OK, this is my first & I'll just wade in...

Higgledy, Piggledy
Vatican's Ben-edict
Had nothing Good to Say
To Easter's flock.

"Sri Lanka! Africa!
Asia! Afghanistan!"
Anticlimactically,
"Shame on Iraq."

quote:

Next time we'll all meet in New Zealand.

Great idea, Kalleh. But if you come to NZ you need to come for at least 2-3wks, it's too long a journey for less. I can take time off work to show you round!!

Is wordmatic coming to NZ this month? I'm having trouble using the PM here - if you're going to be in Hawkes Bay, PM me, wordmatic. We have the best wineries - lots of beer too of course, since I remember that's what you all mostly talk about!

Higgledy Piggledy
James E. McGreevey, ex-
New Jersey governor,
Quit, teary-eyed--

Dissimulatingly
'forthright', attributed
his nepotistical
act to gay pride.

Excellent, bethree5!

At least, I think so; I have never quite understood the rules for DDs and have absolutely no talent myself for their composition myself. I'm sure Kalleh or one of the other experts will be able to give a more expert opinion.

stella: I'm afraid you're too late; I believe WM got back from NZ a few days ago.

((blush))Thanks!

Higgeldy Piggeldy
Equinox Vernalish
Came and then left us late
Iowan cold.

Sesquipedalian
descriptions defy me.
There's snow on the ground
And it's not for the old!

o, darn, I just hate it when a dactylish public figure gets in trouble... NOT

Piggledy Wiggledy
World Bank’s Paul Wolfowitz
Spiked Shaha’s paycheck (played
Watchdogs for fools)--

Transferred his girl, stating
Über-self-righteously,
“conflict of interest—just
following rules.”

I love this guy...

Wolfowitz, Chap. 2

Piggledy Wiggledy
World Bank’s Paul Wolfowitz
Cut aid to Congo when
Prez padded bill

Undiplomatically,
“Paul,” said Kabila, “Just
Loan us a half of what
You pay that gi’l!

OK,am I driving everyone crazy with these? The good news just keeps on coming...

Higgledy, Piggledy,
Imus, the Don of Talk
Radio, king of the
Wise-cracking scoff,

Unceremoniously
Fired for a racial slur
He gives new meaning to
"Talked his head off."

Undersea wondersee
Germany's u-boat
Otherwise known as the
U505

Being displayed now at
Science & Industry
Pillsbury's crewmembers
Fittest survive

I've missed these...great job, guys! Bethree, I didn't know that you wrote DDs, too. We love them here!

Stella, too bad you missed Wordmatic. That would have been great.

Here's one I posted recently in Community:

Budily Weiserly
Richard, our Wordcrafter,
Oh so politely said,
"Pour me a drink."

Bartender Ron, being
Machiavellian,
Served him a Bud, asking
"What do you think?"

And in response:

Beerily, Fearily
Richard, our Englander,
Sipped from the glass of beer,
Saying, "It stinks!"

Kalleh, his sneaky friend,
Drank from his stein and said,
Supermaliciously,
"Mmmm, you are wrong," and she
Silently winks.

Stunningly cunningly
Wordcrafters craftily
Tried to force Budweiser
Onto an ace.

Richard the connoisseur
Unceremoniously
Rejected the drink saying
"It's a disgrace".

Geez...too major errors in one week! First I post the wrong "it's"...and then above I posted 5 lines in the second part of my DD! What a complete dufus.

Here is my workshopped second DD:

Beerily, Fearily
Richard, our Englander,
Sipped from the glass of beer,
Saying, "It stinks!"

Kalleh, his sneaky friend,
Supermaliciously,
Said, "You are wrong!" and she
Silently winks.

quote:

Geez...too major errors in one week!

Make that three now;-)

Would it help if I said I had meant "too MANY errors in one week!"?

Good heavens. It really hasn't been my week.

I suppose you might have got away with claiming the errors were too major to be ignored.

Two late now. (sic)

Well, at least I was honest. I could have just gone back, changed the DD, and then the "too" post wouldn't have even happened.

So...which would you rather have, someone who makes mistakes and admits it or someone who makes mistakes and covers it up?

quote:

So...which would you rather have, someone who makes mistakes and admits it or someone who makes mistakes and covers it up?

Kalleh, you must understand that Bob and I are pulling your leg ;-)

Of course, though I also understand that most of that teasing was from you and not Bob.

Higgledy Piggledy
Kalleh the Wordcrafter
Posted a dactyl with
Nine stupid lines!

Then she explained it with:
"Too [sic] major errors this week."
Exasperatedly,
Now she just whines!

I just can't do it.
It's shooting fish in a barrel.

I give...What is it? As you can tell, editing is not my strength.

Higgledy piggledy
Writers anonymous
Leave their inscriptions in
WC's

Most of these writers are
Pseudepigraphical,
Obvious blockheads,
Collecting no fees.

quote:

Originally posted by Kalleh:
I give...What is it? As you can tell, editing is not my strength.

Too major errors this week

7 syllables.

Sorry, but you did ask.

Well, I admit that the stresses are not that great...but to me that's 6 and not 7 syllables. Is "errors" 2 syllables for you? I say it with 1.

