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All though I stayed up all night,
Strainin and stirring with all my might,
Despite my great vision,
And constant revision,
My sauce did not turn out quite right.
syzygy - szechwan
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The sun and the moon, as they function,
Will shortly come in to conjunction.
This syzygy can
Be seen in Szechwan -
I'd go there with little compunction!
VASIFORM - VEGETABLE
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Tusen Tak, Branny!
Sorry - wrong language! How about, "Danku"?
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Well..a thousand thanks is more than just one but together they're 1001 thanks. You're very welcome. 
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Vegetables, come in all sizes,
Were displayed to the crowd at Assizes
...Where a thousand-pound pumpkin
...Was judged by a bumpkin
As "not vasiform" -- and won prizes!
SWEETEN - TABLE
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Neat and nice Doc, thanks. My own poem isn't close but I'll post it just for spite. Rhubarb Commando is a... far traveling vegetable from a planet with no name He's a six foot vasiform tube with a six foot brain No not ordinary slime Special slime that rhymes sublime Some folks think him genius others think him sane  Now I'll get back to SWEETEN - TABLE
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jj’s poem my life seems to sweeten
But my tubular self is quite beaten.
My brain isn’t able
To last at the table
For rhubarb is meant to be eaten!
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Since we don't have a new challenge yet:
My friend uses house flies to sweeten
His breakfast of cereal wheaten.
He looks, at his table,
Like a clone of Clark Gable,
But his habits are those of a cretin.
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Sorry - Ah pure fergit ta choose two more words! So see what all y'all can make of these.
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If you must have your sciences soft,
I found a hat someone had doffed
...Reading Psychology
...Or Sociology
What was that? Somebody coughed?
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...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.)... A final word: Richard III, and the horrendous actions attributed to him, is the core of Tey's Daughter of Time. Thomas More, referred to in the book (somewhat sardonically) as "the Sainted Thomas," wrote a history of those times widely considered authoritative, though he lived two generations later. Referring to Thomas More as the "meddlesome priest," when that title more properly inheres to Thomas à Becket, is my error, pure and simple. Moral: Don't accept everything you read as Gospel. Even if it comes from a Saint. Or me. Or even Snopes.com. (But that's another story...)
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Sometimes Words Can Be Self-evident
Don't accept every Gospel you read as moral
And beware of facts that you hear that are oral
Instruments of oppression?
Or ornaments on progression?
-The best named goat is the South American goral
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Be careful where you get your science;
On Wiki don't place great reliance.
The open-write scheme
Propagates any meme,
Until it's corrected by clients.
BOBBY PIN – BOGOTÁ
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Moral: Don't accept everything you read as Gospel Since you are talking clichés: 'history will absolve you'. 
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Yes, but is it "History is the Daughter of Time" or
"History is written by the winners" ?
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You ain't seen a pin 'til you've seen my Bobby pin
Like when he pinned an orangutang in Bogota
He tied him in a knot
To untie him he forgot
And that orangutang is still tied up in Bogota
RUTHLESS - SACKFUL
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I once had a girlfriend named Ruth,
But she left me to go to Duluth
With my friend, who’s got dash
And a sackful of cash,
So now I am Ruthless, i’sooth!
APERIENT - APOLOGY
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I am your former girlfriend Ruth in Duluth
I dumped you because you were crude and uncouth
My aperient was your friend;
My apology for our end
I miss you darling like I miss an aching tooth.
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Now that we’ve gone our separate ways
I live in a semiconscious haze.
I thought I’d found love
But you gave me the shove,
And I pass all my days in a daze
CRENEL - CRICKET
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Yes, but is it "History is the Daughter of Time" or
"History is written by the winners" ?
History is made by winners and losers and is written by the sons and daughters of time.
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You're just not cynical enough... ;-)
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CRENEL - CRICKET
History has function in our present; not in our past
Reality is real at the moment but doesn't last
A cricket hops where it hops
Velikosky can't make it stop
Our last crenelled future has been reset but not recast
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Blah BLAH blah blah BLAH blah blah jerk
Blah BLAH blah blah BLAH blah berserk
...Blah blah BLAH blah by far
...Blah blah BLAH blah bete noire
Blah blah BLAH blah blah just doesn't work!
(No, I'm not being serious!)
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Yes, but is it "History is the Daughter of Time" or
"History is written by the winners" ?
History is made by winners and losers and is written by the sons and daughters of time. I once wrote a History of Beds and sent it to Henry Ford for comment. He replied, "It's like I said before, History is Bunk."
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CRENEL CRICKET The crenel in the parapet Is made for those who did not get An armor for a shield Thus on the cricket field It's wise to wear a helmet History is wonderful trough of facts and fiction.
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Excellent, Branny - I like this one!
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I spy his approach from afar:
The man who draws near's my Bête Noire
I think he's a berk
And he drives me berserk -
But what can I do? - He's my Pa!!
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You handled him skillfully  and jenny jenny I borrowed the words for once, cause I have not much time to go into games.
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Good one, BranShea; light, with charm.
Here's a heavy one, without charm:
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Immaterialism - Determinism; lacks tack
Add the antics of semantics for cognate impact
Our thoughts are matter
Our chatter is matter
But "What is matter?" is a matter too abstract
IMMATERIALISM - IMPACT
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...I once wrote a History of Beds and sent it to Henry Ford for comment. He replied, "It's like I said before, History is Bunk." Shame on you ! :-)
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I once wrote a History of Beds and sent it to Henry Ford for comment. He replied, "It's like I said before, History is Bunk."
Or: History is full of sheet.
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Is that the last word on the subject? Or perhaps it's the last two words that we lack.
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Ok Doc, if you insist, my fine words will be the last words on the subject. The two new words are... CARTOON - CART
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For sculpture I don’t give a fart
But to draw a cartoon is an Art.
I’d not clutter my floor
With a bronze Henry Moore
But Da Vinci !!! bring on by the Cart!
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I've just two words for you, RC: "Thank you". Your dandy poem reminded me of a dandy named Art Davis, a classmate of mine at Elmore High. After passing Art in the hallway we would whisper "Yes it is pretty, but is it Art?" By the way, do you have two nice new words for the dandy people of this forum?
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And thank you, jj, for your kind words.
the next two to play with are:-
SEARCHING - SECLUDE
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Searching for meaning that life has secluded
I joined the hippies singing We Shall Overcome
We didn't: so I stopped singing
And made up a new ole saying
Singing: The Wiser I Get The Less Young I Become
PEDUNCLE - PELVIS
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I once saw a giant peduncle
With a bloom twice as big as my uncle,
Whose putrescent pelvis
Has so bad a smell Vis-
igoths won't come near, but a skunk'll.
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