#208941 - 01/11/13 06:02 PM
Sparteye's Game II
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(continued from HERE) 1200-plus posts in a thread makes the Internet slow down to Dead . (if you don't have a high-speed connection) ...so I've made it continue ...in this shortened venue. We now proceed Full Steam Ahead. The last words were (wait a minute, I'll go find out...) Edit: Got 'em:
NATURALISM - NAVAL
Edited by Jackie (04/03/13 11:13 PM)
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#208951 - 01/12/13 12:56 AM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Avy]
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A farmer from south of Nantucket
Kept his cream in a large wooden bucket
His milking was slow
But his cheeks all aglow
And the steam from his nostrils said “ferget about it!”
Gazebo --- Geiger
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#208958 - 01/12/13 06:47 AM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: wofahulicodoc]
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A gazebo set up on the Eiger
And be-striped black and tan like a tiger
Would go over the edge -
Pushed right off of the ledge
By a quark too minute for a Geiger.
GLANCE - GLOSS
Edited by Capital Kiwi (01/12/13 07:03 AM)
Edit Reason: Computer crashed during the edit!
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#208961 - 01/12/13 08:42 AM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Capital Kiwi]
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Blighted love.
As I gave her a looong second glance
My thoughts turned, once more, to romance.
Will it make her cross
If I taste her lip-gloss?
I soon found I hadn’t a chance.
COSTAL - COUCHANT
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#208966 - 01/12/13 10:51 AM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Capital Kiwi]
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Yes, Peter - I've also found that I can't edit. Goodness nows what's up. Anyway, i'm glad that you sent yours in - it's a cracker! And the others now have a choice of four words to use - Anyone fancy using all four? 
Edited by Rhubarb Commando (01/12/13 03:10 PM)
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#208967 - 01/12/13 10:55 AM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: wofahulicodoc]
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That is odd ... I have no trouble editing.
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#208971 - 01/12/13 03:12 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Capital Kiwi]
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Hmmm. Very strange. I was able to open the last one with 'edit', but I have not been able to do so with any for the past few days. Maybe it was a temporary glitch.
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#208976 - 01/12/13 11:15 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: wofahulicodoc]
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#208977 - 01/12/13 11:46 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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Tricked by brevet to pat the couchant lion on the head
Young Kim (not so bright) rubbed the lion's belly instead
The lion had rolled over (to put it blountly)
And said with his costals, "I sure am hungry"
(my last line is too gory; the last word rhymed with "dead")
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#208979 - 01/13/13 07:05 AM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Avy]
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I'm glad this is said it's been long in my head a limerick is nice only once maybe twice butsnot for an eternal thread with all due respect to you all 
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#208980 - 01/13/13 07:35 AM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: BranShea]
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Thanks girls, for your kind and thoughtful opinions. But remember; you doesn't have to play.
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#209011 - 01/14/13 07:18 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Avy]
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BREVET - BRIGHT
A mere brevet poet am I,
And though others would pass this thread by,
I’ll do such as I might
To keep the flame bright -
Here’s two words so the thread shall not die
INCULCATE - INDENT
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#209013 - 01/14/13 07:19 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: wofahulicodoc]
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I'm not sure what your problem(s) is/are. A limerick is a structure, not a cultural statement. It requires you to think through the rhymes while, at the same time, trying to make some sense and include the set words (in this case). It is a five-line poem. The content can be subtle and poetic or it can be a linguistic sledgehammer. As in all poetry. Years ago we used to play all kinds of poetry games here. This was one of the really fun ones.
I think I've made a mistake coming back. Easily rectified.
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#209015 - 01/14/13 07:23 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Capital Kiwi]
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As always, CapK, these plays suit some and not others. Those of us who enjoy get on with it and acknowlege that the others wish to stay away. Avy and Branny have stated their position . That's OK, at least we know why they don't take part, but the rest of us get onwith it and enjoy the contributions of non-participants to this thread in their valuable contributions on other ones.
I can't see that there is any problem, here!
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#209016 - 01/14/13 07:26 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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Ye cannot please all the people all of the time,
and some, never.
I try writing the limericks, but am not very good.
But I love reading them.
Donna' let the miserables drive ye away.
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#209033 - 01/15/13 04:39 AM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Avy]
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If I've understood correctly (and I'm not sure I have), we're looking at two different issues here. I think, Avy, that your objection is not to limericks, but to maliciousness, venom, personal attacks, and I have no argument with you there. Bran, I'm not sure if your objection is to having a steady diet of limericks in this particular thread, or having them anywhere in the forum. Several of us, at least, thoroughly enjoy what we perceive as an invigorating challenge, and find the sharing of (perhaps alleged) wit stimulating. We can separate the threads, if you like, but I certainly have no desire to stop sharing limericks, nor do I object to anyone using any other form, whether sentence or sonnet, to keep Sparteye's Game alive and lively. Please set me straight if I'm off course here, PM if you prefer.
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#209054 - 01/15/13 12:29 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Tromboniator]
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From my point of view, Peter, you hit the nail on the head.
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#209060 - 01/15/13 01:27 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: wofahulicodoc]
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Me.three.
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#209101 - 01/16/13 11:04 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Tromboniator]
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The Devil was my Daddy, a blight on Earth's green crust
Then one day he did a kindness; I only felt disgust
What brought my strange determinator
To his kind act? (I understood later)
Forsooth: If you can't trust the Devil who can you trust?
FARD - FASCINATE
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#209116 - 01/17/13 12:42 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Avy]
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Er, Ivy...not to mingle in your personal affairs, but don't you think your well-meant advice to Capt K should be given privately? I know that you "intelligent people" doesn't want to offend " the ...umm... [add euphemism] ones". Of course not. 
