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The poseur aped the manners of the lummox to impress the dilettante, whilst the wastrel and the roue looked on with barely concealed smirks and titillation.
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Bountiful use of words...
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Yes it is fun and well done, but I could not do any as good or any better, as proposed in the other thread. The idea is nice though to make it a weekly thing perhaps?
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The poseur aped the manners of the lummox to impress the dilettante, whilst the wastrel and the roue looked on with barely concealed smirks and titillation. A recalcitrant roue, ignoring the distractions of the flummoxed lummox, played the part of a pontificating, pedantic poseur while waylaying the wealthy, hammered wastrel who was arguing with the equally dipsomaniacal dilettante.
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dipsomaniacal ?! 
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dipsomaniacal ?! i.e a lush!
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The promethean artist carved a junoesque figure in marble with seemingly dionysian abandon, guided invisibly by that supreme palladium, an apollonian mastery of technique.
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Quite apollonianly done as a whole, keep it going.  See you next week.
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Dionysian and Apollonian are used in cultural anthropology to refer to people who, respectively, do or don't use psychotropic substances in their religious practice.
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This is my entry  In a prometean move yesterday, an appollaoian Tennessee man's dionysian bid of $122.03, won him a junoesque treasure, when the safe he bought on eBay was opened without palladium to revel an astonishing $26,000. I tried a fusion of modern story and ancient words...does it work? This is News Story if you want to read it.
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Hey, I forgot about this game! This is so cool! You know, it could also be fun to start it on a Monday, with just one sentence or phrase. Then somebody could add to it with the next day's word throughout the week. And if there's more than one story line, who cares? It's our game and we can make the rules!
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Rools! We doan wan' no steenkin' rools!
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Did somebody say use the five weekly words in one ______ ?
How about a limerick? [ducking-for-cover-e]
Maybe just a one-day/word limerick ?
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Hmmm - a variation on sparteye's Game! It does have possibilities!
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There is a sparty's game thread and a limerick thread already. Yes, fermented duck eggs for you, Wofa! Why not let this be clean as it came, a weekly phrase. No rools, no glittering prizes.
shoot >>>> the l i m e r i c k s
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There is, indeed, a Sparteye's Game thread, and I was the last to post on it, about a month ago. I am still patiently waiting for someone to take up my last challenge. No hurry - it'll come in time, no doubt.
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Hey! Just seen your post, Candy! I managed ot miss it before - what a story and I love the way you've woven it into our weekly words!
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It'sure ìs a crazy  story and the words do fit (bow Candy). On second thought it's a weird story. How did he get it? Did he have the key, if so how can you have the key of a safe you've never looked inside and not want to open it. Did he sell it cheap because the key was missing. Was it a stolen safe? High time to set a PI on the case.
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I had all those same questions too...Bran and no answers yet.
I hope more people have a go at penning a sentence this week...the words are looking interesting.
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Despite the obstructive paraphenalia inherent in committees, our village Women's Institute and the Mother's Union, after years of mutual antipathy that reached down to their very viscera, declared a truce by promising not to use their respective insignia as graffiti on each other's meeting halls!
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Some 10 years ago, there used to be a group called Partners in Rhyme who created limericks on Awad words. I do not know whether they are still around. Subscribers to the list could contribute. I used to.
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I don't think I ever saw that, Avy. Did participants use all of the words, or just one or two at a time?
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Very good Rhuby....I cant imagine the woman of that institute spraying any walls with graffiti but 
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Nor can I!! That's what made me laugh as I wrote it.
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Laughing at your own jokes....there is a saying about that...but I cant quite remember what?
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Just one. Just sayin though not suggesting. I guess we are all 'ricked out.
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>>I guess we are all 'ricked out.<< Nah! - I can never get too much of 'ricks!
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As a temporary truce had been declared, he adjusted his insignia and other military paraphernalia, departed on a sortie to inspect the curious battlefield graffiti of his enemies, and stepped on a improvised explosive device that erupted his viscera.
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(applause) very good. You too Rhuby, back a page.
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Some 10 years ago, there used to be a group called Partners in Rhyme who created limericks on Awad words. I do not know whether they are still around. Subscribers to the list could contribute. I used to. but now, of course, we have the OEDILF (OED in limerick form [wink, wink]) EDIT: random limerick I love my new blower—it's cool, And now it's my favorite tool! I have stopped using rakes, Since the breeze this thing makes Blows my leaves in the neighbor's new pool
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A great link, Michael - many thanks for it - and your Limerick is pretty cool to!
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As a temporary truce had been declared, he adjusted his insignia and other military paraphernalia, departed on a sortie to inspect the curious battlefield graffiti of his enemies, and stepped on a improvised explosive device that erupted his viscera. Excellent, blitherer! Much more succinct than my rambling.
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Yes blitherer, I agree....I enjoyed your sentence too.
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but now, of course, we have the OEDILF (OED in limerick form [wink, wink]) EDIT: random limerick I love my new blower—it's cool, And now it's my favorite tool! I have stopped using rakes, Since the breeze this thing makes Blows my leaves in the neighbor's new pool :P Good to have learnt the form and scansion, and meter. The rhyme I knew!!!
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Avy--I'm so glad you're posting again! [HUG]
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"You can laugh at your own jokes if it is the first time you've heard them." ??
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During the festivities to celebrate the jubilee of the lyceum, the capricious French master made a cuckold of the Headmaster in the bucolic surroundings of the cricket pitch.
Edit or, to put it another way:-
The capricious French Master, with glee
Did cuckold the Headmaster, did he,
In a bucolic ditch
By the School’s cricket pitch
At the lyceum’s grand jubilee
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At the jubilee celebrating the founding of the lyceum, the inebriated cuckold made a capricious pass at a young bucolic.
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Neither the bucolic surroundings nor the terpsichorean beauty of the murmurings emanating just now from the lyceum's dim stage were sufficient to distract the cuckolded fellow from the rueful anticipation of tomorrow's jubilee celebration with the capricious harpy who was his first and only love.
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