tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post1051936263256618629..comments2024-01-31T00:52:30.471-08:00Comments on Waking Ambrose: Love Under The Democrats (Sorry, Ogden, but you are dead)Doug The Unahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-20368141335636763342008-09-04T05:55:00.000-07:002008-09-04T05:55:00.000-07:00JJ, you are a positive poet.JJ, you are a positive poet.Doug The Unahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-40980735976870147392008-08-29T15:34:00.000-07:002008-08-29T15:34:00.000-07:00"Dear me I am not certain quitethat even now I've ..."Dear me I am not certain quite<BR/>that even now I've got it right..."<BR/><BR/>ya, but the way you bring things up<BR/>is always kindly no matter<BR/>if you're the brainiac-est<BR/>human i know,<BR/>your way of guiding others to<BR/>new and interesting bits of knowledge<BR/>is always with <BR/>a gentle kindness and humility...<BR/>and i'll take "nectacled"<BR/>as an even exchange<BR/>for all the insecurity<BR/>that only i brought upon myself...<BR/>besides, i never would have known<BR/>of Laura Richards<BR/>were it not for you...<BR/>(and Puppybrose!)javajazzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14519195811911296496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-39733773756979049422008-08-29T06:52:00.000-07:002008-08-29T06:52:00.000-07:00JJ, you don't know how I fretted over whether to b...JJ, you don't know how I fretted over whether to bring that up, and if it helps, I think Puppybrose posted that poem and I thought it was Nash at the time.Doug The Unahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-51797301685076903052008-08-29T06:49:00.000-07:002008-08-29T06:49:00.000-07:00oh my,see how well i knowthe only poet i lovedas a...oh my,<BR/>see how well i know<BR/>the only poet i loved<BR/>as a child?<BR/>i would have gone<BR/>my entire life<BR/>thinking that was <BR/>an Ogden Nash poem...<BR/>i have never even heard<BR/>of Laura Richards<BR/>and yet i had memorized<BR/>that entire poem<BR/>Eletelephony<BR/>thinking it was Nash's...<BR/>how embarrassing...<BR/>i'll never make it <BR/>as an academic...<BR/>my mind is mush...<BR/>(blush).javajazzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14519195811911296496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-68996651282250062452008-08-28T05:54:00.000-07:002008-08-28T05:54:00.000-07:00Actonbell, I agree this year's convention has been...Actonbell, I agree this year's convention has been innovative in its triteness.<BR/><BR/>JJ, I understand completely, although I think "elephone" was coined by Laura Richards. But Nash invented "nectacled" which is plenty good enough for me. (I would not have known about "elephone" except Harris' fans have been here 'erenow.<BR/><BR/>And a brilliant definition, Al, old buddy.<BR/><BR/>And less criminal, too, Quilly.<BR/><BR/>TLP, Quilly got a new job yesterday. Careful you don't over-encourage her for OC's sake.Doug The Unahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-64115169309674945182008-08-28T05:48:00.000-07:002008-08-28T05:48:00.000-07:00LOL Quilly.LOL Quilly.TLPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02837578489728318423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-33872534420239054742008-08-27T22:17:00.000-07:002008-08-27T22:17:00.000-07:00CON-VENTION n.If I have to explain, you aren't as ...<B>CON</B>-VENTION <I>n.</I><BR/><BR/>If I have to explain, you aren't as bright as I think you are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-90232841817292527402008-08-27T22:00:00.000-07:002008-08-27T22:00:00.000-07:00Convention: Delude one part ordinary party in ten ...<B>Convention:</B> Delude one part ordinary party in ten parts extraordinary repartee. Stir, shake, drain completely before drinking.<BR/><BR/>(Brilliant Gnash-oid today, Dougie.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-74514201998799260792008-08-27T18:58:00.000-07:002008-08-27T18:58:00.000-07:00oh! Ogden Nash,the only poeti ever loved as a chil...oh! Ogden Nash,<BR/>the only poet<BR/>i ever loved as a child...!<BR/>especially because<BR/>he made up words,<BR/>(like elephone).<BR/><BR/>ps..