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Bernard Montgomery, Sent to North Africa, Rallied his troops with the Confident boast:
"With our numerical Superiority, We can win easily. Rommel is toast!"
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Pontifex Maximus, Holy Pope Francis was Chosen divinely as Bishop of Rome.
He will deliver some Deontological Guidance in tracts from his Vatican home.
Judas Iscariot Needed some cash, so he Vilely betrayed the Lord Jesus, we're told.
Sadly, such greed is an Anthropological Trait - we are tempted by Silver and gold.
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Russell and Whitehead, the Mathematicians, Worked hard to produce all- Encompassing feat.
Then came Kurt Gödel, who Self-referentially Showed that their treatise must Be incomplete.
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Ludwig van Beethoven, Writing a violin Part in a symphony, Put a low F.
When he was told of its Unplayability, He was ashamed and said: "Sorry, I'm deaf".
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And now for a Double Anapest:
Alexander the Great Led a conquering host Which could soundly defeat Any tribe;
His opponents' extreme Ineffectualness Was a fact the accounts All describe.
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I gotta work on this some more. A dactyl is ONE-two-three - a triple rhythm. But maybe an anapest is not just a matter of the stress being on the final beat instead, but (musical analogy) it's two pickup notes and the downbeat, which makes it more a four-count rhythm: three-four-ONE like a galloping horse - pa-da-POM, pa-da-POM etc - with a short unvoiced pause providing an implied "two," . Otherwise you really can't tell one from the other. If you string them together how do you decide whether it's a poly-dactyl or a poly-anapest? Sung to the tune of the Irish Washerwoman: " We got PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL-de-hyde / PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL-de-hyde / PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL-de-hyde / PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL de-hyde / PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL-de-hyde / PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL-de-hyde / PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL-de-hyde / PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL..." repeat ad-libitum. Is it ONE.two.three.ONE.two.three or two.three.ONE.two.three.ONE? Here's what the tune sounds like(PS Para-etc. is the chemical name for a kind of moth-repellant.)
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I gotta work on this some more.
A dactyl is ONE-two-three - a triple rhythm. But maybe an anapest is not just a matter of the stress being on the final beat instead, but (musical analogy) it's two pickup notes and the downbeat, which makes it more a four-count rhythm: three-four-ONE like a galloping horse - pa-da-POM, pa-da-POM etc - with a short unvoiced pause providing an implied "two," Yes, I agree, and I have tried to reproduce this rhythm as far as possible by using a long vowel and/or a consonant cluster for the 'downbeats'. Otherwise you really can't tell one from the other. If you string them together how do you decide whether it's a poly-dactyl or a poly-anapest? Well, if you begin and end each line with a complete anapestic foot, I would call it a poly-anapest. Sung to the tune of the Irish Washerwoman: " We got PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL-de-hyde / PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL-de-hyde / PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL-de-hyde / PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL
de-hyde / PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL-de-hyde / PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL-de-hyde / PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL-de-hyde / PAR-a-di-CHLOR-o-a-MI-no-benz-AL..." repeat ad-libitum. Is it ONE.two.three.ONE.two.three or two.three.ONE.two.three.ONE? Yes, I am familiar with this tune. The distinction is not so clear here, but since the tune begins with two upbeats and ends with a downbeat, it seems more anapestic than dactylic. "We got SEV-en-ty-THOU-sand-two-HUN-dred-and-FOUR/ We got SEV-en-ty-THOU-sand-two-HUN-dred-and-FOUR/ We got SEV-en-ty-THOU-sand-two-HUN-dred-and-FOUR/ We got SEV-en-ty-THOU-sand-two-HUN-dred-and- FOUR". (Some of the later lines begin with only one upbeat, i.e. "We've SEV-en-ty...")
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All I've come up with so far is
On a tree by the river A little tom-tit Sang Willow, tit-willow, Tit-willow.
And I said to him, Dicky-bird, Why do you sit, Singing Willow, tit-willow, Tit-willow... usw.
But that one's taken. I'll keep working.
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President Kennedy Said that America Would in a few years put Men on the Moon.
Clearly his motive was Geopolitical - Beating the Russians would Be a great boon.
William the Conqueror, Claiming his right to the Kingdom of England, took Power by force.
Grimly efficient and Authoritarian, He laid the law down (in Latin, of course).
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