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Posted on 10/17/2007 5:59:14 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Thank you, Doomonyou!!
What do you mean “It’s amazing what Jim allows during a FReepathon”? That cartoon is cute.
Freepers, jump high
Freepers, jump low
You can be a winner
And FR will get the dough!
Hey, all you Ladybugs and Georgie Porgies......there's only about 48 hours left to submit your Mother Freep Nursery Rhymes. You may become a winnah!
The contest ends Friday night at midnight.....and the winners will be posted sometime on Saturday.
Guidelines are on post # 24 on this thread. Previous poems posted are scattered throughout FReepathon thread number IV and this one.
There's some really good parodies.....and then there's some Real Dogs, arf.
However, a Real Dog winner will garner $20 donated in the poet's name to this fund-raiser, in addition to the five bucks already donated just for posting the verse.
The Best nursery rhyme will also garner $20 plus the original $5 and will also be contributed in the name of the Shakesfreeper who wrote the sonnet and posted it.
This is really a great way to hasten this FReepathon to a speedier and successful conclusion, folks, and have fun doing so. Try your hand.....you may surprise yourselves.
Here's my own example of a Best Rhyme:
Goosie, Goosie, Pelosi
Whither does she mosey?
In Kurdistan and Turkey
Where she just made things more murky
(Very topical, good meter, good rhyming, good parody of Goosie, Goosie, Gander....and a great jab at Rosie O'Pelosi).
And this one would be a contender for Worst Rhyme if it wasn't written by Mother Freep herself (who is da judge and therefore inelligible):
The cock doth crow
To let you know
It's time to rise
And pull the shades up over Hillary's popping eyes!
(This is excellent as a Wurst of the Worst Rhyme.......the horrible meter at the end sticks out like a sore thumb coming out of a plum pie, it codswallops the whole thing.....and Mother Freep also grossed out at the last line for the image it evoked, which actually makes the poem even ickier, which is actually good for a Worst Rhyme to garner the trophy!....if you can follow the reasoning).
Now, YOU can do better (or worse) and raise some money for FR at the same time. So, dip quill into inkwell and start your little verse this minute.
But hurry, hurry......Simple Simon will soon be RETURNING from the fair......and Jim Rob, the pieman, will close this FReepathon shop for the fall season in a VERY short time.
Leni
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