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There was this old cleric with e-mail Who's ISP thought he was futile so they cut his posts off with aggresive nonsense so nothing he wrote ever rhymed and he didn't get any notification of his posts either so limericks were out of the question. errm, well. . . it works for me. Curate (if an alterna...

Baz bach, try this for a Welsh poem: Oer yw'r eira ar Eryri - o'ryw Ar awyr i rewi; Oer yw'r ia ar row 'r ri A'r Eira oer yw 'Ryri., O Ri y'Ryri yw'r oera - o'r ar, Ar oror wir arwa; O'r arwy a yr Eira O'i ryw i roi rew a'r ia. OK, so it's not brilliant poetry, but it's unique in that it uses only v...

CaptainBazza wrote:Does a limerick work in the 'Beautiful Language', bach?

'na siwrnai was a 'n goch ddraig chan Cymru ,
Am whom mae lawer 'n hen chwedlau ,
Mae speculation amlha ,
Am fel e cadernid blymio ,
Yn bod Cymraeg , all byncio pawb 'r cen?

No, bach.

Now I'm very grumped I've just soldered two trucks together. How I've no clue the buffers are completely locked. Might be the new brakes though I'm still testing them, if it is I'm not happy. OK I've asked a fue friends and those two wagons are wellded together!!! Now I have to make the buffers out...

The Sphinx's spincter, Nothing distincter, Blinks, Winks, Nothing'll distract 'er. Errr, am I getting warm, David? :onfire: Close, but that's 18 syllables (the way I read it) Incidentally, what is it about the sphinx that is so attractive? The dragon's toast, And Sunday roast, Are framed, And flame...

I am beginning to get more than a little annoyed by the number of websites that show the products but don't quote prices. They expect you to hand over a phone number or email so you can be contacted and no doubt hounded until you tell them to get stuffed or buy the product. Tonight, I have been loo...

Sorry for not replying (or "tantalizing and departing", as UKTrainSim's antipodean Poet Laureate put it). My back's been playing up so I've been prone (or is that supine? I can never remember which is which) and unable to sit at a computer. All those were excellent Haiku, Baz, I'm sure, but the chal...

Clue ................................. It's not in Lincolnshire. :) Which is an easterly county. I'd already thought, mmm, east, perhaps Japan, but I can't find this beast on http://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~lighthouse/ (which I thoroughly recommend for idle browsing, by the way - some Japanese lights a...

Having said it's impossible, a Limericku (or Haimerick?) isn't that difficult.

A post from Curate
All could be frustrate
Oh!
No!
Bubbly on palate.

Ok, OK, so it's not exactly verse to put a smile on the Mona Lisa's face, but it's worth a try.

David

Algernon might be a lion with verse, but his scansion is getting much worse, 'cause he don't count the syllable s with which lines are fillable - does he need a limerrical nurse? OK, Baz, how about this for a challenge - a poem (I hesitate to use the word) that fulfils the rules for both a Limerick ...

Apparently, as I read recently, you can get closer if you type keywords in inverted commas. So "black sabbath" will only return sites with that phrase. Allegedly. :-? Yep; that's a search string. In some ways, Google is, in effect, an over-grown SQL server, at least in terms of how searches are per...

Sorry to change the subject, but: Is it just me, or is our old friend Google getting to be less and less use as the days go by? Every search I try to do, on whatever topic (unless it's for something blindingly obvious like "Google profits per annum"), seems to turn up: * three totally off-topic pict...

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Not the answer, but I found this picture while searching, and thought others may like to see it.
http://www.geocities.com/blackpool_tram ... guard1.jpg
Sweet.
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David

Lad491 wrote:Since this thread seems to have moved onto Gaff's by commentators...
A classic

Good old Johnners was better at them than anybody, in my opinion. "The batsman's Holding; the bowler's Willie" has to be the supreme instance, but there were many more.

David

There's no "nobble" button, I'm sure (I'm a trusting soul), but if you pull up to a pump on the "wrong" side so you have to drag the hose out horizontally to reach your car's filler cap, then the <expletive deleted> pump registers a little extra after you've let go of the trigger to put the nozzle b...