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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163

    #16
    Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
    My ears they are a hurting
    'Cos Three's output continues to worsen
    KD, Suzy and Sean are all bad
    Their inane prattle drives me mad
    As for Clemmie, the station's gone for a Burton
    ... but that doesn't!
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • cloughie
      Full Member
      • Dec 2011
      • 22116

      #17
      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      ... but that doesn't!
      Nope!

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      • Serial_Apologist
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 37628

        #18
        Originally posted by Caliban View Post

        I think it scans fine, what's the problem S_A?
        I wasn't referring to yours, Cali!

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        • Pulcinella
          Host
          • Feb 2014
          • 10905

          #19
          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
          Nope!
          And the last line of your #2 is really a bit too long, even if you contract 'particular' somehow, I find, but perhaps ferney overlooked that as it credits him.

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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22116

            #20
            Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
            And the last line of your #2 is really a bit too long, even if you contract 'particular' somehow, I find, but perhaps ferney overlooked that as it credits him.
            Poetic Rubato!

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            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
              Gone fishin'
              • Sep 2011
              • 30163

              #21
              Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
              And the last line of your #2 is really a bit too long, even if you contract 'particular' somehow, I find, but perhaps ferney overlooked that as it credits him.
              It most certainly doesn't! I do not share Alison and Pet's enthusiasm for Haitink at all, but it was such a good limerick I didn't have the heart or soul to mention this.
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26524

                #22
                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                ... but that doesn't!


                There was a young man of Japan
                Whose limericks never would scan.
                When they asked him why,
                He said, with a sigh,
                "It's because I always try to get as many words into the last line as I possibly can."

                Sir Velo!
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • johncorrigan
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 10349

                  #23
                  My very good friend Globaltruth
                  Would never say anything uncouth
                  And for Lateral Thinking
                  Without even blinking
                  I would also concur that, forsooth!

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                  • teamsaint
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 25200

                    #24
                    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                    It most certainly doesn't! I do not share Alison and Pet's enthusiasm for Haitink at all, but it was such a good limerick I didn't have the heart or soul to mention this.
                    Love expressions like that.
                    Somehow one never finds oneself in a situation where one has the heart, but not the soul. Or vice versa.
                    Or perhaps other forumites would beg to differ. Yes,some likely would. In a good way.


                    Anyway,the thread has gone gratifyingly Forumesqe.........
                    Last edited by teamsaint; 06-10-17, 18:36.
                    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                    • Padraig
                      Full Member
                      • Feb 2013
                      • 4233

                      #25
                      I'll have a go.

                      The Limerick is not very big
                      The beat of it's quite like a jig
                      With a pause in the middle -
                      Just a hop on the fiddle
                      Then away! and hold on to your wig.

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                      • french frank
                        Administrator/Moderator
                        • Feb 2007
                        • 30256

                        #26
                        And since things are tending to drift off course, does no one remember the thread on the old message boards where we had a craze for writing limeraiku (cross between limerick and haiku), the rules for which I've now completely forgotten?
                        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                        • Lat-Literal
                          Guest
                          • Aug 2015
                          • 6983

                          #27
                          Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
                          My very good friend Globaltruth
                          Would never say anything uncouth
                          And for Lateral Thinking
                          Without even blinking
                          I would also concur that, forsooth!
                          Bravo.

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                          • Padraig
                            Full Member
                            • Feb 2013
                            • 4233

                            #28
                            Originally posted by french frank View Post
                            And since things are tending to drift off course
                            Well I never! In what way did I drift off course, f f. I wrote a Limerick that scanned - ok it was no good otherwise - but it was on topic.
                            Now you're complaining that it was not OFF topic. Where's the moderator when you need one?

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                            • french frank
                              Administrator/Moderator
                              • Feb 2007
                              • 30256

                              #29
                              Originally posted by Padraig View Post
                              Well I never! In what way did I drift off course, f f. I wrote a Limerick that scanned - ok it was no good otherwise - but it was on topic.
                              Now you're complaining that it was not OFF topic. Where's the moderator when you need one?
                              Haha! You invalidated my comment by being on topic. I meant those who preceded you.
                              It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                #30
                                Originally posted by Padraig View Post
                                Where's the moderator when you need one?
                                Trying to think of a fifth line for

                                I so love to tune in to Three
                                It's the station of choice, don't you see?
                                (Except when it's Katie
                                Who's really too "matey"
                                And makes me change to CD [s] )
                                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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