Gerard,

How about adding Cox & Forkum's cartoon, The Blogger's Cycle, to your post?

http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000119.html

. . . and when some bloggers reach puberty, they'll have to leave the pack and go back to live with actual humans.

Please clarify. Do I understand that it is okay to lie as long as I do so at the beginning of the day?

I love Kipling . . .

I've never Kipled... have to try it!
(Ducks, Runs...)

Smoked or pickled Kipling?

What a wonderful poem.

...with props to Captain Hopwood RN

I knew that plebe year gouge would come in handy some day.

Robert Service would be proud!

I thought I was the only blogger who'd been playing w/Kipling lately. You, however, have set a new standard for us all! Well done, that's a great poem!

You're a better blogger than I am, Vander Leun.

Brilliant, Gerard. Meter-perfect. You inspire me.

And you can sing it, to the tune of "Gilligan's Island."

Try it!

I really enjoyed "Law of the Blogger." As I read it, I could hear the cadence of "Take Up The White Man's Burden," Rudyard Kipling's 1899 poem published first in McClure's magazine. Like comedians who use comedy to discuss important social issues, you used a poem to address issues worthy of consideration by all bloggers.

The Eason Jordan reference, sadly, isn't familiar to me. How about this:

But best is to catch bad reporting, and seven times always catch Dan!

Considering it is Valentine's day, I now have a sudden urge to play around with "The Female of the Species." (The poem.)

(bows). Most excellent.

This is too darn cute for any mortal to have written. I'm weeping.

Good job.

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Wonderful - and Kipling is simply wonderful, I've been kipling for years! [grin]

that was incredibly awesome.

Kipling is wonderful, but the original wasn't Kipling. Gil Gilliam had it right.

Back in my plebe year, we used "My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean" as the tune for learning it.

Since most people won't have a copy of "Reef Points," you can find the whole thing here: http://www.bluejacket.com/sea-service_poetry_laws_navy.html

I just this afternoon posted an essay in celebration of my 4th Bloggerversary this weekend.

As I move forward, this post will serve as a reminder of Blog Ettiquette, and practices, to try to live up to.

And while the good Cdr was,no doubt, Kipling inspired.. only one [former plebe] seemed to recognize the real basis for this poem. Nicely and cleverly done.. Carry on!

Sorry, Gilliam and Wheels, but Hopwood took it from Kipling: "The Law of the Jungle", in The Second Jungle Book, published 1895 according to http://kipling.thefreelibrary.com/.

And from the US Department of the Navy (http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/arttopic/titles/law-navy.htm) (emphasis added):

The 23 July 1896 issue of the British "Army and Navy Gazette" presented a poem that was destined to become one of the Naval World's literary classics. Written by Royal Navy Rear Admiral Ronald A. Hopwood, this work, entitled "The Laws of the Navy", set forth what might safely be termed the "wisdom of the ages" for all who seek to make their way in large, hierarchical organizations, with special emphasis on the seagoing versions.