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Bad Poems
- hprotagonist 10y agohttp://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/gems/the-tay-bridge-disaster http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/gems/the-tay-bridge-disa... Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
- mrob 10y agoHow many people would remember it if not for the poem? By that standard the poem was a success. "If the events of the 28th December 1879 have indeed been long remembered outside the ranks of civil engineers and Dundonian rail passengers it is thanks to McGonagall’s poem."
- cosinetau 10y agohow many ways do i love thee let me count the ways segmentation fault (core dumped)
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI almost thought you might reference 1/0. Now that's a webcomic more people need to read: It's introspective, philosophical, sometimes quite clever, but also consistently funny. /shameless-plug
- mundo 10y ago> I recently spent a couple of months writing and reading as badly as possible, a practice I now recommend. Reminds me of author Jim Butcher's claim that he wrote the first volume of the _Dresden Files_, "as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to (his writing teacher) how awful it would be". source: A Conversation With Jim Butcher: http://www.sfsite.com/08b/jb182.htm http://www.sfsite.com/08b/jb182.htm
- defen 10y agoI haven't read any of them, so my questions come from a place of ignorance, but isn't the Dresden Files series considered good, at least by the standards of pop sci-fi / fantasy? It's at least popular enough to have generated 15 books. So I guess my questions are: is it actually considered good? If so, is the first book bad? How did it become popular if the first book is bad?
- in_the_sticks 10y ago> How did it become popular if the first book is bad? (Speaking as someone who also has not read the books) This reminds me of disumbrationist[0] art. I wonder if something like that could be at play. [0] http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_disumbrationist_school_of_art http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_disumbrationist_scho...
- evmar 10y agoI read one in the series because of that good reputation. I can confirm that it wasn't good -- formulaic and kind of boring. In retrospect it almost felt like a parody of the genre. (I was reminded of the prolific fantasy author character in Neal Stephenson's REAMDE.)
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoIt gets better as time goes on.
- sethammons 10y agoI read the first one and thought it was dull. I would not have read the second, but I had it on hand. It started to perk my attention. Enjoyed it. After three, I was hooked.
- mundo 10y agoI didn't care for it much - it seemed like something aimed towards young adult readers more than adults - but it's light-hearted, has magic spells and PG sex scenes, and you can easily read it on a plane flight.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y agoI saw this in Boy's life: Roses are red Violets are blue Some poems rhyme Some don't
- cousin_it 10y agoThat's really good though. Similarly, Jim Butcher's "The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault" is great prose.
- drostie 10y agoKind of reminds me of: Train approaching Whistle squealing Stop Avoid that run-down feeling Burma-Shave
- qwertyuiop924 10y agomandatory xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/491/ https://xkcd.com/491/
- yojex 10y agoAnd for the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoIt's not great prose, but it's an excellent phrase, especially in context. Then again, that poem is not a great poem, but it works well in the context, and does its job suitably well. I assume this isn't what you meant...
- david-given 10y agoThis one's a classic: . There was a young man from Japan Whose limericks never would scan. When asked why that was, He replied "It's because I always try to cram as many words into the last line as I possibly can."
- mozumder 10y agoDjango is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Ridiculously fast. Reassuringly secure. Exceedingly scalable.
- abathur 10y agowho needs a framework just a pinch of jQuery encourages growth
- tthayer 10y agoRewriting Django class-based views Has caused such pain Why am I doing this again?
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoPerhaps you should Look at flask It sucks less Although it may take more effort.
- eevilspock 10y agoVogon Poetry.
- Kenji 10y agoDoes that transfer to code? Should I write bad code for a month and seek to read the worst code samples imaginable? I'm pretty sure whoever will be confronted with my code will not be happy =)