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In this thrilling new game show, a challenger poet is pitted against one of the resident "Iron Poets" - each of whom is skilled in a particular type of poetry. The two bards have thirty minutes in which to compose a work of art - using not pen and paper, but chisel and granite. No crossing, no drafts,
no concrete-out, just them and the stone.
The efforts are judged by a panel of qualified celebrities, one of whom is a pretty young actress.
The Iron Chef
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Chef
A great show. Sorry, I thought everone had heard of this... Hence the name, [sartep]. [Detly, Jul 04 2005]
Poetry Slams
http://www.austinslam.com/
Not a million miles away. [DrCurry, Jul 05 2005]
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Do the failures become gravel for the roadbed? That, too, would have a certain sort of poetic irony in the execution. |
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Paving blocks for the road to hell. |
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Hmm. A pretty young actress judging chiseling efforts. I like that. |
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Iron poetry should be worked by ironmongers. |
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A poetic fight's a sight I'd see
A match of might in poetry
Yet more, I'm sure, I'm not alone
We want your title changed to
stone
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Dorothy! These aren't yellow bricks - they're incontinence pads! |
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[benfrost] Is that free verse or stand up? I did laugh on first encounter. |
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I have heard of the show, but felt that
your idea was good enough to have a
name stand on its own with out a
reference to the show. |
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I like this idea, The subject for the poems could be suggested by the audience, and picked out of a huge iron hat....."And the subject for tonight's Iron poem is.........A Cheese called Ian! |
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Entirely uncertain why blocks of stone are involved - poetry is mostly written in letters and books, not carved in stone. Are you thinking of epitaphs? |
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Apart from that, this sounds like a poetry slam. (Although some slams appear to allow advance preparation.) |
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The blocks of stone are involved so the pretty young actress can judge chiseling effort: "Well, I, um, the guy with the biceps, you know, he really pounded hard, and so fast . . ." |
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There once was a poet named [Detly]... |
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...who, er... uh... nuts. |
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[DrCurry] - just to add that special, over the top, we're-really-not- messing-about-just- ask-Takeshi element to the game. |
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I think the poets should wear berets.... |
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Yes. There should be large brass pans beneath them to catch the stone. Cloth tarps would be pedestrian, and to waste paper during a paper shortage is the height of bad taste. |
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[+] but I think that the description should be written in Haiku... something like this: |
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In thrilling game show,
A bard fights Iron Poet,
With stone and chisel. |
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Ir'n Poet crowned,
After thirty minutes fly,
Judged by panel. |
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Panel is made of,
qualified celeb's,
One, pretty actress. |
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