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''[[But Liquor Is Quicker]].''
|"Reflections on Ice-Breaking" }}
[[Ogden Nash]] (1902-1971) was one of the great writers of American humorous poetry, noted for couplets or other poems that rhyme, but [[Painful Rhyme|the lines are of different length and irregular meter]]. He lived in Baltimore most of his life, and included several paeans to it in his work. Also noted are his series of poems set to Camille Saint-Saens' "Carnival Of The Animals".
He was also verified by the ''[[Guinness World Records|Guinness Book Of World Records]]'' as having composed the shortest published poem:
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* [[Analogy Backfire]]: The poem ''The Romantic Age'', about a lovestruck teenage girl who:
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Declares she's not too young to wed.
Informs you pertly you forget
Romeo and Juliet.
Do not argue, do not shout;
Remind her how that one turned out. }}
* [[But Liquor Is Quicker]]: "Reflections on Ice-Breaking" is the [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Ceiling Banger]]:
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If, instead of above us, they lived just underus. }}
* [[Least Rhymable Word]]:
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Unless liberties you pilfer. }}
* [[Little Did I Know]]: ''Don't Guess, Let Me Tell You''.
* [[Long Title]]: Relative to the poems they're assigned to, an often inescapable consequence of the brevity of his wit; at other times an example of his wit by themselves. Among them "On the Antiquity of Fleas", which is three times as long as the poem itself, and "To A Small Boy Standing On My Shoes While I Am Wearing Them".
* [[Missing Floor]]: ''A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor''.
* [[Painful Rhyme]]: Though done deliberately, and often lampshaded by changes in the spelling.
* [[Romantic Hyperbole]]:
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Or a criminal hates a clue,
Or the Axis hates the United States,
That's how much I love you.... }}
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: The subject of "To A Small Boy Standing On My Shoes While I Am Wearing Them", at least in the eyes of the narrator.
* [[Spotlight-Stealing Title]]:
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As for egocentricity, good heavens!
What's egocentric about wanting the marquee to read
ELECTRA THORNE
IN
OPHELIA AND HAMLET
WITH
MAURICE EVANS
? }}
* [[Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks]]: ''The Clean Platter''
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And some of ladies' lips,
Refined ones praise their ladylike ways,
And coarse ones hymn their hips. }}
* [[Termite Trouble]]/[[Floorboard Failure]]: ''The Termite''
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Tasted it, and found it good
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today. }}
* [[The So-Called Coward]]: ''Custard the Dragon'' is about a woman named Belinda who lived with a kitten, a mouse, a dog, and a dragon. Counter-intuitively, the kitten, mouse, and dog were all described as being very brave, while the dragon was a coward. However, when a pirate broke into the house and threatened Belinda, the three supposedly
* [[The Thing That Would Not Leave]]:
* [[Wendigo]]:
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I saw it just a friend ago
Last night it lurked in Canada
Tonight on your veranda! }}
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