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''[[But Liquor Is Quicker]].'' }}

 

 

* [[Analogy Backfire]]: The poem ''The Romantic Age'', about a lovestruck teenage girl who:

Remind her how that one turned out. }}

* [[But Liquor Is Quicker]]: "Reflections on Ice-Breaking" is the [[Trope Namer]].

* [[Ceiling Banger]]:

If, instead of above us, they lived just underus. }}

* [[Least Rhymable Word]]:

Unless liberties you pilfer. }}

* [[Little Did I Know]]: ''Don't Guess, Let Me Tell You''.

* [[Painful Rhyme]]: Though done deliberately, and often lampshaded by changes in the spelling.

* [[Romantic Hyperbole]]:

That's how much I love you.... }}

* [[Spotlight-Stealing Title]]:

? }}

* [[Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks]]: ''The Clean Platter''

And coarse ones hymn their hips. }}

* [[Termite Trouble]]/[[Floorboard Failure]]: ''The Termite''

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 'brave' animals ran and hid, and Custard stood his ground, fought the pirate, and ate him.

* [[The Thing That Would Not Leave]]: ''Polterguest, My Polterguest''[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/polterguest.html\].

* [[Wendigo]]:

Tonight on your veranda! }}