http://faerye.net/post/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-words-part-iii 2003-09-10T12:20:28+00:00 http://faerye.net/post/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-words-part-iii#comment-523 2003-09-10T12:20:28+00:00 2003-09-10T12:20:28+00:00 <p>Close enough for government work, and probably close enough to sing (the true test of a weak rhyme).</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-words-part-iii#comment-522 2003-09-10T11:27:02+00:00 2003-09-10T11:27:02+00:00 <p>East/each? Well, it <b>was</b> fairly early in the day&#8230;</p> GreyStork http://faerye.net/post/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-words-part-iii#comment-519 2003-09-09T08:19:03+00:00 2003-09-09T08:19:03+00:00 <p>Stupid dictionary.com!<br /> <br /> Snicker <em>is</em> my comment on your brilliant verse!</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-words-part-iii#comment-518 2003-09-08T20:13:38+00:00 2003-09-08T20:13:38+00:00 <p>Something ambolic is something that can induce abortion. And no comment on my brilliant and insightful verse? [snicker]</p> Rock Star http://faerye.net/post/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-words-part-iii#comment-516 2003-09-08T15:13:15+00:00 2003-09-08T15:13:15+00:00 <p>In all seriousness, I thought that was a dog! And it makes a sort of horrible yapping, like a soul being flogged with a wet noodle in Heck&#8230;</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-words-part-iii#comment-515 2003-09-08T15:10:41+00:00 2003-09-08T15:10:41+00:00 <p>Pending determination of the word &#8220;ambolic&#8221; (dictionary.com avails me not), you have taught me a new word in my Favorite Words feature! You get a gold star or somethin&#8217;. (new word: hypergolic)</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-words-part-iii#comment-514 2003-09-08T14:12:39+00:00 2003-09-08T14:12:39+00:00 <p>My sister, she has a pet monkey<br /> I think he might be alcoholic<br /> He wears a straw hat,<br /> Throws poop at the cat,<br /> And moos in a manner bucolic</p> wonko http://faerye.net/post/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-words-part-iii#comment-513 2003-09-08T13:35:36+00:00 2003-09-08T13:35:36+00:00 <p>Comes September again at old Jimville High Apostolic;<br /> the coach, Old Leatherlungs, waxes alcoholic.<br /> Vlad Quarterback&#8217;s quarter bag carries the chronic<br /> while linebackers line up for steroids anabolic.<br /> Old Leatherlungs goads them in rhetoric vitrolic;<br /> he&#8217;ll send them in practice &#8216;gainst creatures bucolic.<br /> The fullbacks will stagger off, feeling amphibolic,<br /> reaching for Vicodin, anodyne and antimelancholic.<br /> At the first game, though, when cheerleaders frolic,<br /> their hearts will wax noble, their groins hypergolic.<br /> Their passes will fly out in arcs parabolic!<br /> They&#8217;ll bring low all oncomers, rural and metropolic.<br /> And after each game come revels ethanolic;<br /> the townies will come to moonlight pharmacopolic.<br /> Vlad sends cheerleaders running for remedies ambolic.<br /> Years later, he&#8217;ll have naught but tales hyperbolic.</p> Rock Star http://faerye.net/post/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-words-part-iii#comment-512 2003-09-08T11:09:26+00:00 2003-09-08T11:09:26+00:00 <p>:)</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-words-part-iii#comment-511 2003-09-08T09:54:38+00:00 2003-09-08T09:54:38+00:00 <p>Yes, it&#8217;s drawing near, that time of year,<br /> when the &#8220;ho&#8221; of Santa Claus we hear.<br /> Bishops and kings arrive from far east;<br /> bucolic staff in the hand of each.<br /> Ten megawatt lightshows and a whirring of servos,<br /> make bloodpressures rise and my piggy bank nervous!</p> GreyStork