Thread: Tailgate Party
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Unread 01-14-2004, 08:17 PM
Jerry Glenn Hartwig Jerry Glenn Hartwig is offline
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Oh heck, Robert....

I thought it was a FunExercise forum!

Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosions
that wrinkle my brow 'cause of Robert's emotions

That better? Or shall we debate the metricality of the poem this came from? *grin*


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Julie Stoner suggests the following:

'a FunExcise thread of two-line "tailgaters"--i.e., famous lines of poetry, turned into the first halves of couplets? Example:


I didn't realise it had to be a 'first' line from the description *humble appeal for forgiveness*


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