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oldgoat
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posted 12 February 2008 06:13 AM
Cassia, I think I sprained something trying to make that scan. Anyway, long live the barbarians!Catchfire, everyone knows that. I think there's a special name for a poem starting off with the phrase "Higgelty Piggelty" Anyway, a favourite: There was an old man of Belizes Whose buttocks were two different sizes. One was so small it was hardly at all, But the other was large, and won prizes! I'm not sure, but I believe that was written by Dr. Azimov.
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oldgoat
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posted 12 February 2008 06:37 AM
I wrote this on another list a few years ago. Left a bit of the 29th sonnet at the beginning of every quatraine, just so the bard would spin in his grave a bit faster.When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, And my TV remote cannot be found. Like Curley, Larry, Moe, I could throw pies, And strike Shemps noggin with a boinging sound. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope I watch as sad existence slow unfurls, This lonely couch potato cannot cope. Gosh, Abbot and Costello got more girls. Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, I see Moe thrust a pipe wrench at the head Of Curley, who is from the floor arising. Contented now, I settle back to bed. So when I feel I should display ambition, I pour a pint and watch my televition.
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oldgoat
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posted 12 February 2008 07:05 AM
Ah, but hanks to online rhyming dictionarys:2 syllables: beara, bera, berra, cara, cera, cerra, clara, darragh, era, erra, farah, farrah, fera, ferra, gera, guerra, hara, kara, kera, leora, naira, neira, para, sara, sarah, serra, sferra, spera, tara, terra, terre, thera, vera, zera 3 syllables: acerra, altera, avera, barbera, bardera, barrera, basara, becerra, bopera, butera, cabrera, caldeira, caldera, canberra, canterra, carreira, carrera, cartera, casera, cervera, chimera, correira, devera, elvera, emera, enterra, ferrera, fichera, figueira, fodera, frontera, guerrera, guidera, herrera, hespera, higuera, imcera, inserra, kuchera, kundera, kyocera, lepera, luera, macera, madera, mancera, mascara, matera, mattera, mezera, minera, moreira, morera, morjera, mosquera, najera, nocera, nogueira, noguera, olvera, patera, pereira, perera, pereyra, perreira, portera, prospera, provera, ribera, rivera, sahara, scalera, sequeira, severa, sierra, silveira, silvera, sutera, svizzera, tavera, teixeira, tenera, texeira, tigera, valera, vaquera, vespera, vieira, vieyra Of course now he'll just get himself suspended and reregister as "MacOrange"
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oldgoat
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posted 12 February 2008 07:18 AM
Hmmm...There was a poster named ohara, He had lots of friends. He posted from the great Sahara He gave the mods the bends. Alas who was this guy ohara? The babblers often asked. He'd pass through like a geat chimara, He'll never be unmasked. There ya go. We all have our little gifts. Too bad mine's, ...well, so little. [ 12 February 2008: Message edited by: oldgoat ]
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Petsy
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posted 12 February 2008 07:30 AM
Let me give it a shotThere once was a Babbler ohara who was very much like yogi berra while many thought it was over not till he blew the shofar did the fat lady reach firma terra For those unfamilair with a "shofar" it is the ceremonial rams horn blown on Rosh hashana and for the purpose of this limerick on Yom Kippur to announce the final end of the fast.
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johnpauljones
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posted 12 February 2008 07:42 AM
quote: Originally posted by Petsy: did the fat lady reach firma terra
This line here is hurtfull to all of those who have battled any form of a weight problem and has no place here on babble ETA: I recognize that the great yogi said this himself. But does hurting one person make it funny? [ 12 February 2008: Message edited by: johnpauljones ]
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adam stratton
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posted 12 February 2008 07:57 AM
quote: As everyone knows, that's a dactylic tetrametric quatrain (alternating catalectic). -Catchfire
As everybody knows, enh!! Si, come tutti sanno.
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johnpauljones
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posted 12 February 2008 08:00 AM
Michelle I have no idea how either Oldgoat or I should respond to that.New topic Close the thread Nothing to see here Carry on
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rural - Francesca
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posted 14 February 2008 03:40 AM
while not structured...this little ditty I wrote in the mid 90's has a hidden secret, that only a select few will be able to identify.... Mirror mirror, life is just bread and Circuses. On this side of paradise there is A devil in the dark and the children shall Lead the way to Eden.
Let that be your last battlefield for whom The Gods destroy, the patterns of force Become an obsession, the alternative factor Being metamorphosis causing us to ask What are little girls made of? Tomorrow is yesterday for the conscience Of the king is the dagger of the mind. The enemy within, the doomsday machine, Is the ultimate computer leading us to a Private little war, for the world is hollow And I have touched the sky. The savage curtain pulls back revealing the Spectre of the gun. Is there no truth in beauty as all our Yesterdays become the turnabout intruder, By any other name, giving us a taste of Armageddon as we take an errand of Mercy to the city on the edge of forever. The deadly years are the wolf in the fold, The changeling, the turnabout intruder that Which survives becomes Plato’s stepchildren As we return to tomorrow for a piece of The action the balance of terror leaves the Naked time where no man has gone before Francesca 1993
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