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05/14/2005 10:51:41 PM · #101

This thread was officially jacked
by a man from DC with no tact
He's trying to solicit
our money, we'll miss it
and those lenses we bought must go back!

Message edited by author 2005-05-14 22:53:04.

Olyuzi

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7

05/14/2005 10:59:11 PM · #102

SCalvert, Ursala, AlanSFreed
Bear_Music, Setz and Deapee
They all give me agada
and woe-is-me
For they all score better than olyuzi

SmellyFish, Pitsaman Nataliedoo,
ZeusZen, TooCool and CraftySue
Though I love their pics
When their shutters they click
I'm just wondering, where the heck did they get their nicks.

CorySmith

05/14/2005 11:02:13 PM · #103

got DQed for my entry
it was the shot of the century
the dern exif was altered
now my rep has faultered

ClubJuggle

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

05/14/2005 11:04:18 PM · #104

Originally posted by Artyste:

This thread was officially jacked
by a man from DC with no tact
He's trying to solicit
our money, we'll miss it
and those lenses we bought must go back!

This man who writes poems with spam,
When he frequents DC with his cam,
He drives a long way,
For he lives in PA,
So he's spent hours in traffic jams

05/14/2005 11:04:19 PM · #105

When I'm shooting models with my new cam,
I post them as fast as I can,
So as you can see
I guess that would be,
a Wham-Bam-Thank-you-Ma'am spam.

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

05/14/2005 11:06:50 PM · #106

Originally posted by ClubJuggle:

Originally posted by Artyste:
This thread was officially jacked
by a man from DC with no tact
He's trying to solicit
our money, we'll miss it
and those lenses we bought must go back!

This man who writes poems with spam,
When he frequents DC with his cam,
He drives a long way,
For he lives in PA,
So he's spent hours in traffic jams

Forgive me for my geography
My memory's not what it should be
but you have to admit
you're there quite a bit
So my confusion's in all honesty.

Message edited by author 2005-05-14 23:07:50.

CorySmith

05/14/2005 11:12:59 PM · #107

when my hard drive is filled with clutter
you know i just wore out my shutter
for i use every bit of that 8 gig flash card
squating down that much is kind of hard
that time i fell made blood gush from my shin
most pics are going going straight to the recycle bin

rox_rox

Canon EOS-20D

05/14/2005 11:24:12 PM · #108

There once was a new DP chick,
Who's photo was not worth a lick,
She knew it was bad,
But the scores that she had,
could not beat a mere four point six.

Message edited by author 2005-05-14 23:27:30.

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

05/14/2005 11:43:40 PM · #109

While some DPC lim'ricks are clever,
Would they make the OEDILF* word list? Never!**
While the rhyming's OK,
There the meter holds sway
And you'd best extra syllables sever.

* Pronounced "Oh-DILF" -- The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form

** Actually, many of the verses posted here are very good. At OEDILF, submissions are reviewed/edited/approved by at least six people besides the author before going on the "Approved" list -- a process which seems to sometimes take even longer than it sounds.

We are now accepting limericks defining words in the "aa-az" and "ba" ranges if anyone needs another addictive diversion in addition to photography. As an added benefit, there are no costly accessories to buy or prints to order : )

RonBeam

Minolta DiMAGE 7

05/15/2005 12:10:47 AM · #110

Sioux Call

D'Yona, fresh and clear; means daybreak.
D'Yona, shapes each breath that I take.
Sunshine pours over me
Laughter shades all I see
What a day D'Yona can make!

D'Yona, like whispers ride dawning wind
D'Yona, lovely sound finds its way in
To my soul, fills my heart
Paints hyssop on each part;
Trails petals wherever I've been.

Oh sun, climb high, arc long
Warm me, my pony, my song.
Author of steep blue sky
Composer of hunter bird's cry,
Send D'Yona day to keep me strong.

