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I watched a young woman named Pearl
To be accurate, more of a girl.
Her leg played peek-a-boo
Twixt her hem and her shoe
As she danced in an elegant swirl.
CHARGED CHASER
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----please, draw me a sheep----
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Yes, Tromboner, nice touch. I wish I had a genteel manner so I could write stuff such as that. 
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Thanks, folks. Gosh, genteel. I'll have to see if I like the fit across the shoulders. 
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CHARGED CHASER
Mark not days of progressive spacers
Count instead those of regress erasers
[And the days dwindle down
To a precious few ]
Once I charged; now (like you) I'm a chaser
HORRIBLE - HOST
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I think a moment of silence is in order.
Anne H., whose Board nom was Sparteye and for whom this game was named, passed away yesterday after a courageous bout with cancer.
She was loved by all who knew her, on this Board and in person. She will be sadly and sincerely missed but warmly remembered.
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Thanks wofa,
may she rest in peace.
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Yes, thank you Wolf.
I didn't know her but I miss her nontheless.
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So sorry to hear that. Sparteyes legacy lives on.
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my reputation is horrible
demeanor incorrigible
a ghastly host
devastating to most
deplorable
despicable
me
coitus cancer!
(Still fighting. Sorry to hear about Anne.)
Stream - Strike
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A Song
Down by the old mill stream
(strike up the band)
Where I first met you
(strike up the band)
You were sixteen
My village queen
Down by the old mill stream
PANDORA - PALL-BEARER
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There once was a lass called Pandora
Who popped the lid off an amphora.
We now live in terror
From midwife to pallbearer,
In Manhattan or in Bora Bora.
DRUMLIN DUBITABLE
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Ah yes, Tromboniator. The limerick masters would be proud.
A bit of history, a road trip, amd a moral; all tightly written with close meter and perfect rhyme. Good show!
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DRUMLIN - DUBITABLE
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A geologist and a she-ologist were sitting on a drumlin
The she-ologist was gneiss the geologist fat like a pumpkin
Sitting like Buddha inscrutable
His intentions were dubitable
Which one was the male and which one was fat as a pumpkin?
BIAS - BIGAMY
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I hope you can conquer your bias;
I know some people think we're impious,
But we like bigamy.
It's much better with three
Or with four! Come on over and try us!
HISTORIAN HOG
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Being a Hog Historian is a boring chore
A "herd" is fifty sows served by one boar
But over in Alabamy
A sow named Big Amy
Will stand for fifty boars and squeal for more
NE'ER-DO-WELL --- NAZIFY
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I'm sorry, but NAZIFY took the wind out of my sails. I can't seem to find anything clever there.
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----please, draw me a sheep----
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I have something in mind; give me a little while to work on it...
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Some ne'er-do-well, wild rhetoricians
In bad economic conditions
Attempt to cause strife
To Nazify life
And further their sordid ambitions.
PENDULUM PERFORM
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Thank you A.C.Bowden, you seem to have leapfrogged over "clever" and landed on "brillant" even while seemingly making your wording as easy as A.C.B.
Thanks from all.
PENDULUM PERFORM
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My life is the swing of a pendulum
Attempting to reach equilibrium.
Mostly, tasks I perform
Deviate from the norm:
Witness limericks which never quite end up plumb.
ALLIANCE ALMOST
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My life has been perfect almost
Good friends good books a house on the coast
My cat my dog are in alliance
My birthday gift - a new appliance
Ah yes, life is good but burnt is the toast
OUTRUN - OVERALLS
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In marathons, athletes outrun
The folk who just enter for fun,
Except for one time
When they struggled through grime
And a sweeper in overalls won.
CIPHER CIRCUIT
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Would you rather be mired in a cipher or a circuit?
Neither (says the dreaming man) no cipher would be perfect
The moon circles the Earth
The Earth circles the sun
The morning dream will circle your id until you finally jerk it.
GLACIAL - GHOST
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Some spectres are genial guys;
No glacial stare fills their eyes.
One jaunty old cove
Of a ghost said: "By Jove!
It's you, old boy! What a surprise!"
INTACT INVOLVE
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Mankind has never seen a wave or particle
What we've seen is a wave and particle track
We our selves involve ourselves
In things ourself can never solve
But one day flight 670 will surely be found intact
LUCIFER - LUNCHROOM
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I think this calls for a clerihew:
Old Lucifer
Thought he would make victory conclusiver
If he plotted in his lunchroom with his fellow-devils
A strategy for escalating wickedness to even higher levels.
IMAGERY IMPRECATION
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Egads, maybeso I'd best pass this one up. As I was hurrying to finish my snarky words last night a tornado passed through almost hitting my house. What a mess; two dozen big hardwood trees snapped like toothpicks, and two canoes now sailing somewhere in the sky.
Whew! I think I'll go somewhere and be good for a day or two because bad weather is expected again later today.
IMAGERY - IMPRECATION
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Papadiabolous The Devil
Covets imagery of a world that's level
Evil winds this week visited my neighberhood
Now my imprecation to him is - I vow to be good
He hates that
MARCONIGRAM - MARIMBA
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I received a late marconigram,
Sent to me by the King of Siam.
The marimba ringtone
On my ancient iPhone
Told me it was deleted as spam.
FIXED FLAP
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What's all the flap about prize fights being fixed?
Fight One: Clay was dancing Sonny was deep-sixed
Fight Two: Sonny, a draft-dodging Mohammad fought
Sonny made Round One; one more than he ought
Did he dive? 'My ass ain't bullet proof' Sonny said
Six years later they found Sonny Liston drugged and dead.
HEPCAT - HEIRESS
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A billionaire globe-trotting heiress
Owns a yacht with a five-acre terrace,
Cavorts with hepcat
And smokes crack in her flat.
The fact is, I just couldn't care less.
Didn't we do that pair not so long ago?
TEMPLE TENTACLE
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Most of the words I read I'll never utter
So I clean my brain daily so as not to clutter
Brain tentacles near my temples
Remove worthless words and pimples
I look good but sometimes I stuh...stuh...stutter
DIMINUENDO - DINKY
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The Cisco Kid was a friend of mine
We'd sing and drink tequila in my dinky adobe hacienda
I'd say "Oh, Cisco"
He'd say "Oh, Pancho"
A happy innuendo of life were we
As we rode Diablo and Loco into the sunset... diminuendo
RADIATE - QUIT
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Haven't been back to my dictionary or my computer since I wrote this last night, but it's code and lonely if I don't share it.
It does me no good to pretend, so
I've never played games by Nintendo.
As I age skill gets dinky
From my thumb to my pinky.
Flexibility? Diminuendo.
RADIATE - QUIT
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Disc jockeys should radiate wit;
If they cannot do that, they should quit.
I'm often appalled
At the platitudes drawled
By some coolly self-satisfied git.
GRAPPLE GRUMBLE
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As I walk through an orchard enroute to the chapel
I stop and curse living under love's plan to baffle
When I said I love you I lied
When you said I'll leave you I cried
Should I mumble grumble "yes" or go grapple an apple?
QUACK - QUEEN
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I thought you effete, and a quack
From your timid, untutored attack.
Yet you ravished my queen
From a quarter unseen;
Then you mated my king from the back!
GOUGE GRAIN
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