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From the "Stop me before I kill again!" dept: Helpity yelpity Grandfather Ticking Clock Stop me from endlessly Searching for rhyme, Wasting the day I just Duodactylify Wounding Eternity By killing time. | |||
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Your DD my DD, WordCrafter Britton, you're Fatally smitten in Dactyllic terms With what Teutonic Protogermanicists Lacking a better word Labelled "ear worms." | |||
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Oh, Dave, I've been waiting for this thread to be exciting again. Thanks! Yours are just great. I suspect this isn't the first time you've written DDs. I remember visiting my good friend Jerry in Hawaii, and he had some guests over. With a twinkle in his eye, he leaned over and whispered to me, "Please note that (I can't remember the friend's name now) has a perfect DD name." Remember that, Jer? Yorkily Yorkily Wordcrafter David B. Joined our community With lots of zest! Dactyls he's good at, and Now I am wondering, Exhilaratedly, Where are the rest? | |||
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Kalleh my friendly neighbor's double-dactylic name is Werner Van Heidendahl. | |||
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Oh, yes! We had fun with that, didn't we? My workplace is double-dactylic. I've come up with many fun ones about it! | |||
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Democrat President Franklin D Roosevelt Conquered Depression With obvious zeal. Surrounded by Panic Neopolitically Offered his countrymen Quite a New Deal. | |||
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Nice, Jer. I was raised in a very conservative Republican family who thought Roosevelt was a demon. It took me a lot of years to realize the truth. | |||
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Higgledy Piggledy, Yale University's William F. Buckley has Recently died: Sesquipedalian, Neoconservative, Brilliant, although he was Not on my side. William was way too conservative for me, but you had to respect his language skills. And to think I could have used "octogenarian," too! I tried, but it didn't make much sense. | |||
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higgledy piggledy William Claude Dukenfield Tosses his name in to See what it yields. Raconteur, juggler, Well known comedian, Talented gentleman, W C Fields | |||
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The Cubs are on fire! They have the second best record in all of baseball! Yet, we longtime Chicagoans know the drill. Higgledy Piggledy Cubs of Chicagoans, Darlings on Addison, Losing's their fate. Uber-long-suffering Fans are impatient cuz Cubs haven't won it since 1908!!!!! | |||
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Higgledy Piggledy Cubs of Chicagoans, Darlings on Addison, Losing's their fate. Fans are impatient cuz Semi-professional Cubs haven't won it since 1908!!!!! Go Red Sox -... .... -. | ||
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Oh my. A Red Sox fan. I am not worried about the Red Sox. It'll be the LA Angels. Something will happen to the Cubs, though, either in the World Series or in the play-off games. The goat is still around. There will be a Buckner's between-the-legs error or a Steve Bartman fan interference or something. We all know it and are prepared. [Edited for typo]This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kalleh, | |||
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Sorry for the typo, Jer. I've edited the post. | |||
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,,,, and I've deleted mine. In that context I wouldn't know a typo if I saw one. It was the between-the-legs thing that got to me ...... | |||
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Oh, I am sorry. It's actually very convoluted, because the error (ball going between the legs) actually happened to the Red Sox, and not the Cubs. However, because Buckner had been with the Cubs, and because he had worn a Chicago Cubs batting glove underneath his fielding mitt during a crucial World Series error, the Cubs fans feel that's part of their curse of not winning. I think you had to be there... | |||
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At least I was too polite to point out your (er). . . oversight. -. --- .-. .. -.. ... --- .--. -... .... -. | ||
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I don't get it, Proofreader. I just went over my meter again, and it seems right. | |||
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humpety dumpety Alice in Wonderland Seeing celebrities Falling from things Says no denying Repairs are defying Icontrovertible Powers of kings. | |||
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higgledy piggledy Daniel Q. Webster, a wordlist collector primitive nerd forerunner of us para-graphologists eternally always seeking the Word | |||
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Higgledy piggledy Paddy O'Furniture Irish expatriate From Galway Bay Always exhibiting Celtikethnicity Knew how to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day. | |||
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Nice! Higgledy Piggledy Cubs of Chicagoans Got us excited for Winning it all. Now in the play-offs they've Un-blanking-lievably Lost the first two and they Surely will fall! First the debate, then the "bailout," and now the Cubs! They finally had a chance to get to the World Series (only after 100 years!), but now they have blown the first two home games! One more and they're toast!This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kalleh, | |||
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Err, the Cubs were in the World Series seven times after 1908, in 1910, 1918, 1929, 1932, 1935, 1938, and 1945. They lost all seven. | |||
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the Cubs Totem < Ojibwa -oode- 'totem', e.g., odoodem 'his totem', nindoodem 'my totem'. —Ceci n'est pas un seing. | |||
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Val, yes, you are correct. However, you can't win in the World Series if you don't get there (unfortunately for the Cubs). Not sure I get what you're saying, z, though I do note that it's your state's team that is mauling our Cubbies. | |||
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Who can possibly count all the dubs, The unending, increasing mass flubs; The errors and blunder That’s tearing asunder The mistake-prone, the inept, the Cubs. 8-( Sorry my dactylic abilities are wanting.This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Proofreader>, | ||
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You are right, of course. The games were horrible. As my friend used to say of our local high school's basketball team, "They had no offense and no defense, but otherwise they weren't that bad. Still, many Chicagoans are just crushed, myself included. They had done so well all season, and simply threw the games at the Dodgers. None of us can figure out what happened. | |||
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I do note that it's your state's team Shows what I know; I thought the Trolley Dodgers were from Brooklyn. —Ceci n'est pas un seing. | |||
