# How was your day? In rhyming couplets. **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 3, 2018, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696 "2018-04-03T06:38:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/201 "2018-04-15T15:05:54Z")
I’m trying to remember my Iambic Pentameter. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/202 "2018-04-15T17:01:28Z")
Iamb, I said, to no one there, ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/203 "2018-04-15T17:22:50Z")
except, that is, Neil Diamond’s chair. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/204 "2018-04-15T21:20:56Z")
The chair Clint Eastwood spoke to, once? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/205 "2018-04-16T05:13:42Z")
Not his best gig; he looked like a dunce. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/206 "2018-04-16T05:48:36Z")
He was such a bad ass in “Outlaw Josie Wales” ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/207 "2018-04-16T13:13:34Z")
Particularly when he escaped from those jails. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/208 "2018-04-16T13:26:02Z")
But then he made all those monkey flicks ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/209 "2018-04-16T13:34:26Z")
And then his _City Heat_ and _Bronco Billy_ schticks ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/210 "2018-04-16T17:51:42Z")
It’s too bad his machismo has petered out ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/211 "2018-04-16T18:52:10Z")
Time is a force no one can flout. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/212 "2018-04-17T01:59:29Z")
Then as a director he found his niche ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/213 "2018-04-17T03:16:36Z")
How soon we forget. What about ‘Dirty Harry’? Sheesh! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/214 "2018-04-17T04:34:14Z")
His best role, I think: _In the Line of Fire_ ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/215 "2018-04-17T12:36:31Z")
But \*Heartbreak Ridge \*really raises my ire ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/216 "2018-04-17T14:13:23Z")
In _Paint Your Wagon_ Clint did “sing” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/217 "2018-04-17T14:35:27Z")
the scare quotes reveal it just wasn’t his thing. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/218 "2018-04-17T15:30:23Z")
In **Tarantula** , he napalmed a big freakin’ spider. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/219 "2018-04-17T15:48:36Z")
but never played a bishop wearing a mitre. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-your-day-in-rhyming-couplets/811696/220 "2018-04-17T16:13:12Z")
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