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"The Tay Bridge Disaster" is a poem written in 1880 by the Scottish poet William McGonagall, who has been acclaimed as the worst poet in history. [1] The poem recounts the events of the evening of 28 December 1879, when, during a severe gale , the Tay Rail Bridge at Dundee collapsed as a train was passing over it with the loss of all on board.
There's nothing better than a corny dad joke to inspire a chuckle or two. But sometimes it's the jokes that border on inappropriate that really bring on the laughs. Because even though you know ...
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a 1972 ALA Notable Children's Book written by Judith Viorst and illustrated by Ray Cruz. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has also won a George G. Stone Center Recognition of Merit, a Georgia Children's Book Award, and is a Reading Rainbow book.
Judith Viorst (/ v i ˈ ɔːr s t / vee-ORST; [1] née Stahl; [2] born February 2, 1931) is an American writer, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. [3] She is known for her humorous observational poetry and for her children's literature.
Muir considers that this makes the poem "among the worst he [Burns] wrote". [7] McGuirk argues that the poem is representative of Burns's inability in his early poems to conceive of an end other than death to the struggles and injustices of life. [8] Burns initially wrote the poem in response to pervasive "economic and social injustices" in ...
Image credits: Strange-Movie The most up-to-date statistics show that on average, an American has 4 bad days a month. These add up to 48 days per year that are dedicated to bad moods and ...
And two inches longer than you. [1] Chorus: That was a cute little rhyme Sing us another one, do--oo-- [1] chorus Here's to old king Montazuma For fun he buggered a puma The puma one day Bit both balls away An example of animal humor. [1] There is a version of this song which is rendered for children. Three verses are as follows: A canner ...
But they decided that he should be home now. He would attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings, he would obtain a sponsor — a fellow recovering addict to turn to during low moments — and life would go on. As they talked, though, a new reality quickly set in. Their son’s addiction was worse than they had thought.