Helpity yelpity Grandfather Ticking Clock Stop me from endlessly Searching for rhyme,
Wasting the day I just Duodactylify Wounding Eternity By killing time.
February 18, 2008, 15:51
jerry thomas
Your DD my DD, WordCrafter Britton, you're Fatally smitten in Dactyllic terms
With what Teutonic Protogermanicists Lacking a better word Labelled "ear worms."
February 18, 2008, 16:18
Kalleh
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?
February 18, 2008, 16:39
jerry thomas
Kalleh my friendly neighbor's double-dactylic name is Werner Van Heidendahl.
February 18, 2008, 19:00
Kalleh
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!
February 20, 2008, 20:21
jerry thomas
Democrat President Franklin D Roosevelt Conquered Depression With obvious zeal.
Surrounded by Panic Neopolitically Offered his countrymen Quite a New Deal.
February 20, 2008, 20:27
Kalleh
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.
March 01, 2008, 20:24
Kalleh
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.
March 23, 2008, 02:56
jerry thomas
higgledy piggledy William Claude Dukenfield Tosses his name in to See what it yields.
Raconteur, juggler, Well known comedian, Talented gentleman, W C Fields
August 15, 2008, 11:13
Kalleh
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!!!!!
August 15, 2008, 14:19
<Proofreader>
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 -... .... -.
August 15, 2008, 18:47
Kalleh
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.
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August 15, 2008, 19:22
<Proofreader>
Nothing to do with DD but can anyone explain why, after winning the World Series with facial and head hair, traded Red Sox players are required (I'm too polite to say forced) by their new teams to either shave faces or shorten hair length.
August 15, 2008, 21:05
Kalleh
Sorry for the typo, Jer. I've edited the post.
August 15, 2008, 21:26
jerry thomas
,,,, 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 ......
August 17, 2008, 18:17
Kalleh
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...
August 17, 2008, 18:51
<Proofreader>
At least I was too polite to point out your (er). . . oversight.
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August 18, 2008, 19:36
Kalleh
I don't get it, Proofreader. I just went over my meter again, and it seems right.
August 29, 2008, 13:02
jerry thomas
humpety dumpety Alice in Wonderland Seeing celebrities Falling from things
Says no denying Repairs are defying Icontrovertible Powers of kings.
September 16, 2008, 12:46
jerry thomas
higgledy piggledy Daniel Q. Webster, a wordlist collector primitive nerd forerunner of us para-graphologists eternally always seeking the Word
October 03, 2008, 19:46
jerry thomas
Higgledy piggledy Paddy O'Furniture Irish expatriate From Galway Bay
Always exhibiting Celtikethnicity Knew how to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day.
October 03, 2008, 21:29
Kalleh
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,
October 04, 2008, 08:20
Valentine
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.
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.
October 05, 2008, 06:50
<Proofreader>
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>,
October 05, 2008, 14:08
Kalleh
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.
October 05, 2008, 14:37
zmježd
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.
October 05, 2008, 16:10
Kalleh
Um hmmm...And the Pope's Jewish.
February 27, 2009, 11:27
Kalleh
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,
February 27, 2009, 19:30
Kalleh
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?
December 20, 2011, 07:06
bethree5
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
December 20, 2011, 07:55
BobHale
Gonna have to give me some names.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
December 20, 2011, 20:48
Kalleh
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.
December 21, 2011, 08:09
bethree5
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?'
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...
December 21, 2011, 20:00
Kalleh
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.
December 21, 2011, 21:09
BobHale
quote:
Originally posted by Kalleh: Bob is right, though, it's the name that is hard.
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.
December 22, 2011, 10:31
Kalleh
Oh, I meant it for all DDs, Bob, not just presidential hopefuls. The name is, by far, the hardest part.
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
December 27, 2011, 20:59
Kalleh
Let's have some more...and they don't need to be about American politicians, Bob. They can be about anyone!
December 30, 2011, 12:37
arnie
quote:
(A pun so private that only me and my brother could possibly understand it!)
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.
January 07, 2012, 20:00
Kalleh
Higgledy Piggledy Rod R. Blagojevich Fortieth governor Of Illinois.
Characteristically He is in jail now, Fourth since the seventies We just say “Oy!”
January 09, 2012, 14:49
Caterwauller
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
January 09, 2012, 17:42
<Proofreader>
So he didn't become the patron saint of librarians because the Romans threw the book at him.
January 09, 2012, 17:48
<Proofreader>
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?"
January 10, 2012, 19:20
Kalleh
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.
January 18, 2012, 11:09
Kalleh
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.
April 02, 2012, 20:53
Kalleh
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!