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Anthro
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Victor was a chemist
Victor is no more
For what Victor thought was H2O
Was H2SO4.

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[Big Grin]
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I love that rhyme. [Smile]
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That's a wonderful rhyme. My favorite are still:

Celery, raw,
Develops the jaw,
But celery, stewed,
Is more quietly chewed.

and

Shake and shake
The catsup bottle:
None will come
And then a lot'll.

(And then you have Higgledy-Piggledies, which are a whole 'nother ball park.)

Jen

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Anthro
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How many miles to Babylon?
Three score miles and ten.
Can I get there by candlelight?
Yes and back again.
If your feet are nimble and light
You can get there by candlelight.

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Anthro
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All fleas have little fleas on their backs to bite 'em
And little fleas have lesser fleas
So ad infinitum.

[ September 28, 2004, 06:24 PM: Message edited by: Anthro ]

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Turgan
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Here lies the body of sally Jones
God may you accept her bones
Her name was Johnson, it wasn't Jones.
But Johnson didn't rhyme with bones.

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kaioshin00
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I had a turtle that could walk
and it could also talk
so it took a walk around the block
and said to Bugs, "whats up doc?"

[ September 29, 2004, 02:25 PM: Message edited by: kaioshin00 ]

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BunnV
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I thought the day would lead astray
Instead it led this way
I thought the day would go away
Instead it said, "I'm here to stay!"

[ September 29, 2004, 03:30 PM: Message edited by: BunnV ]

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Tatiana
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<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<tackle hugs BunnV>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Anthro
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Oranges and Lemons sing the bells of St Clemens
You owe me five farthings sing the bells of St Martins
When will you pay me sing the bells of Old Bailey
When I grow rich sing the bells of Shoreditch
When will that be sing the bells of Stepney
I do not know sing the great bells of Bow
Here comes the candle to light you to bed,
Here comes the chopper to chop off your head.
Chip-chop chip-chop, the last man is dead.

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Lost Ashes
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World's Shortest Poem:

Fleas
Adam had'em.

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Mabus
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Here lies Skugg
Snug
as a bug
in a rug.

--Ben Franklin's self-chosen epitaph

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Here lie the bones of John Mcrea,
Who died defending his right-of-way.
He had the light, he had the pluck,
but the other fellow had the truck.

--anonymous

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Tatiana
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Shake and shake the ketchup bottle
None comes out, and then a lot'll

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Annie
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A bilingual limerick by Annie:

Je ne suis pas très belle.
Ma mari dit, "Oh well –
In my next life
I'll have a wife
Un peu plus jolie qu'elle."

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Turgan
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The cat
sat on
the mat

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Noemon
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I'm going to have to go with this one.

Ooooh, rhyme! Sorry!

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katharina
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Noemon! That's what that is! My comp and I found some on the shores of Lake Huron one winter, and I've never been able to explain it.
The ice was in dunes, and it didn't match the flat topography underneath.

Me and Comp on ice

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KarlEd
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Willy found some dynamite
He didn't understand it quite
Curiosity never pays
I rained Willy seven days.

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Dan_raven
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To my teacher...

Would you be my Valentine
And raise this meager grade of mine?
Yet if my heart won't turn your head
Would you accept ten bucks instead?

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Turgan
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Sounds like calvin and hobbes... hunh... lololol
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Noemon
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[Smile] Glad to help kat! It is interesting looking stuff, isn't it?
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So then, what's the different between Rime Ice and Hoar Frost, Noemon? (except that hoar is not so thick?)
FG

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Noemon
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I've always thought that hoarfrost was frozen dew, and rime ice was frozen fog. In practice, the thickness is how you can tell, I think. Of course, this is just what I've picked up, so I could easily be wrong.
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UofUlawguy
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A decrepit old gasman, named Peter,
While hunting around the gas meter,
Touched a leak with his light;
He rose out of sight -
And, as everyone who knows something about poetry can tell you, he also ruined the meter.

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Raia
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quote:
Je ne suis pas très belle.
Ma mari dit, "Oh well –
In my next life
I'll have a wife
Un peu plus jolie qu'elle."

[ROFL]

Annie, that's priceless!!!

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Tatiana
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"People, it's time
To revive the rhyme
Of the day thread",
Tatiana said.

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Hobbes
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When did you decide to switch usernames AK?

Hobbes [Smile]

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Raia
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She does it periodically... [Wink]

You have what, four now? Five?

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In clash of wills, do not give in;
Good parents are made by discipline;
Remember the words of the wise old senator:
Spare the tantrum, and spoil the progenitor

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closeyourmind
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From Farside

I cus
you cus
we all cus
for asparagus

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I've never seen a purple cow
I never hope to see one
But from the milk we're getting now
There certainly must be one

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Verily the Younger
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A mosquito cried out in pain,
"A chemist has poisoned my brain!"
The cause of his sorrow
Was paradichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane.

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Tatiana
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Tatiana (what my fiances call me... I mostly think of myself and introduce myself as Tatiana now. I really like being Tatiana or Tatia or Tat, but I still answer to ak. [Smile] )
ak (initials)
aka (self referential pseudonym)
ana kata (directions in fourth spatial dimension, similar to "up down" or "left right")
=D- (symbol for an And Gate in logic circuits)
Elbereth Gilthoniel (because sometimes one must speak from one's inner vala and star-kindler)
Draetakenna (when I'm in my dragon body... ancient, powerful, and venomous)
Luthien Tinuviel (for worldsaving)

This is my suite of posting names complete
Sweet suite, I think, and hope you'll deem it meet
I'm not one of those with a plethora of names that never let up
I'm happy with only this very modest setup.

[ November 11, 2004, 09:11 PM: Message edited by: Tatiana ]

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quote:
I'm hungry so I think I'll take a bite or two of lunch,

Some pizza and some chocolate cake and peanut butter crunch,

A healthy slice of apple pie a pound or so of ham,

A stack of waffles two feet high with boysenberry jam.

I'll follow through with a dozen eggs (I'll scramble them I guess),

With six or seven turkey legs (I could not do with less),

Some rhino roast, some hippo stew, some fresh fillet of horse,

And rest a minute, maybe two? and start the second course.

A poem from back in the fourth grade. I wish I could remember who wrote that, I think it was Anonymous.

--j_k

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Raia
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I wish I was a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum,
For how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum? [Smile]

[ November 11, 2004, 04:52 PM: Message edited by: Raia ]

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There was an old man
From Peru, whose lim'ricks all
Look'd like haiku. He

Said with a laugh "I
cut them in half, the pay is
much better for two."

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A Japanese man with the flu,
was desperate for something to do...
He drew a small fellow,
with red cheeks who was yellow,
And sneezingly, named him Pik-ACHOO!!

Par moi. [Big Grin]

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Verily the Younger
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quote:
There was an old man
From Peru, whose lim'ricks all
Look'd like haiku. He

Said with a laugh "I
cut them in half, the pay is
much better for two."

Okay, wow. That's just impressive. [Hat] to whoever came up with that.

[ November 12, 2004, 10:13 PM: Message edited by: Verily the Younger ]

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kaioshin00
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What to say, what to say...
to make a decent rhyme of the day?
To think of words that sound alike
Would make this be just right
*shrugs* Maybe I'll come back in a while
and hope this makes someone smile [Smile]

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