Shel Silverstein: Difference between revisions
Sorry, I didn't think using the "Undo" function also meant word replacers can do their thing as well!
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(Sorry, I didn't think using the "Undo" function also meant word replacers can do their thing as well!) Tag: Manual revert |
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''I told my robot to cook me a stew.
''He said, “I got better things to do.”...''}}
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* [[An Aesop]]: Quite often, though sometimes sliding into [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]. For example, in "The Great Smoke Off":
{{quote|''And underneath his fingers
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* [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: "A Boy Named Sue".
* [[Dancing Pants]]: The [[Trope Namer]] is a poem in ''Where The Sidewalk Ends''.
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* [[Death by Gluttony]]: "Pie Problem"
* [[Death by Irony]]:
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''That they filled up the room
''And he drowned.}}
** The poem "
* [[Dual-Meaning Chorus]]: The song "I Got Stoned And I Missed It".
* [[Duck]]: The poem "Web-Foot Woe".
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{{quote|''Now I lay me down to sleep;''
''I pray the Lord my soul to keep.''
''If I should
''I pray the Lord my toys to break,''
''So none of the other kids can use 'em...''
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* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: "Boa Constrictor".
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: The song "A Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sing", where he goes to increasingly absurd lengths to get [[Johnny Cash]] tickets... and his delivery gets increasingly less sane throughout the song, to the point that he's practically screaming at the end.
* [[Scare'Em Straight]]: "Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony" ends with Abigail
* [[Single-Stanza Song]]: The song "26 Second Song".
* [[Spoonerism]]: The entire point of ''Runny Babbit'' is what would happen if onset metathesis was [[Strange Syntax Speaker|grammaticalized]].
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