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#209117 - 01/17/13 12:50 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Avy]
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Yes, Peter! You're right. That's what my objection is. The board used to be about the discussions and the topics and the games not about "rubbing people the wrong way subtly or overtly." Do stay*, Cap K. Take a break - it helps; or post less that also helps.
Edit: *only because the intelligent people still outnumber the ...umm... [add euphemism] ones. Sounds like a judgment call. Who determines who is and who is not ....umm....[add euphemism] intelligent?
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#209119 - 01/17/13 01:12 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: jenny jenny]
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"Fard"? Is this the Sparteye's Game thread or the Hogwash thread ? ;-)
I know it's exceedingly hard
To fascinate fans of the Bard
...But if one day you wake up
...With much too much makeup
You haven't read well, and you're fard.
(Yes, I know, it's great stretch. But as Winnie-the-Pooh says, "It isn't brains, because You-know-why, Rabbit, but it comes to me sometimes...)
CAPUCIN -- CATERWAUL
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#209121 - 01/17/13 02:16 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: wofahulicodoc]
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Way down south in old Alabamee
The zealots dispute Darwin’s theory
But their caterwaul calls
Sounds like capucin balls
In reason’s sweet mangle – so cheery!
Transept - - - Translate
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#209122 - 01/17/13 07:07 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
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Speaking as a southern Southerner I would like to say that I am sorely offended by Maverick's post. Damnit Maverick, the affectionnate of Alabama is not Alabamee it's Alabammy, like in Mammy, like in Al Jolson, like in proper upbringing.
How easy you forget: Charles Darwin was vindicated of all his heresies in the Tennessee monkey trial. But in compromise the judge let us keep on speaking in tongues and handling our snakes.
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#209128 - 01/18/13 12:25 AM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: maverick]
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Well, a remorseful man does touch my heart...
Yes, Mister Maverick (may I call you "Mav")
I will forgive you, Mav, but only if you stop playing that childish game you call Bridge and immediately begin growing a beard to cover your weak chin so you'll look more like General Stonewall Jackson.
You know what, dear Mav?
I think that this is the begining of a beautiful friendship.
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#209138 - 01/18/13 11:49 AM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: BranShea]
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To Bran
If you don't like the thread, start your own instead of
policing the one that exists with your disdain. Some like
limericks, if you don't, go elsewhere, you do have a choice.
For the second or third time at least, obviously you visit
the thread posting anagrams without contributing any: if the anagrams are so trite, why don't you start
your own thread where everything will measure up to your own
standards, instead of policing the other threads and constantly
putting them down. We have a good time, and poof! you appear.
Again I ask you, who made you the police patrol?
Edited by LukeJavan8 (01/18/13 12:07 PM)
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#209139 - 01/18/13 11:53 AM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Avy]
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No we doesn't, Jenny Jenny.
No, I don't decide, but IMO you're intelligent Luke. Call me judgemental. I don't speak textese, so your comment is lost on me: IMO?
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#209141 - 01/18/13 12:02 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: wofahulicodoc]
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IMO - In My Opinion
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#209144 - 01/18/13 12:09 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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Thanks Buff, now it makes sense.
Sorry if I offended you Avy. The problem with computers
we cannot see the people, and don't know how to take comments
sometimes with body language apparent.
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#209149 - 01/18/13 12:38 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: BranShea]
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Your sardonic and cynical comments are so refreshing.
Keep your badge shiny.
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#209153 - 01/18/13 06:05 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: LukeJavan8]
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When did this Camelot turn into a boxing match?
You're right. Now can we all declare victory and withdraw?
I'll offer to have the last word, so no one loses face.
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#209156 - 01/18/13 08:44 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: BranShea]
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#209158 - 01/18/13 09:58 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Avy]
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First the Lost Dutchman's Goldmine attacked us, *
Then excessively watered the cactus. **
...Now I find with dismay
...That an Apple a day
Keeps the Doctor away from his practice ! ***
* One of the early text-only adventure games. Like Zork.
** If you did anything but the right thing all you saw was a saguaro cactus
*** Remember when there were no Macintosh computers, just an Apple II ?
(I won $10 once for submitting that to an early computer magazine, in 1983 or so. That's the same as Second Prize in a Beauty Contest !)
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#209175 - 01/19/13 10:28 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: maverick]
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The medieval peoples for Heaven did search
In transept cathedrals the heathens did worsh
Building their churches crossed shaped
As vehicles where souls could translate
Now every airplane flying is a cross shaped church
GNOSIS - GOAT
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#209176 - 01/19/13 10:39 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: tsuwm]
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> comic verse consisting of five anapestic lines Hm, yes, it can be – but the form is not exactly set in concrete. Personally, the structure I think most satisfying is: Rhyme scheme: AABBA Lines 1,2,5: 9 syllables in 3 amphibrachic feet Lines 3,4: 6 syllables in 2 anapestic feet The unity of triploid feet helps weld the thing together, but the variation in stress patterns makes for more interest. This gives the characteristic declamatory inversion of normal speech rhythm in the first line ~ “There WAS an/old MAN of/deVIZes….” The alteration to anapaest in the middle couplet has something of the same kind of effect that a couplet does in a 14 line sonnet, but sprung into the humorous conclusion of the final line with both rhythmic stress and final rhyme striking conclusively as a closing bell (apart from variation for more humorous effect!) ymmv and now we return you to your regular program...
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#209177 - 01/19/13 11:02 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: jenny jenny]
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There once was a preacher from DickeyWhose long-growing gnosis was tricky: He had discarded god As a vindictive sod But a goat’s love soon gained him a quickie! now an easy lob: GIRDLE - - - GIRL
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#209181 - 01/20/13 07:35 AM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Tromboniator]
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Posts: 75
Loc: London, UK
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In a document marked 'Confidential',
The President wrote "It's essential
That the Congo's unrest
Should be quickly suppressed,
Or its spread could become exponential".
