I'm eating popcorn, watching The Man Who Would Be King
and looking forward to being on my way to Paris in 2 weeks. Life is generally good, although I am regretting some of the dogeral in the last thread.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:16, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

whats dogeral?
I'm totes gonna sort me out some popcorn today, with melted garlic butter.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:17, Reply)

Doggerel
Nothing to do with dogs though. Like dogmatic.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:19, Reply)

Oh cool.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:20, Reply)

shite poetry.
seee pretty much every post of mine in the last thread
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:20, Reply)

Haha, cool, I'll skip that one.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:35, Reply)

i don't even know what dogeral is
please explain and, if it is interesting, elaborate
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:18, Reply)

Thicko, it's like dogmatic, innit.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:20, Reply)

oh yeah
why was he dogeralling?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:21, Reply)

b3th invited poetry and I was bored
this was my favourite: www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1602495
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:26, Reply)

No no no
I meant that dogmatic is nothing to do with dogs.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:21, Reply)

Oh lol, just googled it about, would I be right in saying it means when you get a rythem and poem going, like....
lah lah de DAH de de, lah lah de DAH de de, lah lah de DAH de de, lah lah de DAH de de,
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:34, Reply)

Not precisely
The rythmic spring of a poem - it's pattern of rythmn - is called the pentameter.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:37, Reply)

Oh, ok.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:39, Reply)

Unless you're on about that awful Gypsy Woman song

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:39, Reply)

Doggerel is a generic term for unpolished poetry
Hang on - dictionary to left

Doggerel - "Poor or trivial verse." (OED)
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:20, Reply)

Sport on mate, spot on.
it's something I fine easy to produce
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:22, Reply)

It's an art form really
One of my A level English Lit exam questions was "Is The Canterbury Tales doggerel?".

Yes. At least, I said it was and got a C.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:25, Reply)

You sayin' I'm an artist?
cool
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:26, Reply)

I wrote a deiberately bad poem about a mountain that
goes on for 15 verses. It was for a larp thing and had a magic ability that anyone who heard the first verse was transfixed until the last. I am a git.

If you like I could find it for you now?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:27, Reply)

I've written a couple of epic poems.
They actually were pretty epic.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:28, Reply)

Until the 1950's the wool mills in Bradford would close for a couple of weeks in Summer
And every day there'd be about 6 special trains to Morecambe and back.

That's two neat bookends of my life (born near Morecambe, live in Bradford) and I've always fancied writing a doggerel epic of a day to Morecambe, but defining every hour with a different pentameter to express the emotions.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:35, Reply)

Sounds excellent
I remember thining yyou'd have liked the poetry thread.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:32, Reply)

I posted it in the dead thread:
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1602653
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:49, Reply)

That would almost be brilliant
All it lacks is the syntax-defying wranglings that only the truly bad use to effect a plausible scan - eg:-

I thought tonight that to the pub I'd go
But then in the back of my mind I did know
That I must take my cat to the vet on the morrow
And if a night in The Thornhill I did choose
I'd roll up at the vets stinking of booze
And to the RSPCA my kitty I'd lose.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:56, Reply)

nice
I did another one about a haggis, but it's less long
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1602661
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:57, Reply)

Better than Burns
Although that's not saying much
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:59, Reply)

Fuck me, you are a git indeed
well done cap'n
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 21:03, Reply)

Allan Ginsburg fuelled a fairly serious habit with worse than that

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 21:06, Reply)

I thing a sense of shame and decency is all that stiops some of us from doing similar

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 21:15, Reply)

If you transcend the shame and decency and embrace the concept of the emperor's new clothes
You could make money.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 21:23, Reply)

That is a good choice of film.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:24, Reply)

Last disk on my lovefilm before I cancl the account
I;m switching to Netflix
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:28, Reply)

Sean connery and michael caine trying to act each other off the screen.
It looks like they had fun making it though.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:30, Reply)

two of my favourite actors
classic filum. I may follow up with Zulu
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:34, Reply)

I love the last half hour of that film. When they start singing I get goosebumps.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:35, Reply)

How is Mr B3th getting on?

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:38, Reply)

Still not 100%
But a lot better than he was this time last week.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:39, Reply)

Good
Meant to ask last time I was on here but clean forgot.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:40, Reply)

Ta x

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:42, Reply)

I;t is an amazing film
so many reasons I should not like it, but I love it to bits.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:40, Reply)