Community Forums => I'M BACK => Topic started by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:29:19 PM
Title: The Strange Case of the Irksome Prude by Ogden Nash
Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:29:19 PM
Once upon a time there was a young man named Harold Scrutiny.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:29:48 PM
Harold had many virtues and practically no vices.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:29:59 PM
He smoked, to be sure.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:30:12 PM
Also he drank and swore.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:30:23 PM
Moreover, he was a pickpocket.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:30:34 PM
But, for all that, Harold was no prude.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:30:47 PM
I am no prude, Harold often said.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:30:59 PM
But Detective Guilfoyle of the Pickpocket Squad is a prude, the old prude, said Harold.
Title: Re: The Strange Case of the Irksome Prude by Ogden Nash
Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:31:11 PM
One day Harold went into the subway to pick some pockets.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:31:21 PM
There was a man on the platform penciling a beard on the lady on the toothpaste placard.
Title: Re: The Strange Case of the Irksome Prude by Ogden Nash
Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:31:31 PM
Hey, said Harold.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:31:40 PM
Hey who, said the man.
Title: Re: The Strange Case of the Irksome Prude by Ogden Nash
Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:31:52 PM
Hey you, that’s hey who, said Harold.
Title: Re: The Strange Case of the Irksome Prude by Ogden Nash
Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:32:18 PM
Aren’t you going to give her a moustache?
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:32:28 PM
Sure I’m going to give her a moustache, said the man.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:32:39 PM
What do you think I am?
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:32:50 PM
I think you’re somebody that puts beards on ladies on toothpaste placards before they put on the moustache, said Harold.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:33:01 PM
Don’t you know enough to put the moustache on first?
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:33:12 PM
You put the moustache on first, why then you can turn it up or turn it down, whichever you want, said Harold.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:33:25 PM
You try to turn a moustache down after the beard’s on, it runs into the beard, said Harold.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:33:38 PM
It don’t look like a moustache, only like a beard grows up and down both.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:33:50 PM
Go on, said the man, go on and pick some pockets.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:34:03 PM
Harold turned to his work, but his mind was elsewhere.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:34:15 PM
Suddenly the lady on the toothpaste placard got off the toothpaste placard and arrested him.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:34:32 PM
It was Detective Guilfoyle of the Pickpocket Squad all the time.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:34:44 PM
You got a beard grows up and down both, said Harold.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:34:57 PM
Detective Guilfoyle searched Harold.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:35:10 PM
He certainly was surprised at what he found.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:35:20 PM
So was Harold.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:35:32 PM
Harold hadn’t picked any pockets at all because his mind was elsewhere.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:35:43 PM
He had picked a peck of pickled peppers.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:35:57 PM
Detective Guilfoyle wanted to call Harold a name, but he couldn’t because he was a prude.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:36:10 PM
Harold picked his pocket and later became the smokingest swearingest, drinkingest Assistant District Attorney the county ever had.
Title: Re: The Strange Case of the Irksome Prude by Ogden Nash
Post by: Khushrenada on November 03, 2014, 01:36:22 PM
Don’t be a prude.
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Post by: pokepal148 on November 03, 2014, 01:37:11 PM
howdy
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Post by: Wah on November 04, 2014, 09:39:56 PM
Dafaq? Khush have you been taking drugs again?
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 04, 2014, 10:27:48 PM
Again? That implies I stopped..... or started. Yes. That is a.... false accusation. *shifty eyes*
I personally thought that this forum could use some class and so I presented a poem from the only poet I ever liked when taking poetry in high school which is the great Ogden Nash. I loved this poem when I first read it and it has always stuck with me. It is presented with many pauses which I thought would work well as individual posts since it causes the reader to take that little pause between each line. I like the way it all ties together and the general message of the poem. I had a different idea in mind at first and was working on it I suddenly thought of this poem again, for whatever reason, and it sort of clicked with what I wanted to do so I decided to share it.
