here I come, taking the floor to recite a page of quatrains

June 1, 2015 1:19 PM

When the family business is ribald wedding poetry.
posted by curious nu (2 comments total)

Kind of surprised both that no one has commented on this, and that I've never been to a wedding where someone has taken the effort to bust a rhyme. (I don't go to that many weddings, but still.) I'm quite fond of this particular one, not wedding-related:

Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece as white as snow.
It followed her to Pittsburgh.
Now look at the damn thing.

(I'm assuming that this is when Pittsburgh's dark satanic mills were still in full swing.)
posted by Halloween Jack at 1:36 PM on June 2, 2015 [1 favorite]

I liked this post too, and I also liked the twist in the little-lamb recitation. I do wonder, though, how many people find this guy (and his dad, and his granddad) insufferable in a "don't ask him to speak, he'll do one of those corny poems" way.

(I am pro-corny-poem myself, especially when they're carefully tailored as his are.)
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 5:19 AM on June 3, 2015