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#158578 04/21/06 01:39 PM
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You
know
your birds.
I have yet
to train myself to
tell a robin from a sparrow.

#158579 04/21/06 04:28 PM
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What this form needs is another rule, something about where clauses or phrases fall. Not "hyphenating" alone is too simple. The proper layout, too, should be in borderless squares of text arranged in the fibonacci spiral.

#158580 04/21/06 06:00 PM
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Quote:

What this form needs is another rule, something about where clauses or phrases fall. Not "hyphenating" alone is too simple. The proper layout, too, should be in borderless squares of text arranged in the fibonacci spiral.




You go first.


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______________________To______________________
___________________________com________________
__________________bles,__________pose_________
_______________a__________go_________Fi_______
___________syll_____stop.____back_____bon_____
__________eight____then____wards,____ac_______
________________use_______________si__________
__________________________verse_______________

#158582 04/21/06 11:29 PM
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You go, victor!


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#158583 04/22/06 03:09 AM
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nice job, milo.


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#158584 04/22/06 05:26 AM
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Yowsa!

#158585 04/25/06 10:26 PM
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ya
carp
that me
fib is like
a tuneless harp, dire
is ya callen me a lyer?

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#158586 04/25/06 10:40 PM
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Oh, man!! That woulda been great if you had the right number of syllables in what would of been the fifh line if you'd a had a third line.

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wicked, ted!

Can I humbly suggest a tweak to answer Fong's points?

ya
carp
an carp
me fibs dire
like a tuneless harp
is ya callen me a lyer?

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