ENORMOUS – ENTANGLE
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#209192 - 01/21/13 06:49 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: wofahulicodoc]
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Bach certainly thought so!
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#209193 - 01/21/13 10:56 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: tsuwm]
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The second coming was to be the last going
With everyone knowing there was no return
A rudderless ship
Ruled Captainless
As a ship of fools enjoyed the last sojourn
HONK - HOODLUM
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#209201 - 01/22/13 03:01 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: wofahulicodoc]
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At last ... the missing verse from "A Salty Dog" by Procol Harum! Worth listening to!Your limerick makes as much sense! Actually, they did this at Cropredy about eight years ago. Brought tears to my eyes. But I love this version of it, done with a choir and the Danish National Concert Orchestra somewhere in Denmark a couple of years ago.
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#209262 - 01/26/13 08:50 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Tromboniator]
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HONK -- HOODLUM
The hoodlum retired one fine day
And swore he'd keep temper at bay.
...But when traffic would pile up
...His ire would just rile up
With "Get the [HONK] outa my way !!"
APRICOT - ARRAS
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#209267 - 01/27/13 07:32 AM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: wofahulicodoc]
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From the flux there's a potion to spare us; Elude time, if we hide in the arras. If we eat apricot, And avoid smoking pot, The result is: no runs, hits, nor eras*. FOUR-STAR – FRAIDY-CAT *Runs, hits, errors are basic baseball statistics.
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#209271 - 01/27/13 11:47 AM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Tromboniator]
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I like.
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#209273 - 01/27/13 01:00 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Tromboniator]
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I don't know, Luke. I think Trombone is slipping a deeper meaning into his well-crafted Limerick that almost passed over my head. Think about the alternate meanings of flux, evading time, era, and apricot. See? Something is being said here that is lost with only a cursory reading. Now rethink his ominous final line..."no hits, no runs, and no more eras"  .
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#209275 - 01/27/13 01:11 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: jenny jenny]
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I guess I'd better spend some time on it, thanks.
Now Peter, if you are being bad........
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#209276 - 01/27/13 01:42 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: wofahulicodoc]
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There's an alternate meaning for apricot?
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#209278 - 01/27/13 03:27 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: wofahulicodoc]
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ah, a balk.
;¬ )
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#209284 - 01/27/13 09:39 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
[Re: Tromboniator]
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Not you, Tromb; jenny threw the balk. :¬ )
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#209285 - 01/27/13 10:01 PM
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I guess I'd better spend some time on it, thanks.
Now Peter, if you are being bad........ And while I'm in denial: Me? Bad?
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#209292 - 01/28/13 12:39 PM
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I knew you weren't
a) in denial
b) being a bad boy.
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#209308 - 01/29/13 10:09 AM
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Fatty was a fraidy-cat, the smartest dumb kid alive, Appointed himself a four-star General(couldn't count to five) Ned in the first reader He flunked, but even sweeter, He tracked down Ned cut off his head and stopped Ned's wordy jive. QUEEN - QUIT
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#209311 - 01/29/13 12:31 PM
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Certainly not a"See Spot run" and the kids, whatever their names
were, sort of primer. But I likes.
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#209313 - 01/29/13 04:36 PM
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Good one, jenny jenny. Here's mine:
The tough four-star test is renowned;
Some swimmers have tried it and drowned.
But the fraidy-cat version
Requires no immersion –
One star for just splashing around.
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#209317 - 01/29/13 06:42 PM
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(You need to post a couple new words for the group, A.C.)
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#209318 - 01/29/13 07:04 PM
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#209328 - 01/30/13 10:27 PM
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...twice. I love to go awandering along the mountain track And as I go I love to sing my knapsack on my back There's no such thing as a figurative kiss
"Kissingly" has no place in rhymes like thisVal-deri Val-dera ha ha ha, my knapsack on my back DUD - DUFFER
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#209336 - 01/31/13 11:39 AM
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One of my favorite songs back in Glee Club Days,
thanks for the Memory JJ.
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#209339 - 01/31/13 04:53 PM
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If you're simply a bit of a duffer,
You can hide it if you're a good bluffer;
But if you're a real dud,
You're stuck in the mud,
And life will be quite a lot tougher.
KNIGHT – KNOTTY
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#209365 - 02/02/13 06:21 PM
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but it goes from K to Q in one page?
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#209366 - 02/02/13 11:46 PM
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Ah, kale, sweet kale, what bitter memories you won't foretell Cow cabbbage, collard greens, spring greens, hungry gap, Jersey rape kale. Unbelievably undesirable Unthinkably indigestible By a mutual quiddity kale is only eaten down in Hell DEPONE - DERANGE
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#209370 - 02/03/13 11:35 AM
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Ah, kale, sweet kale, what bitter memories you won't foretell Cow cabbbage, collard greens, spring greens, hungry gap, Jersey rape kale. Unbelievably undesirable Unthinkably indigestible By a mutual quiddity kale is only eaten down in Hell DEPONE - DERANGE Great
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#209427 - 02/05/13 07:47 PM
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#209449 - 02/07/13 01:15 PM
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A part-timer, limerick rhymer, was Oppenheimer
Who became insane when his poems became passe
A social climber
An atom diviner
He invented a bomb to blow the world away.
FIZZLE - FLARE
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#209456 - 02/07/13 08:47 PM
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#209479 - 02/09/13 02:45 PM
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Outside's a monotonous drizzle
With clouds of a boring, dull grizzle
I felt near to despair,
So I lit up a flare
And a sparkler to watch them all fizzle.
