Ani and I have been considering the idea of writing some sort of rhyming verse. This came up because I’ve been involved with a game called Stinky Pinky (not actually as obscene as it sounds) except we both suck at it.
So, to improve, we’d try and write rhyming things. I will get this started.
Two hundred thousand dollars cargo left Beijing
But didn’t make it across a sea that was raging
The cargo of breasts
Has caused quite a mess
For “Ralph”, an Australian men’s magazine.
I don’t particularly like this one though, especially since magazine and raging don’t really rhyme. So, here’s a bonus limerick that I think sticks better to proper form:
Last week in Nassau at a mall
a man had an unfortunate fall.
Underneath others’ feet
his demise did he meet
which to me is a bit embarassing for us all.
Of course the shortcoming of limericks is that they’re short and so I’ve done little more than summarize the articles linked, and even that was not done very completely. There’s no commentary contained, so I’ll take a moment now to add a bit.
The first one is just a throwaway on some weird entertaining tidbit, but I don’t think it’s very important. It reminds me a little of the celeb cult that Ebert talked about in his blog a little over a week ago. (That post is actually a much more interesting read and maybe we should follow up on it more.)
As for the stampede at the Walmart, the idea of somebody getting trampled to death for a sale is sadly not such a hard thing to imagine given that it happened not even a year ago in China.
In a way that probably betrays some sort of unconscious racism, when it happened in China I wasn’t as disappointed and aghast as I find I am about it happening more recently at a Walmart on Long Island. Both are pretty pathetic though.
