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2016-07-28 
Good morning
Posted by Fred 2016-07-28 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Wow! The legendary spiked falsies....
(Heinlein reference)
Posted by Angavish Sholutch7450 2016-07-28 00:24||   2016-07-28 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Two Scituate sisters named Harrison,
Whose probity beggared comparison,
Went wobbly in Paris,
And, bosoms caparisoned,
Shimmied out East and turned Saracen.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-07-28 01:50||   2016-07-28 01:50|| Front Page Top

#3 you'll put your eye out!
Posted by Frank G 2016-07-28 07:40||   2016-07-28 07:40|| Front Page Top

#4 re: #2 and I thought that I had a decent vocabulary.

SMH yet again at the magnificence that is Zenobia.
Posted by AlanC 2016-07-28 07:45||   2016-07-28 07:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Zenobia writes down in rhyme
What we're thinking (most of the time)
With wording most stellar
He's a right fine ol' feller
And making us laugh's his design
Posted by jay-dubya  2016-07-28 08:51||   2016-07-28 08:51|| Front Page Top

#6 In this case it wasn't a vocabulary issue, AlanC, but geography.

Cleverly done, jay-dubya!
Posted by trailing wife 2016-07-28 10:29||   2016-07-28 10:29|| Front Page Top

#7 I dunno - "caparisoned" ranks pretty high up on the vocabulary list.
Posted by Pappy 2016-07-28 10:58||   2016-07-28 10:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Sorry TW, Scituate is just down the street from me no big deal at all.

caparisoned on the other hand is, as Pappy pointed out, a trifle recherche.
Posted by AlanC 2016-07-28 11:31||   2016-07-28 11:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Fantastic all around.

Our focus above, most conical
Among the crocus, likely barnacle
For two Neptune beauties
And four pointy hooies
Careful, lust you need a monocle.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-07-28 12:29||   2016-07-28 12:29|| Front Page Top

#10 swksvolFF,

is "lust" rather than "lest" a deliberate pun or a typo?

Works either way.
Posted by AlanC 2016-07-28 13:15||   2016-07-28 13:15|| Front Page Top

#11 It was a coin flip; went with lust to play off #3.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-07-28 13:26||   2016-07-28 13:26|| Front Page Top

#12 You people are too nice to me. But thanks -- I needed it today. From the reject box...

The sailor enlists her: "Hey, sister!"
She shyly resists, but he kissed her.
"Just gimme your number..."
...he stumbles on lumber...
She coyly insists, "Call me mister!"
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-07-28 14:22||   2016-07-28 14:22|| Front Page Top

#13 Happy coincidence... "caparisoned" apparently used to mean "chaperoned," among other things. Okay, back to the paper mines (hi, Mom!). Oh, wait, have I thanked y'all lately for being you?
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-07-28 14:29||   2016-07-28 14:29|| Front Page Top

#14 That last one was a doozy. Shore leave in the Philippines?
Posted by gorb 2016-07-28 15:00||   2016-07-28 15:00|| Front Page Top

#15 Caparisoned ought to be familiar to anyone who read King Arthur stories or fairy tales-- all those knights at tournaments riding gaily caparisoned horses.

swksvolFF, love the double play of lust, which I read as deliberate because u and e are not typed with the same hand. Typos are usually nearby letters or letter order scrambles.

Zenobia F, I look for your little gems as I scroll through the comments. anticipating future pleasures. Your reject responded to that murdered transgender the other day, I assume.

Is this our first four limerick thread? Long ago there used to be koan threads like this, but I'm a simple soul, and koans elude me.
Posted by trailing wife 2016-07-28 15:36||   2016-07-28 15:36|| Front Page Top

#16 TW, typos, at least mine, have two causes; one is fumble fingers which are the close together ones; but there's also fumble brained where your typing doesn't keep up to the thought and you can see word one as word two.

Given my sweetie is an equestrienne who learned me all about the Spanish Riding school and I read all the KA stories as a yoot I was surprised that I had never encountered caparisoned before.
Posted by AlanC 2016-07-28 16:43||   2016-07-28 16:43|| Front Page Top

#17 I had to look it up. Most impressive.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-07-28 18:22||   2016-07-28 18:22|| Front Page Top

#18 ZF's latest is a work of art hanging by a comma.
"Call me mister" is way different than "Call me, mister".
Posted by Andy Tingle6119 2016-07-28 18:46||   2016-07-28 18:46|| Front Page Top

#19 #12 There's a reject box? Dam, I am even more impressed!!!
Posted by Bov Flimbers 2016-07-28 18:59||   2016-07-28 18:59|| Front Page Top

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