On a dead bloke’s birthday

18 Responses to On a dead bloke’s birthday

1. Ed Rybicki says:

   12 February 2009 at 10:46

   Good one!
   Which leads me to think that Mac Davis’ little ditty (modified) should be compulsory for all Nobel seekers:
   Oh, Lord, it’s hard to humble
   When you’re perfect in every way
   I can’t wait to look in the journal
   My work, it gets better each day
   To know me is to rate me
   I must be one hell of a man
   Oh, Lord, it’s hard to humble
   But I’m doing the best that I can
   I used to have a postdoc
   I guess he just couldn’t compete
   With all the honours and money
   That keep falling at my feet
   I can’t seem to find me another
   I guess they’re just in awe of me
   Who cares, I’ve never been lonesome
   For I cherish my own company….
2. Richard P. Grant says:

   12 February 2009 at 10:52

   HA HA!
   I don’t know if I should be worried that I remember the original (I blame my father for my poor taste in music).
3. Henry Gee says:

   12 February 2009 at 11:06

   A CLERIHEW ON RICHARD P GRANT
   RICHARD P GRANT
   Let no-one say that he can’t
   Write poetry. he lives in Australia
   And has painted his arse like a dahlia.
4. Stephen Curry says:

   12 February 2009 at 11:14

   A fine work of poetic non-fiction,
   With just a touch of self-contradiction?
5. Richard P. Grant says:

   12 February 2009 at 11:26

   It is no more than a satirical perspective
   (the poet, always, is introspective)
6. Karen James says:

   12 February 2009 at 11:28

   Mainly, I crave a new Beagle.
7. Henry Gee says:

   12 February 2009 at 11:36

   Sorry, I got carried away by the following meme that burrowed into my brain, just at that very moment.
   There once was a man from Australia
   Who painted his arse as a dahlia
   It went very well
   At tuppence a smell
   But fourpence a lick was a failure.
8. Richard Wintle says:

   12 February 2009 at 16:25

   asinine hagiography
   You know, I’m guessing RPG is one hell of a Scrabble player.
   _Richard Grant
   when he don’t rant
   writes with vocabulary
   quite exemplary._
9. Eva Amsen says:

   12 February 2009 at 18:52

   It’s not the long words that count in Scrabble – it’s knowing all the two and three letter short ones, like “xi” and “qat” so that you can place words parallel to each other and score more points. (I spent a lot of time with competitive Scrabble players a few years ago.)
10. Richard P. Grant says:

    12 February 2009 at 19:23

    That’s why I could never do well in a Scrabble tournament—I prefer the interesting words.
11. Eva Amsen says:

    12 February 2009 at 19:33

    Oh, me too. I was going out with a Scrabble player at the time, and he was horrified at this. I would prefer to put down “effigy” even though I could get at least twice as many points by putting “fig” in a strategic position. But I would never win anyway, so why not go down in style?
12. Richard P. Grant says:

    12 February 2009 at 20:39

    bq. by putting “fig” in a strategic position
    That’s a lovely mental image. Thanks.
13. Eva Amsen says:

    12 February 2009 at 20:56

    I should have seen that coming.
14. Richard P. Grant says:

    12 February 2009 at 21:02

    I’m nothing if not consistent.
15. Henry Gee says:

    12 February 2009 at 21:36

    That should be ‘leaf’ rather than ‘fig’.
16. Richard P. Grant says:

    12 February 2009 at 22:19

    Um… no.
17. J A Exton says:

    7 April 2009 at 10:59

    Chuffed to know that erudition
    Is not in danger of extinction
    Its writing the prose
    Which gets up ones nose
    That gives it a smell of distinction
18. Richard P. Grant says:

    7 April 2009 at 11:11

    Ha ha ha!!
    Hello stranger!

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