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John Whitworth 04-26-2012 02:43 AM

Speccie Shorts May 9th
 
Bazza gets the fiver with a humdinger. Bill isn't far behind. Frank nearly makes it. A bronze for that man. The new compettion looks a goer though.I'm sure I did something similar before.


No. 2747: shorts
You are invited to encapsulate a well-known poem in four lines (maximum three entries each and please specify). Please email entries, wherever possible, to lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 9 May.

Jayne Osborn 04-26-2012 03:01 AM

John,

Another winner this week is Brian Allgar.

Brian is one of us!

Congratulations, Bazza, Bill and Brian. (I'm changing my name to Belinda, Bernadette or summat like that ;))

And well done Frank, too.

Jayne

John Whitworth 04-26-2012 04:26 AM

Sorry, Brian. You win a lot, don't you?

Brian Allgar 04-26-2012 05:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Whitworth (Post 242629)
Sorry, Brian. You win a lot, don't you?

A lot? No, nothing like enough! But I'm working on it ... Actually, in repect of the ubiquitous Basil Ransome-Davies and Bill Greenwell, I'm thinking of complaining to the Monopolies Commission.

(Joking apart, congratulations to both of them.)

Christopher ONeill 04-26-2012 05:55 AM

Has lucy really changed her email, or is toucy some kind of a misprision?

I'm sure you can't be deliberately misdirecting competing entries to the competition. That sort of thing never happens on the Sphere.

;-)

Brian Allgar 04-26-2012 06:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Christopher ONeill (Post 242638)
Has lucy really changed her email, or is toucy some kind of a misprision?

I'm sure you can't be deliberately misdirecting competing entries to the competition. That sort of thing never happens on the Sphere.

;-)

Perhaps there is an 'H' missing - I've heard that she can be a bit touc(h)y at times.

Roger Slater 04-26-2012 07:39 AM

Is it cheating to write a limerick in four lines, combining the short lines?

Chris O'Carroll 04-26-2012 09:19 AM

Sounds like a legitimate four-line poem to me, Roger.

Martin Parker 04-26-2012 09:30 AM

I suspect Lucy will be swamped with entries for this one. Here is the result of fifteen minutes thought by me -- this could become compulsive!

A gnarled old sailor bores us stiff
with tall seafaring tales. As if
he thought the world would give a toss
about his bloody albatross.

Lords Cardigan and Raglan too
proved what damage two can do
when chains of military command
do not always work as planned.

The tale is told of old Shalott
and one who loves when she should not,
but learns good men are hard to get
and tapestry's a safer bet.

Roger Slater 04-26-2012 12:56 PM

This reminds me of the Bumbershoot Fractured Verse feature. I must see if I have any leftovers, since I'm presuming that it's not permitted to enter anything that actually appeared in Bumbershoot -- right?


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