h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ho ho!
Some say that skill and originality of rime is the true test of a poet and I have to admire your abilities! You have ears!

Whatever the poetic-appreciation equivalent of LOL or ROFL might be (jaw dropping perhaps ) I have to admit that your rime of 'warn us' with 'corners' went off my usual scale for measuring creative genius. Very acoustic, very poetic.

~jwf~

Note: I always spell rime the way Chaucer did. He was after all the first great poet, even if he never had a rime for vinyl.

Hi ~jwf~

Those splendid-Post chaps seem to have excised the explanation of the poems origins, which can be seen here :
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So in fact there were three substantial contributors, and (I think) three more minor ones.

I can't claim any credit for either 'warn us/corners' or 'vaginal/vinyl'. My only personal tortured rhyme here is 'because it's/deposits'

I bet Chaucer was good at pub poetry.

Pin

My apologies, Pin! I didn't realise that had been cut out. I will add it all back in now for completeness's sake.

EMR

There, is that better?

"Oh... I see", said the blinded man. Well now that it's all in the context of pub-poetry and is the result of a group-effort I can better understand the apparent wandering from the central theme and the occassional daring dip into the doggerelesque. But I still say that 'corners' and 'warn us' strikes a fully harmonic chord with me. In fact it has inspired me to ask h2g2 for more original rimes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F19585?thread=1464393 ~jwf~

YB