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extemporanea

Ruthless Rhymes for Stupid Students

Apr 05, 2005 16:04

As a result of manifest student iniquities in lectures, I have a new hobby. First installment:

A cellphone's plangent beep, by God!
Machine-gun turrets waste the sod.
I thus, with shame and satisfaction
Plug his social interaction.

homicidal misanthropy, growl, ruthless rhymes, spontaneous outbreaks of doggerel, teaching

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relating anonymous April 6 2005, 08:37:56 UTC

Cell phones in lectures.
Raptor among the pigeons.
Feathers, scattering.

Re: relating anonymous April 6 2005, 08:39:20 UTC

drat. T'was I,
w_n

Re: relating extemporanea April 6 2005, 11:24:38 UTC

Very cool! but haiku do not, to me, have the splendid satisfactions of metre and rhyme offered by doggerel...

Re: relating anonymous April 6 2005, 11:35:30 UTC

Yes, but rhyming's harrrd. Bad haiku-ing is easy. I was hoping there'd be a rash of poetic commentary. I'll keep checking, just in case.

w_n

OED anonymous April 6 2005, 08:42:54 UTC

plangent (adj)
1. Making the noise of waves breaking or beating on the shore, etc.
2. Loud-sounding, striking the ear powerfully; applied sometimes to a metallic, sometimes to a loud thrilling or plaintive sound. Also fig.

I looked it up :)
wolverine_nun

Ruthless rhymes anonymous April 6 2005, 10:32:04 UTC

Applause for the Rhyme - made my day :)

Nothing like a ringtone sound-seeking sentry gun on your desk to focus young minds ;) Jammers are available, you know.

A

Re: Ruthless rhymes extemporanea April 6 2005, 11:44:15 UTC

Poetry is more fun...

hmmm anonymous April 6 2005, 10:37:20 UTC

You should consider the posibility that you are slowly and prematurely turning into a crotchety old woman. Resist!

Re: hmmm anonymous April 6 2005, 10:43:09 UTC

Indicated by irritation due to (and poetry inspired by) despicable students who let their phones ring in lectures? No. Such students should be publicly (publically? both look wrong) flogged. Or at least put in stocks somewhere near the cafeteria.

wolverine_nun

Re: hmmm extemporanea April 6 2005, 11:20:38 UTC

Hey! Less of the personal remarks while hiding behind the veil of anonymity in a craven cur-like fashion. I diagnose Phlp, from previous evidence ;>.

I am not changing prematurely into a crotchety old woman. I am channelling, timeously and to good effect, my inner crotchty old woman. I am only officially a crotchety old woman when I'm actually whacking the little buggers over my head with my cane, or running over their toes with my rocking chair. Right now, the happy invention of biting and scurrilous Harry Graham-oid poetry is, in fact, standing as a substitute for actual Maddened Granny action, for which the students may, in fact, be grateful.

Re: hmmm anonymous April 6 2005, 22:23:58 UTC

Um, nope. Not this Phlp anyway. I would have said biddy. Not that I'm accusing you of premature biddyness... oh never mind. I'm just going to mind my own biddyness anyway...

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Hooray for haikus starmadeshadow April 6 2005, 11:30:23 UTC

Lone cellphone shrieking,
Pale cherry blossoms falling,
Rust blood rushing. Peace.

Re: Hooray for haikus extemporanea April 6 2005, 16:18:58 UTC

Wheee! graphic violence in the lecture theatre! my favourite sort!