Dunno if you have 'sparklers' your side of the pond? They're a silvery-grey, bullrush-shaped blob on the end of a wire, which you light up and they burn with a bright, sparkling light as you wave them around. Great fun! Kids like me love them.
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#209483 - 02/09/13 07:59 PM
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Probably illegal? Could be but we are so behind the
rest of the world that I would not know. But I saw
some last July Fourth.
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#209486 - 02/10/13 02:35 AM
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Outside's a monotonous drizzle
With clouds of a boring, dull grizzle
I felt near to despair,
So I lit up a flare
And a sparkler to watch them all fizzle.
"What a strange thing! To be alive beneath cherry blossoms" _________________________ Kobayashi Issa (Poems)
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#209492 - 02/10/13 01:53 PM
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[quote=Rhubarb Commando]
Dunno if you have 'sparklers' your side of the pond?/quote]
Had 'em when I was a kid, but I haven't seen any in decades. Probably illegal now. Not illegal here. Actually they're one of the few types of fireworks that can be bought at a regular store, such as a grocery store around the 4th of July. WE bought several boxes this year and still have some around. Lit a few the other night at a party!
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#209495 - 02/10/13 04:19 PM
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#209496 - 02/10/13 05:31 PM
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Either way - sparklers are the last remnant of legal fireworks in many places in New England, or at least here ( = Massachusetts). Anything else you hear around here- and there is plenty - was probably imported from the South, or perhaps China.
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#209498 - 02/10/13 06:27 PM
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Just an offhand, cynical remark. No reason to believe it's true. heh no worries!
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#209516 - 02/11/13 05:18 PM
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You can still buy all sorts of fireworks in UK - bangers, riackets, Roman Candles, Goblin Moines, etc, etc. When I was a kid, these were just for November 5th (Guy Fawkes Day, celebrating the burnig of the stake of the catholic terrorist who tried to blow up King James I of England (& VI of Scotland)and Parliament - almost enough to make me convert from atheism to catholicism!
But, increasingly, fireworks are moving into the hands of professionals who put on slendid firework shows, lasting half an hour and getting through several thousnad pounds-worth of gunpowder and chemicals which pollute the atmosphere as much as a motorway with four solid lanes of traffic for an hour.
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#209540 - 02/12/13 12:27 PM
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The recent movie "Neverland" with Charlie Roe as Peter,
has a scene concerning ' penny for the Guy".
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#209541 - 02/12/13 12:27 PM
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A turbot in every pot, a drink for every sot
Said the Queen who wasn't mean...well, not a lot
Give us cake, the riffraff said
In turn she said, off your head
Merry England wasn't very merry; merry it was not.
KAFKAESQUE - KARMA
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#209543 - 02/12/13 12:43 PM
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I'm looking forward to the limerick with those two words.
Good choice JJ.
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#209590 - 02/16/13 11:21 AM
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Cheers, you did it,Peter!
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#209591 - 02/16/13 12:50 PM
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Just so, Trombo. Any man who sees good in a cockroach is a friend of mine. Just don't invite me over. Perfect limerick.
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#209592 - 02/16/13 05:05 PM
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Brilliant, Peter! I've been trying - and failing - to get a limerick round these for days! Congratulations.
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#209601 - 02/17/13 07:32 AM
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A young ballerina called Rose
Would rise on the points of her toes
In her father's conservatory
And, with movements rotatory,
Sink into a beautiful pose.
DISCLAIMER - DISCREET
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#209603 - 02/17/13 10:39 AM
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A vignette in motion in the form of a poem.
What a lovely and moving thought.
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#209608 - 02/17/13 12:19 PM
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Thank you kindly, Ma'am.
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#209654 - 02/20/13 01:22 AM
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Whenas in silk my Julia goes she goes so sweet
Yo' Bro' dats my ho' makes her bread in dis street
Back fifteen I follow dis slut
B.I.G. don't watch her big round butt
A gangster banger gotta disclaimer when in discreet
HANDSPRING - HANGMAN
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#209659 - 02/20/13 04:18 AM
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Pistorius, with blades but no feet
Put four shots in his girlfriend – dead meat
So he thought he’d just blame her
- A burglar disclaimer
Which was hardly discrete or discreet!
Wrote this in my head on the way to work this morning. Jenny's put up new words so I won't.
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#209660 - 02/20/13 06:57 AM
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Good one, Capfka - and sooooo topical!
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#209665 - 02/20/13 11:50 AM
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And I'll piggyback on that. So current.
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#209667 - 02/20/13 04:19 PM
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HANDSPRING – HANGMAN
As a hangman, old Pierrepoint was best.
He sent over 400 to rest:
Once he’d done each one in
He’d go back to is Inn*,
And do handsprings to expand his chest.
* Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's last public executioner, when he wasn't administering "justice" to those deemed best dead by the court, ran a pubblic house, the Rose and Crown, just outside Preston, Lancashire - about 24 miles from where I live.
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#209668 - 02/20/13 04:23 PM
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Love it. The only executioner more famous was Jack Ketch ...
And, oy! Where are the next two words?
Edited by Capital Kiwi (02/20/13 04:26 PM)
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#209669 - 02/20/13 05:19 PM
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Very nice, Rhuby, in a long=necked sort of way.
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#209670 - 02/20/13 06:26 PM
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 O' how Albert could regale his customers at the Rose and Crown with food and drink. And I bet his gallows humor jokes were the funniest jokes going before knock-knock. Like... Knock, knock RC: Who's there? Tunny RC: Tunny who? Give us tunny words or we'll go get Albert.
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#209672 - 02/21/13 02:15 AM
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Very nice, Rhuby, in a long=necked sort of way. The story could be true but it's a stretch.
