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(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.

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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.

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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. )

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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.
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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!
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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.

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[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.
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Hmm. This is anecdotal, but the only Classics professor I know is a friend who went to his local grammar school.
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An impossible task. I can't get my top 10 movies straight. But I love "deciduous." And "corn."
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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.
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