Eclectic Views

    

pyp upside down is dad

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Do you say it "pipe" or "peep" or "pip" ?
  

    

I hear it as either peep or pip.
  

    


 
 1. BRATWOOD
 I was shocked when I saw the Mad Hatter
 His garments just hung in a tatter
 And blaming the cat
 He picked up his hat
 The Cheshire smiled wide at his chatter!
 >kath lrph

 2. KATH
 I was shocked when I saw the Mad Hatter
 He popped up through the hole, all atatter
 "I'm so sad," whimpered he,
 "I put gin in her tea
 But dear Alice ran straight up the ladder!"
 
 3. ROWDYPAL
 I was shocked when I saw the Mad Hatter,
 so shocked that I sat on his cat, or
 a very large rodent?
 His tea was so potent
 I don't recall much of the matter.
 >kafclown cdb ronks karish bratwood

 4. LRPH
 I was shocked when I saw the Mad Hatter
 Had lost all control of his bladder
 With piss on his leg
 He was left there to beg,
 "Would you please help me clean up the splatter?"
 
 5. VIV
 I was shocked when I saw the Mad Hatter
 Was resplendent in hose all laddered
 But his ebony spats
 and ivoried gats
 Belied the natty one's tatters
 
 


Okay, rowdypal, take a bow and type us a new lede. 

Although, hmmm, I don't have your vote and if bratwood types it first 
it's hers.
  

    
Sorry, I was away from email for two weeks (for the first time since
1990).  I like Bratwood's, by the way, but left on my trip just before
the entries were posted.

Here's the new lede, somewhat inspired by my trip:

  A gecko ran under her chair

  
  

    
Thanks and thank heaven you posted something. 
I've been lede-impaired these past two weeks.
  

    

 
            
      All readers, readers inside and readers outside the Well, are
      invited to play our "Finish the Limerick" game. The play is easy:
         
      We give you the first line of a limerick and you finish it and
      email it to your Cosmo [the game superintendant]. Cosmo will post the entries,
      without attribution, here and ask for readers to vote for their 
      favorite. Well members can vote by posting their preference in the
      topic and other readers will email their votes. After a week or
      so of collecting votes we will post the results and announce 
      the identity of the winner, although the only prize is the honor 
      of the new lede.
         
        Courtesy of <rowdypal>:
         
        A gecko ran under her chair
  
  
  All limericks to <edgarbox@well.com>,
  

    

the gecko's tiring and cannot rest without your limerick. Finish the
limerick that begins

        A gecko ran under her chair

and send it to <edgarbox@well.com>. Two entries are in, need a least 2 more
for a full game.  If you're reading this post you can play, you need not be
logged into the Well.
  

    


give me gecko, give me rhyme.


        A gecko ran under her chair


<edgarbox@well.com> waits for your composition of 4 to follow the above.
Play, play, play!
  

    

  
             
       All readers, readers inside and readers outside the Well, are
       invited to play our "Finish the Limerick" game. The play is easy:
          
       We give you the first line of a limerick and you finish it and
       email it to your Cosmo [the game superintendant]. Cosmo will post the entries,
       without attribution, here and ask for readers to vote for their 
       favorite. Well members can vote by posting their preference in the
       topic and other readers will email their votes. After a week or
       so of collecting votes we will post the results and announce 
       the identity of the winner, although the only prize is the honor 
       of the new lede.
          
        Courtesy of <rowdypal>:
          
        A gecko ran under her chair
   
   
   All limericks to <edgarbox@well.com> to join the two received.
  

    
How about we add an optional lede, since people don't seem to like the
gecko one.  Perhaps I should have used the alternate spelling "gekko"?
 In any case, here's another lede and I'll let Viv decide if it's OK
to let people choose to use this instead:

I'd much rather travel by train
  

    

I'm not tossing the two geckos I have so we'll accept both lines:


        A gecko ran under her chair

or

        I'd much rather travel by train
        

All readers, readers inside and readers outside the Well, are
invited to play our "Finish the Limerick" game. The play is easy:

        We give you the first line of a limerick and you finish it and
        email it to your Cosmo [the game superintendant]. Cosmo will  
        post the entries, without attribution, here and ask for readers  
        to vote for their favorite. Well members can vote by posting their preference in the
        topic and other readers will email their votes.




Compose a limerick with either 1st line (two geckos and a train are 
entered) and send it to <edgarbox@well.com>. 
  

    
Que pasa?
  

    

later today, promise.
  

    <scribbled by viv Mon 24 Apr 06 09:14>
  

    
rjs: 6
  

    
Tough choice between 1 and 2, but I'll choose ....


hal : 2
  

    
I like them all!  But that's not a valid vote.

karish:6
  

    


I missed an entry and request your forebearance:

1.
A gecko ran under her chair,
Looking up, it could see she was bare.
At first it turned red,
Turning orange it said
"Under here I see no underwear".

2.
A gecko ran under her chair
Made off with some strands of her hair
He loved her like mad
But she - this is sad -
Did not even know he was there.

3.
A gecko ran under her chair
There wasn't a second to spare
She jumped, then she screamed
Her head hit a beam,
And then she started to swear.

4.
The gecko ran under her chair
Underneath her flowing hair
Reflected on the journey he took,
He whinced and buckled, shivered and shook
Decided that all was fair.

5.
I'd much rather travel by train
Another is simply a pain
I can relax, read a good book
Follow the tree line down to the brook
I'd much rather travel by train.

6.
A gecko ran under her chair
Of which she was quite unaware.
She'd taken the train
Now who can explain
How the gecko had come to be there.

7.
I'd much rather travel by train
The airport can be such a pain
With metal detectors
And foreign infecters
Not driving, it's flying insane!


rjs, hal, and karish:  please recast if you're vote changes. thanks.
  

    

cdb:7
  

    

your vote your vote bad bad apostrophe

<1894>
  

    
wellelp: 1
  

    
rowdypal: 7
  

    
lrph: 7
  

    


 
 1.
 A gecko ran under her chair,
 Looking up, it could see she was bare.
 At first it turned red,
 Turning orange it said
 "Under here I see no underwear".
 
 2.
 A gecko ran under her chair
 Made off with some strands of her hair
 He loved her like mad
 But she - this is sad -
 Did not even know he was there.
 
 3.
 A gecko ran under her chair
 There wasn't a second to spare
 She jumped, then she screamed
 Her head hit a beam,
 And then she started to swear.
 
 4.
 The gecko ran under her chair
 Underneath her flowing hair
 Reflected on the journey he took,
 He whinced and buckled, shivered and shook
 Decided that all was fair.
 
 5.
 I'd much rather travel by train
 Another is simply a pain
 I can relax, read a good book
 Follow the tree line down to the brook
 I'd much rather travel by train.
 
 6.
 A gecko ran under her chair
 Of which she was quite unaware.
 She'd taken the train
 Now who can explain
 How the gecko had come to be there.
 
 7.
 I'd much rather travel by train
 The airport can be such a pain
 With metal detectors
 And foreign infecters
 Not driving, it's flying insane!
 
 
Even you, reader out there, outWell, can vote: send your choice to 
<edgarbox@well.com>.