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#209680 - 02/21/13 06:44 AM
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Registered: 11/13/11
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Many thanks, comrades
and the next two words are:-
SIXAIN - SKETCH
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#209684 - 02/21/13 07:49 AM
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A sixain’s a bit of a stretch
A limerick’s five lines just a sketch
But to turn a six line
Into a limerick is fine –
Just get one line lopped off by Jack Ketch!
Nothing like carrying a theme through, is there ...
RIBALD - RIPARIAN
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#209690 - 02/21/13 11:13 AM
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As Buff S says: "heh,heh"
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#209693 - 02/21/13 12:30 PM
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Getting a bit hung up n this theme, aren't we?
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#209785 - 02/25/13 12:37 PM
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[Re: Capital Kiwi]
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I sit here on a riverbank to compose a ribald rhyme
The lush greenery distracts the riparian scene sublime
Stupid nature just grows
Mindlessly grows and grows
Then I remember that I am as well a part of the slime
UNDULATION - UNFOLD
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#209798 - 02/26/13 05:57 AM
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THE VOYEUR
Her bright blue eyes and golden tress,
Soft undulations ’neath her dress,
He looks upon, with gaze so bold -
And waits to see her drapes unfold
FOLIATE - FOOD
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#209805 - 02/26/13 01:30 PM
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... er, where's the limerick then, matey? You pulling some Scouser trick on us then?
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#209810 - 02/26/13 05:35 PM
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Limerick is not a strict rule - and never has bin, culley. I have broken out into sixtrains and iambic pentameteters in the past, if the sentimeent of the topic demands it. This is the first time I've used a Khayyamic quatrain, but.
So there! :)-
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#209813 - 02/26/13 09:48 PM
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Not to change the subject but... is that form a Kayyamic quatrain or rather a Fitzgerald-translationic quatrain? I know most of Homer in English is iambic pentameter but the original Greek, IIRC, was dactylic hexameter. What did Omar write in?
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#209817 - 02/27/13 09:48 AM
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Perfect form and message.
With the read I became the voyeur.
Thank you, Commando.
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#209820 - 02/27/13 12:08 PM
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It is Fitgeraldian - almost. Strictly speaking, the rhymes whould be A, A, B, A.
It could more properly have read:-
Her bright blue eyes and tresses gold,
He looks upon, with gaze so bold;
Soft undulations ’neath her dress:
He waits to see her drapes unfold
Edited by Rhubarb Commando (02/27/13 12:11 PM)
Edit Reason: add rewritten masterpiece
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#209824 - 02/27/13 02:49 PM
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Yeah but I wonder; is there a ear here that can't hear with the eye the clear superiority of the first? Fixed structures restrict Art.
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#209825 - 02/27/13 03:39 PM
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True Art is to transcend the restrictions of the fixed structures. (discuss!
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#209827 - 02/27/13 05:54 PM
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True Art is to transcend the restrictions of the fixed structures. (discuss! Uh, didn't I just say that? 
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#209828 - 02/27/13 06:26 PM
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Well, jj, my hearin' ain't that a-cute, I guess, but what I heerd wus that you-all said,
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#209829 - 02/27/13 06:27 PM
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Well, jj, my hearin' ain't that a-cute, I guess, but what I heerd wus that you-all said, wus -
"Fixed structures restrict Art."
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#209839 - 02/28/13 04:19 AM
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Well, jj, my hearin' ain't that a-cute, I guess, but what I heerd wus that you-all said, wus -
"Fixed structures restrict Art." See how it goes when you turn it around. Art restricts fixed structures. The "truth" lies somewhere in between.
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#209861 - 03/01/13 11:48 AM
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Yeah bigmouth, now what? Hunting Season ended yesterday and you're still up this damn tree trying to bag a deer. Where's Jessie? He's in the lodge, eating cracking cornbread and drinking Sweet Lucy whiskey while I ain't et since Thursday.
"I'll eat when I climb down from the damn treestand to get the nine point food that I shot", my bigmouth had said.
This is my third day in the tree. I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I'm hallucinating. Last night I dreamed that fat and well antlered deer were everywhere, behind each bush, up in the tree, even flying about in the sky. Then I woke up to a gray sky and empty woods. But wait! Not fifty yards away in the foliage I heard a russle. The evergreen leaves moved slightly as the deer came closer. I raised my Remmington and fired and heard a scream. Hmm, I thought, deer don't scream.
"Oh Sweet Jesus" I cried. "I've shot Jessie!"
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#209862 - 03/01/13 02:59 PM
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A great short story, jj, I loved it - close to the objective but, I fear, no cigar! the second word was FOLIATE, not FOLIAGE
So, this one is still open, I believe?
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#209865 - 03/01/13 03:55 PM
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Sweet jj - remeber the words of Baden-Powell: " The [person] who never made a mistake, never made anything!" So far as I'm concerned, well; mistakes [shrug] I've made a few; but then, again, too few to mention.
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#209867 - 03/01/13 07:04 PM
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Sweet jj...So far as I'm concerned, well; mistakes [shrug] I've made a few; but then, again, too few to mention. Listen loverboy, I've been to picture shows and indoor dances. You can't fool me. You stole that pick-up line from Frank Sinatra... Regrets, I've had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this, I did it my wayI have the record. 
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#209872 - 03/02/13 06:24 AM
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Obviously , you stole this one from Lauren Bacall in the 1942 movie 'Casablanca'. Yes dear BranShea; good lines, I've stole a few [shrugs] but then, again, to few to mention. So I won't. Unless I'm caught, and put in detention. 
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#209880 - 03/02/13 02:31 PM
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Bacall, Bergman, it's the same thing.
