The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry

The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry » Topic: QI http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/qi Just another bbPress community en-US Mon, 20 May 2013 00:33:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php Desdemona on "QI" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/qi#post-65555 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:27:24 +0000 Desdemona 65555@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I like it [= made me giggle, which isn't probably a good thing since im in a silence science lesson. MrEvans on "QI" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/qi#post-61916 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:25:56 +0000 MrEvans 61916@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1362/1061292104_3f24bbbcf4_o.png" alt="" /> Romy on "QI" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/qi#post-59877 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:02:43 +0000 Romy 59877@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Brilliant! Mushroomoid Miss on "QI" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/qi#post-55301 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:14:31 +0000 Mushroomoid Miss 55301@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Hehe! Very funny! But most importantly, I notice that you're from Norfolk! Just like me, and the great man himself! <img src="http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif" title=":D" class="bb_smilies" /> <img src="http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif" title=":D" class="bb_smilies" /> Nele on "QI" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/qi#post-53676 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:16:45 +0000 Nele 53676@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I know that's why I said it's a classic and unchangeable. I think it's really a matter of taste you have to decide what's more important the metre or the authenticity as far as the subject is concerned. Couldn't have Stephen picked a more iambic exclamation of surprise, though? Rapunzel on "QI" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/qi#post-53517 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:19:11 +0000 Rapunzel 53517@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Thank you for your comments Nele. The reason I put "Do my eyes deceive me?" in the last stanza is simply because that is what Stephen says whenever Alan wins (more in the recent series though). Nele on "QI" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/qi#post-53021 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:27:53 +0000 Nele 53021@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Love it! Love the line "the quite interesting QI" to rhyme with Fry. Love it! I also am really happy to find a poem which is not drenched in self-pity but really light and breezy and lovely. I absolutely adore the general idea of the last stanza but (yeah, there always has to be a but, otherwise I wouldn't be a good critic or had to admit that someone else has written a good poem - Never!) but, I feel there is something slightly off with the wording of the last stanza. Might be just me though... the metre just doesn't feel right. Biggest problem is probably the "Do my eyes decieve me?" which is of course a classic and somewhat unchangeable. Though I feel one might sacrifice accuracy for metrical correctness - or compromise... Maybe if you just went "Are my eyes decieving me?" It would be almost identical and wouldn't solve the whole metrical problem but the ing would add a slack sylable between the two stressed ones and I feel that would make a metrical improvement. As you see my critique is pretty irrelevant, so again, good work! Rapunzel on "QI" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/qi#post-51839 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:07:07 +0000 Rapunzel 51839@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Here's a poem I wrote about QI.Tell me what you think. There is a show I like to watch, With facts and knowledge galore, It's guaranteed to make you laugh, It's certainly never a bore. With panellist Alan Davies, And 'the master' Stephen Fry, There is no other programme like, The quite interesting QI. Beware the general ignorance, It might just catch you out, The words will flash,the sirens scream, Every mistake will count. Will Alan Davies win the game? And so Stephen Fry will say, "Do my eyes deceive me?" If yes, he's the victor of the day. Rachel Keeley, Norfolk