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Who was chicken and who wasn't about Chicken (in Wordplay) by Geoff Not everybody checkened out and submitted limericks Here they are: 1: I was writing a novel ‘b...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Kamala (in Potpourri) by Geoff I sure hope none of the MAGOT types have read Siddhartha. Tampon Tim is OK; he rendered a needed se...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Limerick destination: Chicken (in Wordplay) by Geoff Chicken is a little town in Alaska. You get to be a cacciatore* and hunt for a limerick * Hunter ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Limerick game: BURTON (in Wordplay) by haberdasher I offer you the town of BURTON. There's one in Texas, and I'm sure there are others floating arou...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Things that aren't poems... (in The Written Word) by BobHale So then, here's a question. Are the following extracts poems or not? Discuss. 1. Translated from J...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Community Post (in Potpourri) by Kalleh Since we no longer have a Community section like we used to have, I'll put this here. I miss that s...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Next destination: KENT (in Word Games) by haberdasher That's KENT as in Clark, or in low-tar, low-taste cigarettes, or it's impossible to get here from Br...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Word Games KENNT - the limericks (I know, I know) (in Wordplay) by haberdasher I think that's about all we're going to collect from KENT, so here they are: A. I once saw the Dutc...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay New definitions of old words make it into the dictionary (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Geoff ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum “I am the very model of….l (in Wordplay) by shufitz ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Is he really typical? (in Wordplay) by BobHale Question for whichever American friends are still around. I have watched a number of videos reactin...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Plus ça change . . . (in The Written Word) by shufitz Tho picture claims 2021, Ogden Nash's poem below claims much earlier, and I very much agree. ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Andragogy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Kalleh I am working on a national group where we are trying to come up with standards for nursing graduates...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Well, duhhhhh... (in The Written Word) by Geoff From the local rag: Man charged in triple killing now accused of making death threats... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word And what exactly, is that? (in Potpourri) by BobHale Here's a vocabulary question. A menu from a local restaurant was recently put through my letter box...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Limerick game: MAINE (in Wordplay) by haberdasher Ah, yes. A next destination is needed. Lessee, now. It was Alan J Lerner who wrote "The Rain in Sp...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Lay/lie (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff From an on-line report of a stranded airliner: "A viral video shared by a stranded passenger showed...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Fear of palindromes (in Wordplay) by Geoff aibohphobia It's for real! Coined in 1977.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Favourite fact from "No Such Thing As A Fish" (in Potpourri) by BobHale Heard today on the final episode of the year of the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast. The word "loan...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri For Those Still Here (in Potpourri) by BobHale Season's Greetings For those few still around to see it, here is my most recent Christmas poem whic...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Time to admit the facts? (in Word Games) by BobHale I have been off line for two weeks and in that time there have been no new posts here at all. Isn't ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Word Games This would go in the Community Forum if it hadn't disappeared (in Potpourri) by BobHale Four days and four minutes from now I will get into a taxi to take me to the airport to leave China....... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Amboise limericks (in Wordplay) by Geoff 1. An epicure born in Amboise Fancied berries, preferring ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Limerick Game: Amboise (in Wordplay) by Geoff Let's travel to France for the next location: ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay York, the voting place (in Wordplay) by haberdasher 1 A naked pole dancer of York Once twisted and spun with such torque That the pole came unpegged And...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Correct me if I'm wrong, but... (in Potpourri) by BobHale From an ad for dental adhesive... Our ultimate adhesive cream 10x stronger hold* *vs no adhesive ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Amish country Limerick (in Wordplay) by haberdasher OK. Having been declared Victor By Acclimation (...er, default...) I shall invoke the KISS principl...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay A new word? (in Wordplay) by Geoff Is there a new limerick location yet? Perhaps one that I can rhyme?... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay If you hadn't nailed it to the perch... (in Wordplay) by BobHale ...the limerick game would be pushing up the daisies. I doesn’t matter if it’s Vegas or Streatham L...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Red Riding Hood (in The Written Word) by shufitz On FB, Bob has published a poetic take-off on the Red Riding Hood tale. I suppose it’s adequate to ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Limerick Game (Not Las Vegas) : Streatham (in Wordplay) by BobHale Pronunciation guide - it is an English place name and would rhyme with “let ‘em” or “get ‘em” etc Y...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Books that should have been movies. (in Potpourri) by BobHale I was listening to an interview where the interviewee mentioned EE “Doc” Smith and it made me think ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri It’s been a long time since anyone mentioned apostrophes... (in The Written Word) by BobHale ... but this post that I saw made me shudder ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word It's from Focks, so probably fake news (in Potpourri) by Geoff "Alligator spotted roaming Florida city's underground stormwater pipes with robotic camera" Who kne...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri POLL: KEY WEST (in Wordplay) by bethree5 1.A vacation in lovely Key West Is for feeling exceedingly stressed It will all melt away On the...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Limerick Game:Las Vegas (in Wordplay) by BobHale We have probably done it before but let’s have Las Vegas purely because I was reading one of my old ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay YouTube comment (in The Written Word) by BobHale Just watched a video about Elon Musk and Twitter. When it was finished I glanced through the comment...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word For those not on FB (in The Written Word) by BobHale Answers: A Surrealist’s Smorgasbord I was playing with an online AI and I asked it to produce a lis...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Nothing to do with language but (in Potpourri) by BobHale I have what will probably strike you as a weird question. When you close your eyes and try to visual...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Link the Lyrics (in Word Games) by wordcrafter A game: Post a snippet of about four to eight lines of a song lyric. It should include a word or ph...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Word Games *** Words better known in their negative forms (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter A man can unkempt or innocent, but can he be “kempt” or “nocent”? This week we’ll eyeball words of t...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum OBNUBILATED disobnubilated (in Word Games) by haberdasher Setting, I think, a new Wordcraft record for the longest time between posing a problem and posting t...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Word Games Cyril, Methodius, and Old Slavic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff A linguistic query: Where did these two Greek Orthodox monks do their translation into a Greek-base...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Limerick Game: Key West (in Wordplay) by bethree5 Well here's another two-parter with stress on second 'syllable' that is much easier to work than Sey...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Another acronym query (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff What do the various initials affixed to movie makers mean? I see CSA, ASC, and a bunch of others co...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words An even better translation fail (in Potpourri) by BobHale Another hilariously bad machine translation (at least I hope that’s what it is) in our local communi...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri NGO (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff What's an NGO? It's a common acronym, but all I think of is "Non-Gonococcal Outbreak." I doubt tha...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Can we push past the boring ones? (in Potpourri) by BobHale I am in XiAn for a dental appointment again and took the metro yesterday where I was amused to hear ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Latin and Grek in biology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff While reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, I noticed that at one point she erroneousl...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Scranton Poll (in Wordplay) by BobHale 1. There was a magician in Scranton Who made a good living incantin' But his bladder infected Could ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay | » Refine Search » New Search |
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