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22 Feb 05 - 09:32 AM (#1417423) Subject: BS: Dictionary in Limericks From: Snuffy OEDILF (The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form), is attempting to compile a complete English dictionary in which every definition is in the form of a Limerick. They appear to be getting towards the end of 'A' at the moment. Here's a sample Random Limerick: analytical If I were to wax analytical On matters considered political, My rhymes, always neat, Would become obsolete, Though they'd never cease being quite critical. By Meg Beagle Any Mudcat poets care to contribute? WassaiL! V |
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22 Feb 05 - 09:44 AM (#1417435) Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks From: Uncle_DaveO Not particularly to contribute, but I don't know why they would call that limerick "a definition". Dave Oesterreich |
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22 Feb 05 - 10:07 AM (#1417451) Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks From: Amos Meg Beagle's creation, all shining Shows the limerick's art is refining Her rhymes are much neater, As is scansion and meter But the dang thing don't do much defining! A |
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22 Feb 05 - 12:02 PM (#1417577) Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks From: Micca Defining analytical, is it skill or art or breaking things down into each part or is it just to say as you pass on the way its just cals from analighting a fart? |
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22 Feb 05 - 12:06 PM (#1417582) Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks From: Micca Dentopedology's neat that every day we all meet From the North to the south its just opening the mouth and then casually inserting your feet |
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22 Feb 05 - 12:18 PM (#1417587) Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks From: Amos A punster of fame is our Micca Whose lady's a student of Wicca But he brightens the gloom And can clear a whole room When he threatens to flick-a his Bic-a! |
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22 Feb 05 - 12:40 PM (#1417606) Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks From: Micca Our Amos the wind doesn't pass He would not be so terribly crass The sounds that you hear Aren't something to fear Theyre just Barky, sotto voce on Brass |
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22 Feb 05 - 01:55 PM (#1417678) Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks From: Amos Yon Patterson, London-bred dear-o, Has led us astray with good cheer-o! From "verobophile rhyming" To "farts with poor timing"! How ever did we end up here-o? A |
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22 Feb 05 - 03:29 PM (#1417782) Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks From: GUEST,Mrr I am reminded of a supposed dictionary of sexual things called The Gentleman's Guide to something or other(perhaps the alphabet?), where the definitions were little poems or limericks. I wish I could remember some of them, I do recall that O was Onanism (which I had been pronouncing one-anism and thought that the crime was that there was only one of you there till I read this book...) - I am also reminded of Edward Gorey's limericks like They had come from the fugue to the stretto / When a bearded young man from the ghetto / Reached forwards and grabbed / Her tresses and stabbed / Her to death with a rusty stiletto. |
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22 Feb 05 - 07:27 PM (#1418034) Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks From: Snuffy I wonder how they'll define folk in a limerick |
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22 Feb 05 - 07:40 PM (#1418051) Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks From: Bill D Though tightly to 'trad' I am clinging, Loud complaints through the halls now are ringing. Modern changes to verse Have made it all worse, And now even horses are singing. |
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23 Feb 05 - 06:48 AM (#1418511) Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks From: Micca Said the bar stool know-all with a cough "What is Folk, so I can stand and scoff" I replied "smarty ass ask each singer that pass And they will tell you to folk off" Definitions are varied and wide from" Tam Linn" to " the Northern tide" but Folkies don't care what you call it, so there It's that feeling it produces inside |
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23 Feb 05 - 12:16 PM (#1418674) Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks From: GUEST,Amos Yon Micca speaks sooth, sir, of course; It's not something you easily force! But the long standing joke That defines, "What is folk" Is "Something not done by a horse". |