Geh.

[xp_wildchild]

Anyone who tries to tell me -ever- that any of this useless poetry shit is useful? Is full of crap.

USELESS. Why do I need to know this? Wah wah wah, Lenore, wah wah, dead chick, wah wah.

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Oh, Poe? Sounds cool when read out loud--s' got a nice driving rhythm to it--but yeah, it's pretty much "waaah, my girlfriend left me and now this bird won't let me sit alone in the dark with my horrible life-shattering pain." At least Shakespeare does fart jokes.

You ever see the Simpsons take on "The Raven"? Was for one of the Halloween specials. Homer as the narrator, Bart as the raven.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Shakespeare does fart jokes? Dude.

.. and no, my folks were kinda uptight about me watching stuff like the Simpsons. Thought it'd get me, you know, in trouble. Funny how that totally wasn't frickin' effective and all.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, because he was writing stuff for the actual commercial theater--Shakespeare was the seventeenth-century version of a sitcom writer, basically, and the theaters could be closed and everybody put out of a job just basically anytime the nobility felt like screwing them. So the playwrights had to suck up to the nobles like a dehydrated elephant, but at the same time they were getting a lot of their ticket sales out of the common working-class people, so they had to put stuff in to keep them amused, which ended up being a lot of fart jokes, and sex jokes, and stuff like that. Once you get the hang of the language, it's all over the place.

Chaucer did it too--"The Miller's Tale" has this whole sequence where a guy's trying to get a kiss from a girl he likes, and asks her to stick her head out the window so he can kiss her, only she sticks her butt out the window instead and farts in his face. Immortal classics of literature, man. :)

I've got that episode on tape in my room, if you wanna come watch it. Might give you a more fun perspective on the poem.

[x-sanfuaiyaa.livejournal.com]

What, are we missing The Simpsons from our DVD collection?

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Poems about scary stuff aren't quite as stupid as reguarl ones, but the rest are -dumb-.

And why can't they just write it in normal English so everyone can frickin understand it? I mean "Wherefor art thou Romeo?" How am I supposed to know that means "Why did your stuipd parents name you Romeo anyway, you big dork?" unless someone told me, and that person had to be told and its just STUPID.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Fart jokes, sex jokes, all kinds of bathroom humor. The nurse in Romeo and Juliet is totally foul. She makes this whole speech about Juliet fell on her face, and how she would fall on her back if she had more wit. Which is all totally about sex.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Oh sure, it makes sense to you.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

It's wooing training, chickpea. Secret wooing training.

Girls (and my brother) love that poetry nonsense.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Any girl who wants me to recite poetry can kiss my fuzzy butt.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

Then I hope you enjoy being alone.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Better alone than having to read stupid poetry. I mean, my dad didn't have to read it to my mom and they're not alone.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Now there's an image nobody needed.

One day you'll be willing to recite poetry for someone, even though you think it's stupid.

Case and point: myself in a leather suit. Even worse, a dress. Yes, it did happen.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Nope. Sorry. No poetry for me. Not. Happening.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

Yourself in a dress, or yourself in a leather dress?

[x-cannonball.livejournal.com]

Which brother, Gee? I mean, I don't mind poetry all that much, either. :)

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Dude? Is that like, inheritable? Are you both with the, you know, liking guys..

(cause I can't say GAY anymore, Jay gets his panties in a bunch when I do.)

[x-cannonball.livejournal.com]

I like girls just fine, Kyle. I dated Alison for a while.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

If you use it so that it means what it means and isn't an insult, then go ahead.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Oi. I'm clearly the only Guthrie who wears pants in this entire school.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

JAY WEARS DRESSES? EW EW EW GROSS!

Poetry....

[x-beast.livejournal.com]

Isn't all suffering and long words. *g* Please find, shoved under your door, a volume titled '101 Comic Verses'. It has an entire limerick section. Some of them are rather dirty. And they're all very funny, even some of the longer poems.

(And really, don't ignore the girls-liking-poetry thing. Those of us with furry butts sometimes do need to put in a little more effort... but the ladies do appreciate it)

Re: Poetry....

[x-kylun.livejournal.com]

Indeed, my wife was far more impressed with poetry than by any feat of skill or daring ever attempted by those who sought to win her regard. I think it is because any fool can be daring, and few women would choose to spend their time with a fool. A man willing to search out poetry, however, demonstrates that he is willing to meet her on what most might consider her own ground, and put effort into the relationship even at the expense of his own confidence.

Or so, at least, I surmise. Some mysteries are never to be completely known. :)

Re: Poetry....

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that also mean that girls gotta meet us on -our- ground and that they shouldn't be whining when some of us want to watch football and they think its Stupid and Violent?

Re: Poetry....

[x-kylun.livejournal.com]

If they are the ones pursuing, then yes, I would think that reasonable. I suspect it is far rarer than the other, however.

Re: Poetry....

[x-madelyn.livejournal.com]

Not everyone with two X chromosomes hates football, Kyle, either. I have to admit, tickets to a good game will always win me over faster than poetry. *grins*