[Jack Land]

William Makepeace Thackeray
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
George Washington Carver
Marjorie Merriweather Post
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aimee Semple McPherson
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Capt. Robert Falcon Scott
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cardinal Cushing
Hans Christian Andersen
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Augustus Saint Gaudens
James Fenimore Cooper
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Lucy Maud Montgemery
Robert Louis Stevenson
Roy Chapman Andrews
Johann Sebastian Bach
Gerard Manley Hopkins
John Kenneth Galbraith
John Greenleaf Whittier
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
William Jennings Bryan
Alfred North Whitehead
William Carlos Williams
Alexander Graham Bell
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Frederick Law Olmsted
Margaret Bourke White
Edna St. Vincent Millay
William Vaughn Moody
Albert Payson Terhune
Oliver Wendell Holmes
James Whitcomb Riley
James Jesus Angleton
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Farrah Fawcett Majors
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Erich Maria Remarque
Norman Vincent Peale
Dame Margot Fonteyn
John Maynard Keynes
George Bernard Shaw
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Elisabeth Kubler Ross
Katherine Anne Porter
Engine Charlie Wilson
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edward Bulwer Lytton
William Dean Howells
Margaret Wise Brown
Adam Clayton Powell
William Cullen Bryant
Henry David Thoreau
James Clerk Maxwell
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
John Crowe Ransom
John Horton Conway
Franz Joseph Haydn
Thomas Hart Benton
Sugar Ray Robinson
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Robert Penn Warren
Ivy Compton Burnett
John Singer Sargent
Edith Sackville West
Richard Henry Dana
George Dubya Bush
William Butler Yeats
Robert Beverly Hale
Arthur Hugh Clough
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Oliver Hazard Perry
Diamond Jim Brady
Peter Bent Brigham
Henry Cabot Lodge
Olivia Newton John
Stephen Jay Gould
Hugh Trevor Roper
Claire Boothe Luce
Frank Lloyd Wright
Yves Saint Laurent
Peter Paul Rubens
John Foster Dulles
Joyce Carol Oates
Martin Luther King
Jorge Luis Borges
Louisa May Alcott
Francis Scott Key
Carl Gustav Jung
John Jacob Astor
Ford Madox Ford
Mary Baker Eddy
Jean Paul Sartre
Chiang Kai Shek
Edgar Allen Poe
Lady Jane Grey
Alan Jay Lerner
John Stuart Mill
Wild Bill Hickok
Billy Sol Estes
Jan van Eyck
Choe En Lai
Le Duc Tho

[Ann Drysdale]

Introscimible by Jack Land


William Makepeace Thackeray
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
George Washington Carver
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Capt. Robert Falcon Scott
Francine du Plessix Gray
Hans Christian Andersen
Augustus Saint Gaudens
James Fenimore Cooper
Robert Louis Stevenson
Roy Chapman Andrews
Johann Sebastian Bach
Gerard Manley Hopkins
John Kenneth Galbraith
John Greenleaf Whittier
Alfred North Whitehead
William Carlos Williams
Alexander Graham Bell
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Frederick Law Olmsted
Edna St. Vincent Millay
William Vaughn Moody
Albert Payson Terhune
Oliver Wendell Holmes
James Whitcomb Riley
James Jesus Angleton
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Farrah Fawcett Majors
Norman Vincent Peale
Dame Margot Fonteyn
John Maynard Keynes
George Bernard Shaw
Engine Charlie Wilson
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Edgar Rice Burroughs
William Dean Howells
Margaret Wise Brown
Adam Clayton Powell
William Cullen Bryant
Henry David Thoreau
James Clerk Maxwell
John Crowe Ransom
Katherine Ann Porter
Lady Ottoline Morrell
Erle Stanley Gardner
Sugar Ray Robinson
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Robert Penn Warren
John Singer Sargent
Richard Henry Dana
George Dubya Bush
William Butler Yeats
Robert Beverly Hale
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Oliver Hazard Perry
Peter Bent Brigham
Henry Cabot Lodge
Olivia Newton John
Claire Boothe Luce
Frank Lloyd Wright
Peter Paul Rubens
Joyce Carol Oates
Martin Luther King
Louisa May Alcott
Francis Scott Key
Mary Baker Eddy
Carl Gustav Jung
John Jacob Astor
Ford Madox Ford
Jean Paul Sartre
Edgar Allen Poe
John Stuart Mill
Wild Bill Hickok
Billy Sol Estes

[Roger Slater]

"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" is a cheat, since you didn't use titles for anyone else. If you left it out, would the poem still make sense?