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#209882 - 03/02/13 03:50 PM
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This has been a fascinating exchange of ideas and philosophies - which is what this Board is all about - but to bring you back to reality (on this thread, at least!) the current words for the next entrant are :-
FOLIATE - FOOD
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#209885 - 03/02/13 08:26 PM
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Ok, RC, but not me. The last time I tried to do FOLIATE - FOOD "I screwed up my words up and down and back to Hell" * * I think this is a quote from My Fair Lady.
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#209886 - 03/03/13 05:12 AM
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If at first you don't succeed - try sucking eggs!
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#209887 - 03/03/13 09:59 AM
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I never liked eggs until I tried sucking eggs
Sucking eggs suck because they don't have leggs
They hide in forest foliate
And attach to certain vertebrates
Yum...pick'em and boil'em, but don't eat the dregs
Now...
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#209888 - 03/03/13 10:50 AM
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I never liked eggs until I tried sucking eggs
Sucking eggs suck because they don't have leggs
They hide in forest foliate
And attach to certain vertebrates
Yum...pick'em and boil'em, but don't eat the dregs
Now...
bzzzt! this may be about food, but it doesn't contain the word food.
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#209901 - 03/04/13 02:37 PM
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Thanks tsuwm, you saved me from a second embarrassment. Now if you will kindly suppy the two words needed to continue this thread you will be our Humphrey DeForest Bogart.
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#209907 - 03/05/13 05:56 AM
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A great poem, Branny - and you don't even like limericks!
Here's a hymn to Italian Food:
The mortadella’s smoky flavour
Is one I’m delighted to savour;
So don’t mewl or puke
If that’s what I cook
Try it – it’s bound to find favour!
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#209916 - 03/05/13 11:25 PM
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English cheek knows no bounds they name our things in English
The tallest things of other's are named in English's veriest.
Some call it Deodungha
Some call it Chomolunga
Me being evangelical I refuse to call it Mount Everest .
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#209955 - 03/09/13 10:09 PM
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Damned wench! Does not the gorgon know that you are an AWAD award-winning limerickist? Make that gorgon beech cite the rule for the spoken use of "thee" or "thuh" for the written "the".
As for me here is a song by Rice Miller I use as a mnemonic...*
There was an animal called the goat, he butted his way on the Supreme Court
"Let him go, please, please, let him go"
'cause he worked so hard you can't use him in yo' court no mo'
Judge give him five hours to get out of town, he got five miles down the road and committed another crime
That's when the high sheriff happened to be caming along, and caught the billy goat eating up the old farmer's corn
High sheriff takes the billy goat to the county jail, but the desk sergeant said "I'll go his bail"
Let him go.
* thee thuh
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#209959 - 03/10/13 12:55 PM
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re. jj
Is it worth asking what you're on about? Only one of those "the"s is usually thee, and you marked it with the wrong color, if I'm interpreting your legend correctly.
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#209965 - 03/11/13 10:01 AM
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re. jj
Is it worth asking what you're on about? Only one of those "the"s is usually thee, and you marked it with the wrong color, if I'm interpreting your legend correctly. I dunno Buffalo, I guess it is worth whatever you determine. I used Rice Miller's lyrics to suggest determinates for the two everyday enunciations of the word "the"... 1) our regional and local manners of speaking 2) the as thee specific directive and the as thuh not-so specific 3) thuh casual as opposed to thee formal 4) for lyrical reasons But mainly to emphasize that there are no rules for correctly pronouncing "the". _______________________________________________ TRUMP - TRYST
Edited by jenny jenny (03/11/13 11:09 AM)
Edit Reason: to continue Sparta's Game
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#209966 - 03/11/13 10:11 AM
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OK, I agree that we don't need no steenkin' roolz but -
over this side of the pond, the general practice, even in 'street-talk', is that words starting with a vowel sound are preceded by 'thee' and all others by 'thuh.' That is not what your colourful example, above, shows (as Buff rightly says.)
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#209968 - 03/11/13 11:12 AM
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The "rule" I learned was "thee" before a vowel, "thuh" otherwise, with, of course, a few exceptions. (There are always exceptions...)
As RC says.
Edited by Buffalo Shrdlu (03/11/13 11:12 AM)
Edit Reason: I missed the next page...
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#209970 - 03/11/13 11:23 AM
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OK, I agree that we don't need no steenkin' roolz but -
over this side of the pond, the general practice, even in 'street-talk', is that words starting with a vowel sound are preceded by 'thee' and all others by 'thuh.' That is not what your colourful example, above, shows (as Buff rightly says.) I've always subscribed to the same, except "thee" when used in emphasis: "That was the (thee) best dinner I've ever had".
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#209971 - 03/11/13 01:00 PM
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Well now boys, is not sectional diversity wonderful? How rigid are the (pronounced thuh) uh, arbitrary rules over in England and how richly is the (pronounced thee or thuh according to whim) English Language used here in the ever-evolving southern South. Here, you see, we drawl but conserve our words. Nuance, pitch, so forth, and et cetera are all incorporated into a mishmash of meanings and this is why our words are alive and yours are becoming dead.
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#209984 - 03/12/13 09:03 AM
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Maybe, Branshe. Or perhaps they are just stolid. Jump Donald Trump you are slipping in the ratings Find a frump Donald Trump the ratings are abating Tryst her hire her Admire her fire her Hump Donald Trump the whole wide world is waiting HEIRESS - HEPCAT
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#210075 - 03/21/13 03:40 AM
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The Copilot was the vet the pilot was the rookie
Their mission: Bomb the munitions plant at Kwazooki
The pilot had a boxlunch; a chicken and a cookie
The co-pilot's lunch was to bomb the plant at Kwazooki
He said:
"Lookie, Zero, nine oclock!" and stole the rookie's cookie.
