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  • #46
    This is awesome!

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    • #47
      Nice, Llapp! The rhythm reminds me of one of Piet Hein's "grooks."

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      • #48
        Thanks . . . I actually kind of cringed when I saw it. But I do like the second line.

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        • #49
          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.​

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          • #50
            ^ 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.

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            • #51
              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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              • #52
                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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                • #53
                  "In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." — Blaise Pascal

                  dovid1946
                  June 2, 2015, 9:03 am
                  There was once a stripper who called herself 'BLAZE PASCAL'. She was probably some philosophy major who couldn't get a job philosophizing.​

                  kb83
                  March 14, 2016, 7:29 am
                  There once was a stripper named Blaze, Her philosophy did all amaze, She danced like a rascal, And loved to quote Pascal,

                  LLapp
                  February 6, 2019, 7:32 pm
                  . . . Now she's tenured and done with that phase.

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                  • #54
                    Nietszche is smiling. Thanks, LLapp!

                    I don't know if this is permitted, but I think it would be better to reverse lines 3 and 4, i.e.

                    "...She loved to quote Pascal
                    And danced like a rascal,
                    ... Now she's tenured and done with that phase."
                    Last edited by kb83; 08-12-2024, 10:36 PM.

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                    • #55
                      "Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil." — Henry Van Dyke

                      Marboy
                      March 16, 2017, 12:01 pm
                      ... A kitchen is blessed as home's perfect nest and having an onion to boil.

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                      • #56
                        More unabashed self-promotion. I added line breaks.

                        "What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?"

                        — Wystan Hugh Auden

                        kb83
                        July 15, 2022, 2:06 pm


                        A tenured professor of poetry
                        Sat under a spreading balboa tree
                        Said she to her class,
                        As they sat on the grass,
                        "How lovely it can be to know a tree."

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                        • #57
                          Kb83, I appreciate your unabashed self-promotion. I think it's no problem here.

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                          • #58
                            "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
                            — Alexander Pope

                            I added line breaks

                            kb83
                            February 21, 2022, 10:35 pm

                            I will try to pope-ify it:
                            A man should never be ashamed to own
                            He has been wrong, for thereby he has shown
                            Himself a learner who can say today,
                            That he is wiser now than yesterday.

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                            • #59
                              "To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe." — Jean-Paul Sartre​

                              kb83
                              August 18, 2023, 8:57 am
                              Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre
                              Confusion he honed to an art.
                              If you know you believe,
                              Then you do not believe,
                              You're confused but you know that you're smart.​

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                              • #60
                                "Who is this Pope I hear so much about? I cannot discover what is his merit. Why will my subjects not write in prose?"
                                — George II


                                kb83
                                June 2, 2024, 9:40 pm
                                I cannot resist "Pope"-ifying it. Who is this Pope I hear so much about? I find no merit in what others tout. His works repeat what everybody knows, And suffer from a dreadful lack of prose.​

                                And this is yet another example of a King quarreling with a pope.

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