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#137352 - 01/17/05 03:16 PM weekly theme for Jan. 17, 2005
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this too shall pass
hey, I can do this one!
I'm guessing tomorrow's word will be execrable.
abominable, detestable, execrable, hateful
oh wait, those are all synonyms for odious; that would make it a theme, of sorts.
never mind..
#137353 - 01/17/05 05:43 PM Joined: Mar 2000
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Louisville, Kentucky
#137354 - 01/19/05 02:09 PM Joined: Nov 2004
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New Hampshire
#137355 - 01/19/05 03:08 PM Joined: Mar 2000
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Louisville, Kentucky
#137356 - 01/19/05 10:03 PM Joined: Sep 2001
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Piedmont Region of Virginia, U...
A Girl's Garden
A neighbor of mine in the village
Likes to tell how one spring
When she was a girl on the farm, she did
A childlike thing.
One day she asked her father
To give her a garden plot
To plant and tend and reap herself,
And he said, "Why not?"
In casting about for a corner
He thought of an idle bit
Of walled-off ground where a shop had stood,
And he said, "Just it."
And he said, "That ought to make you
An ideal one-girl farm,
And give you a chance to put some strength
On your slim-jim arm."
It was not enough of a garden,
Her father said, to plow;
So she had to work it all by hand,
But she don't mind now.
She wheeled the dung in the wheelbarrow
Along a stretch of road;
But she always ran away and left
Her not-nice load,
And hid from anyone passing.
And then she begged the seed.
She says she thinks she planted one
Of all things but weed.
A hill each of potatoes,
Radishes, lettuce, peas,
Tomatoes, beats, beans, pumpkins, corn,
And even fruit trees.
And yes, she has long mistrusted
That a cider-apple tree
In bearing there today is hers,
Or at least may be.
Her crop was a miscellany
When all was said and done,
A little bit of everything,
A great deal of none.
Now when she sees in the village
How village things go,
Just when it seems to come in right,
She says, "I know!
"It's as when I was a farmer. . . ."
Oh, never by way of advice!
And she never sins by telling the tale
To the same person twice.
Robert Frost
#137357 - 01/20/05 12:06 AM Joined: Apr 2000
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this too shall pass
#137358 - 01/20/05 12:34 AM Joined: Nov 2004
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New Hampshire
Whose husband sees marriage as strife.
Upon wedding, his name...
Well it sure won't be plain:
Quoth his girl, Miss Alainey, "That's life!"
#137359 - 01/20/05 01:05 AM Joined: Jun 2002
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Vermont
formerly known as etaoin...
#137360 - 01/20/05 02:23 AM Joined: Mar 2000
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Louisville, KentuckyDid you LEARN it that way??? That is, is this a regional thang, or what? Nobody here says it that way. I honestly cannot imagine actually saying MISSuhlaney. Have I been doing it wrong all my life?
#137361 - 01/20/05 06:37 AM Joined: Apr 2000
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this too shall pass
MISS uh LANE ee
I'd only heard it in my head and assumed it that way, reading; until I heard it and thought naught of it since I'd been right all along. :-)
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