| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
I was in a contest once of writing rhymes using only one vowel. The
only one I can remember is reproduced below, which I wrote. The
contest setter had stated that "the `y' poem is impossible". I proved
him wrong with this (which reads better than a lot of trick wordgame
poems).
Pygmy nymphs, by myth, tryst shyly,
Try dry crypt myrrh, ply nymphs slyly.
So that leaves A, E, I, O, and U to the rest of you.
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| 1063.1 | PENUTS::DDESMAISONS | Fri Aug 20 1993 15:39 | 6 | ||
>> Pygmy nymphs, by myth, tryst shyly, >> Try dry crypt myrrh, ply nymphs slyly. Brilliant. Bravo. | |||||
| 1063.2 | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Sun Aug 22 1993 03:17 | 7 | |
You probably want to specify a minimum number of syllables. Otherwise,
here is my contribution on Cleopatra's death :-
An asp
A gasp
Short is very easy, and yours is magnificently long for "y".
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| 1063.3 | Annotated conversation between Bo & Z�e | DRDAN::KALIKOW | Supplely Chained | Sun Aug 22 1993 15:50 | 28 |
Well. This is by no means a couplet, nor is it anywhere the league
defined by .0 ... But when I sat down to try selecting a vowel to
victimize, what came out was this rather strange dialogue... Mods,
please feel free to move this wherever out-of-sequence entries go --
like replies to 396 that have no associations, or to 705 that do not
advance the limerick. Yes, this place will do as well as any... :-)
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(Script:) (Explication:)
Zo: Yo, Bo. Hello, Bo...
Bo: Yo, Zo, yo' ho'. Hello Zoe, you whore.
Zo: Oh Bo, do go! You make me ill, Bo. Go away.
Bo: So. YO go, yo slow ho'? Do yo cosh mo'?
Should *I* go away, you stupid
cow? You threatening violence
on me with that cosh?
Zo: NOOO! Do yo dosh mo'? Not at all. You got any dosh ($$)
for me?
Bo: No. Yo go. Nope. Guess I better go.
Zo: No go slow, Bo!! Don't let the door hit you in
the ass on the way out, Bo!
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