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* The <s>great</s> Scottish-Canadian poet [https://web.archive.org/web/20080224063319/http://www.nickpage.co.uk/worstweb/McIntyre/mcintyre.html James McIntyre], 1828-1906, best remembered for the timeless classic, "Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing Over 7,000 Pounds." Sounds so [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Vogon]]. Maybe a truly epic piece of cheese just does that to peoples' brains. |
* The <s>great</s> Scottish-Canadian poet [https://web.archive.org/web/20080224063319/http://www.nickpage.co.uk/worstweb/McIntyre/mcintyre.html James McIntyre], 1828-1906, best remembered for the timeless classic, "Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing Over 7,000 Pounds." Sounds so [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Vogon]]. Maybe a truly epic piece of cheese just does that to peoples' brains. |
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* The total oeuvre of [http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/ William Topaz McGonagall], perpetrator of the worst poetry in the English language - though his considerable popularity at the time suggests that both he and his contemporary audience were [[So Bad It's Good|in on the joke.]] |
* The total oeuvre of [http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/ William Topaz McGonagall], perpetrator of the worst poetry in the English language - though his considerable popularity at the time suggests that both he and his contemporary audience were [[So Bad It's Good|in on the joke.]] |
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* And Theophilus Marzials's poem, "A Tragedy", which is considered ''the'' worst poem in the English language. [http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/bad/Marzials.Tragedy.html Read it out loud in your most Shakespearean voice.] |
* And Theophilus Marzials's poem, "A Tragedy", which is considered ''the'' worst poem in the English language. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140220055900/http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/bad/Marzials.Tragedy.html Read it out loud in your most Shakespearean voice.] |
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** Methinks I sense a bit of the [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Vogon]] in Mr. Marzials's genes... |
** Methinks I sense a bit of the [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Vogon]] in Mr. Marzials's genes... |
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* Almost everything by Matthew Reilly. |
* Almost everything by Matthew Reilly. |
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