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Are you sure this small creature is not Gillie?
----please, draw me a sheep----
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MALEFICENT – MANAGE
A maleficent Army dictator
Once ruled somewhere near the Equator;
He managed to kill
Many thousands at will,
Fed alive to his pet alligator.
PENTECOST – PERCEIVE
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My sense of the season is lost;
I can't tell if it's heatwave or frost.
I can't seem to perceive
If tonight's New Year's Eve
Or a couple weeks past Pentecost.
GARB – GASPER
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Well, I'd say that was a disaster. Suppose we try
PIONEER – PITCH
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Our friendly host, Gasper
may look funny as per
his unusual garb.
Dressed in black, beware his witty barb,
reminiscent of a rasper.
Pioneer - Pitch
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A pioneer Scotsman named Pitch
Has a workhorse, but one with a hitch:
... There's a sore on his fetter
... That just won't get better
And if he don't scratch it, he itch!
HUNGER - HYPERBOLE
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A self-centered lad from Dundee
Said, "I'm good with the ladies, you see.
For me women hunger –
They call me Lovemonger."
But I think that's hyperbole.
RIOT – ROACH
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"You say as a stud you're a riot?
Well, frankly, I'm not sure I buy it."
"To get girls in your coach,
Offer drags on a roach.
You never can tell till you try it!"
AMBULANCE - ARABESQUE
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My colleague climbed onto her desk
And performed an absurd arabesque.
She fell in a bin,
But exclaimed with a grin:
"No ambulance, please – it's burlesque!"
HALBERD – HARANGUE
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The Tudors were having a blitz
Against some recalcitrant Brits.
Thus did they harangue
The rebellious gang:
"Our halberds will cut you to bits!"
CUBE – CUSTOM
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Those weirdos bow down to a cube.
That's worse than just being a rube –
It defies sacred custom!
Never mind. Cops'll bust 'em.
Come on, let's go watch some more tube.
ALLIANCE – ALMOST
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It's not (as they say) rocket science
To work out that NATO's alliance
Can almost be snapped
If its forces are apt
To provoke "friendly" nations' defiance.
MIME – MISSTATE
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If you find you've misstated a term,
You might feel embarrassed and squirm.
If that's what you dread,
You can mime it instead
Provided your gestures are firm.
DIMMER – DISCURSIVE
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If you meet an attractive young swimmer
And you'd like her to join you for dimmer
Unless you're disbursive
(Not simply discursive)
Your prospects for "after" are slimmer.
ELEPHANT - EQUINOX
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All right, all right, if you insist.
If you meet an enticing young swimmer
And you know that you ought to be slimmer
Unless you're disbursive
(Not simply discursive)
Your prospects get dimmer and dimmer.
(Personally I like the first one better.)
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ELEPHANT – EQUINOX
The recent spring equinox fell
In a cold and tempestuous spell.
The poor kangaroo
Dropped dead at the zoo
And the elephant didn't feel well.
SILL – SIREN
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SILL - SIREN
No matter how yellow his bill,
The birdie who hopped on my sill
Said he just couldn't stay
He was startled away
By a firetruck's siren too shrill.
ROBIN - ROCKPILE
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ROBIN – ROCKPILE
On a rockpile a robin was perched,
When the stony heap suddenly lurched,
Then collapsed on the ground;
The deceased bird was found
Beneath, when the gardener searched.
INSULATE – INTANGIBLE
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ROBIN – ROCKPILE
On a rockpile a robin was perched,
When the stony heap suddenly lurched,
Then collapsed on the ground;
The deceased bird was found
Beneath, when the gardener searched. instead, in Line 5?
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Underneath instead, in Line 5? Yes, that's OK. Actually, I was going to put "Underneath" originally, but changed it at the last moment. 
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INSULATE – INTANGIBLE
It's important to insulate wires
To guard against shocks, shorts and fires.
With wireless (non-frangible,
Safe and intangible)
You can forget about pliers.
SCHOLAR – SERENE
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SCHOLAR - SERENE
I once knew a Ten-o'Clock Scholar
Who was never hot under the collar
We all thought him serene
Till a thinking machine
Took his job, with a hood and a holler!
SANDPAPER - SCRAP
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When I was at school we learned Craft;
I remember the other kids laughed
When I sandpapered wood
Much more than I should,
And the teacher yelled: "Scrap it – you're daft!"
BUBBLE – BURETTE
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Doc Frankenstein's nurse, named Babette,
Dribbled HCl from a burette.
The corpse stared to bubble,
Rubbed its palm o'er its stubble,
Mumbled, "Babs, I need a cigarette."
LOW – LUCK
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My chance of survival was low
When a street tramrail caught my shoe's toe;
But although I was stuck,
I had some good luck,
For the trams on that day were quite slow.
DIACONATE – DIGHT
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In the vestry the clerics are dight
In canonicals dusky or bright.
The diaconate's kit
Would never befit
An archiepiscopal rite.
INNKEEPER – INVERSION
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Some youths made a rowdy incursion,
But the innkeeper's timely inversion
Of two of their chairs
Took them quite unawares,
And spoiled their pub-crawling excursion.
GENIUS – GLIDE
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A genius, most people think,
Needs constant advice from a shrink.
One such used to glide
Round my college wild-eyed,
But that was entirely through drink.
SHALLOW – SHAWM
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A shawm will be made out of wood With a reed reinforced by a hood.* With its double reed, shallow It sounds rather sallow; An ill wind that no one blows good. *also called the “pirouette.” See Wikipedia, here, BROMELIAD - BROWN
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"Post description in bakeries, as she is a known cake eater." King Arthur has flour, Sir Galahad; Whole Foods offers flowers, Bromeliad. A delicate happening, cake, chocolaty brown; One can not wear such a heavy crown. Nonetheless, she sighed, "Best I ever had." [img][IMG] http://i61.tinypic.com/21jr412.jpg[/img][/img] Shucks, I didn't bring my dictionary. Would someone please pick two new words for me, in my stead? TIA 
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Since I seldom participate, not very limericky, I would not
presume, but the picture looks delicious.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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Luke- I swear, the picture was not crooked when it was uploaded! Individual tastes aside, I can't vouch for certain. It did get eaten.  Thanks. I bought the flower arrangement not knowing that inside was a bromeliad. I was delighted, upon learning the word, to discover it's name! Plus, pineapples line the counter ($.88 each!) Always learning. Love it
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Library - Limerick ??? Close enough for the rules?
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LIBRARY – LIMERICK
Surrounded by lexicon books,
A poet sits pensive, and cooks
New limerick verse –
Some better, some worse –
In one of his library's nooks.
BILLOW – BITUMINOUS
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A trickster ensnared by bituminous bait
Thought, I'll be damned If I let this seal my fate.
Not pitching a fit, his wit did billow.
Off through the thicket to his home in the willow,
He left fox to contemplate viscous flow rate.
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Y'know, May, it kinda kills the game when you don't post new words.
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Let me suggest the following:
HIRED – HOKUM
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I hired this fella named Yokum
But his resume seems to be hokum
He sings a nice song
But he sleeps all day long
And he doesn't wake up till I poke 'im!
REVENUE - RIBALDRY
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Y'know, May, it kinda kills the game when you don't post new words. Terribly sorry, still no dictionary and have been too lazy to go to the library. Profuse thanks for the offered words in my stead. Will curb my enthusiasm to play until I can procure a hard copy.
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(Psst...if you don't have a hard copy of anything handy, and you make up two words that are reasonably close to each other, nobody will know. Shh!)
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