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#100530 - 05/02/03 04:21 PM Re: clerihew
Coffeebean old hand Registered: 02/11/03 Posts: 725 Loc: Oregon, USA	You all are too nice! [blushing-aw-shucks]
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#100531 - 05/02/03 04:23 PM Re: clerihew
Coffeebean old hand Registered: 02/11/03 Posts: 725 Loc: Oregon, USA	So Faldage -- Are you going to use your red pencil and tell us where we went wrong? I thought it was safe down here in Weekly Themes . . .
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#100532 - 05/02/03 05:57 PM Re: clerihew
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	where we went wrong The first line in a clerihew is either a person's name or ends in a person's name. Since there are so few restrictions on the clerihew, it seems a small thing to ask that the name be involved in the rhyme.
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#100533 - 05/02/03 06:06 PM Re: clerihew
Coffeebean old hand Registered: 02/11/03 Posts: 725 Loc: Oregon, USA	Oh, I thought it just had to contain the person's name. Oh well.
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#100534 - 05/02/03 06:08 PM Re: clerihew
Coffeebean old hand Registered: 02/11/03 Posts: 725 Loc: Oregon, USA	Lucy Van Pelt, of Peanuts ® fame, Would coax Charlie Brown into a football game, And every time – it never failed – she'd withdraw the ball, He’d fall.
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#100535 - 05/02/03 06:23 PM Re: clerihew
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	contain the person's name Digging into it more deeply I discover that Anu seems to have been of the laxer school in his definition. Others seem more or less strict in the matter, some appearing to indicate that the first line be nothing but the person's name, one noting merely that the first line contain the person's name and the second line rhyme with the person's (which would seem to require that the pe4rson's name end the first line, but not necessarily) and some even allowing the name to be in the second line. As you so aptly put it, "Oh well."
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#100536 - 05/02/03 06:45 PM Re: clerihew
musick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/24/00 Posts: 2658 Loc: Chicago	Aw shucks. I was waiting on a ruling as to whether or not "Hugh'll" *counted.
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#100537 - 05/02/03 08:16 PM Re: clerihew
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	>a ruling as to... "Hugh'll" I suspect that's why I came up with nine (9) instead of eight (8).
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#100538 - 05/17/03 01:12 PM Re: clerihew
Coffeebean old hand Registered: 02/11/03 Posts: 725 Loc: Oregon, USA	For dxb Napoleon Bonaparte, Of things military, very smart; He overthrew the royalists when he organized a coup, But was overthrown himself at Waterloo.
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#100539 - 05/19/03 07:50 AM Re: clerihew
dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK	That's neat Cb (In the true meaning as well as US colloquial). I guess I can only try this: Wellesley, Arthur, Sorted Iberia then went farther North to Waterloo with Blucher to dispute. Gave him the boot. It's a bit forced, but there are too many difficult rhymes in the subject matter!
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