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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
Now we all have an equal number of threads we can read. Not that anyone will know besides me since only I can read this thread.



I think I'll plot something super-secret and clever, like a really good limerick to spring on Hatrack when they're not paying attention, that would be truly dastardly.

Hobbes

[ May 18, 2005, 04:56 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
 

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Posted by lem (Member # 6914) on :
 
I give my word, I did not read this thread, I am only posting. Heck, I am not even reading what I am writing, so I cannot check for typing errors.

Goo dluck with this.
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
I'd thank you Lem, but since you wont be reading this, there's no point really.

Hobbes
 

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Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
 

 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
I'll assume Jon Boy is the monkey with his eyes covered.

Now back to that limerick.

Hobbes
 

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Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
 
I didn't get a thing, Hobbes.

*Confuzzled.*
 

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Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
 
Wow, Hobbes, what'd you use? Lemon juice?
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
No, non-sequiter.

Hobbes
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
Just a bump so I can go mess with lem some more.
 

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Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
 
Oh! You know, Hobbes, that tastes really good if you use it while you're frying.

...

And then go off to play golf while the food isn't ready yet.
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
You're all cheaters, but I like Lem, I don't care if it changes the math.



Hobbes
 

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Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
 
As I said in Lem's thread. I CAN read this thread. No difficulty whatsoever. Don't know what language you thought you were writing it in...
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
You can now read Lem? How's his narrative structure?
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
*does not read thread*

Is this about Annie's thread? Because people with birthdays coming up should not get grumpy about secrets. (I should know. Mine is Sat. )

*prepares to click on main forum immediately so she doesn't inadvertently read thread*

Of course, I won't know if you respond here. So, feel free to do it in a thread I may read.
 

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Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
 
Hobbes, since you're the only who can read this thread, I can now share with you my secret. Hobbes, I AM your father!
 

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Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
 
O_O
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
You're a touch young for that. And none of this is helping me with a limerick.

Hobbes
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
There once was a poster named Hobbes
 

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Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
<Was about to mention to KQ that Hobbes may not know the topic of the other thread. Unlikely, but possible. Kinda too late now, though.>
 

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Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
 
Because I can't read this thread I don't know what it is you said, but let me tell you another secret. Hobbes, I AM your son!
 

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Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
 
*reads the entire thread...twice*

I like breaking rules.
 

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Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
 
There was a young woman named Annie,
A thread she did make, one of many,
"However," she said,
"It may not be read,
If your resemblance to Hobbes is uncanny!"

*ducks tomatoes*
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 

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There once was a poster named Hobbes

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Techinically a limerick is supposed to be anapestic trimeter, well for the first line anyways.

Hobbes
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
That was pretty good Raia, but you're still a bad person for reading this thread.

Hobbes
 

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Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
 
Hehe, oh well, I didn't manage to buy my way out of disgrace with a limerick...

It was worth a try.
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
I didn't say it was a perfect line. I'm helping on a Limerick. You think I'm going to do all the hard work for you? Sheesh, young people today.
 

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Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
 

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Originally posted by Hobbes:
Techinically a limerick is supposed to be anapestic trimeter, well for the first line anyways.

Hobbes

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Sort of. Not all of the feet are whole. The scansion looks like this:

-`--`--`-
-`--`--`-
-`--`
-`--`
-`--`--`-

The hyphens are unstressed syllables, and the opening single quotes are stressed syllables.
 

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Posted by Hiroshima (Member # 7970) on :
 
Why is this thread blank?
 

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Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
 
holy dorkface!


Jon Boy
 

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Posted by lem (Member # 6914) on :
 
Yeah! I can finally read it. I can breath a sigh of relief.

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Just a bump so I can go mess with lem some more.

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I am debating whether Dag used this line to edit out what he really said, or if this is what he would really do. I am not sure which is better. Wait...I think he was taunting me, too late, I got to use the graemlin!

The funny thing is that when I got home, I saw I was allowed to read this thread, and just as I was getting ready to post, my son tipped my diet coke on the keyboard and it stopped working. I was going to use my bookmarks and mouse to copy and paste my response by looking for specific words in the news, but even the thought exhausted me. I went to Staples instead.
 

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Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
 
Hobbes, I can't read! Can you or Lem read it to me? That way I didn't really read it.
 

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Posted by Haloed Silhouette (Member # 8062) on :
 
I always thought of limericks as:

--`--`--`
--`--`--`
--`--`
--`--`
--`--`--`

That is how I will write my lim'ricks,
They are full of this meter and tricks;
Every day 'till midnight,
When I turn off the light,
I will write 'till my body gets sick.
 

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Posted by Beanny (Member # 7109) on :
 
There was once a poster named Hobbes.
As a cub, he liked to eat mobs.
He's a magnificient friend,
His supplies shall not end,
For marshmellows he frequently robs.
 

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Posted by Haloed Silhouette (Member # 8062) on :
 
-`--`--`
--`-`--`
`--`--`
--`--`
-`--`---`

?!?!

What's the meter?
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
Da DAH da da DAH da da DAH da
Da DAH da da DAH da da DAH da
Da DAH da da DAH
Da DAH da da DAH
Da DAH da da DAH da da DAH da.

Jon Boy's right, although limericks get a bit of leeway on either end, meter-wise.
 

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Posted by Haloed Silhouette (Member # 8062) on :
 
-`--`--`
-`--`--`
--`--`
--`--`
--`--`--`

I settled down on this one, for now.
 

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Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
 
pssst...you never saw me...I'm not here...
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 

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Wow, Hobbes, what'd you use? Lemon juice?

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