The Game: H parents bite thumb at us

[Admiral]

<p>Also, I’m afraid I don’t understand gadad’s post… a villanelle is a 19-line poem in 6 stanzas, like this most famous one:</p>

<p>

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.</p>

<p>Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.</p>

<p>Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.</p>

<p>Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.</p>

<p>Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.</p>

<p>And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

</p>

<p>or this rather infamous one (at Harvard, anyway):</p>

<p>[The</a> Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: A Villanelle on the Faculty](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=522404]The”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=522404)</p>

<p>

The Faculty Council mused about its forum,
Attendance at monthly meetings dwindled low.
“We think the problem must be with the quorum!”</p>

<p>“We must not stoop to pressure or implore ‘em,
Who cares if the professors never go?”
The Faculty Council mused about its forum.</p>

<p>“Like Amaker, let’s lower standards for ‘em!
From one-sixth to one-eighth will do, you know;
We think the problem must be with the quorum,”</p>

<p>“And not with our debasement of decorum,
Or with the J. Lorand Matory show,”
The Faculty Council mused about its forum.</p>

<p>Alas, this measure never went before ‘em,
The Dean called off the meeting, and apropos,
We think the problem must be with the quorum.</p>

<p>Oh Faculty! We cannot but deplore ‘em!
What valuable discussion they forgo!
And still they only muse about their forum:
“We think the problem must be with the quorum!”

</p>

<p>What riverrunner posted was a limerick.</p>