# Unintentional Poetry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 15, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentional-poetry/510117 "2009-09-15T00:58:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentional-poetry/510117/1 "2009-09-15T00:58:20Z")
You may recall how in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=531660) I was repeatedly applauding Zenthanor for his wonderful verse–even though he had no intention of doing so. Well, it seems to me that this stuff is more common than we acknowledge. So here is a repository for comments that struck you as unusually poetic–no matter how mundane their origin. Here’s another one from the SDMB: > [@Weird Wild West Mafia/Werewolf/Psychopath](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-wild-west-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/504801/1368): > > Joey, you are understanding me. Don’t do that, it’s addicting. > > But, very seriously, if we “” arent understanding it “” or something similar in the last color post, perhaps we should look at things differently, even if it doesn’t involve politicos. > > As for me, I think the game has played out. And, I mean that, in the sense that a vanilla says it, because I am one. … I believe the term “No Quarter” comes in to play at some point. > > I’m the smallest of small potatoes now. Sublime. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentional-poetry/510117/2 "2009-09-16T01:00:30Z")
One of the most famous examples, William Whewell’s “An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics” contains the line: “Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight.” ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentional-poetry/510117/3 "2009-09-17T12:47:49Z")
I read something in our bank policies once that seemed particularly poetic… I’ll have to see if I can find it today at work.