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#209158 - 01/18/13 09:58 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: Avy]
wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 3776 Loc: Worcester, MA	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]
jenny jenny addict Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 611 Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi	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]
maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757	> 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]
maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757	There once was a preacher from Dickey Whose 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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#209178 - 01/19/13 11:16 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: wofahulicodoc]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	There once was a girl name of Myrtle Who ran track and was facing a hurdle; She ran and she jumped but down she did thump, being stopped at mid-leap by her girdle. Somebody else please post new words for me--I can't get to my brick-and-mortar dictionary right now. Thanks.
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#209179 - 01/20/13 12:16 AM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: Jackie]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	how about these, from W3: GHOSTLIKE GIBBET
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#209180 - 01/20/13 03:23 AM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: tsuwm]
Tromboniator addict Registered: 05/10/10 Posts: 690 Loc: Alaska	With his feet through the floor of the gibbet, A bit late to be urbane and glib, it Was then his thirst spike Caused the thought, so ghostlike: "I could sure use a shot of Glenlibet." CONFIDENTIAL – CONGO
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#209181 - 01/20/13 07:35 AM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: Tromboniator]
A C Bowden journeyman Registered: 10/22/10 Posts: 75 Loc: London, UK	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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#209188 - 01/21/13 08:18 AM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: A C Bowden]
maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757	Bravo! Some real goodies and isn't it interesting how the very constraints of form (and content) can light a spark of creativity?
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#209189 - 01/21/13 12:06 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: maverick]
LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 5272 Loc: Land of the Flat Water	truly! _________________________ ----please, draw me a sheep----
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