The RedHotPawn Verse Competition

Mine was original too ... not one vote ... I really stink at writing poetry 😏

Originally posted by hopscotch
Which piece did DoctorScribbles write?

I'm very interested to hear what schakuhr has to say on this.

I think the biggest props go to royalchicken for organizing this, and being the only person out of all you poets who spelled plagiarism correctly.

Looking forward to round 2.

I think mine is orginal.
You never know what sticks in one's mind when one is stoneder than the average touring funk band though, do you?

I did a quick google search for poo crumbs and it turned up blank. Quite a relief really.

Originally posted by schakuhr
What do you expect me to say? 🙁
I apologize deeply to all, especially the people who didn't get votes because of my stolen verses and royalchicken. Shame on me. I propose to have a revote, and have my entry removed.

If someone can't be arsed to write their own poems... what else are they too lazy to do on their own at a chess site?

ES

Are the entries supposed to be crazy and insane in nature, or can we submit the REAL stuff?

Originally posted by shavixmir
May I enquire...

Why on earth did you do that?

I move to have RHP institute a Prose Police to complement the forum moderators and game moderators. I nominate bbarr and dj2becker as Chief and Deputy.

Yarrr! A seeming sea dog wretch
disgraced the competition!
He sails the web in a leaky ketch
on a fool's expedition.

He flies a stolen Jolly Roger
and when the voting stops,
the scurvy, salty artful dodger
has plundered all the props!

On second glance no patch conceals
his eyes. Instead, the carrot
of props I offered reveals
no sea dog, just a parrot.

So .. when does round two starts?

Originally posted by NicolaiS
So .. when does round two starts?

schakuhr just sent me the following:

"Avast ye now,

ye be havin' gone a wee bit too far'way with ye posts,
I'll be keelhauling ye along with th' other scurfy hosts.
ye'll soon be beggin' fer th' end,
an' then ye will nerebe on ye mend.

here be the revenge of Red John Kidd.
goaded as he be in yer mid
Ye fergot he still be having his crew 'n sword,
Now ye will all be silent, nay a word.

He 'n his first matey Scarfacey Black,
They'll be puttin' ye in a sack.
off ye'll go along wi' yer chess
ye abominable an' dispisable mess.
I didna be havin' inspiration, but no' me be doin'
now be stoppin' yer lily livered crappin' an' foolin'.

For I be a true pirate, YARR!
livin' on th' coast o' black elf`s land
alon' wi' me mateys han' in han'
Ye be joinin' us, or be keelhauled by us band!

He was beein' ye traitor all ye time
And now, he be the king o' pirate rhyme!
his words be untouchable by yer scurfy dog's voices
For they be keepin' makin' strangest noises!"

Things that just don't work have been put in bold. I invite RHP poets (Nyxie, Starrman and Dr. S in particular) to continue with this; simply repost, adding the bold tags to bits of this with which you have a beef.

Originally posted by royalchicken
Round 2 starts, same rules, right now.

The constraint is that your verse must be at schakuhr's expense. schakuhr may enter only if he tells us how his name is pronounced for rhyming purposes.

Send your entries to mark DOT hagen ...[text shortened]... mise post anything before that date as I have exams at the moment.

Originally posted by schakuhr
Tharr be a greatlike solution.

Yarr, me name be havin' the pronouncation of the end part of father (er) and the begin be like a sheep's baah. ye been able to guess th' rest.

Originally posted by DoctorScribbles

I would also like to state for the record that I suspect bbarr was aware of the stolen poem the entire time and kept his silence as an act of sabotage.