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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

709.0. "How loud was it? It was _so_ loud that..." by SVBEV::VECRUMBA (Infinitely deep bag of tricks) Sat Aug 12 1989 05:05

     This is what minds create after reading through limericks in here
     and then getting stuck in the subway for 20 minutes in a tunnel :-)

	A sonorously slumb'ring Susannah
	Blew the roof off her jungle cabana --
	And the deafening roar
	Of her thundering snore
	Swept for miles across the savanna!

     /pjv

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
709.1	Doesn't scan in standard English	BLAS03::FORBES	Bill Forbes - LDP Engrng	`Sat Aug 12 1989 16:27`	7
	Re: <<< Note 709.0 by SVBEV::VECRUMBA "Infinitely deep bag of tricks" >>> Neat, but the last line doesn't scan unless you say: "Swept for MY-ULLS across the savanna!" Bill
709.2		SSDEVO::EGGERS	Anybody can fly with an engine.	`Mon Aug 14 1989 19:17`	2
	Gee. I've always pronounced "miles" as MY-ulls. It scans OK when I read it.
709.3		SVBEV::VECRUMBA	Infinitely deep bag of tricks	`Tue Aug 15 1989 00:24`	10
	re .1 Yo, I'm fum Booklyn!! :-) Scans for me... /Peters
709.4	scans to me, too	EIFFEL::RANDALL	living on another planet	`Tue Aug 15 1989 21:52`	3
	Of course there are two syllables in miles. --bonnie, who speaks standard Montanan
709.5	What about standard southern?	CASP::SEIDMAN	Aaron Seidman	`Wed Aug 16 1989 21:34`	2
	Acoording to my cousins from Texas, theyuh lots a squah mahls in Montana, but not miny peuhpul, en evun the cayows er fuh apaht
709.6	that's right	TLE::RANDALL	living on another planet	`Thu Aug 17 1989 18:04`	4
	And your cousins are exactly right . . . when a bull is looking for a mate, he's got a three-day walk ahead . . . --bonnie