A few further contributions
There was a guitarist from Bute
who thought he'd start playing the lute,
but his fingers and rings
got caught in the strings,
so instead he got pissed as a newt.
A lute player thought he would try
to play a tune by Dufay,
but, tragic to say, =20
played Josquin des P
tewart.
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From: "Jon Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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John Dowland went to compose
a dark song 'bout "Final Repose".
He could do no wrong,
and he got his song
and a reputation of being morose.
Thomas Morley set out to compose
a dark song 'bout "Final Repose".
But any type of la Morte
just wasn't his forte.
And Dowland's thumbing his nose.
RT
> John Dowland went to compose
> a dark song 'bout "Final Repose".
> He could do no wrong,
> and he got his song
> and a reputation of being morose.
Excellent, it parses with a small effort.
> Thomas Morley set out to compose
> a dark song 'bout "Final Repose".
> But any type of la Morte
> just
There once was a list for the lute
where the home-rules were quite absolute
and although microscopic
posters stuck to the topic
and did not dwell on organ or flute
In the deep vaults of Dartmouth sat Wayne
with his lute-list to make the world gain
but the upsurge of spam
> From: "Cinque Cento" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Too insecure to sign with a name?
Some corrections:
> There once was a list for the lute
> where the home-rules were quite absolute
> and although microscopic
> posters stuck to the topic
> and did not dwell on organ or flute
There once was a list for the
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
once pretended to be a cyborg.
Wouldn't sign his name
on his limericks lame,
and slowly became a THEORBORG.
or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
once pretended to be a cyborg.
Wouldn't sign his name
on his limericks lame,
and tuned to mean-tone with his Korg.
RT
> Roman thought of himself as a
There once was a fellow named Roman
Whose limerick skills he kept honin'
But try as he might
They ne'er came out right
Because his first language is Russian, not English and the scansion isn't
quite the same between the two languages so he always ends up putting far
more beats in than necessary.
> There once was a fellow named Roman
> Whose limerick skills he kept honin'
> But try as he might
> They ne'er came out right
> Because his first language is Russian, not English and the scansion isn't
> quite the same between the two languages so he always ends up putting far
> more beats in than
Roman wrote:
>I take extreme umbrage at this: I am usually extremely attentive to the # of
>syllables per line.
I didn't say syllables, I said beats. There's a great difference between
the number of syllables and the meter of a limerick especially when you use
contractions. Attend to the correc
>> I take extreme umbrage at this: I am usually extremely attentive to the # of
>> syllables per line.
>
> I didn't say syllables, I said beats. There's a great difference between
> the number of syllables and the meter of a limerick especially when you use
> contractions. Attend to the correction
Cinque,
I think I want lessons in limericks from you - and RT's corrections don't
parse as well as your originals. But then again the parsing (yes, that isn't
the correct word for fitting the syllables into the meter, but it is used as
such - this only to avoid being corrected on that) has a depen
RT,
> I take extreme umbrage at this: I am usually extremely attentive to the #
of
> syllables per line.
Limericks aren't Haiku.
jm
Francesco Cannova da Miolano
Fell into a pole of guano
His patrons said, "Nay...
please play far away.."
And all of his fortes were piano.
PleaeAt 10:06 AM 3/26/04 -0500, Cinque Cento wrote:
>There once was a list for the lute
>where the home-rules were quite absolute
>
>> I take extreme umbrage at this: I am usually extremely attentive to the #
> of
>> syllables per line.
>
> Limericks aren't Haiku.
>
> jm
You may not be aware of this, but the russophone limerick culture is larger
than the anglophone, and it is almost as old, althogh it really started
blossomin
> Francesco Cannova da Miolano
> Fell into a pole of guano
> His patrons said, "Nay...
> please play far away.."
> And all of his fortes were piano.
Francesco Canova Milano
Fell into a pool of guano.
Now he's sent to Segrate
with personae non-grate,
And all of his fortes went piano.
RT
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ... is Russian, not English and the scansion isn't quite the same
> between the two languages
Russian has a reputation for being very different from English,
and difficult to learn. The reputation is deserved.
>> ... is Russian, not English and the
>> scansion isn't quite the same
In fact, SCA never made it there.
Their academic medievalists are on good level though.
RT
>> between the two languages
Herbert wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > ... is Russian, not English and the scansion isn't quite the same
> > between the two languages
>
>Russian has a reputation for being very different from English,
>and difficult to learn. The reputation is deserved.
Interesting t
> You may not be aware of this, but the russophone limerick culture is
larger
> than the anglophone, and it is almost as old, althogh it really started
> blossoming in the 70's.
> Russian, unlike English, is an easily rhyming language, so the rules of
the
> limericks in the former are more extensi
> That might seem a bit weak, but it has a certain nonsensical charm
> all the same. Nowadays, as you say, limericks tend have something
> special or witty in the last line.
My all-time fave (I can't guarantee I remember it exactly):
Titian mixed his rose-madder
standing on top of a ladder.
When th
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Interesting that you should say that. I've heard that English is one of
> the hardest languages there is to learn. I can certainly understand that
> given the number of words we have in English that are either spelled
> differently but have the same s
In Helsinki, a luter called Arto
wastes in beer and wine his art. Oh,
how he then sighs
and drunkenly cries:
"Why am I not tall like R.Barto?!?!?!?!"
RT
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Roman M. Turovsky
http://turovsky.org
http://polyhymnion.org
Roman T., a misdeemed "lutenist",
Is an evil *-ficator* of *mist-*.
Be it then as it may,
Screw the critics, I say:
To the Lute-List he's a Catalyst.
hb
> If Arto decides to get plastered:
> 'tis better to plan to have mastered
> the great Art of Debate,
> for in his drunken state
> he'd be reprob
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Roman Turovsky wrote:
> in beer and wine
Only a tiny correction: It was Calvados Berneroy.
Arto
If Arto decides to get plastered:
'tis better to plan to have mastered
the great Art of Debate,
for in his drunken state
he'd be reprobated as "runkkered"
RT
> At 08:12 22-04-2004 -0400, you wrote:
>> In Helsinki, a luter called Arto
>> wastes in beer and wine his art. Oh,
>> how he then sighs
>> a
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