Sorry, Kate, we must have cross-posted. You and Susan are on the island, but does L4 scan or balance with L2? No more suffragettes who made it onto coins.
Ah, Mr. Moderator Anthony (any relation to above?), I saw your name and wondered if the jig was up, but was delighted with the addition of Senator Bentsen, and the clever use of him to sneak in the living. No more Texans who ran and lost as VP candidate.
Sorry, Michael, although the judges sympathized heavily with the politics, the rule is the subject must be dead and not just between the ears.
Latest summary of rules:
Must be a deceased American of note.
No more blazers of the Cumberland Gap (Boone)
No more exterminators cum naturalists (Audubon)
No more Vice Presidents who never became President (Agnew)
No more Presidents who were generals with wooden teeth (Washington)
No more father-son President combos (Adamses)
No more South Carolinians (F. Marion)
No more early talkies stars (W.C. Fields)
No more Sixties pop stars (Tiny Tim)
No more cannibals (Alferd Packer)
No more clothing merchants. (Levis, sorry, Wanamaker, Macy, and Roebuck)
No more Vermont poets who couldn't decide between fire and ice (R. Frost)
No more beer brewers (J. Griesedieck)
No more White Mountain painters whose name begins with a "B" (A. Bierstadt, that leaves Thomas Cole et al.)
No more Afro-American female civil rights figures
No more suffragettes who made it onto coins (S.B. Anthony)
No more Texans who ran and lost as VP candidate (L. Bentsen)
Relatives by blood or marriage of previously accepted figures are allowed.
No changes to the subject of previous submissions.
Edits to meter, rhyme, diction, and punctuation allowed.
Multiple submissions allowed.
ToC so far:
Adams, J.J. & Adams, J.Q.
Agnew, S.
Anthony, Susan B.
Audubon, J.J.
Bentsen, Lloyd
Bierstadt, A
Boone, D.
Fields, W.C.
Frost, R.
Griesedieck, J.
Khaury, Herbert Buckingham (aka Tiny Tim; tentative) Marion, Francis
Packer, Alferd (ranked funniest so far)
Parks, Rosa
Strauss brothers (Levis, not waltzes)
Washington, George
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