'Twas the Night Before Renewal - A Crowd-Sourced Holiday Poem
Our very own (St.) Nick Charney prepared a special Gov 2.0 version of Jingle Bells to get us all in the holiday spirit. Check it out if you haven't seen it.
It's pretty clever in and of itself...but then a commenter (@DGTweets) threw down the gauntlet and suggested we create a "Twas the Night Before Renewal" poem to accompany the video. Coffee to the winner.
So I added a first stanza to crowd-source it:
Twas the Night Before Renewal
When all through the House
Not a Member was stirring
Not even to grouse
Tag...your turn! :-) Here or there...
We'll call it a US-Canada production...to end this year and kick off the collaborative spirit that will continue in 2010.
UPDATE: Chelsea Edgell (@cedgell) came up with an awesome poem all by herself in response to the challenge. I still say we crowd-source it and see what we get!
UPDATE 2: Altered a bit to make a more Americanized version (though still apply to both!) due to the wonderful Canadian version by Chelsea.
It's pretty clever in and of itself...but then a commenter (@DGTweets) threw down the gauntlet and suggested we create a "Twas the Night Before Renewal" poem to accompany the video. Coffee to the winner.
So I added a first stanza to crowd-source it:
Twas the Night Before Renewal
When all through the House
Not a Member was stirring
Not even to grouse
Tag...your turn! :-) Here or there...
We'll call it a US-Canada production...to end this year and kick off the collaborative spirit that will continue in 2010.
UPDATE: Chelsea Edgell (@cedgell) came up with an awesome poem all by herself in response to the challenge. I still say we crowd-source it and see what we get!
UPDATE 2: Altered a bit to make a more Americanized version (though still apply to both!) due to the wonderful Canadian version by Chelsea.
Comment
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Comment by Adam Schultz on December 21, 2009 at 1:37pm
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This is too awesome.
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Comment by Sam Allgood on December 21, 2009 at 12:16pm -
But Congress was ready
And worked through the weekend
To give us all health care
On which we could depend.
The President assures us
It will save us all money
But some are proclaiming
That's a lot of baloney.
Who do we believe?
Obama or Rush;
As for me and my house,
In Christ do we trust.
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Comment by Sam Allgood on December 18, 2009 at 3:46pm
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While winter storms came
Making some people nervous
GovLoop colluded
To improve public service
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Comment by GovLoop on December 18, 2009 at 12:29pm -
But in middle America
No one did care
Still watching TMZ
For the latest Tiger scare
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Comment by Martha McLean on December 18, 2009 at 11:31am -
The senate committees
Were hung like a jury
And a search for a sound bite
Sent journalists off in a flurry....
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Comment by Chelsea Edgell on December 18, 2009 at 11:19am -
That is funny. I have also updated my post to include a link to this crowdsourcing effort. I can't wait to see what people come up with!
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Comment by Andrew Krzmarzick on December 18, 2009 at 11:06am -
Just saw that and updated my post as you commented! Too funny!
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Comment by Chelsea Edgell on December 18, 2009 at 10:52am
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Hey Andrew! I took a crack at it before I saw your comment on Nick's post. Check out my rendition of 'Twas the Night Before Renewal; I'd appreciate hearing what you think!
http://snarkyoptimist.blogspot.com/2009/12/twas-night-before-renewa...
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