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I can't do limericks for nuts, but this was fun and easy. ~ Capfka
This may be fun, but it’s not at all easy! For me, the AnnaS above and Coffeebean’s distracted musician, even if the latter is not quite to the rules, are sharpest so far.
Rattusye rattusme
Edward G Robinson
Gave us a rendering
Of Al Capone.
Cagney too acted the
pharmacophiliac.
You dirty RAT! the cry,
For which he’s known.
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G*D forbid there be any *real creativity in here... fine! Mikey make mikey moo! Does the repetitive nonsense have to rhyme?<eg>
Jack and his wife (the Sprats)
eat the last speck of food
lick the plate clean.
Rest'raunts are s'prisingly (ha-ha)
Nonconfrontational
smiling and eating not
causing a scene.I'm sticking to my *notorious couple clause... we need to "bridge the communication gap" {crossthreading-e} ASp - I wanna know how you got away with "hip, hip, hooray" being accented "DUM dum dum DUM instead of the actual® DUM DUM dum DUM *we speak...  
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Hossery Sossory,
Caius Caligula,
Mad Roman Emperor,
Gave his horse votes.
Unstable actions and
Sororilagnia
Brought death by assassin.
Horse got its oats.
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>G*D forbid there be any *real creativity in here... fine!
according to one practitioner of the art form, "Double dactyls are not for sissies and strictness of interpretation is the rule of the day." so it goes.
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strictness of interpretation is the rule of the day
We were told, "Be afraid,"
Those look an awful lot like anapests to me.
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>Those look an awful lot like anapests to me.
well, it all depends on where you put the stress, joe reversed archly. <g>
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where you put the stress
As in, where they'd go if you were actually® saying it as opposed to where they'd go if you were forcing them into the required pattern?
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well, now you know, I guess, why I haven't attempted any since that first one.
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why I haven't attempted any
Yeah, you're like me. You talk a good game…
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