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haha...I won't attempt the limerick at the moment but I'll tell astory instead...when I was younger I once had an excellent riding teacher who used to make us ride without reins, or stirrups (in both jumping and flatwork) in order to teach us how important a good seat was and how you can steer with your body...this all went well until one week when a fellow rider was on a rather more energetic horse which launched itself over jumps and suddenly spun away to the right, normally unseating the rider, but because of the lack of reins or stirrups she simply grabbed hold of the pommel and ended up streched out face down along the horse's back and the horse was very confused that its trick hadn't worked...I can remember some of us laughing so hard that WE fell off...to this day I thank that teacher for making it much harder for me to ever fall off a horse because I don't totally rely on the reins or srirrups for balance and can easily do without...
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No problem. I've never ridden a horse, but I get the jist.
Funny.
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Ah, bexter, you've stirred some wonderful memories. When I was a young teen my grandmother paid for several years of riding lessons for me at the Cornell University polo arena. I recall the exercises that you describe. The instructor was a woman in her sixties, less than five feet tall, voice of a drill sergeant, uncompromising in the ring, but sweet and good-humored. There were about fifteen horses for students to ride and about ten polo ponies stabled there. What a treat to learn the personalities and quirks of all those horses. The polo ponies summered in a pasture within easy bicycling distance of my home. Though not allowed into the pasture, a friend and I would daily hang over the fence, coaxing our short-maned pals to relieve us of carrots, apples, and sugar cubes.
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Really nice memories. Of all the Westerns on 50's and 60's
TV the horses I watch the most. Trigger, Buttermilk of the
Rogers' clan, Silver, Champion. All magnificent animals
and stars in their own rights.
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But those horses were ridden with those enormous western saddles that engulf you (the kind that most people who have horses use where I am now), not a proper English saddle. And we must all aspire to use proper English!
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Most definitely! English saddles are the way forward...I can remember going on a western and side-saddle evening and finding that the western saddles, although very comfy were not as easy to send signal through as English, and side saddles almost impossible to fall off of! I have a friend who events and she has a dressage saddle and a jumping saddle and they make all the difference when riding...one has a high back and one has high knee rolls, whoever invented them was a genius!
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But those horses were ridden with those enormous western saddles that engulf you (the kind that most people who have horses use where I am now), not a proper English saddle. And we must all aspire to use proper English! Pardon me all to pieces. I had not idea you felt so stongly about saddles. I will recoup my knowlege and get back to you on that (yuk,yuk).
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she has a dressage saddle and a jumping saddle and they make all the difference when riding... But how are they for communication? Not much on grammar, I'll wager, but a vocabulary of some girth.
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I'm lost....what are the next two words?
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Haha! nice one Trom
Candy I believe the next two words are
REHABILITATE + REINSURE
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We must rehabilitate Sheen,
'Cause who else can we put on the screen?
But we must reinsure
That he'll act more mature,
If it takes a five-kilo ball-peen.
Sorry, I was responsible for those impossible words, so I'll try again:
POETIC-POINT
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A five-kilo ball-peen on the head of ole Sheen
tho' poetic may not be the point.
Does he need to be seen
on TV or big screen?
Or retired to the old actor's joint?
Drive-by/Drop-out
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Peter  "Sheenanigans" how topical I was having a go, (they were good words/so many word rhymed with both) I was nearly there, just having trouble with the last line..... this is where I got. The keepers at the zoo had to rehabilate A young chimp who needed a playmate Because of damage they had to reinsure When with an elephant he drank liqueur ...............................prostrate.
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Keep at it, no one cares if the words keep being used.
(Well, someone may care, but who cares?)
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THANKS, Luke....but really I was stuck and going nowhere. That last line...was never going to have any punch.
I was happy to see Peter's post. And it was so brilliant.
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OK - time to start a new one.
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I presume you mean for the next limerick????
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oh yes..but I'm not working on it yett.
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The victim of a recent drive-by
said, "Looks like I'm not going to thrive, guy.
The thug was a drop-out,
I think that a cop shout
will cause intellectual dive. Sigh."
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I love the first sta'nza, Peter, but then It becomes a tongue twister  guess you have to be an actor to say those lines well.
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They'd be easier to say if they actually meant something!
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Last words: PAROLE/PART
A four time loser named Jackie Part
got out on parole to make a new start.
Though his intentions were good,
he was still a cheap hood,
And back in jail for not being very smart.
HUMID/HUNDRED
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The weather on race day was humid.
Old Sidney had ventured a few quid.
The pack swam, more than thund'réd
He collected eight hundred.
No one knows his sea horses like you, Sid.
ABRUPT/ABSOLUTION
I really need to get an abridged dictionary. On too many pages in the only dictionary I have (unabridged) the designated words are phrases, very technical terms, really obscure, too many syllables, or otherwise not worth much for this purpose.
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Albert rushed in for absolution
for his life of crime,sin,pollution.
He was very abrupt in what he had to say
no time to explain, details, nor pray.
"Drop dead", said God, "no collusion".
BAREFOOT/BATTERY
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She was quiet and pale. "What's the matter?" he
Said (she was usually chattery.)
Her long limbs were bare;
Foot-long damp, curly hair.
"I'm done, Bob. I burned up the battery."
TOCSIN - TODDLER
Hello to all!
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Hello to all! olleH back! [blowing kiss e] Great to see ya, kid! 
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An alarm-ringer, also a doc's kin,
Found his kid used his bell to keep socks in.
He tanned the kid's hide.
As the toddler's eyes cried
He wailed, "Dad, it's my new anti-tocsin!"
OCTUPLET/OFF
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Good to have you here, again, beck. The Limericks got you
going? Some sort of compulsion to post one??????
You're great, keep them coming.
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I've learned that one never should scoff
At a chance to eat seafood pilaf
(This b-rhyming couplet
Could be an octuplet,
But then the whole meter'd be off.)
RASP - RATATOUILLE
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A seasoned stew of eggplant and squash,
green pepper, tomato and meat that's quash'd.
Called Ratatouille
and that ain't no hooey.
Road kill, rasp. Breathless,choke, rasp,quash,squash.
Sorry about this one. I'm not very good at this.
If anybody wants ratatouille/rasp: have at it.
or RASCAL/RATION
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No...they are all very good. If the purpose is to make a rhyme and to make me laugh....they do both.
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An under-sexed-handsome young rascal
Found lovemaking a terrible hasscal.
Unless he could ration
His paramour's passion,
Bedtime became such a fiascal.
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LOVE IT.
Happy Memorial Day.
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An old couple, Mary and Joe,
Went out, like they’d done years ago.
‘Twas on their agenda
To unite their pudenda,
But they fell asleep after the show.
TRAIT - TRAPPER
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There once was a young man named Trapper
Who always did like to look dapper;
His very worst trait:
fell asleep on a date;
and now he is known as the napper.
DIVERGE--DJELLABA
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A princess of a tribe of indaba,
sat on her veranda clothed in djellaba.
Many suiters there were,
enamored of her.
Til diverged her melons were casaba.
CONCERN/CONCOCT
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She got his tight zipper unlocked,
From his trousers she got him unfrocked.
Her major concern was
To rapidly learn jus'
What pleasure she might there concoct.
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