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(You need to post a couple new words for the group, A.C.)
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In the '50s I fell for the queen
In a photo in LIFE magazine.
Now my lust will not quit,
Though I'm fed up with it.
It gets old, if you know what I mean.
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...twice. I love to go awandering along the mountain track And as I go I love to sing my knapsack on my back There's no such thing as a figurative kiss
"Kissingly" has no place in rhymes like thisVal-deri Val-dera ha ha ha, my knapsack on my back  DUD - DUFFER
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One of my favorite songs back in Glee Club Days,
thanks for the Memory JJ.
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If you're simply a bit of a duffer,
You can hide it if you're a good bluffer;
But if you're a real dud,
You're stuck in the mud,
And life will be quite a lot tougher.
KNIGHT – KNOTTY
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Knotty Knight
A fiery knight hunting for the grail
lost a couple of stitches from his mail
his knotty re-knitting
just would not quite fit in
't made him slip from his quest and his trail
KALE - QUIDITTY
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KALE - QUIDITTY ..from the pages of the world's shortest dictionary! 
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To be specific on this quick random choice , the Collins 2007 (1871 pages) weighs 8lb 13.096oz which is a lot of potatoes.
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but it goes from K to Q in one page?
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Ah, kale, sweet kale, what bitter memories you won't foretell Cow cabbbage, collard greens, spring greens, hungry gap, Jersey rape kale. Unbelievably undesirable Unthinkably indigestible By a mutual quiddity kale is only eaten down in Hell  DEPONE - DERANGE
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but it goes from K to Q in one page? Oh, I see I hit the Roolz. I thought the K-sound of the Q would be good enough, but........ cheers from C.C.
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OK, Then why not POSTPONE DEPONE - DERANGE and make it KALE - KARAT?
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Ah, kale, sweet kale, what bitter memories you won't foretell Cow cabbbage, collard greens, spring greens, hungry gap, Jersey rape kale. Unbelievably undesirable Unthinkably indigestible By a mutual quiddity kale is only eaten down in Hell DEPONE - DERANGE Great
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If you haven't the stomach to bear it,
Add some gold to your meal to repair it:
If a salad of kale
Makes you shake and turn pale,
All it takes is to throw in a karat.
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The old cowpoke strode up to depone
On the salesman he'd killed with a stone.
"Caused my head to derange.
Tried to make me exchange
My Colt six-shooter for an iPhone."
LOPE – LOTTERY
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Oops! Used those already. I'll be back.
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A part-timer, limerick rhymer, was Oppenheimer
Who became insane when his poems became passe
A social climber
An atom diviner
He invented a bomb to blow the world away.
FIZZLE - FLARE
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Thank you A C Bowden for providing the words that really threw a spark to make me do a limerick.
Thank you Tromboniator for two good limericks.
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Outside's a monotonous drizzle
With clouds of a boring, dull grizzle
I felt near to despair,
So I lit up a flare
And a sparkler to watch them all fizzle.
Dunno if you have 'sparklers' your side of the pond? They're a silvery-grey, bullrush-shaped blob on the end of a wire, which you light up and they burn with a bright, sparkling light as you wave them around. Great fun! Kids like me love them.
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[quote=Rhubarb Commando]
Dunno if you have 'sparklers' your side of the pond?/quote]
Had 'em when I was a kid, but I haven't seen any in decades. Probably illegal now.
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Probably illegal? Could be but we are so behind the
rest of the world that I would not know. But I saw
some last July Fourth.
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Outside's a monotonous drizzle
With clouds of a boring, dull grizzle
I felt near to despair,
So I lit up a flare
And a sparkler to watch them all fizzle.
"What a strange thing! To be alive beneath cherry blossoms" _________________________ Kobayashi Issa (Poems)
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Sorry, forgot to give two more words - again.  TURBOT - TURN
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[quote=Rhubarb Commando]
Dunno if you have 'sparklers' your side of the pond?/quote]
Had 'em when I was a kid, but I haven't seen any in decades. Probably illegal now. Not illegal here. Actually they're one of the few types of fireworks that can be bought at a regular store, such as a grocery store around the 4th of July. WE bought several boxes this year and still have some around. Lit a few the other night at a party!
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Just an offhand, cynical remark. No reason to believe it's true.
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Either way - sparklers are the last remnant of legal fireworks in many places in New England, or at least here ( = Massachusetts). Anything else you hear around here- and there is plenty - was probably imported from the South, or perhaps China.
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Just an offhand, cynical remark. No reason to believe it's true. heh no worries!
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You can still buy all sorts of fireworks in UK - bangers, riackets, Roman Candles, Goblin Moines, etc, etc. When I was a kid, these were just for November 5th (Guy Fawkes Day, celebrating the burnig of the stake of the catholic terrorist who tried to blow up King James I of England (& VI of Scotland)and Parliament - almost enough to make me convert from atheism to catholicism!
But, increasingly, fireworks are moving into the hands of professionals who put on slendid firework shows, lasting half an hour and getting through several thousnad pounds-worth of gunpowder and chemicals which pollute the atmosphere as much as a motorway with four solid lanes of traffic for an hour.
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The recent movie "Neverland" with Charlie Roe as Peter,
has a scene concerning ' penny for the Guy".
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A turbot in every pot, a drink for every sot
Said the Queen who wasn't mean...well, not a lot
Give us cake, the riffraff said
In turn she said, off your head
Merry England wasn't very merry; merry it was not.
KAFKAESQUE - KARMA
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I'm looking forward to the limerick with those two words.
Good choice JJ.
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Some folks swear that my life's Kafkaesque.
Others doubt it: "Self-conscious burlesque."
It won't do any harm, a
Small effect on my karma
If I keep a cockroach on my desk.
ROSE – ROTATORY
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Cheers, you did it,Peter!
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Just so, Trombo. Any man who sees good in a cockroach is a friend of mine. Just don't invite me over. Perfect limerick.
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Brilliant, Peter! I've been trying - and failing - to get a limerick round these for days! Congratulations.
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Thank you all. I was here when jj posted the pair, and it was a struggle, until suddenly it wasn't.
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A young ballerina called Rose
Would rise on the points of her toes
In her father's conservatory
And, with movements rotatory,
Sink into a beautiful pose.
DISCLAIMER - DISCREET
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