Like compoete: poetage: poetato: poesto: pasta verse: languine?

Just wondering.

Alphabetti Spaghetti does it for me!
Oh and Cod so long as it's been in a school.

Vers Librefraumilch has always done it for me.

As witty as punning can be, on a serious note, there's nothing like coffee at 4am in the morning combined with all-consuming insomnia to get that pen to paper.

Sorry to be pedantic - but it's a pet hate!
4am in the morning? - as opposed to which other 4am?
Cx

Most human deaths occur between 3 & 4am. Apparently, it's when the body is at its weakest and most vulnerable. Obviously, the brain is affected and if it doesn't die it commits blips. Martin, who is still numbered among the Quick (nobody has yet claimed his comment was delivered by Ouiji Board or planchette), was writing during this vulnerable time, so perhaps we can forgive him his tautology.

Let's have a 22 hour clock and live forever!

I am a very forgiving pedant, and wouldn't normally comment on minor bits n' bobs - not least because then my own infringements might be noticed! - but there are just one or two that get to me - not sure why, but there you go. Sign of my advancing years, I suspect.

Cx

Yes Paul - you work out the details and I'll second it! (geddit? second ... oh well, never mind) :-)

You're in luck, Dancing Lord P, I have just created the first clock anti- moisturiser. How does it work? It works this-a-way! It scientifically prolifically shrivels the average flat dial face, leaving a crinkled depression so that only 20 hours are counted. The numerals 3 & 4 are lost in the sag, folds and overlap. Living bodies exposed to the treated clocks have repeatedly survived. To place your order please leave cash in the usual secluded depository. Thank you.

Yes, it's odd what niggles us. It's not pedantry, but something altogether quirkier I think -- a personal sense of what is correct, what needs to be upheld.

Certainly I find that, as I'm getting older, I'm thinking more often about things that need to be upheld.
I have to say, I find the idea of a moisturiser that creates a crinkly, deep depression around the 4 o'clock area quite horrifying - I already have enough crinkly, deep depressions around my 4 o'clock area, thank-you.
Cx

"And as for me
I'll sit and eat
a buttercup sandwich
and wait til the shower
is over"

(lovely line from a lovely song - and very healthy too I expect. I prefer nasturtiam sandwiches actually)

I think eggs are supposed to be a good brain food so therefore eggs! Maybe a goose egg for a longer verse?

I'd love to be a 4am riser. Unfortunately I have kids which makes me get out of bed 'as late as you canner'.

I can understand your pedantry Chris - there are lots of things that bug me. I always try 'to' do things but I see more and more people using and - even in published books. Am I wrong in thinking and is a connective and not part of a verb conjugation? Someone confirm what I think or set me straight.

I've created a virus that attacks poets and turns them cannibal -- but selectively so. A cannibal free-verse poet will only eat versifiers, limerick writers will kill and eat poets predisposed to creating sonnets and so forth. With every meal the cannibal poet will take on the poetic slant/vigour/inclination of the poet he/she is currently digesting. Not sure when I'll expose the population of WOL to this threat, but it will be sooner rather than later.

I'm loving that idea Hatta. So a well rounded poet would have to have that killer instinct.

There are some poets on here who adhere to a rather restrictive diet in order to conceive their poetry. I've a feeling they might use contraception though - something I've never much liked - it stunts the poetic flow so....

Wait a minute, Hatta. I now have to eat myself!!

Exactly, Mr B.. So, if you have a strategy for eating jelly babies then I think it's possible you could adopt or adapt it for your self-dining.

I guess if you were a poet on a diet, then verbal diaorrhea would be a good idea? (I think I've got it - I am always sitting on the blogg!) ;-)

Oh Dear Ann... Groan. Win

I guess if Paul was eating jelly babies he'd have to bite all their heads off first. It's the only way to deal with the little perishers IMO.