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#208316 - 12/13/12 12:02 PM Re: Languid pathos [Re: jenny jenny]
Rhubarb Commando Offline
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Possibly this painting by Trent Gudmundsson?
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#208321 - 12/13/12 10:47 PM Re: Languid pathos [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
jenny jenny Offline
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Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
Originally Posted By: Rhubarb Commando
Possibly this painting by Trent Gudmundsson?




No. Looking at the Gudmundsson painting everyday for three years would have made me a better person. How wonderful.
But no, instead my wall spoke the lanquid pathos of three skinny long-legged fatigued dancers without tutu's painted in a style that could be described as latter-day art deco.
Even today I am depressed. frown

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#208345 - 12/15/12 11:51 AM Good question. [Re: A C Bowden]
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The scoreboard starts at birth on the hour
The question; is your life yours or our?
All good and bad deeds
We score to our needs
And at death the scoreboard we will scour

HAPPY - HAPAX LEGOMENA smile

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#208346 - 12/15/12 11:55 AM The Ladies' Washing Contest [Re: jenny jenny]
Rhubarb Commando Offline
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SCOREBOARD – SCOUR


The washing contest’s under way,
There’s prizes to be won;
Tubs and soap-cakes boldly lay
On trestles ‘neath the sun.
No marks yet on the scoreboard:
Laundresses darkly glower
And, hunched up o’er their wash-boards,
The dirty vestments scour.

FOLDER - FOLIAR
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#208347 - 12/15/12 08:50 PM Re: List of odd words [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
A C Bowden Offline
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Registered: 10/22/10
Posts: 75
Loc: London, UK
I've a folder of hapax legomena
And other rare verbal phenomena;
Its great foliar size
Gives much happy surprise,
Like the term henpecked husbands use: "Domina".

POSSIBLY – POSTHUMOUS

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#208349 - 12/16/12 03:36 AM Immortality? [Re: A C Bowden]
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Posts: 690
Loc: Alaska
I've been struggling, almost from my birth
To write words of some lasting worth.
Possibly this rhyme game
Is my ticket to fame;
Otherwise, I'll have posthumous dearth.

CROC – CROSS-CHECK

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#208350 - 12/16/12 07:44 AM The bane of Cap'n Hook? [Re: Tromboniator]
Rhubarb Commando Offline
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I wonder: just what is "a croc?"
Terra cotta pot, chipped by a rock?
Before I cross-check
I'll stick out my neck:
It's a 'gator that's going "Tick-Tock!"
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#208352 - 12/16/12 08:34 AM Remonstrance [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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Where to go from here? What is my choice?
I feel as if I've lost my voice.
You've made us bereft,
No guideword right or left.
I'm thinking that's not very noice!

whistle

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#208353 - 12/16/12 01:12 PM Re: Remonstrance [Re: Tromboniator]
Rhubarb Commando Offline
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Loc: Lancaster, UK
A remonstrance on me you've served,
I fear that it is well deserved!
My mind was in foment
From a Senior Moment:
I think I was slightly unnerved.
blush


MAIZE - MAKE


Edited by Rhubarb Commando (12/16/12 01:12 PM)
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#208356 - 12/16/12 03:01 PM Re: Remonstrance [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
jenny jenny Offline
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Forgive him, tromboniator. Anyone who concocts a "croc" as a "crocodile who goes tick tock" needs a well-earned rest.

Most men go their entire lifes without such an exalted construction.

laugh


Edited by jenny jenny (12/16/12 03:29 PM)
Edit Reason: to replace weird with exalted

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