because i stiffed the schwa &mdash meme two-fer

[rone]

schwa242 expressed his displeasure with his freeloading friends.  So, since i still owe him, "comment and i'll pick one of your LJ interests and compose a couplet or senryu, a veritable quantum of doggerel, if you will."  First come, first served.

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Also-or-alternatively, scan my interest list and ask about any that looks odd.

Comments

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I look forward to your limerick.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I saw Odin and Loki one day,
they were dancing the evening away,
    but then Thor threw a fit
    and he cursed and he spit,
"Woe is i, for the All-Father's gay!"

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Very good. A variation on the last line:

"Wotan's Eye (http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=colum&book=odin&story=mimir)'s for the mother of his bay (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/sleipnir.html)!"

U, Rone

[nerdsholmferret.livejournal.com]

Feel free to hypothesize an interest.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

confusion
i tried to slaughter the badger
  that laid the golden eggs
  but i missed and gave it a
contusion

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

What's the difference between lexical legerdemain and syntactical sleight-of-hand?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Well, lexical legerdemain involves vocabulary and syntactical sleight-of-hand involves syntax. An example of the former would be Umberto Eco and the Bunnymen (http://www.yrad.com/essays/eco2.htm) (thanks to mm_rss). An example of the latter... that's tricky. The one thing that comes to mind is a lyrics sample from a Soda Stereo song, "Terapia de Amor Intensiva", off their Signos album.

    Haré lo que me pidas
    Haré que me lo pidas

Note that the words are the same in each line, except for a shuffling in position. The former means, "I'll do what you ask of me", and the latter means, "I'll make you ask me for it". A simple relocation almost diametrically changes the meaning of the sentence.

You missed the third of the wordplay triplets, "prosaic prestidigitation". I'd say that covers stuff like my recent Pulp Fiction/Lord of the Rings mashup.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

It's all grammatical gamboling to me, man.

I enjoyed your explanation.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Thanks. To be honest, i was hoping someone would ask, so i spent some time thinking about it in advance.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

How doth the wi-ly tril-o-bite
  Con-spire each mur-ky night!
Her ben-thic, va-gile body lies
  A-way from pry-ing light!

How skill-ful-ly she schemes and plans!
  Her a-gents have all spread!
They la-bor hard until the day
  The time has come to act!

[alfvaen]

Why are you interested in "40" particularly? The number, the age, the psalm, the U2 song, or a band by that name?

Feel free to also.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Cuarenta (which means 'forty') is the quintessential Ecuadorian card game.

Also:

oddly, there are no
relativistic effects
in a world that's flat

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

I'll take a limerick sir.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You know, i don't HAVE to make it a limerick.... *grumble*

To the transmetropolitan man
was delivered a head in a can
    which he carefully shook
    and then placed in a nook
and he said, "I've a most cunning plan."

Then he pulled out a bazooka and it went EXPLODO. TEH ENB.

[mezdeathhead.livejournal.com]

perhaps a limerick? perhaps it's up to you.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

callus, bunion, hammer toe
  my shoes say they love me
    but they have no heart
      only a long, hard—
oh this pair is really cute