It is I, RRL, owner of the blog, and associate at a large law firm. This week, we will haiku about well-known conservative figures. You can choose from the following:
1) Ronald Reagan
2) Tonya Harding
3) Dick Cheney
4) Blitzen The Reindeer
5) Augusta Longbottom
6) Barry Goldwater
7) Rory Ryan
8) Barney The Dinosaur
9) Chuck Norris
10) Gandolf
11) Mitt Romney
12) Eyeore
13) William F. Buckley
14) Grar the Giant Maverick Panda
15) RRL
16) Half of Led Zeppelin
17) Snuggles, the Fabric Softener Bear
18) George Will
19) King Zog
20) Blob
Just write a haiku. I might send you a giant pile of money, or wine, or some dynamite. Or not.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em-
RRL
Cheney with adults,
ReplyDelete"Staff 2001" knit cap,
like an awkward boy.
Buckley saw the priest,
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Mt. Vernon, Georgia.
[He debated the separation of church and state with Nadine Strossen, then head of the ACLU, at Brewton-Parker College in 1998.]
Once conservative
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I've got 'em, let's smoke
Popular Reagan
Had great hair, too! But Perry,,
Well, he lacks substance
That freakish Barney
Is simply not bent that way
ummm, I'm just sayin'
Lep Zep's John Bonham
ReplyDeleteBig guy, big drum sticks, big sound
Hammer of heaven.
Bob
Barney, beloved
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Teat of government.
William F. Buckley
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"William" 2 or 3?
RRL takes blog
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libs, but not rabid
Buckley, Reagan, Thatch,
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Hillsdale, you old dog.
Free gifts at Christmas
ReplyDeleteBlitzen always resented.
“They don’t deserve them.”
Barry Goldwater,
ReplyDeleteWe barely knew ye at all,
Then beat by Johnson.
Toffee-tongued Dandy
ReplyDeleteKiss my ears with unheard no's
I'm highbrow-beaten.
I enter this,but "The Chief," The Reverend Neil Alan Willard,of the House of Jesus,is on fire,and has me already a loser.
With dark flowing capes
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Eyes dark, so steely
Resolve, so certain
Sees the enemy clearly
His special power
~*~*~*
I think it may be between NAW and Lovely Bones this good day.
My minds eye, wide shut
I was once conservative
Drifting freely now
Eighth in line, Blitzen
ReplyDeleteWas never a contender
Famous reindeer wins.
No squib was Neville.
ReplyDeleteAugusta sent a howler--
unnecessary.
Eeyore Tea Party
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a glass half empty
Goldwater and Gays,
ReplyDeleteLiberty sans paradox;
Consistency rules!
Chuck Norris. His tears,
ReplyDeletethey say, cure cancer. I wish
he would cry some time.
Gruff and rock-ribbed right.
ReplyDeleteYet today, would be too soft.
Au H2O.
WOuld love to write this
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servative Heroes.