueso making certain that I do-so, And Captain Baker (What a faker!) cheating grimly at the Cluedo, I leave you to the friendly thread of thriving innuendo, And promptly press the program's 'posting picture' pretty pronto! BFN, /\/\ike 'Whew' Jewell