Six word stories

[Scooter]

This is a really cool discovery, IJD, thanks. For some reason it reminds me of the clarihew, in which you give a pithy biography in the space of a brief quatrain. I only ever remember the famous one about Davy, but the Wikipedia article has dozens more. (Off topic I know, sorry IJD.)

The next layer of coolness would be to tell six-word stories that are also palindromes. (I can think of two palindrome stories that are seven words, but not six.)

I think that it's reasonable to say that a story is something that evokes an event -- something that happened (fictional or not). Otherwise it's a description or an idea, but not a story.

[ijdgaf]

Off topic is fine, Scooter. I just didn't want this to turn into another excercise in parody that was neither original or forum appropriate.

Those Clerihews are pretty danged funny. Perhaps it has a bit to do with my inability to read them in any accent other than a British one.

Also, ha! Go Jung!

[Nate the Great]

Odd name, Clerihew. Sounds kinda like a snooty person sneezing.

Oh, and thanks for the title, Z. Almost makes me want to change my avatar every day just to drive you over the edge. I'm not going to, though. I just changed to the Power of Cheese Radd to tie it in with a thread that appeared to have died awhile ago. I have any number of Trek avatars, but I'm juvenile enough to want an animated one here.

Only palindrome I know off the top of my head is "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama." It's shocking how much tripe like that we learned in high school, right?

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by ijdgaf

Also, ha! Go Jung!

Heh, yeah. Liked the ones for Popper and Clive, as well.

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

Odd name, Clerihew. Sounds kinda like a snooty person sneezing.

For Heaven's sake, don't anyone tell him about Mondegreens...

...oh, nuts...

[Nate the Great]

Had to verify, but yeah I already knew about mondegreens. Still prefer snowclones, though.