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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah it turns out moms are into poets that understand kids

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

The same picture is used on the inside/outside of some of his books for children. It's a jump scare every so often where one gets left open or with the back pointing up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

He is very not good looking

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Also, he wrote the lyrics to Johnny Cash's hit song, A Boy Named Sue.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

And many of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show hits, including The Cover of the Rolling Stone, and I got Stoned and I Missed It.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

25 Minutes To Go also

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Last time I shared this fun fact, I was sobered to learn of the sequel. It sure is somethin'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

... And now I'm the one with this cursed knowledge. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

This is Pablo Neruda, one of the greatest romantic poets of all time. Women fell all over him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I am familar with the works of Pablo Neruda.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Have you read his poetry? There’s a reason he got hella laid. I’ve gotten laid off his poetry.

But also he has some accusations of sexual impropriety against him to a degree that there have been feminist pushes to rename stuff that was named after him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I had never looked up a picture of him but idk why I expected any better.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

All I know about the guy is from this post

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I knew he got drafted but I didn't know Silverstein made it to Colonel!

CPT Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.

COL Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?

CPT Willard: I don’t see any method at all, sir.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (3 children)

He looks like what Andrew Tate is trying to go for (but failing miserably at).

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

This guy didn't have to rape or traffic to get laid.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I actually started to say THIS EXACT SAME SENTENCE, in the meme. I'm not shitting you.

I typed it and deleted it twice, eventually deciding "ehhh, maybe not everyone will see that, and I kinda don't even want to type their names in the same paragraph."

But yeah, it's absolutely the truth. Silverstein had real masculinity, in a way that the current "alpha male" crowd could never hold the slightest hope of attaining.

But, ya know, they'd probably call him gay, the second they found out he wrote poetry. As if there's anything wrong with being gay, goddamn. Society is backsliding at warp fucking speed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Society has never been so tolerant before. More countries are legalising Gay Marriage and giving LGBT equal rights. Yes, there are steps back like Uganda, but not even a decade ago Gay Marriage was unheard of in most western countries. Less than a century ago we were demonizing war heros because of their sexuality, see Turing.

Don't confuse noise by a few extremists online with "society".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Don’t confuse noise by a few extremists online with “society”.

Let's all pray you're right, come November.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

You made the right call. Someone else needed to say it.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Andrew Tate looks like someone tried to draw Pitbull from memory.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

That is such a mean thing to say... about Pitbull.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

You almost caused a spit-take, over here. No shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

X is for xylophone. Because X is always for xylophone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I think G might be for Gräfenberg, tho.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Dude looks like a boss, no wonder he crushed that much.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Living at the playboy mansion for long stretches probably helps

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Oh, for sure. He looks like a deadly space pirate's personal trainer.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I suppose I've always thought Shel Silverstein was a woman. TIL

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Shel also wrote lyrics for the band Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show. Specifically, I know he has writing credits on The Cover of Rolling Stone.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He also wrote "A boy named Sue" made famous by Johnny Cash

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He also wrote the song The unicorn for the Irish rovers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EPsuOEH1fY

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

He also wrote for Playboy.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Fuck. That. Book. It barely even teaches a lesson, it just makes you feel bad!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

What do think is the book's message?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Sometimes that is the lesson.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

I wept while sitting on the floor beside the shelf in a Barnes and Noble reading that book when my first child was around two.