Thread: Prompts and word games chat

I have never heard the word used, it was a reference to Bloggsworth's location rather than a first line, I was brought up in Palmers Green. The North London Suburb that made "Bottle green" of the "Lion Aunt" in "Novel on Yellow Paper".

Oh, sorry I missed that, Ollie, probably because this thread has gone to a new page, leaving any references to Bloggy on the previous, hidden, page.
But, since I started a rhyme, we may as well work on it, since nothing else poetic is going on here at the moment.

I left the burbs of London at sixteen
And sailed for distant lands I'd never seen

Anyone care to add another couplet in iambic pentameter? Where is he land? Or how is the voyage?

Originally Posted by Olly Buckle

I have never heard the word used, it was a reference to Bloggsworth's location rather than a first line, I was brought up in Palmers Green. The North London Suburb that made "Bottle green" of the "Lion Aunt" in "Novel on Yellow Paper".

Burbs! Burbs! Heaven forfend! I would never use such a word - I get unreasonably upset when people say less than when the should say fewer than, and don't get me started on owing to and due to...

Originally Posted by Bloggsworth

Burbs! Burbs! Heaven forfend! I would never use such a word - I get unreasonably upset when people say less than when the should say fewer than, and don't get me started on owing to and due to...

Then there is that terrible woman on the 52 bus who says "This is a 52 to Willesden bus Garridge" every time the bus stops until I want to scream "It's a GARAGE lady, it's spelled with an 'A'."

But is it G-rarge or Gaa-rarge?

Originally Posted by Olly Buckle

Then there is that terrible woman on the 52 bus who says "This is a 52 to Willesden bus Garridge" every time the bus stops until I want to scream "It's a GARAGE lady, it's spelled with an 'A'."

Still and all, I can understand her. You DO say garbidge for garbage, doanchu? Why not gabahge?

As for burbs, we have them here in the USA. Sure, they're suburbs, but it's common to say "living in the burbs."

I think it denotes a lack of refinement on the part of the user.

Ox, how about sticking to the topic of the thread instead of pasting garbage all over the walls.

I thought this was an international site, not a U.K. site. So stop dissing our lingo, guys. We bomb our own citizens you know, so you certainly aren't safe from my American wrath!

Ethnocentric paranoia, The "Willden bus Garridge" lady is about as British as they come, as are some of the things Bloggsworth listed. I am not against American usage as such, merely careless, ugly sounding, language. International site? Well yes, but even the ESL speakers use English here.

I also don't do threats or take any notice of those who make them.

Originally Posted by Olly Buckle

I thought this was an international site, not a U.K. site. So stop dissing our lingo, guys. We bomb our own citizens you know, so you certainly aren't safe from my American wrath!

I also don't do threats or take any notice of those who make them.

Nor do you know a joke when you see one, evidently!

I am sorry, I lost my sense of humour at a charity dinner, I took it out and left it on the side plate while I was getting free some peanut that had stuck under my denture. the waitress must have been wearing a cloak of invisibility, usually I am right on these things, but she cleared away the plate with my sense of humour on it without my noticing. It was imperfect, but I miss it, mostly it only worked on ones threes and fives, and hardly ever on twos fours and sixes, it was an odd sense of humour.

A limerick is a kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem especially one with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA), which is sometimes obscene with humorous intent. The form can be found in England as of the early years of the 18th century. It was popularized by Edward Lear in the 19th century, although he did not use the term.

The following example of a limerick is of unknown origin:

The limerick packs laughs anatomical
In space that is quite economical,
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean,
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.

The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth usually rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three syllables each.


A little thought first will always ensure the form is correct.

This year's twelfth month will be telling
Is that fire and brimstone I'm smelling?
Should we prepare for the worst
On December 21st?

This really does not work, far too many syllables in lines 3 and 4. December 21st is an abbreviation, but it actually reads 'December the twenty first', seven syllables without the introduction.