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vetinary adj a variant of veterinary.
A localism oft used by rhubic intelectuals in backwoods England.

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Meadowlark,meadowlark
You play and play in every park.
Yet no one here
knows your happy cheer.
For football only do they embark.



Uh...let ME explain.
The meadowlark is our state bird, but Nebraskans only have
brains for UNL football. Go Big Red...it's like a fever.
Nothing can get through it, and it is incurable.

back to Uh,...VETINARY?


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Sorry - too much Christmas wine, I fear - that should, of course, read
VETERINARY - VICE

Thank you, Luke, Peter & jj


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A brillant young student Joe was, golf was his only vice
Often he cut Spelling Class, so he could correct his slice
But he spelled veterinary: vetinary
And his teachers reacted extraordinarily
They threw his clubs in a lake and crushed his balls in a vice.
shocked

RAINY DAY - RAMPAGE

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It's a typical dull rainy day,
With the post-Christmas sales under way.
The shoppers engage
In their yearly rampage,
And Santa dismantles his sleigh. frown

TEMPERATE – TENACIOUS

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Well, AC Bowdon, you captured the moment. May I share you poem with a few of my other friends on the Internet? Thank you.

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It captures the moment as JJ says. Except here the temps
are way below freezing with snow all over everything.
Post Holiday blues???


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Originally Posted By: jenny jenny
Well, AC Bowdon, you captured the moment. May I share you poem with a few of my other friends on the Internet? Thank you.

Certainly. Glad you liked it. laugh

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Turning three-sixty degrees in three-sixty-five days
Tenacious we cling, as our tomorrow becomes our today
Changing Time we try to temperate
Even while moving Time dictates our fate
"The brain reels" said Homer Hoose, "Reality melts away" *

*
R.A. Lafferty

DECEIT - DECIPHER

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DECIPHER – DECEIT

Now 2012’s nearly complete’
Resolutions with history compete
And desires that we sigh for
We neatly decipher
Next year with the utmost deceit!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!

PROW - PSEUD


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Rhubarb, thanks for the wonderful New Year zinger. As I list my resolutions today at least I'll know whom I kid.
Not you, that's for sure. smile

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And a Happy New Year to all of you as well, as I continue
to enjoy your "zingers".

Luke


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So this totally pseud dude is standing on the prow of the Titanic and he's thinking he's King of the World. Psych!

WARTHOG WASTE

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The ship of state slips through the seas
Unbowed, still high-prowed, with fat fees;
But the fiscal cliff beckons,
Its ugly truth reckons,
And only a pseud hopes for ease!



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Beat ya to it, Mav! LOL

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Hippy Nu Jahr Connie smile

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Same same, Mav. How do the emoticons work here again? cool Ah, mo' betta.

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Well-fed Warthogs excrete as a waste
The most foul-smelling brackish black paste;
If spread on the grass,
You just think “warthog arse”,
Part curry, but with arsenic laced!



Door - - - Dopa

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DOOR - DOPA

C9H11NO4, *
I’m really not sure what it’s for;
But I think, if you hark to tons
Of experts on Parkinson’s
They’ll tell you it opens the door!

•Dopa’s chemical formula is C9H11NO4, - a bit of a cheat, really!

MANDRAKE - MANILLA


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There was a young man from Manilla
Whose sex life was far from vanilla:
Mandrake was addictive,
His nakedness frictive,
And so he became love’s guerrilla!


Quarry --- Quassia

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Maverick just beat me to it, but here's mine anyway:

A screenwriter sat in his villa
With sheets of the finest manilla;
He drank mandrake juice
Which set his mind loose
To write episodes of Godzilla.

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Lovely - I see looking back you've done some other good ones! ~ and are the other creatives still around as well?

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Two fine limericks! Yours was far too good not to publish it here, AC.


QUASSIA – QUARRY

A disused slate quarry in Wales
Sets a scene for some deep and dark tales.
Midst the damp scrub-oak bowers
Quassia’s scarlet flowers
Hide a fiery Welsh dragon’s red scales!

BLASÉ - BLENDE

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A sweet but poor American girl named Poor Sweet Wendy
Invented a cheap way to extract zinc from Blende
She soon became rich and blase
Now ten million follow her Face-
Book page. And her manner of speak has become trendy smile

DUPE - DUTCH HOE

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A gardener from Old Amsterdam
Was duped by a crook on the lam;
Treating her as a fool
He left her but one tool:
And thus a Dutch hoe digs prickmadam!


strike --- strine

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You're a fast one, Maverick - and I mean that in every sense of the word - but your limerick above is suggestive and lewd and funny. What are you....a professional? smile

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heh! just an amateur who works their love smile

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On strike near the Adelaide line
Stood a picket who yelled "There's a trine!"
I looked up at the stars
And their aspect with Mars,
But he meant "railway vehicle" in Strine.

ANGULAR – ANISEED

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ANGULAR – ANISEED

My outlook on life is quite angular:
I think, it don’t matter just who you are,
Man’s great sin is Greed
- Mine’s for Aniseed -
A passion that’s totally singular!

[b]WELKIN - WELLADAY [//b]


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Superb! Well done mate smile

Good on yer too, Rhuby.

There once was a lass from Devizes
Whose boobs were of two different sizes
“Welladay!” she would sing
as her bra failed to cling
and the welkin smiled down on her prizes!

Gravity -- Gravalax

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If you suffer from panic attacks,
Try a portion of fresh gravalax.
If their gravity worsens,
Then try the next person's,
And so on until you relax.

IMAGE – IMMACULATE

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laugh Good remedy, AC.
Unless the next person slaps you. mad

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My former immaculate image
Was degraded by spikes in a scrimmage.
No, the mirror can't lie,
There's no doubt of it, my
Monster ego has suffered some dimmage.

NEWT – NICKEL

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For investors who’re really astute
Buying gold is by far the best route
With world trade in a pickle
Dollars worth a nickel:
You should, maybe, have voted for Newt?

LABRADOR - LACUNA


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SOLID GOLD !
Rhuby Buddy, are you sure you ain't from Pinecob, Georgia? laugh

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DITTO


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All the Labrador rednecks for Newt, I’ll
Wager have found their bets futile:
Bush left a lacuna
Through not acting sooner
And politics proves it’s non-utile!


urine --- urn

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Said the captain: "This urn full of urine
Is a cheap, ready way of ensurin'
That a fire in the hold
Can be quickly controlled.
I admit that the smell's unallurin'".

SEAM – SEASONAL

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Should this seasonal parcel of folly
P’rhaps now pass away with the holly?
The tight rhyming scheme
Chasing wit’s crooked seam:
Are y’all finding it less and less jolly?


Endogamy --- endogenous

(2 end~ words to continue!)

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