Edgar Allan Poe

"Eldorado" is a cool poem.

Got to check my Poe collection, but I'll be back.

Couldn't find the captioned one, but this is a Halloween costume:

Edgar Allan Ho.

My favorite Edgar Allen Poe:


Is:


Saw the show in Chicago :

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Not as good as yours, but:

Originally Poe intended to write about a duck.

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately duck of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door -
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ivory bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, `art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient duck wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'
Quoth the duck, `Quack Quack.'

Mad magazine did poem parodies back in the day and I remember one they did based on The Raven, ahem:

Once upon a midnight cautious
As I pondered weak and nauseous
Over advertising copy I had wrote for Macy's store
Suddenly I heard a yapping, yapping at my chamber door

(Ok, I can't remember a few lines)
Then:
Quote the Spaniel "Drink Blatz beer

I'll google the correct lines, I enjoyed Poe so the parodies were a source of great joy.

A chick who read Mad? If you like the three stooges I'll plotz!

I began reading Mad magazine when I learned how to read. I was lucky, my parents didn't have a problem with Mad, a lot of the other kids were not allowed to read it because their parents thought it was garbage.

I loved the magazine and all the paperbacks that spun off. Anybody remember "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions" or the follow up "Stinging Retorts to Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions". I can't possibly be the only woman who read Mad Magazine. How about it ladies, any other members of my gender fans of Alfred E. Newman?

About the stooges, I didn't pay much attention to them until my son turned about 5 years of age. My husband and son would laugh at the same time over the same bits, up until then I under appreciated the humor. We now are the proud owners of Stooges DVD's. Somebody get the smelling salts for Herb, stat.