05/15/2005 01:34:48 AM · #111

General,

We seem to be venturing away from pure Limericks into "nonce" forms anyway, and it's all good as far as I'm concerned. For what it's worth, the Limerick is actually a comic adaptation, in single-stanza form, of the "mad Song" stanza, which is one of the ancient forms of the language. One of the most famous is "Tom O'Bedlam's Song" from, I believe, the 16th century. Excerpts:

...My staff has murdered giants
My bag a long knife carries
To cut mince pies
from children's thighs
For which to feed the fairies.

No gypsy, slut or doxy
Shall win my mad Tom from me
I'll weep all night,
with stars I'll fight
The fray shall well become me.

From the hag and hungry goblin
That into rags would rend ye,
All the sprites that stand
by the naked man
In the book of moons, defend ye.

With a thought I took for Maudlin,
And a cruse of cockle pottage,
With a thing thus tall,
Sky bless you all,
I befell into this dotage...

It goes on at some length, there are many versions also, that have been passed down. It's from this MadSong that we derived the name "bedlam" for an insane asylum.

(end trivial knowledge session)

Robt.

05/15/2005 01:36:39 AM · #112

A version of the "mad song" stanza also appears in JRR Tolkien's "Fellowship of the Ring", in the song Frodo sings in Bree and the Inn of the Prancing Pony before falling off the table and unwittingly wearing the ring.

One of my favorite bits of verse in the entire series, actually.. because of the pure fun of it.

Sigma 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical HF for Pentax

05/15/2005 01:42:46 AM · #113

Ah yes! Tolkien wrote some very nice verse, assuredly. I still get a little shiver when I "hear" Far over the misty mountains cold / Through caverns deep and dungeons old / We must away, ere break of day, / To seek the pale, enchanted gold.

And then the reprise, To win our harps and gold from him...

I lived for those books once. They called me Gandalf for years. I had his rune on my van. Does that date me, or what?

Robt.

Message edited by author 2005-05-15 01:43:22.

Pug-H

Pentax K10D

05/15/2005 02:43:07 AM · #114

hehe, back to DPC-themed limericks...

A voter came up with a trick
Of making comments real quick,
But they were all deleted -
His 'Comments made' list depleted -
Ninety times he'd written: "Nice pic"

Another voter thought he was hot.
He didn't care about 'Helpful' or not.
But when it came to the crunch,
It was just a bunch
Of "Wow!", "How...?" and "Nice shot!"

tolovemoon

Canon EOS Rebel SL1

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

05/15/2005 03:40:08 AM · #115

I havent been around till now
I woke up to see how
to fake a dpc crowd
into giving me all tens's
just once wont they allow

But thats Ok if its a one
as I will enter to a thousand and one
only time will tell
if my score wont sell
to the intellegents of some
is increasing by tons....

(my first can you tell) Long thread in just 24 hours eh...

tolovemoon

Canon EOS Rebel SL1

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

05/15/2005 03:54:26 AM · #116

If only I understood or paid close attention
I would know the rules of this addiction
I could learn to spell
or write about hell
If no one likes my try of frustration
I simply will try harder to make more complications!

05/15/2005 07:37:38 AM · #117

Writing a Limerick's easy as snot.
A couple of long lines. See what you've got.
A short one comes after.
Another. Some laughter.
It's not half as hard as you thought.

Some get hung up on meter, but rhyme
is the part that takes most of your time;
as long as you wing it
so that folks can sing it,
they'll think it's completely sublime.

R.

Message edited by author 2005-05-15 07:39:43.

Kavey

Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon

05/15/2005 07:59:58 AM · #118

Originally posted by bear_music:

It goes on at some length, there are many versions also, that have been passed down. It's from this MadSong that we derived the name "bedlam" for an insane asylum.

(end trivial knowledge session)

Robt.

Robert let me retell of this matter
Bedlam was an asylum for nutters
Twas in London you see
13th Century
This I do solemnly utter!

It's actually a middle english corruption of the word Bethlehem which was also the name of this lunatic asylum...

ClubJuggle

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

05/15/2005 08:01:00 AM · #119

Originally posted by meab_music:

Some get hung up on meter, but rhyme
is the part that takes most of your time;
as long as you wing it
so that folks can sing it,
they'll think it's completely sublime.

