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Wofahulicodoc-i pronounce this WOfaHUlicoDOC. Two trochees and and iamb (or an amphibrach and an anapest). RhuBARB comMANdo. PEter tromBONiAtor- the last is deliciously iambic as is RC.
I disagree that iamb is closest to normal speech.
Iamb is closest to desired intonation.
Okay serious question: scansion changes with accent. I pronoun trochee as an iamb. Where does that leave carefully scanned poetry- in the realm of subjectivity? There are no set rules as to which syllables are and aren't stressed, are there?
*** Sorry for the excessive energy of this post: a beloved topic.
Apparently the longer syllables are stressed and shorter aren't but this is also dependent on accent and culture. For salman rushdie- we say salMAAN and not SALman.
Okay -I'll stop yappin now.
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Thing One: I misspelled indefatigabobble-whatever not just once, but twice.
Thing Two: We need some new target words to proceed with Sparteye's Game. RC, I think you had the last successful posting, so you get to select!
PS. Y'all all did know it's Dr Seuss' Birthday Celebration today, didn't you?
PPS. Now that I think of it, I should go look at the Google Doodle today...
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If there's a Google Doodle I did not receive it, yet anyhow.
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No. Apparently they chose not to recognize it. Conceivably they were even discouraged from doing so because of copyright issues.
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I think the latter is very likely - Dr Seuss was such a well-loved writer by generations of children - and adults, for that matter! - that I can't think of any other reasonable motive for Google to ignore him.
To re-start Sparteye's game (and to wish her well and hope she soon recovers!) my random dictionary-opening has given me
ANNIHILATE - ANOTHER
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I got one! My brother is a Republican A Democrat is my mother A family way On Election Day To annihilate one another  FLANK - FLASH
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jj, you're BACK!! Oh, joy, wonderfulness, and dancing! [HUG]
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My brother built a grocery store
To annihilate our mother.
The building was a carnivore,
'T'would eat what it could smother.
He rigged the soap aisle to collapse,
But Mom shopped in another.
A quirk of fate it was, perhaps:
An aisle ate my brother.
edit: Nice work, Jenny.
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"An aisle ate my brother"?  You can rest assured, Mister Tromboniator, that that particular order of words has never before been concocted by a sapient mind in all the history of all mankind.
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never before been concocted by a sapient mind
Some might argue that it still hasn't. Peter
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My brother is a Republican.....
Good one jenny jenny and nice to see you back. I hope this is not just a cameo appearance. And Peter...your little rhyme has a taste of The Little Shop of Horrors LOL
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My brother built a grocery store
To annihilate our mother.
The building was a carnivore,
'T'would eat what it could smother.
He rigged the soap aisle to collapse,
But Mom shopped in another.
A quirk of fate it was, perhaps:
An aisle ate my brother.
edit: Nice work, Jenny. Also nice work, Peter - I was trying to do something along those lines also but couldn't bring it together.
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Ditto to Wofa, nice work.
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My brother built a grocery store
To annihilate our mother.
The building was a carnivore,
'T'would eat what it could smother.
He rigged the soap aisle to collapse,
But Mom shopped in another.
A quirk of fate it was, perhaps:
An aisle ate my brother.
This is *really* nice, but the meter in the last line seems off to me. You should send it to Reader's Digest or maybe even New Yorker.
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...the meter in the last line seems off to me. It's a regional variation, I suspect. Do you pronounce "aisle" as one syllable (I'LL) or two (EYE-ull) ?
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For the purposes of the rhythm and the gag it's almost forced to be two syllables (or one syllable two beats long). To my ear the forced nature of it adds to the humor, but maybe that's just me.
I think of the word as one syllable, but it sounds like 1.5 when I say it.
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As the Bluecoat fell into the tank,
Tossed a rope to us, tied 'round his flank.
We saw his eyes flash
As he hit with a splash,
Crying, "I ain't a Rebel: just Yank!
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Now, that's really clever, Peter!
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Wild fungi: Lord Algernon sought ‘em;
They led to his early post-mortem
From a fungus most potent, ate
By the great potentate.
Mushrooms are best if you’ve bought ‘em!
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The wild funghi will agree with you. 
