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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread (now where was that sublime rhyme thread) #39835 08/28/01 02:40 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass I'm the slowest gun alive, my boys, the slowest gun alive Yet notches in my Colt I have, one less than thirty-five Oh, many men shoot sure and fast, but one thing did they lack, A coward's heart like I had, and I shot them in the back Yippeeiioooo, yippeeiiaaaa, I shot them in the back. I remember One-Eyed Jake, my boys, remember One-Eyed Jake He could shoot the pearly fangs off of a movin' rattlesnake But I snuck me up behind him with my trusty twenty gauge, And now Jake's fertilizer for the tumbleweed and sage Yippeeiioooo, yippeeiiaaaa, tumbleweed and sage. And then there's old Jack Daw, my boys, and then there's old Jack Daw They say that he could almost beat his shadow to the draw But he never knew who shot him in the middle of the spine, And I really doubt he'll find out, in a small box made of pine Yippeeiioooo, yippeeiiaaaa, small box made of pine. And so I shot them all, my boys, and so I shot them all I'd always fire from behind, and then I'd watch them fall For it doesn't really matter if you're faster than the rest, The man that goes on living must really be the best Yippeeiioooo, yippeeiiaaaa, must really be the best. -Michael O'Donoghue How to Write Good http://www.earth1.net/~amonroe/writgood.html (I particularly recommend Lesson 7...) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter How to write good #39836 08/28/01 03:15 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky tsuwm, I hope you weren't meaning that last phrase autobiographically. You have erudited us all with your posts, sir. And, ooh! I can't wait for wow's reaction to Lesson 8: "The Ten Magic Phrases of Journalism". Yippee yi ay! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: How to write good #39837 08/28/01 06:06 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass >You have erudited us all... j, I do believe you have just verbed an adjective!! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: to erudite #39838 08/28/01 06:19 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 So what is the verb, erude? The Latin is erudire, to instruct. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: to erudite #39839 08/28/01 07:05 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 For a quibble, any assassin who would choose a twenty gauge when he could have had a twelve gauge is an idiot. He might as well try it with a .410 ....And he had better have buckshot or a slug, and not a quail load. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: to erudite #39840 08/28/01 10:01 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass So what is the verb form of erudite? there is none in English, just as there is none for 'rude'. we'll just have to make do with teach, instruct, train, etc. or we could, I suppose, verb the noun erudite. <g> as to twelve v. twenty, I can't speak to MO's choice. perhaps it's a matter of scansion rather than scatter. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: How to write good #39841 08/29/01 12:12 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky j, I do believe you have just verbed an adjective!! Thanks! I'm trying. 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