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"Candidate for a Pullet Surprise" is a poem by Jerrold H. Zar, based on an earlier short poem by Mark Eckman. It was first published in 1994 in the humour magazine Journal of Irreproducible Results. The poem uses homophones to illustrate the problem of relying on a spell checker.
Johner/Getty Images "We all make mistakes." You no doubt heard that mantra many times growing up to assuage your feelings about messing something up. However, it isn't a phrase often heard at work.
Some pages visually resemble a scrapbook in which passages are spliced and replaced, with some being blurry or otherwise hard to read. Other poems make literary references to Euripides, Monty Python, Martin Heidegger, Joseph Conrad, Marilyn Monroe, John Ashbery, and others.
By Heather Huhman Mistakes happen. Let's say you were absent from a high-priority client meeting, dropped the ball on a big account, or maybe even mishandled a large sum of company money. While ...
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However it is doubtful that Nadine Stair ever existed. Just how Nadine Stair came to attributed as the author is unknown. Nonetheless, what is known, is that Sandar Martz produced an anthology of poems dealing with women and aging. [6] In this anthology she attributes Don Herold's poem, with some modifications, to a certain Nadine Stair.
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"The Centipede's Dilemma" is a short poem that has lent its name to a psychological effect called the centipede effect or centipede syndrome.The centipede effect occurs when a normally automatic or unconscious activity is disrupted by consciousness of it or reflection on it.