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#207442 - 09/30/12 02:27 PM Re: Discordant students can sometimes surprise you! [Re: Tromboniator]
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 14 SamDottore
stranger
stranger
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 14
West Sussex, UK
I will admit that I used to get hot under the collar when I saw provincial mangling of (as we Limeys or Poms like to call it) "Queen's English", but I now try to celebrate the inevitable evolutionary development of our language, and instead try to see it as an enriching process. Is that attitude defeatist or progressive? I'm still unsure.
Eloquence is a very different skill from (than?) practising correct grammar, and much prettier.
Sam
"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" - 'Abandon all hope, ye who enter'.
Dante (Durante degli) Alighieri, "La Divina Commedia", "Inferno", c 1308-1321
#207451 - 09/30/12 11:18 PM Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 1,554 jenny jenny
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Posts: 1,554
Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
DARK HORSE - DAWN
#207457 - 10/01/12 08:43 AM Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,706 Candy
Pooh-Bah
Pooh-Bah
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Posts: 1,706
down under
#207461 - 10/01/12 01:33 PM Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 1,039 A C Bowden
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old hand
Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 1,039
London, UK
I blithely ignored a Black knight,
Till the dark horse, at dawn,
Took my crucial king's pawn;
At sunrise I gave up the fight.
REGULARIZE – REIN
#207462 - 10/01/12 02:03 PM Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,706 Candy
Pooh-Bah
Pooh-Bah
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Posts: 1,706
down under
This is mine (I know the last line is too long, but I couldn't get the rhythm any shorter)
I spent all day at the Flemington racecourse
Did my dough betting on a dark horse
The favourite, a filly called Dawn
Stopped mid race for lunch on the lawn
Home I trotted, full of remorse, having giv'n my misses grounds for a divorce.
#207464 - 10/01/12 02:31 PM Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,120 LukeJavan8
Carpal Tunnel
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,120
Land of the Flat Water
I can see the image of a horse stopping in a race to eat.
----please, draw me a sheep----
#207469 - 10/01/12 03:58 PM Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 1,075 Rhubarb Commando
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Posts: 1,075
Lancaster, UK
Nice one, Candy.
And a super one, A.C,!
I'm immortal until proven otherwise
#207486 - 10/02/12 09:10 PM One does what one must... [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 1,554 jenny jenny
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Posts: 1,554
Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
Barney Google, with those goo, goo, googly eyes
Barney Google, had a wife two times his size
She sued Barney for divorce
Now he's living on his horse
With a pull on the reins he can regularize
And I'm going to jail 'cause I plagiarize
Barney Google, with those goo, goo, googly eyes.
NINNY - NIX
Last edited by jenny jenny; 10/02/12 10:55 PM.
#207489 - 10/03/12 08:58 AM Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 1,075 Rhubarb Commando
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Posts: 1,075
Lancaster, UK
Many thanks for the bit of memorabilia - it wipes out your sin of poagiarism
I'm immortal until proven otherwise
#207491 - 10/03/12 02:53 PM Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 1,075 Rhubarb Commando
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old hand
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 1,075
Lancaster, UK
For my culinary skills are just nix:
I feel such a ninny
When dressed in a pinny,
So I eat in a diner called, “Ricks!”
DISPENSER - DISQUIETUDE
I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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