# Recommend Me Some Bad Poetry (Need Answer Fast)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** poetry\
**Created:** [December 21, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-bad-poetry-need-answer-fast/1025923 "2025-12-21T20:23:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-bad-poetry-need-answer-fast/1025923/21 "2025-12-22T09:18:17Z")

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According to Google, it’s a pastiche of McGonagall from the BBC’s 1950 radio comedy _The Goon Show_, so presumably written by Spike Milligan

> **[The Hastings Flyer - Robbed](https://www.thegoonshow.co.uk/scripts/hastings.html)**

And it has previously been mentioned on SDMB

> [@Help me find a suitable response](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-suitable-response/424873/38):
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> Is that the dreaded William McGonagall and his Tay Bridge Disaster?

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