Funny pictures. Funny poems. Funny cats. New York, USA.
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1 in 5 teenagers will experiment with poetry. Well, we certainly hope so.
And when they are fully ours (bwa ha ha!), we will finish the deal with Tolkien.
HT for poster to Kathryn Neel. Source: Family Friend Poems
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Teen Reading & Writing Workshop on Tolkien begins March 3. Sign up today!
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Passion runs high in debates over comma geography. Wikipedia underplays this debate, saying, “Opinions among writers and editors differ on whether to use the serial comma.”
The bearded editor in this video obviously encountered a geographically-misplaced Oxford comma. We sincerely hope he didn’t split any infinitives on the way down.
HT for video: Heather Eure
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In breaking news, Facebook’s psychologists are desperately trying to revive Page Managers, who they etherized upon a Status Update table.
Using an experimental cocktail of guilt-tripping and self-esteem building, Facebook hopes to revive these Page Managers so they will stop lying there weeping about how their businesses have faced imminent ruin due to unethical anesthesiology from the Facebook Status Update algorithm. The initial goal is to wake these Managers, to bring back their virile posting frequency.
Reports have it that the Facebook psychologists are in personal crisis over the posting decline. Because it has been “noticed” that etherized Page Managers are unable to access their bank accounts to pay for advertising to save their dying Facebook investments.
It is still unclear whether comatose Page Managers can actually *hear* while laid out in the hastily patched-together recovery room. But Facebook psychologists refuse to lose hope. They are tenderly whispering sweet nothings to their beloved Page Managers, hoping that the sound of their voices will jumpstart the bank accounts (though not the lucidity) of the Managers.
Business scientists are watching closely, ready to discover the answer to this important question: Can comatose Page Managers actually hear?
It will be hard to tell if Page Managers can hear, if all they are hearing is “nothing” (no matter how sweetly that nothing is whispered).
The scientific Business Advisory Committee to Facebook Marketing Psychologists recommends raising the volume. And the results. Back to levels where they were when they sold Page Managers the fan page goods.
Alternately, Facebook Marketing psychologists are invited to be laid on the table themselves. After all, if it was good for the Page Manager gooses, it promises to be thrilling for the Facebook ganders.
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Want to enjoy more of the literary allusion “etherized upon a table”? Visit The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock at Tweetspeak Poetry
Or, get this timely advice from Amber Haines, on the power of pirouetting, to nefariously escape the Premium Facebook Throttling Program
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Overall, a funny video with dashes of dark humor. And, to tell you the truth, I get it. Who likes to be interrupted when reading a book? Could make a person… grumpy.
Enjoy Loki. Enjoy a laugh.
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This Emily Litella substitute teacher video contains one or two “naughty” words, but is altogether very clean humor that might make you cry. (Tissues available in the sidebar.)
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I like to spin. Mostly metaphorically.
I like it so much I even published a book from one of the most creative people I ever met by a river in Texas:
Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree: (An Illustrated Edition)
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Ah, protein in azul.
Don’t worry, little beetle. You are too beautiful to eat. And besides, I’m vegetarian.
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There is one teeny indelicate word on this snarky-funny infographic that teaches you how to write (or not) a sonnet: The Art of a Quatrain Wreck.
Consider the teeny indelicate word to be poetic license. Then take some license of your own and maybe write a Blue Marble sonnet. We’d love to read it.
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(see more funny infographics at Tweetspeak Poetry)
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Gizmo might be my soul mate. Just ask my sister about the escalator story. Or see exhibit A.
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I’m sure I was up to something. Even if I wasn’t up to something, I’m sure I was. That’s how it’s always gone with me.
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Related, at Tweetspeak Poetry: Apology to My Mother
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What’s not to love about Princess Bride love quotes?
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For more Princess Bride quotes and other quotes on pictures, visit WordCandy.me
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We have a thing for chickens over at Tweetspeak Poetry. How could we not? Just look at the way they write such brilliant poetry.
Funny chickens comic by Doug Savage. HT: Elizabeth Marshall.
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Check out the Top 10 Funny Poems at Tweetspeak Poetry
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Word on the street is that Toby might get a contract at T.S. Poetry Press: as a book marketing dog. He is already claiming the couch as the place where the light brings out his cutest qualities.
Toby photo by Tania Runyan, author of How to Read a Poem: Based on the Billy Collins Poem “Introduction to Poetry”
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Loki has a glorious purpose, which becomes a glorious…porpoise, in this lightly funny animation by Sara Barkat.
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Browse more funny animations and comics from Sara Barkat, at Tweetspeak Poetry.
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Flight of the Conchords takes on the issues, including children having children. “When the children are having children, how small are they going to get? It’s just going to get into this ridiculous Russian doll situation.”
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