Okay, you’ve used up all the Poe puns I was about to throw out there. So instead, a small homage to Edgar: My 13-year-old chanced upon a copy of The Raven and began reading it over and over till he could recite it. And it’s not like his buddies even knew about it. Never seen him do anything like that with any other poem.
For you are a child, and I am a child,
In our funhouse by the sea,
But we play with a play that is more than play,
We and our Annabel Lee,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
“Why is a raven like a writing desk?” is from Alice In Wonderland, intended to be a nonsense riddle with no answer. One solution, by Sam Loyd, is, “Because Poe wrote on both.”
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@JP Steve (Assuming you’re serious) Since William Shakespeare died in 1616 while Edgar Allan Poe wasn’t born until 1809, it seems rather unlikely that Shakespeare would have commented on Poe’s poems.
rockngolfer about 14 years ago
I am bricks-andmortar-fied at the thought
Edcole1961 about 14 years ago
Maybe their Fortunado will change.
zero about 14 years ago
They’ll be OK as long as they don’t go w/him on the walking tour of Baltimore…
Coyoty Premium Member about 14 years ago
The fall of the funhouse is ushered.
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
Will the show return? Quoth the ratings, “Nevermore!”
cdward about 14 years ago
Okay, you’ve used up all the Poe puns I was about to throw out there. So instead, a small homage to Edgar: My 13-year-old chanced upon a copy of The Raven and began reading it over and over till he could recite it. And it’s not like his buddies even knew about it. Never seen him do anything like that with any other poem.
grapfhics about 14 years ago
This could swing either way. It’s the pits.
ChiehHsia about 14 years ago
twinkle, twinkle, little bat; how I wonder what you’re at. up above the world so high, like a tea-tray in the sky…
Hoomi about 14 years ago
For you are a child, and I am a child, In our funhouse by the sea, But we play with a play that is more than play, We and our Annabel Lee, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.
steverinoCT about 14 years ago
“Why is a raven like a writing desk?” is from Alice In Wonderland, intended to be a nonsense riddle with no answer. One solution, by Sam Loyd, is, “Because Poe wrote on both.” [/picky]
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1173/why-is-a-raven-like-a-writing-desk
j2p2 about 14 years ago
The sponsors of this show will never Prospero.
Or maybe they will, seeing what happened to Prospero.
Hoomi, is that an original verse? Quite lovely and disturbing–A.A. Milne meets E.A. Poe…
Digital Frog about 14 years ago
That’s a Poe excuse for a children’s show…
Bill Thompson about 14 years ago
J2P2, the verse is from Poe’s “Annabelle Lee.” It’s in his collected poems here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10031/pg10031.txt
gutenberg.org has all his works. Read them and you’ll see that when it came to creeping out people, he had a real Gold-Bug up his ahem.
j2p2 about 14 years ago
BillThompson, thanks!! You’re right, his poems are fascinatingly creepy.
cwreenactor about 14 years ago
LOL!!! That may have the same effect as watching “Barney” or “The Teletubbies.”
idahogrl about 14 years ago
Better cookies than a beating heart, I suppose…
Wildcard24365 about 14 years ago
SHould be Tarred and Fethered.
Frankr about 14 years ago
OrgelSpeiler: Thanks for the Pogo poem!
Pab Sungenis creator about 14 years ago
Frankr: That wasn’t Pogo, it was Lewis Carroll.
And the rest of you: you’re all the worst punsters I’ve seen this side of Callahan’s place.
JP Steve Premium Member about 14 years ago
Puns? Didn’t Shakespeare refer to Poe’s poems as “Poesy?
CoBass about 14 years ago
@JP Steve (Assuming you’re serious) Since William Shakespeare died in 1616 while Edgar Allan Poe wasn’t born until 1809, it seems rather unlikely that Shakespeare would have commented on Poe’s poems.