FARMER - FATALITY
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#210118 - 03/26/13 11:49 AM
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I can just picture an amorous trogodite farmer.
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#210129 - 03/27/13 12:39 AM
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In Detroit John Lee was adroit singing Boogie Children
Papa told Mama let that boy boogie-woogie while he's willing
After a bottle at the crib
John Lee Hooker did ad lib:
One scotch, one bourbon, one beer before singing Boogie Children
METAPHOR - METEOR
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#210144 - 03/28/13 03:42 PM
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The philosopher said, “I’ve ne’er met a more
Appropriate trope for a metaphor
Than this visit from space,
Which approaches apace,
Of an apocalyptical Meteor.”
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#210155 - 03/28/13 08:39 PM
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"Meteoric", when followed by "rise",
With the metaphor that it implies,
Seems quite out of place.
Having journeyed through space,
A meteor falls from the skies.
ORGY – ORIGIN
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#210166 - 03/29/13 02:22 PM
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#210174 - 03/30/13 10:03 AM
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If you're looking for justice don't bother
If a clandestine man is your city father
He has but one plan
A plan with three hands
The judge, the city father, his daughter.
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#210184 - 03/31/13 10:43 AM
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The last glacial epoch was grim:
The ice piling up to the brim
Put the Earth in a stew;
Dinosaurs turned to glue
And the chance of survival was slim.
SUFFOCATE - SUIT
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#210193 - 03/31/13 11:22 PM
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The last glacial epoch was grim:
The ice piling up to the brim
Put the Earth in a stew;
Dinosaurs turned to glue
And the chance of survival was slim.
SUFFOCATE - SUIT Trombonate, What do we see when birds congregate? DinosaursTrombonate, What lines did the Ice almost terminate? Mine'n yores.CO2ppm dropped to sixty-eight At fifty-five all plants suffocate Trombonate, Global Warming suits me fine how 'bout you Dinosaurs? MAGIC - MADMAN
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#210194 - 04/01/13 09:12 AM
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Once, life was entirely pelagic;
Then land beasts developed by magic.
It led to humanity,
Madman's insanity,
Greed, war, extinction...How tragic!
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#210211 - 04/02/13 07:23 AM
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Thank you.
By the way, I suggest that the rather lengthy title of this thread be changed to something snappier, e.g. "Sparteye's Game II".
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#210230 - 04/02/13 09:42 PM
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I agree AC, maybeso wofahulicodoc can make the change.
Will ya, Wofa?
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#210233 - 04/03/13 07:05 AM
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Dunno. I've seen ways to change the text of posts I've made but never the names of threads. Maybe a Moderator can, or perhaps it requires the Grand Moderatrix.
Jackie? Do your powers go that far? There's a motion on the floor to change the title of this thread to "Sparteye's Game II." Is this do-able?
Of course, we always have Plan B available, which would be to close out this thread and continue on a new one, perhaps to be called "Sparteye's Game III"...
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#210235 - 04/03/13 11:29 AM
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When Anagrams reach 100 posts we get a notice and start
a new name, don't we wofa? Why not here?
Edited by LukeJavan8 (04/03/13 11:30 AM)
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#210238 - 04/03/13 09:46 PM
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Actually I've been restarting them at one thousand posts, believe it or not. Which is the reason I renewed this one; it had gotten up to 1200. (Consider what that means about the thread "Anagrams VIII" !)
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#210244 - 04/04/13 11:36 AM
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I genuflect in awe to those who have this done.
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#210245 - 04/04/13 11:39 AM
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Glad you're back, Jackie. I hope the procedure wasn't too uncomfortable/painful and that you will soon be high-kickin' again!
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#210246 - 04/04/13 02:19 PM
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Welcome back, Jackie, and thanks for fixing the title.
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#210247 - 04/04/13 02:39 PM
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For those who wish to rein-in the lofty rein of man
Remember that man-so-kind is Nature's only plan
Lo, the tree; a much loved relative
Dumb though; only barely cognitive
Who can stop the Ice Age and the Comet? __ Only Man.
elan - effete
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#210275 - 04/05/13 07:44 PM
Re: French pronunciation lesson
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Effete Paris types say élan
With a nasal sound as in penchant.
Southern Frenchmen say -an
To rhyme with 'Cézanne'.
Répétez les mots, mes enfants!
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#210276 - 04/05/13 07:50 PM
Re: French pronunciation lesson
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Next two words:
MAGGOT – MAGNETIC
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#210336 - 04/08/13 05:47 PM
MAGGOTS and MAGNETS
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Many multi-million maggots will morph this spring to fly
Horny humpers and eager rumpers; magnetic sex in the sky
Do the math:
Each female begets 100 and they beget every hour
Soon we run out of room (100 to the 100th power)
And tho' you'll think there's more than that in July - some will die.
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#210338 - 04/08/13 08:12 PM
SPARTEYE'S GAME II : Two new words
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#210457 - 04/16/13 08:03 AM
Re: Aural fortitude
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The officer's voice sounded gruff:
"A soldier needs ears that are tough.
For a Guardsman to stifle
The noise of his rifle
Is quite frankly not good enough."
GANTRY – GARDEN
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#210459 - 04/16/13 09:56 AM
Nursery rhymes re-told.
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Registered: 11/13/11
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You have beaten me to it, AC: I was about to post the following
“It is certainly more than enough”
Said the Senior Billy Goat Grough
“That this bridge-guardsman Troll
Asks from us as a Toll!
His demands are excessively tough!”
So.
I must essay another tack
As the Goat crossed the stream on the gantry,
Said the Troll said, “You will do for my pantry!
Come into my garden!”
Said the Goat, “Beg yer pardon!
