Making Light :: Like McGonagall, only without the rhymes :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002407.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Fri, 07 Mar 2003 22:16:36 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33 Like McGonagall, only without the rhymes AgriBiz Poetry, Consumer Specialty Produce Marketer, offers a unique service: the composition of what the site calls “relevant poetic materials... AgriBiz Poetry, Consumer Specialty Produce Marketer, offers a unique service: the composition of what the site calls “relevant poetic materials... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002407.html Like McGonagall, only without the rhymes -- comment #1 from Jane Yolen comment from Jane Yolen on 6.Mar.03

Ah--I see I missed my real calling. A few years ago I used to sell--for a dollar a poem--verse created on the occasion for a loved one at the Hatfield (MA) Christmas Fair. All monies went to the scholarship fund. I was quite good at such instant poetry (with rhymes, too, eat your heart out McGonagall, I spit on your 'silvery Tay.")

However, at least Joseph Charles has a lot of material to work with.Masses of research. All I could get out of our local citizenry about their loved ones were a few paltry facts pulled out with as much pain as a tooth extraction. "She, um... likes to dance." Ballroom? Tap? Step? Ballroom? Ballet? Shag? Turkey Trot? Flamenco? Belly? Broom? I sure earned that dollar.

Jane

Posted March 6, 2003 4:54 PM by Jane Yolen

 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002407.html#16680 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002407.html#16680 Thu, 06 Mar 2003 16:54:15 -0500 Like McGonagall, only without the rhymes -- comment #2 from John M. Ford comment from John M. Ford on 7.Mar.03

The grape known as Thompson Seedless,
By Robert Mondavi he swore,
That the upstart group of the base-born drupe
Called the Flame should grow no more . . .

Uh, where were we?

Posted March 7, 2003 3:08 AM by John M. Ford

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Is it not the grape that's eponymous rather than the poem? Or have I got it backward again?

Posted March 7, 2003 4:12 AM by Scott

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Dear Mr. Ford,
Thanks for the purest moments of amusement I've felt in several days.
Regards,
Jeremy (a onetime resident of the central valley, in whose parents' backyard grow 2 vines of the nefarious Thompson)

Posted March 7, 2003 10:16 PM by Jeremy Osner

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