<BR/>who says cereal<BR/>ain't ethereal?javajazzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14519195811911296496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-84575955861675409052008-08-27T14:41:00.000-07:002008-08-27T14:41:00.000-07:00TLP, I should be hanged for that.TLP, I should be hanged for that.Doug The Unahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-28677010138007107272008-08-27T14:39:00.000-07:002008-08-27T14:39:00.000-07:00Convention: the opposite of invention.Great stuff ...Convention: the opposite of invention.<BR/><BR/>Great stuff today Doug. I hate the conventions. You make them sound half-interesting.TLPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02837578489728318423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-210115409928493092008-08-27T13:42:00.000-07:002008-08-27T13:42:00.000-07:00Weirsdo, do you think he'd settle for a Pulitzer?A...Weirsdo, do you think he'd settle for a Pulitzer?<BR/><BR/>Amoeba, blame Christopher Marlowe for rhyming love and prove, Robert Browning, Ogden Nash and my beagle to follow. Do you think we should speak of The Democratic Conphylactic?<BR/><BR/>Jim, you should be out of retirement already. There's larnin' to be did.<BR/><BR/>Lily, I think that's it. Too many dead, not enough weird.<BR/><BR/>Thanks, Janelle.Doug The Unahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-34314318662577494332008-08-27T11:32:00.000-07:002008-08-27T11:32:00.000-07:00Convention: a gathering for the supposedly, but n...Convention: a gathering for the supposedly, but not always like minded.<BR/><BR/>Terrific poem!Jamie Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11036600186909466411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-34191361372618133932008-08-27T08:09:00.000-07:002008-08-27T08:09:00.000-07:00Oh, this is just TOO good! Makes me wish "I'd said...Oh, this is just TOO good! Makes me wish "I'd said that!"Janellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00616642644756944035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-9442654948277553092008-08-27T06:24:00.000-07:002008-08-27T06:24:00.000-07:00Being dead has not stopped my co-author from writi...Being dead has not stopped my co-author from writing, but I suppose not everyone can be as prolific, or find someone semi-living who's strange enough to work with them.<BR/><BR/>Great poem!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05779107279394475454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-26991749791333575232008-08-27T06:18:00.000-07:002008-08-27T06:18:00.000-07:00Conventions: I don't want to get to political, bu...Conventions: I don't want to get to political, but ... , I had already signed up for "The Prose of Hilary Clinton." Now that course has been canceled so that I am forced to wait and later register for "Rhetoric of John McCain in 2012." <BR/>Except due to aging of Prof. McCain it will be taught by a substitute lecturer who will lead all us students down the primrose path for four agonizing years again. <BR/>After that in 2016 "The Prose of Hilary Clinton" will be an obsolete course and we will have another dilema like we have in the year of 2008. <BR/>For sure we will never close the University, I may have to come out of retirement and teach those courses, which ever, using my syllabus.<BR/><BR/>Convention: ___________________<BR/>..Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02982249173214655060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-56861684661870561692008-08-27T05:46:00.000-07:002008-08-27T05:46:00.000-07:00An assembly of conventions? Ack! If there's such...An assembly of conventions? Ack! If there's such a thing as an "eyeworm", then I have one: the view of a mirror as seen in a mirror, with telescoping images of itself and whatever's in it going on and on forever ...<BR/><BR/>Mind you, if you can get away with rhyming "love" and "prove" (I dinna ken ye spracke broad Scots), I can get away with this:<BR/><BR/>If the opposite of "con" is "pro", what is the opposite of "convention"?<BR/><BR/>Prevention!<BR/><BR/>;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-84027332800450186782008-08-27T05:42:00.000-07:002008-08-27T05:42:00.000-07:00Very apt. Puts me in mind of Doonesbury, where Wal...Very apt. Puts me in mind of Doonesbury, where Walden was offering an incredibly popular course, "The Poetry of Barack Obama." Those who couldn't get in had to take "The Prose of Hilary Clinton."<BR/>We'll see what the poetry looks like the morning after.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com