Creating a limerick is fun!
Rhyme lines one and two and go on
And rhyme the next set
But never forget
The last line must rhyme with line one!

-Terry

ClubJuggle

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

05/15/2005 08:07:12 AM · #120

The meter for limerick verse
Is eight or nine beats, rather terse
The next two have five
And then we revive
The eight or nine seen in the first

Message edited by author 2005-05-15 08:08:21.

05/15/2005 08:29:07 AM · #121

Originally posted by ClubJuggle:

The meter for limerick verse
Is eight or nine beats, rather terse
The next two have five
And then we revive
The eight or nine seen in the first

That's very nicely done, and you're on the right track for a strict limerick, but your confusing "beat" with "syllable"; technically, a pure limerick is tetrameter/tetrameter/dimeter/dimeter/tetrameter rhyming aabba. A strict tetrameter is 8 syllables with 4 beats and a dimeter is 4 syllables with 2 beats. Yours qualifies admirably in that regard.

There are, however, 3-syllable poetic feet, notably the anapest and the dactyl. The most common poetic feet are iambs and trochees; dah-DUM and DUM-dah. The anapest is dah-dah-DUM, and the dactyl is DUM-dah-dah, sometimnes affectionately referred to as the "galloping foot."

The dimeter lines in a Limerick typically have an anapest in them, and thus they often stretch to 5 syllables from the nominal 4, while the tetrameters will often have one or two 3-syllable feet, thus running to 9 or 10 syllables, but realistically this is not a requirement of Limerick writing; history has shown us a more malleable form than that.

Interestingly, your first line is actually trimeter: the ME/ter for LIM/erick VERSE, with only 3 feet and 3 beats: iamb, anapest, anapest. The second line is even more interesting from a scansion perspective: is EIGHT / or nine BEATS, / RAther / TERSEx : what you have here is iamb, anapest, trochee, tailless trochee, with the second syllable of the last foot elided (a common device). So where you'd expect 9 syllables out of a tetrameter line with an anapest in it, you still have the nominal tetrameter length of 8 syllables here.

More than youw anted to know, I'm sure. The main thing is, if it trips off the tongue (and yours does), then it works. Prosody is after the fact; as long as it's lonf, long, short, short, long and rhymes aabba, it will pass as a Limerick. Many limericks are written with pentameter for the long lines, and quite a few with trimeter short lines as well.

Robt.

05/15/2005 08:32:44 AM · #122

Originally posted by Kavey:

Originally posted by bear_music:
It goes on at some length, there are many versions also, that have been passed down. It's from this MadSong that we derived the name "bedlam" for an insane asylum.

(end trivial knowledge session)

Robt.

Robert let me retell of this matter
Bedlam was an asylum for nutters
Twas in London you see
13th Century
This I do solemnly utter!

It's actually a middle english corruption of the word Bethlehem which was also the name of this lunatic asylum...

Yah, I knew it was an asylum, a real one, named Bethlehem. I thought, however, that Tom O'Bedlam's song was what placed in the popular vocabulary the word "bedlam"; what do I know, though? Yoiu're over there and I'm just an amateur word-lover. Thanx for the clarification.

Robt.

Kavey

Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon

05/15/2005 08:36:04 AM · #123

Dunno... it being a corruption of Bethleham and related to asylum is what I've always thought but, I'm certainly no expert in etymology! You may very well be right!

05/15/2005 08:41:48 AM · #124

Originally posted by Kavey:

Dunno... it being a corruption of Bethleham and related to asylum is what I've always thought but, I'm certainly no expert in etymology! You may very well be right!

No. it IS a corruption of "bethlehem" and Bethlehem WAS an asylum; I just thought that Tom O'Bedlam's song was what brought the corruption into common usage in the language. Alternatively, the corruption was already common usage when the MadSong was written (what I thought YOU were saying) and this is why the author used that name.

Either way, the asylum assuredly existed and it was called "Bethlehem"...

Robt.

Kavey