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This is awesome!
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Nice, Llapp! The rhythm reminds me of one of Piet Hein's "grooks."Comment
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Thanks . . . I actually kind of cringed when I saw it. But I do like the second line.Comment
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At the risk of self-promotion. (I added line breaks)
"While Australia is superficially referred to as a continental nation, upon closer scrutiny, it is in fact an archipelago."
— Asher Judah
kb83
August 13, 2023, 4:21 pm
A tourist from old San Diego
Tried renting a big Winnebago,
To see all Australia,
He thought, (inter alia,)
But it was an archipelago.Comment
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^ Kb83, if I had written that, I would have a hard time not posting it myself. It’s a delightful rhyme, and, given random quote selection and difficulty level, many of us would never get to read it otherwise.Comment
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Here's another self-promotion. I added line breaks.
"Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing." — Warren Spahn
kb83
March 6, 2018, 3:57 am
Here's a haiku:
Hitting is timing.
Pitching is breaking timing.
All the rest is spin.
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I wrote a limerick to this, inspired by Llapp’s information about Trotsky. But I thought surely it would appear in this comment thread, but it did not, so here it is (I saved it):
"Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points. " — Leon Trotsky
kb83
April 21, 2014, 9:27 am
who is the "him"?
tskaggs6
September 24, 2014, 11:34 am
I would guess Stalin. They didn't get on all that well you know.
kb83
October 15, 2015, 3:03 am
I verified your guess, tskaggs6. Well done! It was in an unfinished biography of Stalin by Trotsky.
LLapp
January 18, 2017, 3:34 pm
'He never talked about politics. He was a schnorrer! All he cared about was who would pay for his lunch!" - My grandfather, remembering Lev Bronstein during his Lower East Side days
Persephone59
December 12, 2017, 9:26 pm
I understand he was also lovers with Frida Kahlo, and moved in the same circles as she and her husband, Diego Rivera.
LLapp
July 15, 2018, 5:05 pm
He was deeply steeped in the arts. My grandpa knew him as part of his theater-going crowd.
Eureka
November 17, 2022, 6:44 pm
Amazing, LLapp!
There was a young fellow named Trotsky,
A Communist chap, not a Nazi,
"From each who can feed,
To me what I need,
It's y'all who are paying, it's not me"
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