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My landlady looks like a rodent, But I moved in with her, and pay no rent. She with whom I cohabit Has restraint like a rabbit, So the pool boy moved in as my cogent.
ALL FOURS – ALLURESay Rhubarb, you and Tromboniator sure do move fast.
Yeah, Rhuby and I have been tag-team partners for some time now.
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In the morning on all fours it travels,
But that’s just the first of its marvels.
It’s on two legs by mid-day
But the full course it can’t stay –
It’s on three as its allure unravels!
THIS IS A VERY OLD RIDDLE
JAGGED - JARGON
THAT'S RIGHT - OUR TAG TEAM NAME IS atm-gate!
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I was doing some of these limericks, and have attempted
one or two (I'm slow), but by the time I get going, you
all are on the next set of words. Which is OK I really
enjoy your "tag team" efforts, much better than mine. Just
wanted to let you know I read them and am appreciating
your efforts.
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Many thanks, Luke, for your kind words.
I guess you might get a chance when it's night-time for me: it's only 7pm for you when I go to bed!
And you are a couple of hours ahead of Peter, I think?
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Aha! I get you: Tip Toe thru the Timezones. Gadzooks!
Has it come down to that???? Guess that is the only
way I can get a word in edgewise. Ok, I'll give it a try.
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Man, that IS an old riddle!
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Thanks, Luke, I'm glad you can appreciate what I (we) do. I certainly have fun wrestling (there's that tag team connection) with the problem, but my daughter thinks it's crass to laugh at my own humor. I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing multiple efforts on these, that we needn't be shut off just because somebody else has already posted on a pair of words.
Rhuby, for what it's worth, Luke and I are three hours apart, but with the hours I keep I think I'm often going to bed as he's getting up.
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The Jersey Shore is jagged.
GTL so we's not ragged.
DTF...what is this jargon?
Beg your pardon,
I just gagged.
reactionary rebate
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I know I could dabble with a posted set of words and enter
them anyhow, it's just that they seldom are as good as yours.
Bed time: I stay up usually to 1-2 am Central Time, so
you could be right Peter.
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If you wake and find this world unsatifactionary
Look up "reactionary" in your dictionary
See? The way to go is retro
Think with your brain, not libido
Dump the subversionary; marry a missionary
SINGLE - SINGSONG
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My verses are mostly quite simple
Could be read by a nun in a wimple
...But if merry sing-song
...Can just take you along
It might bring out a smile -- and a dimple!
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My verses are mostly quite simple
Could be read by a nun in a wimple
...But if merry sing-song
...Can just take you along
It might bring out a smile -- and a dimple!
KEEPER -- LABOUR
Oops. It's not SIMPLE, it's SINGLE. OK, let's try My verses are sing-song but simple, Could be read by a nun in a wimple. ...But if one single song ...Makes you sing right along We'll be graced by your smile and a dimple!
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A hundred hands clapping, Doc, you have quick feet. A great rhyme number one, a great rhyme number two. You are fast, you are good. 
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Wot jj says - very neat, wofa
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LABOUR - KEEPER
The British are the keepers of things oceanic
Their labour to hoard artifacts is pedantic
But losers weepers finder keepers
We need that boat for movie peepers
But don't panic
The Titanic still rests beneath the Atlantic
STRING - STRIKE
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I find it is too tough a thing.
To hang the words well on a string.
Then I hit a strike,
Before I say, "yike".
Like wofa's my song starts to sing.
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Doodle - Dead
Yankee Doodle went to town
To get himself some bread
He stuck up a store in Baltimore
So they shot Yankee Doodle dead
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LOL - I loved that one, jj!
To learn a new tongue is a must-a
To your CV it adds quite a lustre
Afrikaans to Zulu
Will gives you a tool to
Speak also just like Zarathustra!
MARRIAGEABLE - MARTYR
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Clever, Rhubarb, you must-a been inspired. 99 hands a-clapping and one hand a-rapping.  MARRIAGEABLE - MARTYR "If you can't do good do as little bad as you can" "Lawyers...their job is to disguise matters and barter" "Disguise our bondage as you will 'Tis woman. woman, rules us still" ---- Name this marriageable priest and merry martyr. GECK - GEOSYNCLINE
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Nice one! Is it Donne? (It certainly isn't half-baked!)
The geosynclines, or linear trough
If deformed, compressed enough
A volcano may form.
Geologically a norm;
But what the heck is a Geck?
JACK - JÄGER
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Ha! GECK is an British English term that signifies a FOOL according to Shakespeare. Also, in 1933 England the term was used (provencially or obsoletely speaking) to mock or scoff; denoting scorn.  And no, the person who helped me write this poem was not Donne. Gee, I've given you one clue but you want More. How many martyrs do you have over there in England anyway? 
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(Saints love us, of course he wants more! And while you're at it, be sure to read Josephine Tey's magnificent mystery novel The Daughter of Time, about Richard the Third.)
I never saw anything vaguer
Than a Schwartzwalder hunter, a Jäger.
...He could bring down a fox
...With a Jack-in-the-Box
But preferred raiding England, with Hagar.
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Although he had learnt to parse,
Till iambs flowed out of his arse,
(Of course, anyone who did not think of arse as the first rhyme to parse is a strange one)
Although he had learnt to parse,
Till iambs flowed out of his arse,
In all things classable,
His marks were just passable,
His tragedy was just a farce.
Unsure-unknown
Edit: this is the sub continental method of poetry recitation. The poet recites one line. Then he/she addresses the audience directly with maybe words like: "now listen to the next line" "Agle misre par gor kijiye". Then the poet goes back to recite the 1st line which the audience has already heard, and folllows that immediately with the second line to end the couplet with a flourish. And the audience reponds with appreciative "Wah! Wah!"
