okay then.. like, define the word fike.

(PMs only, please)

I haven't an idea even dim
Of what a "fike" is, tsuwm
But whatever it is
You will make it your biz
To approve it or not, and that's grim.

Amended with assistance from tsuwm.

That not only doesn't scan, tsuwm doesn't begin to rhyme with glim/scrim. (said with one syllable it rhymes with zoom, as two syllables it sounds like sue 'em.

Furthermoreover, a scrim isn't usually a person, and to glim means (slangily) to look at -- were you thinking of glom or grok?

HTH.

Thanks for your helpful criticism, tsuwm. I have amended my limerick [see above] in the hope that you will find it more agreeable.

<sigh> you would seem to be clueless regarding scansion.
not to worry though, you seem to be well-suited to having no clue at all. <grin>

The usual sennight (the Holidays being over and all)?

you were expecting an unusual sennight?!

Wull, …

You gave us a neightnight once. That's a perty unusual sennight.

Excuse me Faldage, but are you folks having a secret Hogwash without saying the word "hogwash"?

milo, are you not a member of the obsolete word club?

fourtnight (said fort night)
and sennight (a contraction of seven nights)
are old english words, --fortnight is still used in UK, but is obsolete in english -

last night on do you speak american, the idea that American English is now 'standard english', and not 'received'(ie english english) means we here in good ole USA get to call their words (a mere dialect of english!) obsolete, ain't life grand?

NY (city) set the standard for the lexis, and the midland (ohio to northern oklahoma, to illinois) set the standard for pronounciation.

Happy Milo?

I dunno Maverick, are True Believers ever happy when they have nothing to complain?

[The least you could have done is call me Mister.]

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HOGWASH (happy, Mister Milo?!) ;)

GREAT! Now my spotless reputation and my good name are being used as a front for a crooked word game.
A lesser man would sue.

HOGWASH (tsu and be damned!) :)

Ah, Maverick, at last, recherché wit! Now I go happy to PM the tsuwm (pronounced sue-EM) the definition of "sennight".

Is the Hogwash Contest cancelled because of the Awad meltdown?
Inquring minds want to, etc...

the hogmaster® (me) atsumes that offline editors are used to compose def'ns (well, that's the way I'd do it!) and therefore the server downtime should have no effect on the timeliness* of entries. or, the timetable is steadfast.

but I repeat myself.

*see the infamous time thread for time out of mind referents; or, this time I'm out of my mind.

I'll be posting the entries tomorrow. (where has the sennight gone?!)