I don't know what has
gotten into you all,
but errors is two
syllables in MY hall,
Dare you constrict it to
only one sound?
Into soft sand your
elidement I'll pound!

:-)

Bob

Yeah, Yeah, "elidement"...
I know....

Bob

quote:

Is "errors" 2 syllables for you? I say it with 1.

This is one of the more noticeable differences between US and UK English.

Words like error and mirror are pronounced with two quite distinct syllables in UK English. This is relatively uncommon in my experience. Generally US English seems less likely to slur two syllables into one than is UK English.

For example, "fire" is bi-syllabic in some forms of US English but monosyllabic (although with a diphthong) in UK English.

I say "error" just as I say "mirror" or "fire" or "world." They all, to me, have about 1 1/2 syllables, but can pass in a limerick or DD for 1. I was very surprised that Bob, the one who smooshes all syllables, cited me on that!

Richard wrote this DD (in a Q&A About Words thread ["set of criteria"]):

Higgledy piggledy
Herbert von Karajan
Wasn't a Nazi
As all facts can prove.

And so it was with some
Epicaricacy
He told all his critics
"You'll have to improve".

Here is my sequel:

Higgleday piggledy
Herbert von Karajan’s
Beethoven Symphonies
Are without peer.

He warmed crowds-- say some with
Epicaricacy---
Up to the Horst Wessel
Song and a beer.

self-editing that last one... how's this for better meter?

Higgledy Piggledy,
Herbert von Karajan's
Beethoven Symphonies
Are without peer.

Some say he warmed up the
Nazionalsozialist
Crowd with the Horst Wessel
Lied and a beer.

Excellent!

Revival and welcome to a new Wordcrafter...

We've had a lot of new registrants, and I welcome newbies to our forum when they register. However, one had a very interesting name that I just can't resist writing a double dactyl on. For the rest of you newbies...I don't mean to be neglecting you, but how could I not pay attention to "Anagrammarian?"

Higgledy Piggledy,
Anagrammarian,
Characteristically,
What are you like?

Disciplinarian?
Utilitarian?
Uber-grammarian?
Ride a great bike?

Nice one, Kalleh!

Higgledy piggledy
General Patraeus
Telling the world he
Thinks all is well
Meanwhile those caught up in
Counterinsurgency
Quote Winston Churchill and
Say "War is hell."

Complacent kingdom, a
priest in a presbytery
meets people’s needs for a
heaven on earth,

Satisfactorily
filled by domestic bliss,
their hope’s in a church still
short of true worth.

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Welcome, epiphanist. We love DDs here, and are probably a bit anal about their rules. I sent you a DD in a private message (PM), but I'll post it here as well. By the way, we focus on words and language on this forum.

Higgledy Piggledy
Mister Epiphanist
Joins our community;
Welcome to words!

Logomaniacally,
Wordcrafters post about
Language and grammar 'cuz
We are such nerds!

Hello there dear Ephiphanist
The 12 days are here never missed!
Just past Christmas Day
We put the partridge away -
And start on the rest of the list.

Welcome to our board where, as you see, we do limericks as well as double dactyls.

Morphologically
higgledy piggeldys
double dactyllical
rhythms rehearse.

Dactyllic lyrical
tongue twisting higgledy
hexasyllablically
piggledy verse.



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Higgledy Piggledy
Linguist's society
Met in Chicago, se-
Lecting "subprime."

Anticlimactically
2007's word
Isn't creative, and
I'd call it "slime!"

Having traveled a lot since the beginning of the year, I just found out that the American Dialect Society chose "subprime" as their word of the year. I was disappointed.

Here's another "musical" one.


Schmoosical musical
Andrew Lloyd Weber can
Write lovely musicals
Almost at will

Helped by Sir Timothy’s
Characteristically
wonderful lyrics can
soothe any ill.

Luckily muckily
Young Michael Huckbaee,
Speaks in a language that
Few people know,
But in his speeches
He never yet reaches
Umingmaktormiut
To tell of the Eskimos'
Nine words for snow.

Hillary Billary
Clinton the candidate
Fighting Obama for
Democrats' choice.

Stick to the issues and
Keep Bill away is what,
Incontrovertibly,
All of us voice!

Nice, Jerry and Pearce!

quote:

Hillary Billary

Masterful, Kalleh!! I shall retire to my escritoire and attempt to meet the challenge.

escritoire: Great word!

Thank you, Bethree. I can't wait to see yours!

Terror Dactyl

Prehistorically
Tyrannosaurus Rex
left out of creation
mythology.

Fundamentalism
unconditionally
owes Rex a Christian
apology.

Penilly, pencily
Lucy the scrivener
Sat down to write
At her new escritoire.

Sharing experiences
Lexicographically
Telling us all in
Her writings bizarre.

Struggling with my newbie status,

Juniorus Memberus
David J. Britton (Dave)
Posted a question and
Now he's DD'd,

Asking the Forum if
Characteristically
Prowess with doggerel's
All he will need.

Nucular, flukular,
Ernest, Lord Rutherford
showed us the atom's e-
lectrons galore,

'Til some uncertainty
quantum-mechanical
clouded that vision and
then there was Bohr.