[Steve Bucknell]

Very clever Bill, but not laugh-out-loud for me, more a sort of very theatrically produced HA! which will probably startle your wife, and then you'll be in trouble when she finds out what you've been reading.

I would define these mostly as "fantasies of competence."

[Gail White]

Parodies, mostly. Notably parodies of "The Raven".

Also proverbs, like:

When gaffer be dead a month or more,
Be time to stuff'n under floorboards.

[Jerome Betts]

Lines On Facing Forty

I have a bone to pick with fate,
Come here and tell me, girlie,
Do you think my mind is maturing late,
Or simply rotted early?

OGDEN NASH

[John Whitworth]

Hilaire Belloc. Out of many, this from, 'Henry King', about doctors

They answered, as they took their fees,
'There is no cure for this disease.'

Or this, about scientists, from 'The Microbe'.

All these have never yet been seen,
But scientists, who ought to know,
Assure us that they must be so.
Oh let us never, never doubt
What nobody is sure about.