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* [[Head On]]. Apply directly to the forehead. [[Head On]]. Apply directly to the forehead. [[Head On]]. Apply directly to the forehead.

* [[Burma-Shave]]:

And Missed the Curve|''Burma Shave''}}

 

* ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' Rorschach speaks in short sentences and sentence fragments. His journal doesn't. Must remember to investigate further.

* ''[[Sin City]]''.

 

 

* ''[[Legolas By Laura (Fanfic)|legolas by laura]]'': "and then one of the orcs striped her and then he raped her and then laura said 'go away you bastard'."

* ''[[Soulless Shell (Fanfic)|soulless shell]]''

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/86976/Tuxedo_Mark Mark Moore] a.k.a. Tuxedo Mark writes some of the most boring fanfics imaginable. Here's an example that's sometimes nicknamed "Linda! Laundry!"

She put the old sheets in the laundry basket. }}

** Reads like fiction written by a computer, once offered in ''The Book of Lists II''.

* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6089198/1/Daughter_of_Nienor Daughter of Nienor]'': "Only a few months later, the sons of Fëanor came and my world was again destroyed. This time, it was less scary and more sad and annoying, like I was getting used to it."

* A good majority of what [http://www.fanfiction.net/~incendiarist Incendiarist] writes is in this style. Notable is ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6799182/1/ Perennial Tears (Descend In Gems)].'' Because [[Tropes Are Not Bad]].

''("What did I say?")'' }}

* ''[[The Darker Knight]]''

== Music ==

* [[Jon Lajoie]]'s "I Kill People" rap is written this way to lay bare common rap subjects. Sample lyrics:

That means that you're not cool 'cause you're just a poor person'' }}

* The Minutemen's "Take 5, D":

Had to pay for two service calls'' }}

** Lyrics taken straight from a landlady's note about a leaky bathtub. D. Boon thought Mike Watt's old lyrics for the song were [[Word Salad Lyrics|"too spacey"]]. He changed them to something mundane.

* Haiku, the poetic form, is essentially this.

* William Carlos Williams.

[[Serious Business|so much depends]] / upon / a red wheel / barrow<br />

glazed with rain / water / beside the white / chickens.<br />

Forgive me / they were delicious / so sweet / and so cold }}

* This poem from Ogden Nash:

Had 'em }}

** Also:

Why? }}

* Some poetry by [[Yoko Ono]] :

(''Grapefruit'', 1964) }}

* Epigrams, the Greek ones however could be a lot longer and almost indistinguishable from elegies. Modern ones are only a couple of lines long. The most famous one was written by a Roman named [[Catullus]].

== Western Animation ==

* This is the entire shtick of "Blac-U" Weather forecaster Ollie Williams, from ''[[Family Guy]]''. The man gets his weather forecasting across with this, and a combination of [[No Indoor Voice]].

'''Tom Tucker:''' Thanks Ollie. }}

 

* Manuals, memos.

* Dr. Nakamats speech upon getting the Ig Nobel Prize for nutrition:

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* The Spartans, whose simplicity of speech gave rise to the word "laconic," after their dialect of Greek.

** When Philip II of Macedon threatened them with the message: "If we enter Sparta, we will [[Rape, Pillage and Burn|raze all your buildings and ravage all your women]]," Sparta sent back the answer, "If." Philip, as well as his son [[Alexander the Great]], left Sparta alone.

* [[Calvin Coolidge]], a.k.a. "Silent Cal." Possibly apocryphal example:

'''Coolidge:''' You lose. ''(he leaves the party)'' }}

** Some versions of the story have the party guest being [[Dorothy Parker]].

** Another example:

"He's against it." }}

* Police reports.