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Inch me and Pinch me
went down to the river
Inch me fell in so
Who's in first?
Pitching Today
Catching Tommorrow
Pinch me remained
laughing in bursts.
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As you were saying: This tune was also the one that Isaac Asimov used to pronounce chemical names...
(and as I was saying...)
Writer of Sci-Fi was
Asimov, Isaac. He
Taught biochemistry
Once, at B.U.
Also he noted that
"Para-dichloro-
aMino-benzaldehyde"
Fits in these, too.
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musick, I think that's a triple diptych! <g>
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"Para-dichloro-
aMino-benzaldehyde"you anguished a long time trying to decide where to put that "a", didn't you?  
formerly known as etaoin...
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tsuwm - Doesn't that make it "septych"?
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Oh, come on people. Have a go at the double dactyls. I can't do limericks for nuts, but this was fun and easy. I suggest you start by finding your six-syllable word and go from there. Wofa holds the originality prize so far, but the ASp's Beethoven one is the funniest so far.
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Scrumpdillyiciousness! Jack and his Wife (the Sprats) eat the last speck of food as they make the plate clean. At restaurants they're surprisingly Nonconfrontational they just smile and they eat never causing a scene. ...the added stipulation of having a person's name as the second line--which really makes things a lot harder!I'm officially  ammending this steenkin' hierarchy to *allow well known couples...
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musick, let me count the ways..
1. a dactyl is three syllables, with the stress on the first,; see no. 4.
2. Two stanzas, each comprising three lines of dactylic dimeter followed by a line with a dactyl and a single accent..
3. The first line of the first stanza is repetitive nonsense. (e.g., Jiggery Pokery, Higgledy Piggledy, etc.)
4. so it goes
DAH dah dah DAH dah dah
DAH dah dah DAH dah dah
DAH dah dah DAH dah dah
DAH dah dah DEE
DAH dah dah DAH dah dah
NONconfronTAtional
DAH dah dah DAH dah dah
DAH dah dah DEE
other than that, nice try. <g>
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Thanks, tsuwm...but I think I'll stick to pterodactyls.
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Oh, my. The Beethoven d-d wasn't mine, I dredged it up as a stellar example. Since I can't (yet) come up with anything new, I hereby repeat the one I wrote to commemorate the first year of AWADtalk: Higgledy Piggledy, Anu Garg's AWADtalk Celebrates one year of Being today. Stilling the urge to wax Sesquipedalian, I'll keep it short and say: "Hip, hip, hooray!" http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&Number=20656
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