Jan Hodge scores another with Margaret Sanger. Oops, poor choice of words.
And a KO for Roger with Floyd Patterson.
welcome Leslie and e.e. cummings. My recollection is his punctuation was mostly parentheses, dashes, quotation marks, and the occasional period (full stop) at the end of stanza. So I'm unclear about L3. A bit of tweaking there?
Michael, Welcome, to Quatrain Island! Do I hear the strains of the ballad Garryowen? Should L4 be "but fought there by their side"?
Latest summary of rules:
Must be a deceased American of note.
No more blazers of the Cumberland Gap (Boone)
No more exterminators cum naturalists (Audubon)
No more Vice Presidents who never became President (Agnew)
No more Presidents who were generals with wooden teeth (Washington)
No more father-son President combos (Adamses)
No more South Carolinians (F. Marion)
No more early talkies stars (W.C. Fields)
No more Sixties pop stars (Tiny Tim)
No more cannibals (Alferd Packer)
No more clothing merchants. (Levis, sorry, Wanamaker, Macy, and Roebuck)
No more Vermont poets who couldn't decide between fire and ice (R. Frost)
No more beer brewers (J. Griesedieck)
No more White Mountain painters whose name begins with a "B" (A. Bierstadt, that leaves Thomas Cole et al.)
No more Afro-American female civil rights figures
No more suffragettes who made it onto coins (S.B. Anthony)
No more Texans who ran and lost as VP candidate (L. Bentsen)
No more leading female proponents of birth control (Sanger)
No more boxers who knocked out Archie Moore (Patterson)
No more lowercase poets (cummings)
No more generals from Michigan (Custer)
Relatives by blood or marriage of previously accepted figures are allowed.
No changes to the subject of previous submissions.
Edits to meter, rhyme, diction, and punctuation allowed.
Multiple submissions allowed.
ToC so far:
Adams, J.J. & Adams, J.Q.
Agnew, S.
Anthony, Susan B.
Audubon, J.J.
Bentsen, Lloyd
Bierstadt, A
Boone, D.
cummings, e.e.
Custer, G.A.
Fields, W.C.
Frost, R.
Griesedieck, J.
Khaury, Herbert Buckingham (aka Tiny Tim; tentative)
Marion, Francis
Packer, Alferd (ranked funniest so far)
Parks, Rosa
Patterson, Floyd
Sanger, Margaret
Strauss brothers (Levis, not waltzes)
Washington, George
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