Shrdlu

Shrdlu first became smitten with Thaler when he read the poem for which she won the 2006 Coy Mistress Award, given annually by the Andrew Marvell Society to the female poet who writes the most off-putting verse in the manner of the group's namesake.

Men Go to Great Lengths to Woo Reclusive Poetess Con Chapman 2011

“I thought moving to Madagascar would give me the inside track,” Shrdlu says ruefully.

Men Go to Great Lengths to Woo Reclusive Poetess Con Chapman 2011

Shrdlu is a noted specialist in the Midwestern Smart-Aleck School of Literature and writes frequently on neglected masters of the genre including George Ade and Ring Lardner.

Men Go to Great Lengths to Woo Reclusive Poetess Con Chapman 2011

  I wrote that Shrdlu was a specialist in the Midwestern Smart-Aleck School of Literature, and that he was known for his writings on Ring Lardner and George Ade, neglected masters of the genre.

My Fictional Tormenter 2010

  A state legislator in Missouri, Claude Boulrice (D-Knob Noster), read a wire-service report in which Shrdlu was mentioned, and rose on the floor of the General Assembly in the State Capitol in Jefferson City to denounce Shrdlu's works as “frivolous, a waste of money, and a corruption of the morals of our young men and women at taxpayer's expense.”

My Fictional Tormenter 2010

            And so the book appeared in print, and the person of Etaoin Shrdlu was loosed upon the world.

My Fictional Tormenter 2010

  Finally, Shrdlu had been forced to endure the obloquy of the unlettered, the scorn of the Puritanical solon, a typical example of H.L. Mencken'sbooboisiefor whom an open book was never an open book.

My Fictional Tormenter 2010

The Shrdlu meta-gravy effect perhaps if you've ever read Emile Mercier.

Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

A short story called The Naughty Princess has Sir Etaoin and Princess Shrdlu falling in love, for example.

kevynwight Diary Entry kevynwight 2000

There he encounters a singularly disturbing murderer named Shrdlu (Darragh Keenan), whose repressed existence on Earth has led him into an agonized afterlife.

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