|
Notices |
It's been a while, Unregistered -- Welcome back to Eratosphere! |
|
|
04-13-2017, 06:59 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Belfast, Maine
Posts: 1,306
|
|
Rocks for Jocks
(Geologists can use highfalutin' words nearly as well as the Classics majors can)
In geology, there's a quasi-religious schism
Between neocatrastophism and uniformitarianism.
And who, but a geologist, can see the intrinsic worth
Of an alluvial deposit of diatomaceous earth?
Only a geologist and Ogden Nash posess no animus
In celebrating that living fossil, the duckbilled platypus.
Last edited by Douglas G. Brown; 04-14-2017 at 06:39 AM.
|
04-13-2017, 07:10 PM
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: TX
Posts: 6,630
|
|
I saw a nénuphar
from afar.
But, what wasn’t cool,
a libellule
was crossing it in boustrophedon.
Conceding
its right to fly, what I
could not surmise
was why the wise
beast flew just so.
Or yes, I know:
that was its breeding.
Last edited by John Isbell; 04-13-2017 at 07:11 PM.
Reason: semicolon surfeit
|
04-13-2017, 07:13 PM
|
|
Administrator
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Middle England
Posts: 6,954
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aaron Poochigian
Jayne, could we move the whole thread over to Drills and Amusements? Mostly because I want to read a poem by you that contains the word "skanky".
|
Well, here it is, Aaron, (and I'm glad you specified ''bad poems" ):
The restaurant was ever so swanky,
or, in other words, really quite posh!
My ''Blind Date" was spotty and lanky,
and referred to the dinner as ''nosh".
Oh, why did I come? I felt manky,
and although I thought "Things can't get worse",
he then made a bib with his hanky,
and I silently uttered a curse.
His clothes and his hair were so skanky,
we weren't destined to have a romance.
When he asked, "Do you like hanky-panky?"
I stormed out, yelling "No f***ing chance!"
(Eek, I actually had a blind date not too dissimilar from this when I was about seventeen. )
Jayne
|
04-13-2017, 07:28 PM
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 4,634
|
|
Douglas, John, Jayne--you all are great. This thread is just what I needed. I have learned so much.
Douglas, Classics is a noble major.
John, speaking of Classics, you gave us "Boustrophedon".
Jayne, in American, "skanky" primarily applies to female, so I love your attribution of "skank" to a male.
__________________
Aaron Poochigian
|
04-13-2017, 07:55 PM
|
|
Administrator
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Middle England
Posts: 6,954
|
|
Quote:
Jayne, in American, "skanky" primarily applies to female, so I love your attribution of "skank" to a male.
|
Aaron,
Over here ''skank'' also refers to a female (a promiscuous one), but the adjective "skanky" means dirty and unattractive, which can refer to almost anything -- hence my frequent use of it!
The paintwork on my red, seven-year-old Toyota Auris is beginning to blister in places; I am in the process of looking for a new car as it looks really skanky! (This is actually true, and is not just an ''example'' of using one of my favourite words )
Jayne
PS. Thanks for starting this thread!
|
04-13-2017, 09:13 PM
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 2,150
|
|
I had high hopes of connubial bliss
till the unfortunate toast where I said this
'honorificabilitudinitas'.
Not me, it was the margaritas.
Then I was toast, I had been silver,
but learned, besides hangovers' pilver,
the quickest way to end your date
is liquid madness concentrate.
Last edited by Erik Olson; 04-14-2017 at 03:03 AM.
|
04-14-2017, 06:51 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Belfast, Maine
Posts: 1,306
|
|
[quote=Aaron Poochigian;393339] Douglas, Classics is a noble major. QUOTE]
Agreed; If I had been from a rich family, I'd have gone to an Ivy school and majored in Classics. The reality was, I went to RPI on a scholarship, and majored in Geology. Probably actually learned more there, too.
|
04-14-2017, 07:04 AM
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: TX
Posts: 6,630
|
|
Hmm. This is anecdotal, but the only Classics professor I know is a friend who went to his local grammar school.
|
04-14-2017, 09:35 AM
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Taipei
Posts: 2,624
|
|
An impossible task. I can't get my top 10 movies straight. But I love "deciduous." And "corn."
|
04-14-2017, 02:18 PM
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Ellan Vannin
Posts: 3,338
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by John Isbell
I saw a nénuphar
from afar.
But, what wasn’t cool,
a libellule
was crossing it in boustrophedon.
Conceding
its right to fly, what I
could not surmise
was why the wise
beast flew just so.
Or yes, I know:
that was its breeding.
|
Lovely. I have only previously come across boustrophedon in a wonderful Les Murray poem.
|
|
|
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Member Login
Forum Statistics:
Forum Members: 8,403
Total Threads: 21,891
Total Posts: 271,320
There are 3794 users
currently browsing forums.
Forum Sponsor:
|
|
|
|
|
|