Categories:
edsel, humorous,
Form: Ekphrasis
Untitled
there was an old man named Ford
who thought history was absurd
he said it was all bunk
then his company produced a junk
and the Edsel historically became the car most abhorred
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Categories:
edsel, car,
Form: Limerick
Ford Edsel Debut Day
September 4th, 1957 was Ford’s “E-Day”.
Ford had hyped up propaganda for their Edsel for a year.
The consumers were in a frenzy to buy one.
Edsel was overpriced, poorly made, and it was a recession.
The car’s grille was enormous, because it was vertical.
The critics said it looked silly, and the consumers believed them.
Eighteen versions of the Ford
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Categories:
edsel, car,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Knight Shift
My wife is a Registered Nurse
At 60, she still had "The Curse"
A Time Machine
Helped her come clean
But our Edsel is stuck in reverse
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Categories:
edsel, car, culture, funny, health,
Form: Limerick
Edsel
I own something that makes my life a living Hell.
I've become a social outcast because I drive an Edsel.
When I drive it, I hope that I'm having a nightmare, I hope I'm only dreaming.
When women see it, they won't go out with me and they can't stop screaming.
Ford almost became a laughing stock because they
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Categories:
edsel, car, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Edsel Bob
Edsel car, Bobs poem,
Heard of em,
but never bloody saw a one,
sort of bloody albatross,
a Goonie bird a walking,
flap n flop and sometimes drop,
as the Yanks did say from Gaum ....
got sidetracked hey,
on ya cobber Bob, ....of mine...Don
Seems the Yanks Air force were having trouble,
with bloody albatross,
coming in for landing ,
when the Yanks were
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Categories:
edsel, adventure,
Form: Ballade
Edsel
It will be remember by folks like you and me,
as one of the most dismal failures in history.
It was created as a new division of the Ford Company.
This car became a disaster within the auto industry.
The years of production would amount to less than three.
Following successful sales of the Ford Thunderbird,
a luxury mid-sized car was
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Categories:
edsel, business, historycar,
Form: Rhyme