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Thank you, Rhuby (and wofa and FF).
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Thanks, Luke ... and, as usual, I forgot to give the next two words!  FOLIATE - FOOD
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foliate - food
Say what you wish about dry dusty Faldage
His erudition is still nontheless sought
He's turned the leaves of many a dry tome
They foliate for Faldage dusty food for thought.
dalliance - damsel
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Very good, JJ! (Although not sure if Faldo will like being called "dusty")
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That's OK. I won't even notice. I never come to this thread.
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That's OK. I won't even notice. I never come to this thread. See? That Faldage! What dry wit! What a card!
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Hi there, AnnaS!! Great to see you here again!!!!
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The damsel flies hover o'er ponds in the woods
They seek for a lover who must be 'the goods.'
Fat larvæ may come from a strong male alliance -
To make him perform needs flirtatious dalliance!
(There are shades of Ogden Nash in the mangled metre of the final - crucial - word!)
REFACE - REFLECTION
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The time I spent pond'ring "reflection" and "reface" -
There must be a way to work in the word "preface"
...Or maybe Bette Midler
...No, think of a fiddler:
The violin player we call Jascha Heface!
(Actually, I know a guy with that last name who actually pronounces it this way. Although he spells it "Heafitz" instead.)
Old musician's joke:
Overheard at Jascha Heifitz' debut - at age 16 - in a very hot and very-much-un-air-conditioned Carnegie Hall, 1917:
-- violinist Mischa Elman, mopping his brow: "Hot in here, isn't it?"
-- Artur Rubinstein: "Not for pianists!"
(It might even be not true. Many Most versions attribute it to the pianist Leopold Godowski. I've even seen one with Josef Hofmann. But it's more self-explanatory with Rubinstein...)
And where, you say, is "reflection" in all this? Why of course, that's the time I spent pondering.
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Here's mine, wofahulicodoc... ACQUITTAL - ADMISSIBLEHe robbed the Widow's Pension Fund he left then very little He burned to ground an orphanage while he played his fiddle Said the Judge, a lawyer too, "He's a lawyer, that's what we do" naturalia non sunt turpia* is admissible, I rule acquittal" * what is natural is not dirty
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The jury can't vote for acquittal, for
The victim's still in the hospital! Gor!
The evidence admissible
Is patently risible,
Defendant's a clone of A. Hitalor!
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I'm housebound - I cannot go out
I just lounge in the house like a lout -
Although my dear Mother, wise,
Urges me otherwise -
I'm suffering badly from the gout!
FREEZER - FRET
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A chert road in Tuscaloosa is named Shiver de Freezer
On a oak tree at it's end was hung Shiver de freezer
Sheriff Earl paid Shiver a dollar to vote
Shiver being Shiver votes the other bloke
Earl's horse dragged Shiver down to the oak;
Fret no more for Shiver de Freezer
Addendum: I didn't offer the two new game words earlier because this entry wasn't exactly in accord with the spirit of the rules and I hoped one of you would post your own rhyme using FRET and FREEZER. My own offering is a vanity piece because I wanted to encyclical this verbal bit of Tuscaloosa County folklore and/or history.
INLAW - INNUENDO
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Oh my, I guess I'll have to play with myself. My in-law is not my cousin, my ma, my pa, or aunt Not uncle/ nephew/ niece, and certainly not a Saint 'cause, In bed we play Nintendo Which is an innuendo Now tell me who my in-law is; I've told you those who ain't Edit: The answer to this riddle is wife-in-law or husband-in-law whichever reflects your situation. Blood kin are not supposed to marry, even those deep in the mountains of Mississippi.
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Sorry, jj, I started on it right after you posted, then life got really hectic.
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My apols, jj - I didn't pick up on your edit, adding the next words!
Here's my effort
Not just one innuendo about me was cast
But many, indeed they came out thick and fast;
But my trusty old chain saw
Divided my ma in-law
And character slurs were a thing of the past
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Darn, Rhube, you write so tightly. I am almost ashamed to follow your act...almost. Pulling drawers and tagging toes in a morgue is happiness You meet such intresting people - postmortemly, I confess But I wanted to travel Mysteries to unravel You know, like a couchette counter on the Orient Express. Oh well. 
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