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05-30-2006, 04:34 PM
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How Bush Was Elected
When young he did not go to war,
unlike Kerry, unlike Gore,
but unlike Gore, and unlike Kerry,
Bush supported the military.
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05-30-2006, 06:27 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Posts: 11
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Levi's Legacy
When the Strauss nephews gathered to hear Levi's will,
there were none of the usual scenes,
for the four of them shared the inheritance of
Levi's patently dominant jeans.
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05-30-2006, 09:03 PM
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Location: Windsor, England
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Awright, Bugsy, I'm calling in the exterminators ... hmm, I've banned further exterminators. Ok, new rule: no changing the subject of previous submissions! Edits for meter, diction, rhyme, and punctuation allowed. Multiple submissions (different subjects) are allowed. W.C. Fields keeps you on the island.
Jan, the judges have demurred over whether the Lindbergh-baby-kidnapping was the sickest American crime of a decade that included organized crime wars including the St. Valentine Day's Massacre and also lynchings galore. And the pernicketiest judge deducted points for the missing "h."
Michael, you just got me banned from the family room for excessive guffawing. Living in CT, I ask, where is the like of Packer and his appetite now that we really need them? All hail, king of the comedy side of the island.
Orwn, the judges have tiptoed around your Tiny Tim entry and are wavering due to its excessive metrical substitutions. Editing and revision allowed, just don't change the subject! For now, you have a toe on the island.
Sorry, Roger, thought it was implicit -- dead famous and infamous Americans only. I.e., physically dead, not just dead between the ears.
Congratulations, L. Perkins, on your commemoration of the biggest CYA scheme in America. You're on the island.
Latest summary of restrictions and exceptions:
No more blazers of the Cumberland Gap.
No more exterminators cum naturalists
No more Vice Presidents
No more South Carolinians
No more early talkies stars.
No more Sixties pop stars.
No more cannibals.
No more clothing merchants. Sorry, Wanamaker, Macy, and Roebuck.
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: Audubon, Agnew, Boone, W.C. Fields, Herbert Buckingham Khaury (aka Tiny Tim; tentative), F. Marion, , A. Packer (ranked funniest so far), the Strauss brothers (Levis, not waltzes).
Regards,
BobB
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05-31-2006, 08:07 AM
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Location: New York
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Inspiration
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
and Robert Frost, that cranky git,
scratched his chin and stood and stood
until he got a poem from it.
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05-31-2006, 08:34 AM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ga., USA
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No early talkie stars?! Sorry, I didn't see that. Change made.
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05-31-2006, 08:45 AM
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Location: New England, USA
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The First Thirteen Presidents
From General George to Millard, all
Owned slaves, except for two:
Those Massachusetts liberals
John (senior) and John (Q.).
I recognize that this poem violates the stricture against vice-presidents, but I hope the judges will make an exception for vice-presidents who were also presidents.
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05-31-2006, 08:47 AM
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Location: New York
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OJ
Football star turned actor, he
took on his greatest role
when one day, histrionically,
he stabbed Ron and Nicole.
(oops, sorry... OJ isn't dead... but there are dead people in the poem, so maybe it's okay)
[This message has been edited by Roger Slater (edited May 31, 2006).]
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05-31-2006, 08:50 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Windsor, England
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Congratulations, Roger, you have scored with Frost and generated the restriction "no more New England poets."
Bugsy, bugsy, bugsy, I put in "no more early talkies stars" AFTER you switched to W.C. Fields. So switch back, please. Besides Clinton is still alive.
Anyone have any Serious ones (a la Benet)out there?
Latest summary of restrictions and exceptions:
No more blazers of the Cumberland Gap.
No more exterminators cum naturalists
No more Vice Presidents
No more South Carolinians
No more early talkies stars.
No more Sixties pop stars.
No more cannibals.
No more clothing merchants. Sorry, Wanamaker, Macy, and Roebuck.
No more New England poets.
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:
Agnew
Audubon
Boone,
Fields, W.C.
Frost
Khaury, Herbert Buckingham (aka Tiny Tim; tentative) Marion, Francis
Packer, Alferd (ranked funniest so far
Strauss brothers (Levis, not waltzes).
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BobB
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05-31-2006, 09:28 AM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ga., USA
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Geez. Now I know how it feels to play Calvinball.
*sigh*
Changed back.
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05-31-2006, 10:07 AM
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Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland
Posts: 4,949
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Yellow Moon
A yellow moon looks down on me
and on an armadillo,
I wouldn't even mention it,
but it hogs the whole darned pillow.
[This message has been edited by Jim Hayes (edited May 31, 2006).]
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