June 10, 2005

Double-y Dactyl-y Hey, Monkeys, speaking of Piet Hein and Grooks, how about a thread on people who invented forms of humorous verse? Let's begin with my dissertation chairman, Paul Pascal, who co-invented the form known as the Double Dactyl, or Higgledy Piggledy:

Hobbledy Cobbledy, William of Malmsbury Wrote a long history that Nobody reads, Involving some mythical Kings and their even more Historicitcally Dubious deeds.

posted by LaGatta 18 years ago
  • Bippity-Bee wrote [more inside] when her post was long. Bippity-Bo said "Way to go!" and then he wrote this song.
  • Clerihews.
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  • Humphrey Davey See Gravy, abomination thereof ++ odium, sodium, & etcetry.
  • I hesitate to bring up the subject of limericks:    ...For the good ones I've seen    So seldom are clean, And the clean ones so seldom are funny.
  • So who is to be creditied with the limerick, LaGatta?
  • A chap who was named Edward Lear Is thought to have said with a sneer "A new type of verse Will soon be a curse For folks from Nantucket to hear."