I’ll not come any place where you can try!”
TEMPERANCE - TENACIOUS
Edited by Rhubarb Commando (04/16/13 09:58 AM)
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#210496 - 04/18/13 07:09 AM
Carrie Nation lives on through our attitudes
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Carrie Nation chopped up a bar with her little hatchet
Carrie Nation was not cool unlike the nice Nurse Ratchet
Big Carrie was seldom gracious
Her temperance being tenacious
Drop that drink -I hear her I think- chopping in her casket
HARD-BITTEN - HARBINGER
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#210505 - 04/18/13 03:38 PM
Re: Carrie Nation lives on through our attitudes
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A hard-bitten Temperance Queen,
C.A.Nation was oft to be seen,
A harbinger of woe
To the hard-drinking Joe
On whom she would vent her vile spleen!!
GARNISH - GASP
Edited by Rhubarb Commando (04/18/13 03:39 PM)
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#210547 - 04/21/13 12:52 PM
Re: Unreliable memoirs
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Loc: London, UK
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Retired politicians' capacity
For bending the truth shows audacity;
They garnish their stories
With fictional glories –
We gasp at their lack of veracity.
THERMODYNAMIC – THESIS
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#210560 - 04/22/13 05:14 AM
A reality of fluff and stuff in transition.
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THERMODYNAMIC – THESIS
The stuff of this world is semantical, to wit;
Science is made of anomalies re-arranged to fit
Yesterday's thermodynamics
Are today's quantum mechanics
That's my thesis and I'm sticking to it.
CHAPERONE - CHASE
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#210626 - 04/24/13 05:54 PM
Re: Unfair handicap
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In the Roman Fertility Chase,
Athletes of both sexes could race.
But the girls seldom won,
For few dared to run
At more than their chaperone's pace.
DUEL – DUMBSTRUCK
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#210632 - 04/25/13 04:58 PM
Re: Unfair handicap III
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Girls are gracile when they walk with voices high and sweet Men have big heads and when they walk they walk on clumsy feet Hear this saying honed and homespun The math of sex is one plus one is one Which sex is smartest let me think...men -in a heartbeat  LARVAE - LAVISH
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#210633 - 04/25/13 08:04 PM
Re: Unfair handicap III
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In the Home Base Settings however
The girls felt free to endeavor
Fierce tirades that stuck
And left the men dumbstruck
As the athletes were strong but not clever.
The other word was "duel". Can you work that in?
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#210634 - 04/25/13 09:41 PM
Re: Unfair handicap III
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Yes, I'm slightly overworked and a full year older so I overlooked the duel  But at home 't was a different duel Where the ladies became downright cruel Fierce tirades that stuck Left the athletes dumbstruck And it drained them of all of their fuel LARVAE-LAVISH
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#210659 - 04/28/13 02:37 PM
Re: Brave resistance
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At Thermopylae, doubters were thinking
That the Greeks' battle fortunes were sinking.
But by their exertions
They held off the Persians
For two entire days without blinking.
MONDAY – MONITOR
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#210665 - 04/29/13 09:27 AM
Re: Brave resistance
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When tasked as the day's hallway monitor,
Little Willie might say, "I'll get on it," or
Since it was Monday
(Which isn't a fun day)
He might reply, "Heck, no! Gosh darn it, Sir!"
SAFETY - SAGACIOUS
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#210667 - 04/29/13 12:07 PM
Re: Brave resistance
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HEY BECK123
Long time, no see.
Great to have you back. How's Florida?
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#210671 - 04/29/13 10:19 PM
Long time no Beck
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The great Beck is back both sagacious and classy A prude is Beck; salacious and somewhat sassy Beck's prime rule is safety first But boring poems he finds worse He marks his poems [Oh my Eyes!] only if they're trashy HUM - HUN
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#210673 - 04/29/13 11:28 PM
Re: Papal diplomacy
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When Attila the Hun met the Pope,
The Pontiff applied the soft soap:
"If you take your troops home
And don't attack Rome,
Then...hum...God will save you, I hope."
KRAKEN – KUDOS
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#210709 - 05/01/13 10:44 PM
The Lime of the Ancient Sailor
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The giant Kraken haunts the seas from Iceland to far Thailand
A crack at disguise; mates not et argue its proper phylum
My kudos to the Kraken
And if I'm not mistaken
It's a squid, it's a dragon, a whirlpool, a small island
ICE-CREAM - HYPNOSIS
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#210767 - 05/05/13 05:39 PM
Under the doctor
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Loc: Lancaster, UK
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Whilst supposedly under hypnosis,
I heard the doctor's diagnosis;
"When he's out of his dream,
Give him some ice-cream -
He'll be just fine: that's my prognosis."
OMISSION - OMPHALOS
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#210857 - 05/09/13 12:31 PM
Re: Bellyaching
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Very clever, Peter!
There was a Scots poacher from Skye
Who did the gamekeeper spy.
"Sich a braw moonlicht night
Makes avoidance quite right:
We'll hae nae poached salmon to fry!"
COSTAL - COUCHANT
Edited by Rhubarb Commando (05/09/13 12:31 PM)
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#210882 - 05/11/13 03:24 PM
It could happen.
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A contortionist nammed Rosa Higginbottom Was contorting for bucks in Gomorrah and Sodom She bent into a Moebius state A couchant twist with no excape With her own costal bone stuck fast to her bottom JEALOUS - JERKVery clever, J.J.
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#210993 - 05/17/13 12:03 PM
Re: It could happen.
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JEALOUS - JERK
With a jerk I came back to real life
From trying to spy on my wife.
When I fell from a bin
I did my leg in:
-Being jealous is too much hard work!
DISCLAIMER - DISCREET
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