In Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Vogons are extremely unpleasant slug-like creatures. They are also the perpetrators of the third worst poetry in the universe. This, they insist on reading to anyone who cannot escape, to the poor victim's great discomfort.

Anyone know a Vogon? Someone who insists on reading their awful poetry to you, when you can't escape?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogons

Me.

Heh heh - I think you can avoid some of them by going to the best venues ;)))

There are also those creatures who manage to drag their own poems into every conceivable scenario - like their own personal slugs trailing after them - a poem for every occasion...

Cynthia - you're definitely not a Vogon - and let's be sensitive here - Vogans aren't so bad really. I think we're probably jealous of their prolific natures. I'd tolerate being called a Vogan if I could write a poem nowadays!

Yes, I do, but I sincerely hope you are not asking us to name names David? Mind, there is a poem in it, I'm sure.
A question though: are you (Vogons) and Isobel (Vogans) talking about the same creatures? Or are you really referring to those mythical vague 'uns - no meat to their poetry?

You cracked me up there Cynthia. With just two letters! What economy. Got to agree with Izz though. And if it's in any doubt, for some reason all the Vogons in HGttG seem to be male!

I read this as vegan at first :)
But I went to a writer's group and there was a lovely woman who was very quiet until it came to her turn to read somethign she'd written, it turned out to be a poem about animals caught in a forest fire and explicitly described their deaths. We all had to sit there politely and she just carried on reading more of her poems.