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Um hmmm...And the Pope's Jewish. | |||
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Reviving a thread I go through periods where I can't write a DD or a limerick to save the queen. However, I have been feeling the urge of late. Indeed, I started a presentation the other day with a limerick and the group loved it. Today I read this article by one of my all-time, least favorite reporters. His use of the word "Mephistophelean" was my stimulus for this DD. (Context: He may be right about this ex-alderman; I haven't made it my business to stay on top of the case. I do know, though, that Kass consistently rushes to judgment about guilt, which drives me nuts. The media has taken to doing that in the U.S., and you'd think we didn't have courts or trials. The media believe that no one is innocent until proven guilty, and when defendents get a light sentence...or, God forbid, are acquitted...the judge is tainted, too.) Given that context, I sent this DD to my all-time least favorite reporter: Higgledy Piggledy Eddie Vrdolyak Harshly is judged by re- Porter John Kass Kass says the alderman's "Mephistophelean" (Bet the word's meaning's not Known by this ass!) (His name is just too easy!)This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kalleh, | |||
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Shu brought this up, but I think he's right. Here was Kass's sentence using Mephistophelean: "I've known him for years, fascinated by this highly charismatic, yet dangerous Mephistophelean who spent his life leveraging political power the Chicago Way." He's using it as a noun. Wouldn't the correct word be "Mephistopheles?" Isn't "Mephistophelean" an adjective? | |||
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Challenge to wordsmiths: render presidential hopefuls in dactylish verse. My first rusty attempt: Higgledy Piggledy Speaker Newt Gingrichy Shines on the crowd with his learned bon mots Students, please note that Newt oft drives a sharp point home bocapedically, his favorite pose | |||
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Gonna have to give me some names. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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Thanks for the challenge, Bethree! With a few days off coming up, I'm going to try. Bob is right, though, it's the name that is hard. Recently Shu and I realized that "geopolitical" is one of those great 6 syllable words. Now for the name! As you saw in another thread, our daughter recently got married. Had she taken her new husband's last name (which she didn't), she would have had the perfect DD name: Catherine Anderson. Oh well. | |||
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Higgledy Piggledy Catherine Anderson Isn't: she chose to keep Moniker same. Patronymically A shufitzkalleh rose Smells just as sweet, per Will: 'What's in a name?' | |||
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Awww...thanks. Here is one I wrote previously. | |||
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Higgledy Piggledy Sir Halford Mackinder Formed a big theory; in England he wrote All about navies and, Geopolitically, Thought they weren't needed, so That floats his boat! The stress must be on the "Mac" for this work. And, even then... | |||
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Shu's Catherine Anderson DD: Higgledy Piggledy Catherine Anderson Has a nice ring, but when Put to the test, Catherine felt (very Characteristically) Philoprogenerative "Spector" was best. | |||
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Actually I mean that as a non-American I have no idea at all who the presidential hopefuls are. Or what they stand for. Or the degree of their likelihood of success. Or indeed anything whatsoever about them. Give me a name and I can Google the rest and work on it. No names no dactyls. (A pun so private that only me and my brother could possibly understand it!) "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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Oh, I meant it for all DDs, Bob, not just presidential hopefuls. The name is, by far, the hardest part. | |||
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Inspired bythis thread: Higgledy Piggledy Good Old St Nikolas: His gold coins saved maids from Male pokes and grabs Practical St Fiacre Taxidermistically Healed bumsores gotten from Sitting in cabs | |||
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Let's have some more...and they don't need to be about American politicians, Bob. They can be about anyone! | |||
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I assume it's a pun on the army phrase "no name, no packdrill". I don't know if it's a British army thing, or whether it extends to the US army as well. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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Higgledy Piggledy Rod R. Blagojevich Fortieth governor Of Illinois. Characteristically He is in jail now, Fourth since the seventies We just say “Oy!” | |||
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Lookity Bookity Lawrence, the Saintly One guarded church treasures the old and the new. Iconoclastically, he just misplaced one the grail's been missing, 'tis long overdue. ******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama | |||
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So he didn't become the patron saint of librarians because the Romans threw the book at him. | ||
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So St. Lawrence by Romans was tried For an answer they thought was too snide. As he sat in the fire He paused to inquire, "Am I baking, or char-broiled, or fried?" | ||
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Nice DD, CW! I'd love to see us get into these more. Ironically, on OEDILF my DD limerick, which had been sent in a long time ago, was criticized by someone so it is in discussion. Here it is: To write one that's right is a plight; That dactyl that's doubled's not trite! The irony is, In the dactyly biz, To create this light verse is a fight! Explanatory Note: Writing a double dactyl isn't easy. The meter is more prescribed than with limericks. The first 3 lines of each of 2 stanzas are dactylic dimeter; the last line of each stanza is a choriamb. Lines 4 and 8 rhyme. In line 5, 6, or 7 there should be a 6-syllable word that meets the prescribed meter. With all the discussion about it, I've decided to add a piece in the explanation about needing to have a double dactly name. I think that's crucial for these verses, and I can't believe I left it out. | |||
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Higgledy Piggledy Thomas A. Edison Helped the Americans Turn their lights on. Exasperatedly Other inventors lost Out in the press, such as Sir Joseph Swan. | |||
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Higgledy Piggledy President Candidate Willard Mitt Romney said Russia's the worst ! Geopolitically, Hillary Clinton says That's really bunk and shows Mitt's not well-versed! | |||
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