b1-66er's seventh (and final) punch
I've gotta "P":
Task 1: Write a pangrammatic poem about pirates
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"puns' pictionary"]
Task 1: Write a pangrammatic poem about pirates
ersatz swashbucklers
quixotically jump 'round
giving disney funds
quixotically jump 'round
giving disney funds
Task 2: Each line of this poem will contain a pun that starts with p.
ptomaine: bangor smells
phony baloney: call spam
pea: vegan's urine
phony baloney: call spam
pea: vegan's urine
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"puns' pictionary"]
posted by b1-66er at 15:36
3 Comments:
comment pulled forward from original challenge posting that was deleted as part of the necessary chaos ...
Marchal said...
My mastery of Englisg is too poor for puns, I fear. And I don´t know what "pangrammatic" means.
Here is the best I could do:
Carribean pals,
jolly parrots on shoulders.
Plood :-( drops from their hands.
Poor Poem, I know...
(vegan/b1 side exchange -- moved forward as part of posting chaos.)
side comment to the vegan:
the pangram was very interesting. i actually didn't know what the word meant and had to look it up -- i was surprised to find it was what i had always been taught was a "holoalphabetic phrase."
i'd been thinking of challenges for you from the time we first talked about the 'fest, and considered this as one of the possibilities for you.
i played with it a little, and on first blush, 17 syllables and 26 letters just seemed too gnarly of a combination. i thought that, at best, you'd just spew jibberish out the back-end, so i dropped it. the idea that it could have any meaning, subtlety or nuance - let alone topic - seemed like an impossibility.
(in fact, that's where my last-letter-alphabetically was derived from.)
having actually done one now however, i was surprised at how easy it was. it plays really well into the tight haiku structure -- focus focus, tiny tiny.
i was amazed when i had a pangram in about 5 minutes of toying, only be be followed by this fine, strapping sample in, maybe, 15.
a really nice challenge that surprised the hell out of me.
or put another way:
if i only knew
i was going to punch that hard
i would've already
11/07/2005 1:06 AM
VA Vegan said...
I dreamt this last night (no kiddin'):
"The quick brown fox jumps
Over a lazy dog," quipped
Blackbeard, adding, "Aaaarrgh!"
Shameful! I believe I'll stick to writing during my waking hours.
about five years ago i had a dream that i was in a college classroom and a female professor, whom i didn't know, was lecturing me that all my life i'd been using the wrong phrase when i said, "for all intensive purposes," and instead it should be "for all intents and purposes." i argued with her, but she convinced me.
i woke up, thought about it, and then asked my girlfriend of the time (a newspaper editor) who confirmed that my dream lecturer was right.
***
in high school my brother had a dream that i had told him that at the end of "strawberry fields forever" there was a controversial line where people thought they the mumbling voice said, "i buried paul" (as part of the "paul is dead" fiasco); but in fact it was the phrase, "cranberry sauce."
he told me about it and although i was a big music trivia head, at that time i didn't know that particular beatles minutia. we went and listened to the record, and sure enough, everything i'd told him in the dream was right.
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