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For what better accolade could I ask?
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Nice work jenny jenny.... squatters have a way of ruining a neighbourhood. And I liked your Xmas theme Rhuby  and far be it for me to be the forum police...but did you miss out using one of jj's required words??? (I think the others enjoyed you words so much..they didnt notice) Peter....I hope he was testing the blades, shaving and not like 'Sweeney Todd'! Rhuby, your sad tale of the Faerie Queen is epic. Beautifully told...it moved me to tears too.
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(I think the others enjoyed you words so much..they didnt notice)
So true! A gorilla shipped out for the Bering, But not, it would seem, for the herring. So deft was his grabbing They hired him for crabbing, And the yarns that he spun of seafaring.
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The Faerie Queen appears on stage
With wand and sequins – and a page!
Her elbows creak, her knees both ache
Hair and bosom, both are fake.
People leave when curtain falls;
Just empty wrappers in the stalls.
With make up off and dressed in beige,
Exeunt: A Woman of - “a Certain Age.”
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Dearest Rhuby,
Thank you for this poem.
W.B.Yeats (who is immortal) wishes he had wrote it.
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My pleasure, jj - and I'm very flattered by the comparison with WBY!
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and far be it for me to be the forum police...but did you miss out using one of jj's required words???
(I think the others enjoyed you words so much..they didnt notice)
You are quite right, Candy - I have repaired the ommission, if you care to look back. I'm afraid I got carried away by my own verbosity, and all y'all were too polite to k'rrect a doddering old man! 
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LIBERAL - LYCH All Liberals become Conservatives before they die As pallid worms change into bright butterflies Some will wait too late They lie now at lych gate Frozen as Liberals [moan] until the Universe dies.
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Nice one, jj. Can we have two more words,pease?
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Sure thing, RC.
You crack the whip and I'll make the trip.
The two new words are...
SANSKRIT - SARCASM
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OMG, your conservative wit
Makes me laugh till my sides ache and split!
(That's sarcasm I'm using;
Your meaning's abusing
Us liberals. Speak in Sanskrit.)
PECTORAL – PEEP
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Remember reading The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris? Individuals die while so far the clade is immortal Because evolution put boobs on the female pectoralBoobs are a sexual attraction One peep spurs manly action And frontal copulation helps them find the right portal  QUOTA - RABBIT
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Very clever, jj! A rabbit tastes good in a pie With onions and carrots – Oh My! If it’s done in a rota- Ting oven, my quota Of happiness quite fills the sky. DISCREPANT - DISGRACE
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All Right! Very clever, Jenny.
Never had it Rhuby, but my mouth is watering.
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Oh, I can assure you that poem was written from the heart. I used to catch bunnies, mostly to sell, but we always had one a week, either as a stew (if it was an older one,) or a pie. Occasionally, if we got a really young one, my wife would coat it in butter and herbs, wrap it in foil, and very bengtly roast ift. Mmmmmm!!
Now, I don't catch rabbits and the ones you get in the butchers shop are expensive, and usually cage-bred, which don't have anything like the flavour.
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I've actually never had it, but it does sound delicious.
Over here their "cuteness" prohibits a lot of eating.
So often even on TV they show some cowboy getting the
critter, and later roasting it. Probably all plastic
or rubber critters. Because there is always a notice
at the end of the show: "No animals were hurt in the
production of this film/show".
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Oh, the hypocrisy of humankind! No-one ate a hamburger without hurting (i.e., killing!)an animal! Or a whole host of other foods, for that matter.
If you don't like anmals being hurt become a vegetarian.
(And there's nothing wrong on that, either)
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Or wooly mammoth early on in our history. I think they are
kind of cute too.
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Well, they were victims of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Mind you, I s'pose you could say that of the coneys that strayed into my snares .........
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Someday, perhaps, I may have the opportunity to enjoy.
Don't know anyplace they are served.
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No, I don't know anywhere that serves wooly mammoths, either. and |Google is strangely reticent! (or reluctant!)
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And just when I'd worked up my appetite, darn it all anyway.
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Don't repine, Luke - deep frozen meat never tastes as good as fresh, anyway.
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I know they found one in Siberia a year or so ago, but
that's all I am aware. Guess I have to settle for
bunny, if I can find that. My dog chases one, but alas,
no luck in that endeavor either.
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My cats bring one in, now and again - and them the blighters eat it before my very eyes! And then come to me to ask for tinned food, an hour later.
I'll never understand cats. sigh
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Have you read "The Cat that Walked by Himself" from Kipling's "Just So Stories"?
It portrays the best representation of a cat's relationship with humankind that I know, with dignity and humour. Remarkable for a children's story!
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"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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It was one of my favourites, which I passed on to my own two.
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... and to save you having to turn back a page, the current words are:- DISCREPANT - DISGRACEOh, Dear! Once a teacher, always a teacher: here am I, bringing the class back to the curriculum after and interesting and fruitful diversion away from it!
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NO ENTRY: JUST A SING ALONG WITH QUEEN I wonder 'bout 'dis I wonder 'bout dat
I wonder who put de dis in de chat
Youse a big dis-grace
Got egg on yo face
Discrepant is dis in de Awad chat
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Naw, Teach, I'm just a discordant student who will resort to silliness rather than return to her studies. DISCORDANT - DISGRACE
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A discordant young student was Jenny,
Her misdemeanours were many.
In exams, her first place
Saved her from disgrace -
At odds of ten bucks to a penny.
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At ten bucks to a penny I'd throw the game for a split. I may be discordant but I'm not dis-stupid.
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Why would one want to kill squirrels anywhy? The ones you get here are really skinny. Maybe be forigin ones are fat. I dunno.
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Here in the UK, the Grey Squirrel is a pest. They are not native to Britain, and have driven our native Red Squirrel almost to extinction. There has been a massive drive, over the past ten years or so, to re-establish the Red in certain areas, together with a parallel drive to oust the Greys by culling them. (Which, of course, is euphemistish for kill the varmints!)
As to eating them, their meat is quite pleasant. A bit sweet for my taste, but not bad. The only problem is that you new quite a lot of them to feed a family of four! Next month is probably the best time to eat squirrel, as they have beenn fattening up all summer on order to survie their hibernation.
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A keen evangelical preacher
Said "God's a superlative creature!
The greatest, the cleverest –
Just as Mount Everest
Dwarfs any other tall feature".
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Good show, AC, Welcome. There is room for a few more superlative creatures around here. 
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Thanks Rhuby. Maybe one day I'll get to see the red and the grey.
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Well said AC (and from out of the wilderness)
My idea was something with Muhammad Ali, but that was as far as I got.
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