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Super Cally

Apollo Gees

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0
“It’s rather euphonious. It trips off the tongue. It’s a cunningly conceived run-on word.”

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 “There’s something about the polysyllabic nature of it that makes you want to move to it. It makes language exciting, it makes words fun.”

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 “it’s all about rhythm”

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 “Its cheerful child-like nonsensicality – a much clumsier word – reflects rather wonderfully the idea of the fantastic and fabulous.”

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 In its normal passage of use
It was all about the rhythm
Then came the schism
Of an underdog, over-performing

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 Plus an inventive mind
Hijacking – to mock
Each astounded Jock
With a headline indelibly warming…

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 “Super Caley Go Ballistic Celtic Are Atrocious”

© Apollo Gees, 7th March 2012

Notes

Robert B Sherman, half of the famous songwriting duo behind a string of Disney musical hits, has died.

One of his most famous co-creations was the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Fans of Scottish football club Celtic will not want reminding that one of the most memorable newspaper headlines in recent years was coined after lowly Inverness Caledonian went to the fortress of Parkhead and beat Celtic in the Scottish Cup in 2000.

The Sun’s back page said:

“Super Caley Go Ballistic Celtic Are Atrocious”

Editor’s note:
I thought we’d had a poem before mentioning this headline, but I can’t find it.

The prefixed quotes are from the BBC news website, attributable to lexicographer Susie Dent and Matt Wolf, a theatre critic at the International Herald Tribune.

Those quotes in themselves are beautifully formed!

And behind the scenes, we’re currently “bigging up” our role in interweb society, advocating how we like to promote literacy.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/super-cally/