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Welcome, AC! An excellent entry into Spateye's Game, if I may say so.
And I'm very glad to see another Brit posting - that makes three of us active at the moment.
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Wait a minute. I thought the rules didn't allow more than two Brits here at a given moment. It's in the book. *  *Three would be too many and one would be too few. 
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We should remember, jj, that it's their language we're wrecking here, so let's make an exception!
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Well...if you say so, Tromboniator. But somebody ruined Elizabethan English and it sure a hell wasn't we'uns. 
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HISTRIONIC – HOARD
My good friends, whenever I’m Bored,
I come and examine this board
Where posts range from moronic
To quite histrionic
With new words - which I add to my hoard.
UDOMETER - ULTRAMARINE
(and the best of luck!)
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The Grand Navy of Poland built a spy submarine
They painted it with water colors - ultramarine
But the test crew did fret
When the ubometer read "wet"
They drowned; either in or out of the ultramarine submarine
UDOMETER - ULTRAMARINE
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quote from Rhubarb Commando~ "UDOMETER - ULTRAMARINE (and the best of luck!)" Ha....I dont think jj needed it  super rhyming jenny...I love the idea of watercolour camourflage paint.
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Rhubarb Commando's quite right that the grey squirrel has been set to eliminate the native (and seemingly less agressive) red in the UK for many years, thwarted so far I guess mostly by mankind's benevolent intervention.
I heard relatively recently of a another European (Spanish?) mutant of 'our' grey squirrel appearing in the UK, which is even more aggressive, and threatens genetically to displace the existing greys by interbreeding. I have not heard if this enhances the threat to the native reds.
Isn't nature (by this I mean evolution, with its preference for the best fitting genetic variant) (literally) wonderful?
This obliquely leads me to a very personal 'bee in the bonnet', namely the woefully inadequate (and I think misleading) ways in which the harsh reality and impersonality of genetic selection that happens in the evolutionary process, has been explained by so-called experts in the media, even by our much admired uncle of evolution, David Attenborough. I personally deplore such dumbing down of vitally important concepts.
In general, it is often claimed that "such and such a species does this because it affords such and such an advantage", as though the individual creature can anticipate that such and such a behaviour will afford an advantage. This has to be nonsense, except in the instances of more 'intelligent' creatures - it can only be through many fortuitous iterations of a given behaviour, resulting in a statistically greater number of individuals surviving to pass on their genes, that the behaviour in question may become 'incorporated' in that species' genetic package to be passed on, and exhibited 'naturally'.
I'm sorry to wander off the central thrust of the thread, and step onto my own particular soap-box (a happily compatible conjunction of cliches), but I am hoping this may become a suitable point for discussion by comparison and contrast.
Views, anyone?
Sam
"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" - 'Abandon all hope, ye who enter'.
Dante (Durante degli) Alighieri, "La Divina Commedia", "Inferno", c 1308-1321
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Just a thought on your image "bee in a bonnet".
Back in the day I saw a nun with those medieval
starched wimples and headgear acquire a bee in hers.
She had to completely dismantle the thing to remove
the bee, and to much embarrassment I might add.
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Sam says << ... it can only be through many fortuitous iterations of a given behaviour, resulting in a statistically greater number of individuals surviving to pass on their genes, that the behaviour in question may become 'incorporated' in that species' genetic package to be passed on, ...>>
True, but it is, of course these adventitious 'advantages' which make the individuals more likely to survive, prosper, and see off rivals in the mating process, which makes it more likely that those genetic advantages do get passed on.
Now - back to the thread!
What are your two words, jj?
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Glad to hear that you're all not systemically Britophobic, even if it is 'our' language you're wrecking (your words).
I will admit that I used to get hot under the collar when I saw provincial mangling of (as we Limeys or Poms like to call it) "Queen's English", but I now try to celebrate the inevitable evolutionary development of our language, and instead try to see it as an enriching process. Is that attitude defeatist or progressive? I'm still unsure.
Eloquence is a very different skill from (than?) practising correct grammar, and much prettier.
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"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" - 'Abandon all hope, ye who enter'.
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I should be able to make something with those 
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In a nocturnal chess game, as White,
I blithely ignored a Black knight,
Till the dark horse, at dawn,
Took my crucial king's pawn;
At sunrise I gave up the fight.
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Very nice AC....I like a game of chess.
This is mine (I know the last line is too long, but I couldn't get the rhythm any shorter)
I spent all day at the Flemington racecourse
Did my dough betting on a dark horse
The favourite, a filly called Dawn
Stopped mid race for lunch on the lawn
Home I trotted, full of remorse, having giv'n my misses grounds for a divorce.
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good effort.
I can see the image of a horse stopping in a race to eat.
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I'm sure that's one of the horses I buet on, once! (or twice!)
Nice one, Candy.
And a super one, A.C,!
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REGULARIZE - REIN
Barney Google, with those goo, goo, googly eyes
Barney Google, had a wife two times his size
She sued Barney for divorce
Now he's living on his horse
With a pull on the reins he can regularize
And I'm going to jail 'cause I plagiarize
Barney Google, with those goo, goo, googly eyes.
