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No we doesn't, Jenny Jenny.
No, I don't decide, but IMO you're intelligent Luke. Call me judgemental.
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To Bran
If you don't like the thread, start your own instead of
policing the one that exists with your disdain. Some like
limericks, if you don't, go elsewhere, you do have a choice.
For the second or third time at least, obviously you visit
the thread posting anagrams without contributing any: if the anagrams are so trite, why don't you start
your own thread where everything will measure up to your own
standards, instead of policing the other threads and constantly
putting them down. We have a good time, and poof! you appear.
Again I ask you, who made you the police patrol?
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No we doesn't, Jenny Jenny.
No, I don't decide, but IMO you're intelligent Luke. Call me judgemental. I don't speak textese, so your comment is lost on me: IMO?
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Thanks Buff, now it makes sense.
Sorry if I offended you Avy. The problem with computers
we cannot see the people, and don't know how to take comments
sometimes with body language apparent.
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Thanks Luke, your comments are always very edifying. Never mind this little argument, scrabble on and be happy!
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Your sardonic and cynical comments are so refreshing.
Keep your badge shiny.
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When did this Camelot turn into a boxing match?
You're right. Now can we all declare victory and withdraw?
I'll offer to have the last word, so no one loses face.
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while we're all being hypercritical, you might want to consider this:
limerick - a form of comic verse consisting of five anapestic lines of which the first, second, and fifth have three metrical feet and rhyme together and the third and fourth have two metrical feet and rhyme together; that is aabba
IMHO, the game was much more challenging, and for that matter, much more fun when the form was followed; but that would require counting sylLAbles, or sumptin.
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First the Lost Dutchman's Goldmine attacked us, *
Then excessively watered the cactus. **
...Now I find with dismay
...That an Apple a day
Keeps the Doctor away from his practice ! ***
* One of the early text-only adventure games. Like Zork.
** If you did anything but the right thing all you saw was a saguaro cactus
*** Remember when there were no Macintosh computers, just an Apple II ?
(I won $10 once for submitting that to an early computer magazine, in 1983 or so. That's the same as Second Prize in a Beauty Contest !)
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The medieval peoples for Heaven did search
In transept cathedrals the heathens did worsh
Building their churches crossed shaped
As vehicles where souls could translate
Now every airplane flying is a cross shaped church
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> comic verse consisting of five anapestic lines Hm, yes, it can be – but the form is not exactly set in concrete. Personally, the structure I think most satisfying is: Rhyme scheme: AABBA Lines 1,2,5: 9 syllables in 3 amphibrachic feet Lines 3,4: 6 syllables in 2 anapestic feet The unity of triploid feet helps weld the thing together, but the variation in stress patterns makes for more interest. This gives the characteristic declamatory inversion of normal speech rhythm in the first line ~ “There WAS an/old MAN of/deVIZes….” The alteration to anapaest in the middle couplet has something of the same kind of effect that a couplet does in a 14 line sonnet, but sprung into the humorous conclusion of the final line with both rhythmic stress and final rhyme striking conclusively as a closing bell (apart from variation for more humorous effect!) ymmv and now we return you to your regular program...
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There once was a preacher from DickeyWhose long-growing gnosis was tricky: He had discarded god As a vindictive sod But a goat’s love soon gained him a quickie! now an easy lob: GIRDLE - - - GIRL
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There once was a girl name of Myrtle
Who ran track and was facing a hurdle;
She ran and she jumped
but down she did thump,
being stopped at mid-leap by her girdle.
Somebody else please post new words for me--I can't get to my brick-and-mortar dictionary right now. Thanks.
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how about these, from W3:
GHOSTLIKE GIBBET
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With his feet through the floor of the gibbet,
A bit late to be urbane and glib, it
Was then his thirst spike
Caused the thought, so ghostlike:
"I could sure use a shot of Glenlibet."
CONFIDENTIAL – CONGO
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In a document marked 'Confidential',
The President wrote "It's essential
That the Congo's unrest
Should be quickly suppressed,
Or its spread could become exponential".
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Bravo! Some real goodies  and isn't it interesting how the very constraints of form (and content) can light a spark of creativity?
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truly! 
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Bob's updated widget, newfangl'd
Thru some kind of glitch got entangl'd
Once quite enormous
Now so informous
Said, "Sorry for being embrangl'd."
RUDDERLESS RULED
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Bach certainly thought so!
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The second coming was to be the last going
With everyone knowing there was no return
A rudderless ship
Ruled Captainless
As a ship of fools enjoyed the last sojourn
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At last ... the missing verse from "A Salty Dog" by Procol Harum!  Worth listening to!Your limerick makes as much sense! Actually, they did this at Cropredy about eight years ago. Brought tears to my eyes. But I love this version of it, done with a choir and the Danish National Concert Orchestra somewhere in Denmark a couple of years ago.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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I thank you for the link. Wonderful.
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HONK -- HOODLUM
The hoodlum retired one fine day
And swore he'd keep temper at bay.
...But when traffic would pile up
...His ire would just rile up
With "Get the [HONK] outa my way !!"
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From the flux there's a potion to spare us; Elude time, if we hide in the arras. If we eat apricot, And avoid smoking pot, The result is: no runs, hits, nor eras*. FOUR-STAR – FRAIDY-CAT *Runs, hits, errors are basic baseball statistics.
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I don't know, Luke. I think Trombone is slipping a deeper meaning into his well-crafted Limerick that almost passed over my head. Think about the alternate meanings of flux, evading time, era, and apricot. See? Something is being said here that is lost with only a cursory reading. Now rethink his ominous final line..."no hits, no runs, and no more eras"  .
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I guess I'd better spend some time on it, thanks.
Now Peter, if you are being bad........
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There's an alternate meaning for apricot?
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Well no, Buffalo alternately-known-as-etaoin, that was just my corny interjection of ironoclastic humor. As this is. Sorry.
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Gosh. You want meaning? From me? At three o'clock in the morning?
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Not you, Tromb; jenny threw the balk. :¬ )
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I guess I'd better spend some time on it, thanks.
Now Peter, if you are being bad........ And while I'm in denial: Me? Bad?
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I knew you weren't
a) in denial
b) being a bad boy.
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Fatty was a fraidy-cat, the smartest dumb kid alive, Appointed himself a four-star General(couldn't count to five) Ned in the first reader He flunked, but even sweeter, He tracked down Ned cut off his head and stopped Ned's wordy jive. QUEEN - QUIT
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Certainly not a"See Spot run" and the kids, whatever their names
were, sort of primer. But I likes.
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Good one, jenny jenny. Here's mine:
The tough four-star test is renowned;
Some swimmers have tried it and drowned.
But the fraidy-cat version
Requires no immersion –
One star for just splashing around.
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