Fire Ant Theatre: Whiner's Edition
Oh-kay, enough already. Here's something to tide you over until Monday.
The double dactyl ("DD") is one of my favorite types of poetry. The rules that govern the crafting of a DD are as seemingly complicated and arbitrary as a five year old's imaginary card game, but the results roll pleasingly off the brain (or the tongue).
Besides containing the rather heavenly phrase "the voiced labial fricative," the above-linked page contains many examples of DDs and links to many more. Among those links is one to a series of DDs by Jan D. Hodge (gender undetermined, although some claim that proper DDs are best left to the male of the species, in that only men can generate the right mixture of comedy and obscenity that typifies the poetic genre; I'll leave that debate to the anthropologists in the crowd). M. Hodge offers examples of DDs which take on Shakespeare and nursery rhymes (and which yield little to no obscenity, if that's a concern), including this one:
It's only fair to note that my attention to DDs was inspired by fellow Texas blogger Cowtown Pattie, by way of this post from December, 2004. Further, I suggest that you visit the first link in this post and study those rules one more time, as I feel a new Gazette contest in the making.
Ye gods. Now you've done it.
I feel another cycling rhyme or three brewing. Or maybe the ham I had for lunch was off.
Either or.
Posted by: Foo at May 26, 2006 03:06 PMFrom my commute home:
Harridan, Scarydan
Nicolette Sheridan
Desperate Houswife with
Face lifts galore
Eye tucks and collagen
Quadrugenarian
Making a living by
Playing the whore
tera-dac'-tyl - n. half a trillion of these things.
Posted by: Foo at May 26, 2006 05:37 PMAs always - very clever! Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Rachel at May 26, 2006 06:36 PMHaving just recounted my day's diet on my blog, listening to this released a little bit of a guffaw. And caused my arteries to constrict. But I'll be okay. ;-)
How could you hear me whining way over there?
Posted by: Gwynne at May 26, 2006 07:21 PMFoo, you do dactyls during your commute? I'm impressed!
Gwynne, what I thought was whining might just have been distress caused by an OD of M&Ms. ;-)
Rach, thanks much, although I think you're just easily impressed. ;-)
Beth, I apologize in advance for what you're about to do to your speakers.
Posted by: Eric at May 26, 2006 10:34 PMI'd never heard of a double dactyl (or a single, for that matter) until reading your entry, yesterday. It's a nasty commute home—especially on a Friday—so I figured I'd try one as an exercise to keep my mind off creating my own little scene, a la Falling Down.
That and the fact that I wouldn't have time, once I got home.
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Now I'm hoping that other people have been spamming you with email whinging on and on about not having a FATCR this week cause otherwise the power may go to my (and possibly Jim's) head. BWAHahahahahaha.
Mmmm...funny rhyming poetry. And now I have a reason to be excited about getting home to my computer speakers.
Posted by: beth at May 26, 2006 12:44 PM