Catholic Clarihews
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    Mark Shea is holding a clarihew contest.
    Obviously, I entered.

    And then, I couldn't stop myself...


    http://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2013/07/clerihew-contest.html
  • BenBen
    Posts: 3,114
    Wow.
  • Jani
    Posts: 441
    couldn't stop myself

    I guess :-)
    Thanked by 1Adam Wood
  • David AndrewDavid Andrew
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    Mark who?
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    Mark Shea, a blogger at Patheos.
  • MHIMHI
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    Thanked by 4Adam Wood Kathy Heath CHGiffen
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    MHI- and you haven't even seen my FB Cover Image....
    (BTW, my middle name is Michael)

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  • mrcoppermrcopper
    Posts: 653
    I tried to post on that blog, but don't think it took:

    Adam Wood
    Surely should
    Print his gook
    In a book.
    Thanked by 1Adam Wood
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    Mr. Cooper,
    it would flop, sir.
    Who would buy a book for cash
    when I give free away my stash?

    for Kathy Pluth
    she speaks the truth
    when saying that my Open Source
    is bad for business. I know, of course.
  • mrcoppermrcopper
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    Reduce those O's
    Make them P's
    Then you can
    Write of me as you please.
    Thanked by 1Adam Wood
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    just a typo
    (lack of time)
    as you can know
    (just check the rhyme)

    YEAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • mrcoppermrcopper
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    so I saw
    and sed hee haw
    but still thot
    to point out the flaw
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  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    i figured as much,
    being smart and such
    but I can't pass
    the opportunity to find a way to express humor in poetic form, even if that means subverting the form for my own purposes, blatantly denying reality, or even saying things I don't really mean, like that one above about Open Source, which is pretty much the exact opposite of how I feel on the matter.
  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,500
    What is it twixt me and thee
    To give away free poetry?
    I only think that Open Source
    Should not constitute the reform of the reform's platform plank or guiding force.
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    Oh, I could rhyme of many things,
    like how your verse translation sings,
    or how well you find heresy
    (even when not there, ya see).
    I only brought up Free and Open
    because, for laughs, I'm always hopin'
  • GavinGavin
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    Anyone else keep reading this as "Catholic cashews"?
  • Kathy
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    I like your thoughts about the chant
    and most ev'ry other source of rant
    but this business of the clarihew
    I plan to futurely eschew
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    futurely

    love it
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    Thanked by 2Adam Wood Ben
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    Thanked by 3Adam Wood Ben CHGiffen
  • Ben_WhitworthBen_Whitworth
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    Guido of Arezzo
    Said: "Singers always forget, so
    My Ut-Re's just the tonic
    For a modal mnemonic."
    Thanked by 6Adam Wood mrcopper Kathy CHGiffen MHI R J Stove
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    Guido of Arezzo
    Said: "Singers always forget, so
    My Ut-Re's just the tonic
    For a modal mnemonic."


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  • Ben_WhitworthBen_Whitworth
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    Edmund CLERIHEW Bentley
    Whispered to his fiancée gently:
    "Dear, if I'm going to marry you,
    You must stop calling me CLARIHEW."
    ;)
    Thanked by 3Adam Wood MHI Chris Hebard
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  • Ben_WhitworthBen_Whitworth
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    Saint Gregory the Great
    Has been feeling neglected of late:
    "Does no one on the Musica Sacra Forum
    Believe I invented the schola cantorum?"
    Thanked by 1IanW
  • Ben_WhitworthBen_Whitworth
    Posts: 90
    Bishop Hugh Oldham
    Loved young minds and tried to mould 'em
    By founding the school where I sought for the truth
    In my (alas!) now-distant youth.
    Thanked by 2MHI IanW
  • Ben_WhitworthBen_Whitworth
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    Saint Hildegard of Bingen
    Couldn't stop singin'.
    When the Prelates of Mainz mocked her,
    She replied, "Let me through; I'm a Doctor."
    Thanked by 6Adam Wood mrcopper Kathy MHI CHGiffen IanW
  • Kathy
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    Something for the lady?

    MHI, I have the most extraordinary hankering to bake you cookies.
    Thanked by 1MHI
  • BenBen
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    Adam, you gotta do it with the right code to make it look legit.

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  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
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    Each time I try to sing Gregorian chant,
    it seems I can't;
    yet, when I find an a cappella motet choral,
    I sing it well but ponder whether herein lies some hidden potent moral.
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    Thanked by 2CHGiffen Kathy
  • mrcoppermrcopper
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    Jus' axin'!

    Speaking of, generally, axes,
    not many a pundit here waxes
    much, present company axcepted,
    on music when they can speak on praxis
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    Wore his hair long, which was flaxen:

    Did you know me in high school...?
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    These poems have made me literally die laughing.

    Literally.
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
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    These poems have made me literally die laughing.

    Literally.

    Requiescat in pace.
    Angels in heaven play bocce,
    all the while chuck'ling and wondering whether they literally should
    listen at last to the lately deceased, Adam M. Wood.
    Thanked by 2Kathy Adam Wood
  • CharlesW
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    RIP old Adam,
    No longer here below.
    Whether in heaven or hell,
    We can not hope to know.
    Thanked by 2Adam Wood mrcopper
  • MHIMHI
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  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    When I (literally) die, I request that each of you who knows me write funny poems to comfort my family.

    I also request that at least one of you talk to the priest who is going to be presiding and request that these funny poems be read during the liturgy. If the priest agrees, punch him, and then find another priest to say Mass for my wretched soul.
    Thanked by 1Salieri
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