[Ann Drysdale]

Eddington, Scott, Fonteyn and Morrell
Have all been granted their titles as well...

The poem's title's interesting, too. I found it on a group website but when I tried to link to it - guess what - it had been deleted.

[RCL]

Thoreau's name at birth was David Henry Thoreau.

Thoreau & Bullfrogs (As Seen by a Local Farmer)

"'Henry D. Thoreau -- Henry D. Thoreau,' jerking out the words with withering contempt. 'His name ain't no more Henry D. Thoreau than my name is Henry D. Thoreau. And everybody knows it, and he knows it. His name's Da-a-vid Henry and it ain't never been nothing but Da-a-vid Henry. And he knows that! Why one morning I went out in my field across there to the river, and there, beside that little old mud pond, was standing Da-a-vid Henry, and he wasn't doin' nothin' but just standin' there -- lookin' at that pond, and when I came back at noon, there he was standin' with his hands behind him just lookin' down into that pond, and after dinner when I come back again if there wan't Da-a-vid standin' there just like as if he had been there all day, gazin' down into that pond, and I stopped and looked at him and I says, "Da-a-vid Henry, what air you a-doin'?" And he didn't turn his head and he didn't look at me. He kept on lookin' down at that pond, and he said, as if he was thinkin' about the stars in the heavens, "Mr. Murray, I'm a-studyin' -- the habits -- of the bullfrog!" And there that darned fool had been standin' -- the livelong day -- a-studyin' -- the habits -- of the bull-frog!'"

Quoted in Walter Harding, Thoreau as Seen by His Contemporaries.

[Roger Slater]

Originally Posted by Ann Drysdale

Eddington, Scott, Fonteyn and Morrell
Have all been granted their titles as well...

The poem's title's interesting, too. I found it on a group website but when I tried to link to it - guess what - it had been deleted.

No wonder I got fired from a proofreading job once! Anyway, I will now refocus my criticism on the abbreviation of "captain" for Scott.

But I love the message of this poem, that we should all proudly display our middle names.

[Jayne Osborn]

Originally Posted by Roger Slater

But I love the message of this poem, that we should all proudly display our middle names.

I'd love to proudly display my middle name or names (that's with or without a split infinitive! ) - but I don't have a middle name. Poor me.

But I enjoyed this; it's amusing and clever.

Jayne

[Jack Land]

Originally Posted by Ann Drysdale

Eddington, Scott, Fonteyn and Morrell
Have all been granted their titles as well...

The poem's title's interesting, too. I found it on a group website but when I tried to link to it - guess what - it had been deleted.

Yes, that's correct. The source was/is google groups [ usenet ] sci/phys/relativity. Google recently shut down that utility. The particular web page was/is:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.phys.../c/NOzqcUvM_M4

Likewise, AAPC has been shut down.

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/

[Ann Drysdale]

Ah - there you are, Jack. Yes, that first link was where I found the word. I wondered whether it was a variation of intermiscible and tried to link it to the text, but without success. Since you're here, can you enlighten me?

Do respond. At the moment we are amusing one another and having fun, which is the purpose of this forum and you wouldn't want Jayne to think you are cutting corners and lock it like she did to Worst Case Scenarios three years ago. Come on in, Jack.

My own subtitle - Intrinsically Evanescent - was a reference to the ephemeral quality of so many of your threads. You do keep deleting them (as you did with Dozer mand, Dozer man !!) so I stole this one and froze it, to keep it alive.

[Jim Moonan]

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The meaning of this may be flying right over my head and I apologize for asking if that’s the case, but why did you post this? I’ve spent some time trying to crack the code but keep coming up clueless. Is this meant to be a poem? It's clearly a list of names. It’s posted on Drills & Amusements so it could be a few things: “Funny & serious poetry exercises (metrical and non-metrical poetry); Funny and serious Fiction and Art exercises.”

I’ve combed the list of names and can’t detect anything that gives it cohesion. The only thing I get from it is shape.

Again, if I’m exposing myself to be ignorant of something then I’m ok with that. It happens from time to time : )

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