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This Week in Limerick!

May 30, 2008 By: Southpaw Jones Category: Poetry No Comments →

It might be the hardest location
To find a specific vocation
So ain’t it a bummer
That they need a plumber
To fix the john in the space station
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“Bad karma” declares Sharon Stone
Made the Chinese earthquake-prone
Mistreating Tibet
Brought their shaking, she bet
Cosmic cause of Iceland’s? Unknown.
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“This ain’t the McClellan we knew
Back when he was under our shoe
His new book? All lies!
We’re the trustworthy guys!
And Iran has the bomb now, it’s true.”
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Will spotting a lost tribe remind us
That as much as we think we’ve refined us
We don’t know how to act
And I know for a fact
It would not behoove them to find us
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as reported in The New York Times

May 30, 1908
WIRELESS TALK GOES FAR.
De Forest’s Message to His Wife Is Heard 78 Miles Away.
MARSEILLES — While Lee De Forest was talking to-day by means of his system of wireless telephony from the Exposition Building here with his wife, who was six miles off the coast on board the steamer Ile de France, the conversation was overheard at the radio-telegraph station at St. Marie de la Mar, seventy-eight miles away.


One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

That wrapped and preserved corpse wants to hang out and get to know me. He even said he’d help me move. I’ve never met such a…

Highlight here for answer: [chummy mummy]


Anteater Coolness




In its essence, any art that relies on words makes use of their ability to eat away — of their corrosive function — just as etching depends on the corrosive power of nitric acid.
Yukio Mishima


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