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Wah! Wah! Avy, Wah, wah, wonderful! Nein Doc, nicht horrible; funny and inventive? Jawohl! And thank you, Rhubarb, for letting me enjoy being smug as you pretended not to know the answer to my riddle. You knew it was Thomas More all along.  UNSURE - UNKNOWN You can't see the unseen You can't know the unknown But you'd better be carefull About what you say or do 'Cause that Unseeing Eye is watching you. ---- Blues song (unsure of the artist's name) STUPOR - SUBLIMINAL
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(Saints love us, of course he wants more! And while you're at it, be sure to read Josephine Tey's magnificent mystery novel The Daughter of Time, about Richard the Third.)
I never saw anything vaguer
Than a Schwartzwalder hunter, a Jäger.
...He could bring down a fox
...With a Jack-in-the-Box
But preferred raiding England, with Hagar.
PARSE - PASSABLE
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(Saints love us, of course he wants more! And while you're at it, be sure to read Josephine Tey's magnificent mystery novel The Daughter of Time, about Richard the Third.) You know, these are insidious, I didn't plan it that way, but... "Saints love us, of course he wants more! And while you are at it be sure ...To read Josephine Tey..." and there it breaks down. Hmmm. But with just a lit-tle tweak... "Saints love us, of course he wants more! And while you are at it be sure ...To read Daughter of Time -- ..(That's Tey's myst'ry sublime) About Richard and Saint Thomas More."
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Wow...synchronicity! No, the meddlesome never go away, Wofa, but now I will find and read The Daughter of Time and report back. You might not be insidious but you are certainly enticing.
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:)))))) Sounds lovely wofa!
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Wow! Avy's post above...#666 - mark of the beast. About getting rid of a meddlesome priest. Synchronicity.
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Wow Jenny! I never noticed. No wonder! I felt kinda evil while writing that.
Edit: 667 now - boring. I would too read DOT. But it won't be avaliable here. I don't know that story. Maybe I should read shakey's RIII. I've read RII.
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...it's available via Amazon.com and, I'm sure, elsewhere. Also study guides and lesson plans. But I wouldn't re-read Shakespeare, at least not yet. I can guarantee you that after DoT you'll never look at Shakespeare's version quite the same way again.
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This is a great rhyme, wofa, and I appreciate your skill in apllying it to jj's teaser. However, as a historian (Ret'd) I have to protest that I am mystified as to exactly who we are talking about! There are a few choices:-
1] Henry II and Thomas a' Becket of Canterbury (he was the "turbulent priest" that Henry wanted rid of.)
2]Richard III and the two young Princes , murdered in the Tower of London (supposedly) - which is the plot of Tey's excellent book, Daughter of Time
3] Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More, whom Good King Hal had beheaded for not agreeing to support the Divorce between himself and Catherine of Arragon.
There we have a slice of English history, covering just over two centuries - a very colourful and turbulent period, indeed, although not the period in which I specialise (I'm a late C18/C19 Social Historian by trade.)
jj asked "How many martyrs do you have over there, anyway?" The answer is, "More than you can conveniently shake a stick at." Whilst I was very aware that she wasn't referring to Donne (who wasn't a marytr at all) and did wonder it whe meant More, I must admit that I didn't really know - as all good historians excuse theselves, "It isn't my period!" I did wonder if it could have been one of the Oxford Martyrs, Latimer, Cranmer or Ridley: but Sir Thomas did seem the likeliest candidate.
Thanks, jj, anyway, for starting up a very interssting sideline!
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STUPOR - SUBLIMINAL
Some advertising is subliminal,
With pictures infinitely minimal
You get caught in the loop, or
Pass out in a stupor.
This device is decidedly criminal!
HEROIC - HETERODOX
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The amazon alternative online company that India buys from does not have it. Dayamn wofa! Now that he's put it above Shakespeare, I want to read it even more. I did not think we'd get it here. *sulk*
Edit: I did not know who the meddlesome priest is either.
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HEROIC - HETERODOX The tyranny of words, the devaluation of men. What? A heterosexual male is heterodox While a homosexual male is not? Our heros are her-o-ic - a doxy paradox The her-oes fill the empty slot Much love today is unrequited Have words made us undecided?  ENTROPY - EPHERICAL
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Hmm? Maybeso you folks didn't like my two words? ENTROPY - EPHERICAL Ok, here are two happy words to poem: DAFFODIL - DAIQUIRI Better?
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I searched, but was rendered hysterical:
There's no meaning for that word epherical.
I decided that entropy
Perverted intent, so we
Are left to conclude: error clerical.
After sniffing a daffodil frock
My smeller developed a block.
I can't tell - the chagrin!
if it's rum, rye, or gin:
Is it rickey or daiquiri, Doc?
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Tromboniator and all: I apologise for my misspelling of the word "ephemeral". I just looked in my dictionary once again to check the spelling but the word is now gone.  No matter Trombo, we got two rhymes out of you for one. "Is it rickey or daiqiuri, Doc?" A grand slam double!
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I wish I could cook like an Emeril
But my skills culinary? Ephemeral.
...With the entropy there
...Any food I'd prepare
Would be not just bad taste, t'would be memeral.
If you eat at my kitchen, it's clear
You will never forget it, I fear.
...So I'll close it - "click, click" -
...And then turn around quick
And look up and see everyone cheer !
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Good show, Wofo, you continually amaze me.
Wrong is wrong and right is right
Dogs do bark and snakes do bite
Revisit limerick verse
Right and wrong reverse
Benight: bad is good; wrong is right
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