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But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
edited February 2009 in Social Entropy++
(in this thread we will communicate solely through iambic pentameter, as in the works of The Bard. each line of your post should contain ten syllables, alternating unstressed/stressed-- da DA da DA da DA da DA da DA. it's harder than it sounds at first)





I thought to make a thread where we could talk
as if we lived four hundred years ago.
Perhaps the lot of you will join with me
and speak in iambs, for to have some laughs!

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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    The worst idea ever Captain K.

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    There once was guy from Nantucket...

    Butters on
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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    SeñorAmor has tried, but failed! Alas!
    He did not test his post before he clicked!
    His syllables, they do not add to ten!

    Captain K on
  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Monkeyfeet on
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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    The worst idea ever Captain K.

    That's close, but no cigar. Again, once more!

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    It seems that all our literary nerds
    are still asleep (or maybe gone to church?)

    Captain K on
  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    your mom is iambic pentameter

    Mysst on
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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    The worst idea ever Captain K.

    That's close, but no cigar. Again, once more!

    The worst i-de-a ev-er cap-tain k

    10.

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    (o snap idea really does have three syllables, my bad)

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Captain K's a huge nerd
    look at this thread

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    bitch

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Hey K I know this isn't written in iambic pentameter but did you know I once ran a Phalla where all narration dialogue was written in iambic pentameter?

    Well, I tired to write in iambic pentameter, at least.

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    It's true, I am a sweaty nerd.
    I make my posts within a basement deep
    beneath the house owned in my parents' name.
    I roll d20 every time I fear
    a chance of failure possibly exists.

    Captain K on
  • FabricateFabricate __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    Pop-tarts, Delicious

    Mostly The Cinnamon Roll

    I Ate One Today

    Fabricate on
  • FabricateFabricate __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    Wait, fuck

    Fabricate on
  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Haiku is but a poor man's poetry.



    I need to go and take a big ol' dump.

    Captain K on
  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    As you sit in the dark
    don't you fear time?
    As your life flows past
    growing closer to death

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2009
    Fabricate wrote: »
    Pop-tarts, Delicious

    Mostly The Cinnamon Roll

    I Ate One Today
    this is not the haiku thread!

    Druhim on
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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    dru is old

    so old that his name fits pentameter

    Mysst on
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  • Randall_FlaggRandall_Flagg Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    fuck iambs

    dactylic hexameter be where it is at, my droogs

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  • iusehappymodiusehappymod Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    this folly could yield verse, and cheerful songs;
    more like will be o'er ta'en by talk of dongs

    iusehappymod on

    Hamlet will be Hamlet
    An ineffable tragedy of the human spirit that still resonates, even today.
  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2009
    I was going to try and post in iambic pentameter about what a fag randall is but fuck that noise, I'm going snowshoeing

    lata bitches

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  • JimothyJimothy Not in front of the fox he's with the owlRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I bite my thumb at thee.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Jimothy wrote: »
    I bite my thumb at thee.

    You bite your thumb at me sir?

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2009
    captain k, you are mistaken, alas
    shakespeare's metre was rarely consistent

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    well who cares

    let's do it anyway

    Captain K on
  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    captain k, you are mistaken, alas
    shakespeare's metre was rarely consistent

    'twixt players, perhaps, though most retain their verse

    Yet in the Comedies,

    not so much

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  • iusehappymodiusehappymod Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    but still it was considered iambic
    despite the inconsistant syllables
    and the occassional trochaic foot

    iusehappymod on

    Hamlet will be Hamlet
    An ineffable tragedy of the human spirit that still resonates, even today.
  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Then lock this thread if it perturbs you so.
    I still submit that it is worth your time.
    You've suffered threads for "three word internets"
    and so I feel that you can suffer this.

    Captain K on
  • EinhanderEinhander __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    If I may ask but a single question,
    directed directly at Captain K,
    what did bring forth this idea of yours?
    It is interesting, I must admit.

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    It's always been a twinkle in my eye,
    but somehow never made its way to print.
    I can't remember when I first conceived
    that it would make a catchy thread idea.

    Captain K on
  • EinhanderEinhander __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    Shakespeare himself was an enormous dick.
    He plaigarized others to write his plays.
    Yet we see fit to glorify his work,
    while the ones who wrote it are forgotten.

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  • iusehappymodiusehappymod Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    the sleezy mod who locks this thread were best
    to end it with a rhyming couplet, no?

    iusehappymod on

    Hamlet will be Hamlet
    An ineffable tragedy of the human spirit that still resonates, even today.
  • EinhanderEinhander __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    If so, let's use this time we've been granted,
    communicating in ways abandoned.

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  • MolotovCockatooMolotovCockatoo Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Is it your hope, my Dear Captain, to see
    If one thousand monkeys sat at one thousand
    keyboards might make come true that old lame joke?

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    Killjoy wrote: »
    No jeez Orik why do you assume the worst about people?

    Because he moderates an internet forum

    http://lexiconmegatherium.tumblr.com/
  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I do not give a flying fuck about
    a bunch of monkeys typing, not at all.

    Captain K on
  • MolotovCockatooMolotovCockatoo Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    It hurts us so to hear these sentiments
    Though monkeys we be, are we not blessed
    with feelings both real and easily hurt?

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    Killjoy wrote: »
    No jeez Orik why do you assume the worst about people?

    Because he moderates an internet forum

    http://lexiconmegatherium.tumblr.com/
  • EinhanderEinhander __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    But K, a thousand monkeys at their desks,
    each one of them typing without a pause,
    for years and years they keep at their task,
    they call it the Penny Arcade forums.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2009
    Einhander wrote: »
    Shakespeare himself was an enormous dick.
    He plaigarized others to write his plays.
    Yet we see fit to glorify his work,
    while the ones who wrote it are forgotten.

    Each new work of lit'rature is built upon
    Its ancestors; 'Twould be bootless if one
    Discarded all Shakespeare's works as copied,
    The sources themselves plagiarized as well.

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