One of the things I love about Twitter is how it's become a natural home for the dreadful pun. I've blogged before* about Hashtag games, where people compete to come up with the worst puns on a particular subject - usually a mash up of film titles, songs, animals and some topical theme.This week I had a lot of fun with #poeticalfilms ... I don't know who started it but was surprised how many took it up and ran with it. Here are some of my faves...
Faust Amongst Equals
@bingaddick
2001: A Space Ode Essay
@adrianbriggs
Crocodile Spondee
@hudsonette
Doggerel Day Afternoon
Raiders of the Lost John Cooper Clarke
@pifflechimp
Private Betjeman
Die Hardy
Whitman Can't Jump
@Balls_to_Monty
Silence of the iamb
@Tarawuski
Rimbaud: First Blood
@m_yates
The Men Who Stare At Goethe
Honey I Shrunk The Keats
Debbie Does Ballads
The Odd Couplet
@CosyFanTootie
Look Ted Hughes Talking
@AntBeal
Mad Max Beyond The Palindrome
PignusDominus
The Hitchhaiku
@FakePaulCoia
The Hughes Brothers
Dead Men don't wear Plath.
@martysm
Con Ayres
@Trudski2012
Haiku Fidelity
@standardbrit
Here are some of my own:
For Whom the Belloc Tolls
Anapest in Show
Truly, Madly, Hegley
Baudelaire of the White Worm
Woolf Creek
Quatrain Man
and of course Carol Ann Duffy the Vampire Slayer
and, a personal favourite... drum roll...
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day of the triffids
@JimGall5
Go to it! You may not be on twitter, but you can still join in here...
* Why are there so many songs about librarians?
You asked for it... A Walk on the Oscar Wilde side...Walter Scott of the Antarctic...Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lake and Palmer...The Wizard of Ozymandias...Alexander Pope Must Die... and the one I'm most proud of, though I know I'm stretching the definition of 'poet'...Pam Ayres in a G-string.
ReplyDeleteLOVE The Wizard of Ozymandias!!... but I'll not hear a word against our Pam! ;-)
DeleteI still have a book of hers I was given as a child. My favourite was My Mother had a flit gun...
DeleteFour beddings and some fun for all?
ReplyDeleteOops. Misread the instructions? Anyone for Tennyson doesn't work either, and Winnie the Poe won't do. I'll get back to my cooking...
DeleteOoh, you just made me think of another... The Poe-Between
Deletep.s. you make your own rules, luvvie!
DeleteLOL - that's all a bit cerebral for me dahlink! Funny though.
ReplyDeleteI am trying to make inroads into understanding Twitter, but I have to admit, I haven't 'got it'. I shall perservere so that I can partake in the fun!
Argh, I love these hashtag games, but I'm always in a rush. Going part-time in September, and will hopefully have more time to waste time.
ReplyDeleteCrocodile Spondee seems to have swapped roles with Terror Dactyl
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