NINNY - NIX
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My goodness, jj! I haven't heard that song for the last sixty years! When I was a little kid, I had a chbair with a music box underneath and, when you sat on it, Barney Google was one of the tunes it played. Many thanks for the bit of memorabilia - it wipes out your sin of poagiarism
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Egg-boiling gives me no kicks
For my culinary skills are just nix:
I feel such a ninny
When dressed in a pinny,
So I eat in a diner called, “Ricks!”
DISPENSER - DISQUIETUDE
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See? That is how I want to learn to write Limericks...sweet, brief, and pointed, with a twist (or maybe I'll just plagiarize the Commando). And Thank you, Commando, your absolution gives me the latitude to explain: The old song bobbed up from the depths of my mind because the rhyme scheme and syllabic count was limerickic and I wanted to share this memory with the fine people who post here. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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I love "limerickic;" What a great word!!
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I purchased a coffee dispenser
With settings of 'Mild' and 'Intenser';
My disquietude grew
As it oozed a foul brew
Because of a fault in the sensor.
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100% for that limerick AC I must go make myself a coffee now jenny jenny & Rhuby....first I've heard of that Barney person. I just googled him LOL.  I was struck by the origin of "Google". I'm inserting this from wikipedia Following "The Goo-Goo Song" (1900), the word "Google" was introduced in 1913 in Vincent Cartwright Vickers' The Google Book, a children's book about the Google and other fanciful creatures who live in Googleland: "The Google has a beautiful garden which is guarded night and day. All through the day he sleeps in a pool of water in the center of the garden; but when the night comes, he slowly crawls out of the pool and silently prowls around for food."[8] Aware of the word's appeal, DeBeck launched his comic strip six years later, and the "goo-goo-googly" lyrics in the 1923 song "Barney Google" focused attention on the novelty of the word.
When mathematician and Columbia University professor Edward Kasner was challenged in the late 1930s to devise a name for a very large number, he asked his nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, to suggest a word. The youthful comic strip reader told Kasner to use "Google". Kasner agreed, and in 1940, he introduced the words "googol" and "googolplex" in his book, Mathematics and the Imagination. Milton Sirotta died in 1980. This is the term that Larry Page and Sergey Brin had in mind when they named their company in 1998, but they intentionally misspelled "googol" as "google," bringing it full circle right back to Billy DeBeck. In 2002, when Page set up a scanning device at Google to test how fast books could be scanned, the first book he scanned was Vickers' The Google Book.
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Egg-boiling gives me no kicks
For my culinary skills are just nix:
I feel such a ninny
When dressed in a pinny,
So I eat in a diner called, “Ricks!”aw.....you are no Jamie Oliver then. Never mind, he dont 'ave your excellent word skills
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Great Limerick, A.C.! There is no doubt a t all that you are a welcome - and worthy - addition to our circle of rhymsters.
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Thanks for the background on Google, candy. I knew the song (or bits of it, anyway) but didn't know it's date or provenance. It has helped me to date the musical chair to 1926, which was the year my eldest brother wsa born and so was undoubtedly a christening gift. The chair, unfortunately, succumbed to woodworm and the musical box to rust, so I no longer have it.
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Gather ye rosebuds whilst ye may, Old Time is still a-flying And the pond full of ducks In a full state of flux Whilst the rose on the thorn is a-dying! (Ther you are, jj - you are not the only one to plagiarise when it suits the purpose!)
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***** Maybenot, RC, but you are the only poet I know who's dastardly plagiarizing vastly improves that which has been stolen.
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There is a terrific movie based on the life of
Bill Wilson called "My Name is Bill W.", starring
JoBeth Williams, James Woods and James Garner.
Probably about 20+ years old now. In one scene
it shows Bill in a bar/pub drunk as a skunk and the
whole place is engaged in a very drunken rendition
of "Barney Google", a favorite song of the era.
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***** Maybenot, RC, but you are the only poet I know who's dastardly plagiarizing vastly improves that which has been stolen. Thank you, jj. And, Luke, I don't know that film - I shall ask our local cinema manager to consider it for 2013. And the next two words are: (Ta Da!!)IDEAL - IDOLATER
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Sweet Cicele D. Demille from Mobile
Proud paragon of the Christian ideal
Drank some wine one day
Took a roll in the hay
Then married an idolater from Brazil
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Some folk, with great gusto, go rambling;
Some, guidebook in hand, prefer ambling;
But the really cool guys
Eschew exercise
And spend all their leisure time gambling.
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A.C., I swear you've been stalking me! How else did you know?
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Masochism, anyone? Necrophilism? Bestiality? NO? - I see I'm flogging a dead horse, here.
Why subject yourself to great pain,
When far better options remain.
The masochistic urge
You should try to submerge
And strive to be joyful again!
MARTYRDOM - MASQUERADE
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Good Catholics love the saints dearly
And honour their martyrdom yearly,
But the atheist view
Is that Scripture's untrue,
So religion's a masquerade, really.
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