THE GREATEST CLUB: Marathon Results

Awesome poem, Larry, I liked it, too :)

Great work everyone, it was a nice way to get the creative juices back flowing :)

I'd like a list of my own scores and averages, please :)

^ Same here.

Aw, what did your daughter say, Larry? By the way, I'm loving your picture ;) Whose horse?

I'm with Nevi, too.

I just love that you have a picture of yourself with a horse....while you're wearing a green lantern shirt, Larry.

The T-shirt wasn't even for the contest, although I think I wrote at least eight GL poems (even before the superhero prompt - Halloween stuff).

The horse is mine, it is the only one left from three rescue horses I took from a client in partial payment. One (a shetland pony) I gave to Jessica's ag teacher for her little girl; the other, an old trail horse, I had to give to Habitat for Horses. We kept him for three months, put on a hundred pounds, but he was so far gone he needed specialty care.

Cherokee, the paint with me, is a young mare. We board her nearby so Jessica gets plenty of time with her. Very spirited and loving, but it was hard work breaking her for riding.

Jessica had read the poem just before I posted it (I was composing it as my turn was coming up). She got this smile which is typical yet mysterious and did not say anything. But when I showed her Abby's post, then Sibs & yours (the others weren't up yet) she got excited and told me I had to post the poem to my account. Probably the truest poem about raising kids I ever surprised myself with.

Amazing poems, I love Hayleys, lmaooo :D

Silvershoes: Good, of course.! I think you pulled the words out of my mouth, which is why I decided not to type much. Considering everyone has said about the same thing. xD

How did I not see this earlier?

"I'm a neuroscientist, by the way. Or was."

You're either being incredibly coy or a fearsome tease. How can you drop that little nugget without explaining it?

It's not brain surgery after all. Wait . . . for you it may be.

What, you want my CV?

I studied brain science as a high school student, uni student, Honours student and PhD student for 10 years.

Then I gave up, grew up, and got a job. I'm now working in science communication through a public museum. It's pretty much the best job in the world.

But I'll always be a scientist.

Jeeebuz Abby!

There were a looooot of microscopes.

PhD: I am not surprised. Impressed, but not surprised.

I double-dog dare you to print out each microscope poem from the contest in small font, clip them out individually, and mount them next to as many microscopes as you can.

In addition to Larry's genius, I vote for printing out the cat poems and taping them to cats.

And need I say toilet poems to toilets.

I've already thought about doing toilet cubicle graffiti in the pubs of Brunswick with our toilet poems.

You should. It would be an avant-garde art installation. An homage to Duchamp.

That's a great idea. We should start doing that all over the world.

Toilet stalls everywhere. Post the poems and the screen names of whoever wrote them.

Print them out, small print, with the lap & round #, screen name AND AVATAR, laminate the sheet then cut into individual poems and apply spray sticky to the back, put them on plastic wrap & viola - instant PnQ graffiti

post them in airports, legislative buildings, major universities, newspaper and TV broadcast buildings

I love all of this. Even though I only wrote one toilet poem (never got submitted), I love the idea of spreading toilet poem graffiti.

OMG...how old are you abby.. blah me and science were never friends...

toilet poems in toiletpubs...
wait..my...heart ...can't take...this

WATTTTAAAA TINGG.xD

Hahaha... well if I have permission from the lawyer, I guess it's alright to go ahead.

I hate to think how this system will work on grandmothers.

Yaki, I'm about to turn 29 in December.

I love this idea. Though I think it would be better if we were surreptitiously sticking grandmother poems to unsuspecting old ladies.

I like that idea, too.

Put the Halloween poems in kid's treat bags.

BTW, can anyone tell me when is the next happy hour?

Ah. for me, it's about sleepy hour.

But if you all don't mind, I think I'm gonna hit up the college's restrooms with some toilet poetry tomorrow ;)

Omg,abby... december people.. my god. very admirable though... I can never picture myself studying for another 10 years... I'd die!