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Honorius Master Gamer
Number of posts : 423 Prestige : 1 Registration date : 2009-02-18
| Subject: Most Awesome Ode Ever. Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:11 pm | |
| One of my friends wrote this up recently, and it just seemed far too awesome to keep confined to facebook. Oh, and feel free to post your other favorite odes.
"One shell, two shell, red shell, blue shell. Death-on-swift-wings-comes-for-you-shell. Pain-such-as-you-never-knew-shell. One banana, two banana, three banana, four. Bowser's trousers! This means war! Last one there's a sentient spore. Red-tribution, retri-blue-tion, I take what's mine through retri-boo-tion. Violence is the best solution. There's fratricide and hat-ricide! There's what-the-heck-was-that-tricide. There are secrets better kept inside, like cannibalistic fungicide. One shell, two shell, red shell, blue shell. Death-on-swift-wings-comes-for-you-shell. The blood will run when you press start, for all is fair in love and Kart." | |
| | | Teele Admin
Number of posts : 2410 Age : 36 Location : Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada Prestige : 5 Registration date : 2008-11-07
| Subject: Re: Most Awesome Ode Ever. Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:16 pm | |
| LOL! Very nice. Here's one from the Jargon File (where the hacker wotd comes from): In the beginning was the plan, and then the specification; And the plan was without form, and the specification was void. And darkness was on the faces of the implementors thereof; And they spake unto their leader, saying: “It is a crock of s***, and smells as of a sewer.” And the leader took pity on them, and spoke to the project leader: “It is a crock of excrement, and none may abide the odor thereof.” And the project leader spake unto his section head, saying: “It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, such that none may abide it.” The section head then hurried to his department manager, and informed him thus: “It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide its strength.” The department manager carried these words to his general manager, and spoke unto him saying: “It containeth that which aideth the growth of plants, and it is very strong.” And so it was that the general manager rejoiced and delivered the good news unto the Vice President. “It promoteth growth, and it is very powerful.” The Vice President rushed to the President's side, and joyously exclaimed: “This powerful new software product will promote the growth of the company!” And the President looked upon the product, and saw that it was very good. | |
| | | CommonGoods Celestial Gamer
Number of posts : 1384 Age : 34 Prestige : 3 Registration date : 2009-01-24
| Subject: Re: Most Awesome Ode Ever. Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:52 am | |
| Mind you, this is British English, not American. Did I mention I need to be able to pronounce this piece perfectly in four weeks?
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation's OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhyme with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary. Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give, verging, Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and tear Do not rhyme with here but ere. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation -- think of Psyche! Is a paling stout and spikey? Won't it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits? It's a dark abyss or tunnel: Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough -- Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is to give up!!!
-- B. Shaw | |
| | | Teele Admin
Number of posts : 2410 Age : 36 Location : Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada Prestige : 5 Registration date : 2008-11-07
| Subject: Re: Most Awesome Ode Ever. Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:09 pm | |
| Not an ode, but a Haiku! Again, from the Jargon File:
Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death No one hears your screams. | |
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