M Lynne Murphy's blog, Separated by a common language is running a competition; see here
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Your task, should you choose to compete, is to write a (preferably humorous) limerick illustrating a US/UK cultural misunderstanding. Make your submission to the comments section. (Make them clean-ish, please.)
How about it, Wordcraft limericists?
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.
Well I think I've posted one. Sadly the mechanism for doing so seems very unclear - I don't have a google account (whatever that might be) and the rest of the terms used I don't even understand!
Richard English
Posts: 8038 | Location: Partridge Green, West Sussex, UK
Your comment hasn't appeared yet, but that may be because comments are moderated and it will appear later. If you don't have a Google or Blogger account there's no field for your email address so Lynn won't be able to contact you if you win. In such circumstances she wants you to email her: lynneguist@gmail.com.
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.
I wrote to Lynne and she has suggested I post anonymously and show my name on the posting. The bad news is that I copied the limerick to the Windows clipboard and then forgot and copies something else - and overwrote my limerick. I have been told that it is possible to copy multiple items to the Windows clipboard - but I've never been able to make that facility work ;(
Richard English
Posts: 8038 | Location: Partridge Green, West Sussex, UK
I have been told that it is possible to copy multiple items to the Windows clipboard - but I've never been able to make that facility work ;(
MS Office has that ability, but not other Windows apps. There are however lots of clipboard extensions available as freeware that can be downloaded and used. There are even some shareware apps with lots of other bells and whistles, but I've never found much use for them.
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.
This seems to be a common requirement to comment on many blogs, including Kalleh's. I was registered with Google but forgot my password and their convoluted means of restoring it totally turned me off, so I'm out of luck commenting in many sites.
Some sites also ask you to match distorted letters projected on a background which I cannot separate them from, thus rendering me (and I assume others with poor eyesight) mute on the internet.
If you ever get a spam attack on your blog that takes you about six hours of constant work to sort out you will appreciate why these tactics are necessary.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
If you ever get a spam attack on your blog that takes you about six hours of constant work to sort out you will appreciate why these tactics are necessary.
Oh...for a spam attack, which would mean somebody is reading my blog.
Proof, often with those confusing letter-against-background thingies that verify if a live person is posting the comment, there is another link for people who cannot see the letters clearly. I've never tried it, but I believe it is a sound file to tell you the letters.
WM
Posts: 1390 | Location: Near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
In that particular blog it's an image of a person in a wheelchair, the usual 'disabled' sign. Not sure how I'd feel about being labelled disabled in that way ....
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.
I'm planning to announce the winner to the Limerick Competition tomorrow (that is, if I manage to contact all my co-judges by then). So act quickly if you have an entry to submit!
See my first post in this thread for the link.
'Tomorrow' would be 30 June. Remember she's in the UK, so if you're in the US tomorrow will come to her earlier than to you.
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.
I did mean to post that I had won, but I'd forgotten where I'd heard of the competition.
Interestingly, several of those connected with this competition, as well as Lynne herself, live in Sussex. Maybe our loquacity is all to do with the seaside air.
Richard English
Posts: 8038 | Location: Partridge Green, West Sussex, UK
