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Roger Slater 06-10-2009 01:51 PM

I have a huge, enormous nose.
My friends call me The Schnozeros.
Yet for a moment it seems small
whenever you see a rhinoceros.

Roger Slater 06-10-2009 01:59 PM

Jungle Advice

Because it's scared to death of flame,
use matchsticks made from phosphorus
and light them to protect yourself
whenever you see a rhinoceros.

Terese Coe 06-12-2009 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roger Slater (Post 111464)
Thanks, T. I think I'll drop S2, though, if I don't drop the whole thing.

Yours is fun, too, and I don't even miss the rhinoceros rhyme. Not sure I get the last line. Do you mean something more like "Believe me, you don't want him grumpy!"

[Sorry for the delay--too many wonderful reunions here!]

That's part of the general meaning, Bob, but "There's more of him when he's grumpy" also refers to a furious creature seeming larger than his size. In any case, the thing wasn't ready for prime time.

Jim Hayes 06-12-2009 10:50 AM

I have a great, big, rhiny nose
the kids call it a snotseros,
I guess that's how it always goes
when daddy's a rhinoceros.

Roger Slater 06-12-2009 01:16 PM

Good one, Jim, but you can stop now. Deadline was yesterday.

Or keep going, of course, but now there's no money. It's just art for art's sake.

Marion Shore 06-12-2009 01:25 PM

Too bad it's late, Jim. It's the pick of the lot.

Jim Hayes 06-12-2009 01:51 PM

Pick of the lot, I fell on the grass laughing.
You're great, guys.

Stephen Scaer 06-13-2009 02:31 PM

Dining Out
 
Whenever you see a rhinoceros
for dinner at Chez Serengeti,
bring a salad of greens he can toss for us
from the brush that you hacked with machete.
He's happy to make a fine sauce for us,
though he'll substitute grass for spaghetti.
We'll dance by lamp burning phosphorus,
and he'll tuck us in bed when when we're ready,
with a quilt that he made out of moss for us,
a hyaena instead of a teddy.

Roger Slater 06-13-2009 02:41 PM

Whenever you see a rhinoceros,
you think you've seen a man who's fat,
but it's not Santa Claus or us.
We don't have horns, I'll tell yout that.

Jim Hayes 06-18-2009 01:50 PM

Major congrats to Bob and Susan!
Bobs in the money and Susan is a HM. Well done.
Kinda miss Sam and Terese on the podium though, Gail and Marion too, for worthy efforts.


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