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The Rhyming Summary Project

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Olulabelle

19:23 / 25.03.04

Anna, what about:

If you're sick of the hype then you might want to note,
Interactive design is a way we can choke,
The corporate messages shoved down our throat,
By brands such as Burger King, Pepsi and Coke.

Smoothly

12:33 / 05.04.04

For the Cheese thread in the Conversation:

Mascarpone, Mozzarella, Philadelphia, Dairylea,
Gorgonzola, Cambozola, Camembert and Brie.
Parmesan, Cheddar, Halloumi, or Feta,
Appenzell or Emmental, which do you like better?

Although someone can probably do better than that.

Smoothly

20:31 / 05.04.04

Ouch. Harsh review.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:04 / 05.04.04

Sorry, Smoothly... didn't see it before the other one was proposed, otherwise I'd have voted against...

grant

15:41 / 06.04.04

Ooo -- I didn't see that one either. Sorry. I just saw the topic and homed in on it.

The one here is much better searchwise, so feel free to change it.

Spatula Clarke

13:35 / 11.04.04

One needed for the Mulholland Drive: Who is the Dreamer thread in FTV&T.

Jack Vincennes

19:03 / 11.04.04

I've proposed -

Mulholland Drive was meant to be
A set of programs on TV
Here we discuss the movie which
Was going to be the series' pitch.

- which I think is a bit too convoluted. But surprisingly little of relevance rhymes with 'Lynch'...

Smoothly

08:14 / 08.06.04

Summary needed for the recurrent Burning Man thread in the Gathering. Anyone fancy a go?

grant

15:50 / 08.06.04

Here is where we make our plan
To set up camp at Burning Man,
Arranging rides to Black Rock City
And swap ideas for dressing pretty

???

Sax

07:52 / 09.06.04

Get in your car, be it Ferrari or Lada
And make your way to the desert in Nevada.
Party then burn a huge figure - sounds good
Just like in The Wicker Man (starring Edward Woodward)

Smoothly

08:11 / 09.06.04

Poor old grant, his poem ignored,
A kick in the teeth from the rest of the board.
The Gathering mods deny they're lax,
'His rhyme was late!' (albeit quicker than Sax).

grant

16:33 / 09.06.04

Well,
"city"
plus
"pretty"
equals
"shitty".

iconoplast

10:17 / 22.07.04

Man. You start a thread about go-go music and leave the topic blank, figuring "Someone will have fun rhyming something with go-go."

And then they forget the rhyming topic convention.

Spatula Clarke

11:13 / 22.07.04

I've given up trying to use my imagination to fill other people's empty summary fields if they can't be bothered to do it themselves. Especially in Music, where it seems to be par for the course now.

sleazenation

12:41 / 22.07.04

Pointed, terse and/or sarcastic summaries, which also, naturally, serve the function of summarising the topic, are also an option...

Cat Chant

10:34 / 29.08.04

Sekhmet has just subverted and transcended the Four Line Rhyming Summary Project in this thread. It's pretty moving.

What was warm, is strangely cold.
Whence dissolved the little breath?
How can this small body hold
So immense a thing as Death?

Sekhmet

17:05 / 30.08.04

Er... caveat; as noted in the thread, the verse is unfortunately not mine, and I don't want to prove inadvertantly guilty of plagiarism.

But thanks all the same, Deva.

Cat Chant

10:48 / 31.08.04

Oh - sorry, Sekhmet - didn't mean to imply it was yours; I think the citation is moving, subversive and transcendent. (So there.

)

Sekhmet

14:08 / 31.08.04

Awwwww. Well, that's all right, then.

I can pull other people's poetry out at the drop of a hat - my memory's wired that way - I just can't write anything that doesn't end up sounding like Dr. Seuss.

grant

17:35 / 31.08.04

As far as this project goes, I think Dr. Seuss would be more than suitable.

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In Books, His Dark Materials needs something.

Maybe...
The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife,
And The Amber Spyglass are true to life…
At least, on a metaphysical plane,
In Philip Pullman’s great big brain.

Oh, I don't know. Something like that.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

09:36 / 15.01.06

The Free Jazz thread in Radio & Music has no summary as yet. Would a mod be able to add a suitable one; and may I humbly offer the rhyme below?

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Honk honk, parp parp, the saxophonist blares
The sound of a drumkit falling downstairs;
Don't call it music if the term offends
Is Free Jazz for beardies without friends?

Jack Fear

01:06 / 18.02.06

A summary for the A Boy And His Dog thread:

“A kinky tale of survival,” this.
Stars young Don Johnson: oh, what bliss!
’75, dir. L.Q. Jones.
Scribe Harlan Ellison disowns.

Olulabelle

21:52 / 20.02.06

Can someone do one for the Nikola Tesla thread in Lab?

Jack Fear

01:16 / 21.02.06

Earthquake machine! Death Ray! Coil!
Power for all without gas, coal, or oil!
Serbian genius! Electrical saint!
Some called him wacko: we sez he ain't!

Saltation

19:07 / 21.02.06

super extra mega thumbs up -- tesla is spinning in his electromagnetically suspended grave, frictionlessly

Smoothly

14:43 / 22.02.06

Fun to be had with the Writing From A Child’s Perspective thread in Creation, I’d have thought. Anyone want to turn their hand to a nursery rhyme?

Shrug

00:52 / 23.02.06

When writing as a child
Should the prose be ungrammatical, unsocialised and wild?
Should insight remain nascent and unformed?
Should the language be unadorned?
Icicle questions how to tell
[when using a pre-adult narrative voice]
Am I doing it well?

Well, I could just suggest it as a Creation mod but some work needed I think. Or alternatives, anyone?

astrojax69

03:09 / 23.02.06

the world through children's eyes
is untouched by adult thought
but crawling back in childhood's skin
with difficulties is fraught

or

i'm trying to gain a second chance
at dancing in fresh light
i need a way to banish
adult darkness from my sight

hmmm

grant

17:17 / 23.02.06

I vote for anything that rhymes "grown-up" and "thrown up."

Saltation

20:58 / 23.02.06

Now that I'm a grown-up,
it's hard to recall "Kid".
Back when food was thrown-up,
and everything was Id.

Shrug

22:49 / 23.02.06

Gets my vote, soz astrojax.

Smoothly

10:27 / 21.03.06

I wonder if someone could bring some of the poetry of Baseball to the topic summary.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

09:05 / 04.08.06

For the recently-revived Ministry thread, may I offer:

Has anybody out there heard
Houses Of The Molé ?
Or any other Ministry
albums as unholy?

Saturn's nod

15:24 / 06.09.06

For My infinite source... in Lab:

Free unlimited power hoax? Wow, really perpetual motion?
Conspiracy theories you've heard are just a drop in the ocean.
Not likely science but put in this hoard
To not so much clutter the rest of the board

Olulabelle

12:00 / 26.11.06

Can someone amusing please make up a summary for this thread on Internet Literature over in creation?

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