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Those who read the words of Myers know the fellow rarely tires,
No surprise a film desires his opinion, strongly held:
When they filmed him, on location, and they held a conversation,
It was all prevarication—lies are where Ben Stein excelled.
And producer, too, Mark Mathis, lying’s where the man excelled,
For the movie was “Expelled”

“From our schools and institutions, in a form of persecution,
A priori, contributions from believers are withheld!
The design of all God’s creatures should be what is taught by teachers!”
With a cadence born of preachers, this the message that they yelled.
They were close enough to whisper, true, but verily they yelled,
And they made the film “expelled.”

Though they try to make it killer, it comes off a bit as filler
When they try to say Kitzmiller versus Dover really smelled.
“It was purely propaganda!” you can read in memoranda
But the wedge-in-form-of-panda, as a weapon, never jelled,
Though it may be through incompetence the tactic never jelled,
And was properly expelled.

It would really be terrific if Ben Stein could be specific
And provide the scientific stuff with which his head is swelled.
In the movie’s poor conflation, trading faith for explanation
Is the path to guide the nation to the glory it once held;
Back before the academics stripped the glory we once held,
And the truth became expelled.

Ben Stein’s ultimate solution is to hogtie evolution
But it’s such bad execution the attempted coup is quelled
Stein is labeled as “heroic”; thus his monotone is “stoic”
As he braves the Mesozoic, where the early cavemen dwelled
If we disregard the science, who knows when the cavemen dwelled?
Any truth has been expelled.

With a stolen animation, then a too-close imitation,
These nefarious creationists the storyline propelled.
All these lame attempts at spinning, from the end to the beginning!
Lying once was seen as sinning, if the Bible were upheld—
It’s too bad it’s inconvenient for those rules to be upheld,
Now the truth has been expelled.

“A conspiracy of science!” they’re still yelling in defiance,
Though the truth is, their reliance on dishonesty has spelled
The demise of their position—and the crime’s of their commission;
The withdrawal of their permission, when the opening was held,
Because Myers tried to see it when the opening was held,
Was intelligence expelled.

So accustomed to their lying, now they do it without trying,
These reality-denying little weasels are compelled
Even if their reputation had a granite-firm foundation
It would face annihilation, like a mighty oak now felled,
As it is, ‘tis but a sapling, but the sapling still is felled,
For the truth has been expelled.

http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2008/04/poe-poe-pitiful-expelled.html

Posted by: Cuttlefish | April 13, 2008 9:21 PM

You misspelled Kool Aid, which as you can read by the wikipedia article, as an artificial substance cannot use the "ade" suffix.

Posted by: Onkel Bob | April 13, 2008 10:41 PM

How about Vogon Poetry?

See, see the Vacuous sky
Marvel at its big mordant green depths.
Tell me, Ben Stein do you
Wonder why the manatee ignores you?
Why its foobly stare
makes you feel discombobulated.
I can tell you, it is
Worried by your michkleschmit facial growth
That looks like
A cheese.
What's more, it knows
Your flart potting shed
Smells of toad.
Everything under the big Vacuous sky
Asks why, why do you even bother?
You only charm muensters.

Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | April 14, 2008 7:12 AM

I think that I shall never see
Une filme D'institute D'iscovery

Expelled 'tis called; a travesty
Blending bi- and the-ology

The academics' rational reliance
Censors ecumenical science!

Wait! instead for God to answer
Queries to our world's great cancers

Dispel this irony, can you--
Where the ungodly censors are censored too?

Expelled is made by fools, you see
Losers of Ben Stein's money

Posted by: scott pilutik | April 14, 2008 1:06 PM

Eek!!
s/No/Not/
s/coma/compa/
s/caller/called/

Posted by: steve_h | April 14, 2008 11:24 PM