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I wrote a limerick on another board and after having been through wofa's crash course in limerick writing and furiously counting syllables and such like on my fingers I made the rhyme and almost wrote "how bout it wofa? Do I pass?" Then I remembered u-oh wrong board.

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Thats great Avy....why not post it here anyway.....if not in this thread then a new one.


Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc


BUCKMINSTER FULLER -- BYLAWS


grin great Wofa, I'm thoroughly smitten...and now we are back on track
but what an impossible task you have set for next one!

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I didn't continue with the original concept because I had offered the last pair of words, upon which nobody bit.

A pullover sweater of wool, er-
Gonomically kind to the puller,
Which adheres to the bylaws
By covering thigh flaws
Was invented by Buckminster Fuller.

INSCRIPTION–INSTALL

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Wow, Peter!
Very Impressive. and you with so little time to sit and compose
those things.


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I didn't continue with the original concept because I had offered the last pair of words, upon which nobody bit.



Tell me where they were ( I backpaged about 32 pages, so wofa
was correct, but am in quite a hurry at the moment, and could
not find them:_ and I'll have a go.


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Back on 6/26/11, post no. 200731:
Originally Posted By: Tromboniator
The two bikers laughed from their tandem:
"We take all our rides quite at random.
When we hit the road,
Though the world should explode,
Our trips all work out as we planned 'em."


UNVARNISHED-UP

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Are UNVARNISHED and UP the next words to use?


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Originally Posted By: Amy553
Are UNVARNISHED and UP the next words to use?

Technically it's INSCRIPTION–INSTALL, but nobody responded to UNVARNISHED-UP. I just reposted it because Luke couldn't find it. Not my intention to make things confusing. Au contraire.

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I'm going to have to install
A commode with no unvarnished wall
So graffitic inscription
Of every description
Wash up if they fail to enthrall.



BELLICOSE - BEN (Honest! AHD, 2nd College Edition, 1985)

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I knew it was a set-up! Nice work.

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His demeanor, so flat bellicose,
Took not long for her to diagnose:
"Yes, you're handsome, dear Ben,
Like a god among men,
But your manner is utterly gross."

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LEATHERY - LEFTOVER

Her rabbi concealed a smile
At her youthful attempt to beguile.
"Alef...tov...er, what's next?
I just can't read this text,
For I've not used my Hebrew a while."

HANDLE - HANGOVER

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clue one:

LEATHERY - LEFTOVER

Her rabbi concealed a smile
At her youthful attempt to beguile.
"Alef...tov...er, what's next?
I just can't read this text,
For I've not used my Hebrew a while."

HANDLE - HANGOVER

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I see it laugh

Is there anything else to look for?


LEATHERY - LEFTOVER

Her rabbi concealed a smile
At her y
outhful attempt to beguile.
"Alef...tov...er, what's next?
I just can't read this text,
For I've not used my Hebrew a while."

That was so clever on many levels Wofa

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You got everything! All that's left now is to HANDLE the HANGOVER.

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HANDLE - HANGOVER

He wanted to be Boston's goalie,
But they said he was too roly-poly.
He ate spinach and leeks
To lose tons in just weeks,
Rather than go very slowly.

RAINBOW - RAMEN

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Well done indeed!

RAMEN has all kinds of possibilities, but I'm going to have to think about RAINBOW a little more...

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I didn't choose it to make things difficult; it's just what came up.

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Originally Posted By: Tromboniator
HANDLE - HANGOVER

He wanted to be Boston's goalie,
But they said he was too roly-poly.
He ate spinach and leeks
To lose tons in just weeks,
Rather than go very slowly.


I just had to highlight your wonderful words, just in case others missed them, Peter. No wonder you are drunk with success... amazing.

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Originally Posted By: Candy
No wonder you are drunk...

wofa drove me to it.

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Where does the buck stop??


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Just had to see if I could do it, but don't want to spoil it for anyone else.

Click to reveal..
I hate my intestines: they growl.
It feels like a cobra in bowel.
My program entails
Flushing out my entrails
With a potion laid in with trowel.

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Wonderful, Peter, just at dinner time. Oh well, PB&J again, so
nothing lost.


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I'm glad you could keep it down.

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Originally Posted By: Tromboniator
Just had to see if I could do it, but don't want to spoil it for anyone else.



Ha....I found the rainbow etc in there, I know we were suppose to but never have I thought about rainbows and bowels in the same sentence before laugh (was there a pot of gold too?)

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Everything is connected, Candy. Everything.

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Oh...I do believe that. 6 degrees separation and all.

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When I'm sick and I'm down with a fever
My brain is a puckish deceiver.
When it gets most intense
I can fetch, leap a fence,
'Cause I think I'm a Golden Retriever.

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Nice one Peter.....here, have a bone!

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I have a week of appointments - but when this second week
from Hades is over I'll be getting back into limericks, etc.
This is good, Peter, I love golden retrievers.


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Was I supposed to offer more words after sort of responding to my own?

SHARP - SHEEP-DIP

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YES....you should have!

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The new guy was not very sharp,
With a strong predilection to carp.
After one whiny, cheap quip
We drowned him in sheep-dip,
And carried him home in a tarp.

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LOL Peter he probably carked it!

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With all you have going on, you found time for a limerick.
I am impressed.


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Such a success he'd been with that old locket
At the pawn shop where he stopped,haggled and hocked it
that on his way home Mark made it a point
to go in for a drink at the old beer joint.
Awaking next morn he had no funds in his pocket.


OFFERING/ OGLE

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LOL Luke

Good to see you guys back at it.

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Good to be back, at least off and on.


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Or maybe Scotland.

The Scotsman did little but ogle
His fancy new globe by Replogle.
.."I'm offering, Folks,
.. International jokes!"
And if they don't confuse you, his brogue'll.


FINE - FLAIR
two fine words which should give your imaginations free rein -- soar away!

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A nice wee Jock, Wolfa!

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