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So at the bar I normally go to they have this mug list. And I've finished mine recently. Thus, I need to read a poem before getting my mug. I want something sorta funny and not too serious. Any suggestions?
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If you have time, I would find this book in a library or bookstore. It has some excellent, really funny poetry.
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So I still havent' found one. And I haven't managed to make it to the library yet. hrm. Any other ideas?
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Steven Lynch! That guy is great. But from your link, isn't the 2nd line of the 2nd chorus end with whole...being. Doesn't that kind of ruin the joke?
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Hmmm... funny and not too serious you say? Well, there's always Emily Dickinson:
"The heart asks pleasure first And then, excuse from pain- And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die."
What? It's funny. All right, a little depressing, but funny. What about this one?:
"For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ectasty.
For each beloved hour Sharp pittances of years, Bitter contested farthings And coffers heaped with tears."
Ah, my dear, dark little Emily. So sweetly morbid. Perfect for a bar mug. Can you imagine anything better than pouring salty beer tears into a mug after being graced by one of those poems?????? Cause I cant.
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What about "Engineers Corner" by Wendy Cope? It definitely works if you are either a poet or an engineer! Or maybe if you are neither but like the poem anyway, like me...
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Well, I went and then it turned out that they didn't let me do it anyway. *scowl* So Liz, never fear you haven't missed it yet.
I think I'm going to have to wait til the weekend after next because I'm going out of town or I'll be stuck in lab working on this paper.
I was in Hartford at the Apple store with a friend and we sat for 2 hours so that they could talk to him 3 min and then take his computer. grr. Sometimes I wish they would let you spit out your problem for 3 min and realize oh duh we're not going to have to do any work with this person. I also learned while sitting there that almost all repairs at apple stores are iPods. And the rule with iPods is that they don't fix them. They just replace them. It was...quite amusing. I had the whole speal memorized by the time we left the store.
Anyway, ElJay the deal is that I go to this nice beer bar. And they have a list of 144 beers. Upon finishing the list you have to read a poem on a Friday or Saturday night and then drink a mug of Guiness. Then after that you have a mug with a name on it(you choose the name). They then fill the mug with beers from the draft list for the same price. In other words instead of getting a pint glass for 5 dollars you get a mug.
Mostly I did the list because I was hanging out with other friends who were doing it and just did a beer a night. Amusingly though they went all the time so I ended up finishing up quite quickly.
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Liz, it's Belgium beer week so if there's some night you want to go let me know! They have loads of great stuff on tap right now.
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