some hippo doggerel in honor of poetry month

[moominmolly]

Apparently there's a pub called Boynton's, which made ukelele think of Sandra Boynton and hippos, and seed me with the line: "One hippo, all alone / Drinks by itself at the end of the bar." Naturally, I had to finish it off, so I present you with the following idle fruits of my afternoon

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[redheadedmuse]

love.

[moominmolly]

Now if only I could draw! Then I could .... make an alcohol-soaked parody of a well-loved children's book with no market and no purpose. But it would be fun!

[twoeleven]

I'm sure there'd be a market for adult themed parodies of kiddie books. We have a Baby's first Azathoth, Byakhee, Cthulhu Book somewhere around here.

[ceo]

It was only through masterful self-restraint that I was able to resist singing "The wino on the bus goes glug, glug, glug" when Benjamin was in his phase of loving that song. (There were other verses too, but I leave those as an exercise for the proverbial reader.)

[ukelele]

The Adventures of Lil Cthulhu.

[harimad]

My 3.5 yo's response was "Play it again." Followed by "Kathulu is my favorite."

[ukelele]

Aw, so cute :).

Back when Plants vs. Zombies came out my then-two-year old was very keen on seeing the zombies. Which sounded sorta more like "zwombies".

[harimad]

She also had a phase of wanting to watch the IIHS' 50th Anniversary Celebratory Crash over and over again, with explanations of why the modern car is better and why the older driver is toast.