I shall start off with a clever and lively use of the dactyl. There's actually a specific name for this kind of poem, but I forget what it is.

Catchfire, everyone knows that. I think there's a special name for a poem starting off with the phrase "Higgelty Piggelty"

Anyway, a favourite:

There was an old man of Belizes
Whose buttocks were two different sizes.
One was so small it was hardly at all,
But the other was large, and won prizes!

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While Titian was mixing rose madder,
His model was perched on a ladder.
"Your position," said Titian,
"Inspires coition."
So he nipped up the ladder and had 'er.

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2 syllables:
beara, bera, berra, cara, cera, cerra, clara, darragh, era, erra, farah, farrah, fera, ferra, gera, guerra, hara, kara, kera, leora, naira, neira, para, sara, sarah, serra, sferra, spera, tara, terra, terre, thera, vera, zera

3 syllables:
acerra, altera, avera, barbera, bardera, barrera, basara, becerra, bopera, butera, cabrera, caldeira, caldera, canberra, canterra, carreira, carrera, cartera, casera, cervera, chimera, correira, devera, elvera, emera, enterra, ferrera, fichera, figueira, fodera, frontera, guerrera, guidera, herrera, hespera, higuera, imcera, inserra, kuchera, kundera, kyocera, lepera, luera, macera, madera, mancera, mascara, matera, mattera, mezera, minera, moreira, morera, morjera, mosquera, najera, nocera, nogueira, noguera, olvera, patera, pereira, perera, pereyra, perreira, portera, prospera, provera, ribera, rivera, sahara, scalera, sequeira, severa, sierra, silveira, silvera, sutera, svizzera, tavera, teixeira, tenera, texeira, tigera, valera, vaquera, vespera, vieira, vieyra

There was a poster named ohara,
He had lots of friends.
He posted from the great Sahara
He gave the mods the bends.

Alas who was this guy ohara?
The babblers often asked.
He'd pass through like a geat chimara,
He'll never be unmasked.

There ya go. We all have our little gifts. Too bad mine's, ...well, so little.

[ 12 February 2008: Message edited by: oldgoat ]

There once was a Babbler ohara
who was very much like yogi berra
while many thought it was over
not till he blew the shofar
did the fat lady reach firma terra

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Originally posted by Petsy:
did the fat lady reach firma terra

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This line here is hurtfull to all of those who have battled any form of a weight problem and has no place here on babble

ETA: I recognize that the great yogi said this himself. But does hurting one person make it funny?

[ 12 February 2008: Message edited by: johnpauljones ]

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As everyone knows, that's a dactylic tetrametric quatrain (alternating catalectic). -Catchfire

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As everybody knows, enh!!

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Originally posted by oldgoat:
Hey jpj, check your PM's.

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Oh, so when someone protests fat jokes, you accuse them of having PMS, do you!??!??!!!!11

New topic

Close the thread

Nothing to see here

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Originally posted by johnpauljones:
Michelle I have no idea how either Oldgoat or I should respond to that.

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.

Mirror mirror, life is just bread and
Circuses. On this side of paradise there is
A devil in the dark and the children shall
Lead the way to Eden.

Let that be your last battlefield for whom
The Gods destroy, the patterns of force
Become an obsession, the alternative factor
Being metamorphosis causing us to ask
What are little girls made of?

Tomorrow is yesterday for the conscience
Of the king is the dagger of the mind.
The enemy within, the doomsday machine,
Is the ultimate computer leading us to a
Private little war, for the world is hollow
And I have touched the sky.

The savage curtain pulls back revealing the
Spectre of the gun.

Is there no truth in beauty as all our
Yesterdays become the turnabout intruder,
By any other name, giving us a taste of
Armageddon as we take an errand of
Mercy to the city on the edge of forever.

The deadly years are the wolf in the fold,
The changeling, the turnabout intruder that
Which survives becomes Plato’s stepchildren
As we return to tomorrow for a piece of
The action the balance of terror leaves the
Naked time where no man has gone before

BTW your secret is that your ditty is composed of
..... Star Trek episode titles!

[ 14 February 2008: Message edited by: M. Spector ]

He got the Star Trek bit by the second line.

[ 14 February 2008: Message edited by: oldgoat ]