Working for peanuts during Crimbo,
To prevent my bank balance from going into limbo,
Listening to a mini iPod would be nice,
I could pretend I couldn't hear the wife.
Tom Maasland, a lawyer, sets himself a hard rhyming scheme, and also seems somewhat over-optimistic about the wattage of those snow-white earphones...
If I have to work,
Over the festive break,
Be in the office,
No break to take.
Can't be at home,
Or down by the lake,
Profits for someone
Else's pocket to make.
The least you could do,
Before I flake,
Is give me an iPod,
To make the office shake.
Nigel Cooper, senior manager at a rather large computer maker, has high hopes of the restorative powers of Apple's little box.
The deadlines are pending,
and the users need mending,
but the phone hasn't stopped at all.
I should be at home with my wife,
and enjoying my life.
At least with this iPod I'm having a ball.
Maurice Solovitz, accountant at a local telco we all know, takes an avant-garde approach to rhyme and scansion with this dramatic mashup of a childhood favourite.
Roses are red
violets are blue
pets are for life
but i'd rather t'was an iPod (they make better music than pets)
Software developer Lianne Bailey hopes that possession of such a toy would remove the need for sleep. The iPod's good, Lianne, but it can't actually rewire your brain.
The must have gadget for me,
would be an iPod MP3.
Listening to my favourite song,
All night long,
Would keep the stress at bay,
And ensure I was ready for the next day.
Company director Kym Borrett makes a bold stab at using the vital rhythms of two-step, drum'n'bass and other urban vibez to get her point across. That or cut and paste.
Pod, pod, pod, pod,
Gotta get me one of 'dem apple pods.
Pod, pod, pod, pod,
get me on da tube with my apple pod.
Pod, pod, pod, pod,
out and about with my apple pod.
Pod, pod, pod, pod,
but all around are those apple pods!
Pod, pod, pod, pod,
it seems EVERYONE has an apple pod!
Pod, pod, pod, pod,
all with white wires plugged into smiling heads.
Pod, pod, pod, pod,
but can we ALL be cool with our apple pods?
Pod, pod, pod, pod,
err - YES - so I just gotta WIN me one of 'dem apple pods!
George Anderson, IT security chap, doesn't even need stereo
The days are dark and long,
with little time for song
but with my iPod on,
I'll be full of festive cheer,
and with my other ear,
help all right any wrong,
with my iPod on.
Derrick Cartlidge, assistant advisory officer, adopts traditional meter to build up a shocking mid-verse suprise - does he not want an iPod at all? Rest assured: he does.
Christmas comes but once a year
And, when it comes, it brings Good Cheer.
So, 'tis with bated breath I write
These choice few words this very night
In search of my must-have techie gadget,
Filled with optimism that I might just get it
In ZDNet's Christmas Competition,
Though 'er indoors says, "You haven't a mission".
But, to alleviate the stress as Christmas looms so ever near
all that is necessary is a bit of photographic gear
A Canon EOS 20D Digital Camera
Would be more than enough for me to shout "Hurrah!"
And celebrate our Family Christmas Dinner
A proud ZDNet competition winner!
Though humble pie I will readily eat
And settle for a mini iPod as a special treat.
The winner
But the winner of the iPod mini we have to give away is this little ditty from lecturer David Muir from Strathclyde, who fits in a sly joke and some self-deprecation.
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
No gadget was working, not even a mouse.
A wish list of gizmos was written with care,
In hopes that St ZDNet soon would be there.
This extrovert techie was tucked up in bed
While visions of doohickies danced in my head.
(Though speaking with people still fills me with dread,
an extrovert geek looks at their shoes instead!)
I found myself worried, "Was this Halloween?
Or is it near Christmas? Oh, what can it mean?"
Since thirty-one oct, and twenty-five dec,
Came out just the same, I thought, "I’m a wreck!"
I found myself worried, unable to sleep.
To alleviate stress I want something that beeps.
So as I approach this next festive time,
An iPod for Christmas would suit me just fine.
Congratulations David, an iPod mini will be on its way to you in the New Year.
