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#128888 05/31/04 09:49 PM

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Find the subtext (I won't post the answer for a few days... anyone who read M. vos Savant's [is her name for real?] column this past weekend is automatically disqualified):

Sir, I send a rhyme excelling
In sacred truth and rigid spelling
Numerical sprites elucidate
For me the lexicon's dull* weight.

~~~
*also "full"

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What's significant about this poem-ette? AnnaStrophic 05/31/04 09:49 PM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? Jackie 06/01/04 12:48 AM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? Buffalo Shrdlu 06/01/04 12:57 AM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? AnnaStrophic 06/01/04 11:02 AM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? TheFallibleFiend 06/01/04 11:43 AM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? Faldage 06/01/04 12:37 PM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? Buffalo Shrdlu 06/01/04 12:47 PM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? Faldage 06/01/04 01:02 PM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? gonoldothrond 06/02/04 06:02 PM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? Buffalo Shrdlu 06/02/04 06:38 PM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? AnnaStrophic 06/02/04 06:42 PM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? Jackie 06/03/04 01:31 AM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? wofahulicodoc 06/03/04 03:27 AM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? AnnaStrophic 06/03/04 01:05 PM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? Buffalo Shrdlu 06/03/04 01:09 PM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? RhubarbCommando 06/03/04 01:17 PM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? Faldage 06/03/04 02:01 PM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? RhubarbCommando 06/04/04 10:51 AM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? Buffalo Shrdlu 06/04/04 11:04 AM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? RhubarbCommando 06/04/04 11:25 AM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? Buffalo Shrdlu 06/04/04 11:37 AM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? Faldage 06/04/04 12:59 PM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? AnnaStrophic 06/04/04 03:25 PM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? Buffalo Shrdlu 06/04/04 03:44 PM

Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? Capfka 06/04/04 05:21 PM

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