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Post number 2264

grumblebee — Sun, 25 Jun 2000 07:02:24 -0800

"To achieve memorable badness is not so easy. It has to be done innocently, by a poet unaware of his or her defects. The right combination of lofty ambition, humorless self-confidence, and crass incompetence is rare and precious. "

I wish I was talanted enough to write something really bad. At best, I flirt with the mundane.

By: Paul Dunne

Paul Dunne — Mon, 26 Jun 2000 05:50:39 -0800

A contemporary example.

By: elgoose

elgoose — Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:14:44 -0800

Recent discussion of this site in the wonderful Ethel the Blog including the text of the "worst poem ever written in the English language." Well worth a read, if only to scare you badly enough to make your hair turn white.

By: Aaaugh!

Aaaugh! — Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:51:07 -0800

Then again, there's also the Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning.

By: Paul Dunne

Paul Dunne — Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:49:30 -0800

Ah, but that's not "memorably bad". It's Douglas Adams being satirical.

By: elgoose

elgoose — Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:10:47 -0800

Christ! I meant Ethel the Blog. I told you I was dangerous with html. incometent is more like it. Go read the poem.

By: elgoose

elgoose — Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:11:46 -0800

Incompetent. I'm going home. I've had enough for one day.

By: Aaaugh!

Aaaugh! — Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:31:03 -0800

Well, the bit by "Grunthos the Flatulent" is certainly Mr. Adams having some fun, but the poor Paul Neil Milne Johnstone (aka Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings) does exist, according to the FAQ (scroll down to section 4.3).