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Post by bs smelliot on Jul 26, 2007 15:23:07 GMT -5
There once was a worker from Gresham Who thought that the Truth would enmesh him And so he got out But then started to shout Like a crazy mean fool, but God blesh him.
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Post by Henry on Jul 26, 2007 21:56:23 GMT -5
Did you have a poetry class? Bet you didn't get a job as a poet.
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Post by nantucket man on Jul 26, 2007 21:58:50 GMT -5
Did you have a poetry class? Bet you didn't get a job as a poet. You don't need a poetry class for limericks. They're supposed to be basic and silly. Kinda like what he did.
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Post by Brad Lewis on Jul 26, 2007 22:35:26 GMT -5
There once was a worker who lived in a zoo he had a companion, about his age too They held meetings, pretended to pray and all But then their lies caught up them And their pretensions began to fall. Brad
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Post by wanttobewithGod on Jul 27, 2007 0:16:58 GMT -5
Sorry Bradley...gonna have to get an F on that...not ....limirick...y enough. HINT: rhyme lines 1,2, 5 and lines 3,4. Better luck next time!
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Post by gloryintruth on Jul 27, 2007 7:11:24 GMT -5
[Someone Wrote] You don't need a poetry class for limericks. They're supposed to be basic and silly. Kinda like what he did.
Not necessarily true. Limericks, though simple forms of doggerel, are nevertheless governed by rules of rhyme and metre the same as any other form of poetry. Furthermore, Limericks can be a study within their own right, as in a recent pyschological and sociological analysis of Edward Lear's nonsense poetry which I have read. Although "the Pobble has no toes" seems innocent enough at first glance, the implications and themes within the text yield quite a different story. Fascinating, if a little far fetched.
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Post by janet on Jul 27, 2007 7:13:32 GMT -5
There once was a worker who lived in a zoo he had a companion, about his age too They held meetings, pretended to pray and all But then their lies caught up them And their pretensions began to fall. Brad HaHa LOL ---Sheesh----
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Post by gloryintruth on Jul 27, 2007 7:29:42 GMT -5
[Brad Wrote] There once was a worker who lived in a zoo he had a companion, about his age too They held meetings, pretended to pray and all But then their lies caught up them And their pretensions began to fall.
Never one to resist puerile displays of angst, this thread would have been recieved as manna from heaven by Brad. The opportunity to compose a jingle; the chance to yoke "lies" and "workers" together within the same sentence; the possibility of maligning and condemning the friends - not to be missed.
However I find it sad, misleading, and a species of falsehood for Brad to say that the workers "pretend to pray and all". It is sad because Brad cannot bring himself to recognise that there are many good and genuine folk in the fellowship, who are indeed saved Christians, and that this includes many workers. (The inability to recognise the Spirit of Jesus is, of course, the mark of those are are dead in trespasses and sins - it is therefore sinister that Brad neither sees this Spirit, acknowledges it, displays it, or answers questions in accordance with it.)
Brad is a good example of someone who has undergone a gestalt switch. Condemning legalism, he becomes the arch legalist insisting no one in the fellowship can be saved. Condemning the workers for telling "lies" and being slippery characters, he himself refuses to answer direct questions and tells any number of untruths about other people's writings. Condemning the friends for being gossipy busybodies, he parks his nose in other people's lives, going so far as to get someone's Bible, scan its entire contents (a process requiring hours), in order to humiliate and bully another. Condeming the friends for being incurious creatures who happily bury their heads in the sand to his "truth", Brad freely admits he does not read the comments and writings that I post, and he does not want anyone else to either.
One could go on, and on.
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Post by gloryintruth on Jul 27, 2007 7:36:49 GMT -5
[Janet Wrote] HaHa LOL ---Sheesh----
For those who are not aware, this is Janet, the Convention Granny who is very concerned about the theological development and religious education of the kiddos and wants to know what the workers are doing about it, and why. Hence she posted an entire thread on the subject, asking all kinds of questions, and when I responded in detail, she labelled it "stupidity". End of story. No elaboration. No additional notes or extras. Just one ex cathedra statement in simple, monosyllabic sentences. Janet is doubtless unaccustomed to having people actually present coherent arguments in favour of their position.
She find's Brad's level of humour to be highly entertaining, which tells us all we need to know really.
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Post by janet on Jul 27, 2007 8:16:15 GMT -5
[Janet Wrote] HaHa LOL ---Sheesh----For those who are not aware, this is Janet, the Convention Granny who is very concerned about the theological development and religious education of the kiddos and wants to know what the workers are doing about it, and why. Hence she posted an entire thread on the subject, asking all kinds of questions, and when I responded in detail, she labelled it "stupidity". End of story. No elaboration. No additional notes or extras. Just one ex cathedra statement in simple, monosyllabic sentences. Janet is doubtless unaccustomed to having people actually present coherent arguments in favour of their position. She find's Brad's level of humour to be highly entertaining, which tells us all we need to know really. SO WHAT. Please close the door on the way out.
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Post by gloryintruth on Jul 27, 2007 8:44:19 GMT -5
[Janet Wrote] SO WHAT. Please close the door on the way out.
You forgot to add your favourite expression: SHEESH. If you do not add this authenticating mark to your posts, some people might think they do not originate from an allegedly mature-age woman, and imagine they were written by a young child.
Your choice of idiom is not very effective, is it? I do not even know what you mean. And any insult that requires explanation on the part of the insulter for the benefit of the insultee kind of undoes the whole effect, doesn't it?
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Post by bs smelliot on Jul 27, 2007 10:14:29 GMT -5
There once was a worker at Boring (A convention, though some there are snoring). But then this nice fella, He got salmonella, Now all workers and Friends he's deploring.
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Post by janet on Jul 27, 2007 10:17:52 GMT -5
[Janet Wrote] SO WHAT. Please close the door on the way out. You forgot to add your favourite expression: SHEESH. If you do not add this authenticating mark to your posts, some people might think they do not originate from an allegedly mature-age woman, and imagine they were written by a young child. Your choice of idiom is not very effective, is it? I do not even know what you mean. And any insult that requires explanation on the part of the insulter for the benefit of the insultee kind of undoes the whole effect, doesn't it? ----Sheesh---Door please ;D
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