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Hoolibut halibut
Truncating alphabut
Thwarting and foiling my
Ability.
Fancy “that Bard” or a
Pundit of long ago
Working and crafting that
Chaotically!
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Well done, Coffeebean! I want to have your talent for poetry.
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Way back when, I received a "legal citation" (from an *original member (a name with litigatable reference)) for that "pundit of long ago" line in context, for it ain't one word...
... other than that, well done, Coffeebean!!!
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punditoflongago that better?  Pundito Flongago should be a character in a book...
formerly known as etaoin...
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Well, we need to avoid the plural for certain.
There would appear, however, to be extra room for the practice of my bugbear (a favourite) regarding the application of "their", all politically correct, when we really do not mean the plural. Under the current verbal regimen, that application will be unavoidable, but I have to (have to, have to, have to, thumping my feet upon the floor, jumping up and down like the well-known dwarf in the grimm tale) animadvert, howl at, vomit up my bile at, the inappropriate and ugly and inelegant (to my mind) appearance of "their" where no plural could be meant.
Let him or her therefore beware of "their", for if "they" practice it, I vow to dance upon "their" grave!!!
cheer
the Ra-ray warrior
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In reply to:
Way back when, I received a "legal citation" (from an *original member (a name with litigatable reference)) for that "pundit of long ago" line in context, for it ain't one word...
Huh?
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..."legal citation" (from an *original member (a name with litigatable reference))... for that "pundit of long ago" line...
...meaning you get yelled at for violating the rule that the antepenultimate line of the DD poem - by definition - need be a one-word Double-dactyl. (Oh yeah, and Line No. 2 ought to be a double-dactylic name or identifier, too.)
The "legal" part? Hinting obliquely at the identity of the original Yeller without naming him/her, without writing our here-Forbidden Character. And, in a way, hiding behind the unuttered taunt "Let it be a challenge to you!"
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Thank you, wofa and muzick! I am hereby enlightened. But you have a point, the double dactylz were not perfect; however, I endeavored to play by the roolz of the thread. Would have gone clear off my proverbial rocker if I'd tried to do more!! Ha ha!  CB
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Roolz! We don'need no roolz of bad odour!
- and I thought that you achieved great brilliance with your pome, coffeebean. I congratulate you.
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Rhuby, Rhuby, I've been thinkin' . . .
No one took you up on your challenge to omit 19th letter and utilize the other 25!
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