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Then,TSR, you had best turn down the bagpipes so you can hear us more clearly.
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Going way off topic here, but I noticed that an earlier post thanked Mr. Norman for educating us on how to use the word "such" as an object. I too, have a thank you to extend to Mr. Norman. I am a collector of word sequences like MASS-MESS-MISS-MOSS-MUSS or PAT-PET-PIT-POT-PUT. I don't know if there is a proper name for these word sequences, but the consonants stay the same while the vowel changes. If all 5 vowels create words found in the dictionary, the sequence goes into my collection. Surprisingly, there are very few such sequences. Finding one is like finding a rare butterfly or getting a 1908 penny in your change. But one day--reading a GBN post that contained the phrase " LEST we forget"--I realized "EUREKA!!!" LAST- LEST -LIST-LOST-LUST.
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Not so far off topic. That last list looked like a lovely little train set to me.

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Say it several times out loud and it even sounds like a train.
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Slap-slep-slip-slop-slup?

One sleps a bag onto a train. To slup is to mishandle a soup spoon on the way to the chin. That's my argument and I'm sticking to it. (Of course I lose Scrabble arguments regularly.)

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Henry, one "schleps" a bag onto a train; brush up on your Brooklyn Yiddish! Won't quibble with you on "slup".

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I know, Mike, but the joke needs a "slep." Maybe I'm from Eastern Idiosyncrasia and don't know how to pronounce "sh". (This makes saying bad words in English rather difficult.)
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The sequences that almost make it into the collection are sometimes just as good... how about TALL-TELL-TILL-TOLL-and(Jethro)TULL?
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Mr/Ms Beacon Hill, do you have bat,bet,bit,bot,but or
ball,bell,bill,boll,bull?

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quote:
Originally posted by Henry Kisor:
Slap-slep-slip-slop-slup?

One sleps a bag onto a train. To slup is to mishandle a soup spoon on the way to the chin. That's my argument and I'm sticking to it. (Of course I lose Scrabble arguments regularly.)

I guess you do. Slurp with an "r" is what you do with the soup.
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FROM THE GOVERMENT CHARACTER CONSERVATION OFFICE

We regret to inform you that the United States Office of the Strategic Punctuation Reserve at Elk Hills, CA is running short on hyphens and parenthesis. In this time of national need we ask all patriotic Americans to do their duty and stop using so many hyphens.

Originally this critical shortage started with hyphens, and now we are short of parenthesis as well.

Because of the critical nature of this situation, we have exercised Federal powers of Eminent Domain and have reclaimed some of the hyphens from the above conversation. Don't use any more parenthesis or we'll take those back too.

We at the Federal Government feel that since the education system has gone to heck anywhoo, as long as people understand you then it qualifies as communication. Save a country, stop using hyphens -- NOW!

Sincerely,
Boone Doggle,
Federal Administrator of Punctuation and Email

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Like a phoenix - risen from the ashes -
Comes another posting about dashes.
Perhaps in bold bold for emphasis
(or captured in parenthesis)
I piper might - with threat of pain,
Make here a plea that this remain
a list that mentions naught but rail
and road and track. Alas, to no avail.
T'would I think end up with only
results unbridled, like a pony,
Meandering across the plains
Instead of riding herd on trains.

Ode-iferously

Ira

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Ira - have the penguins lost favor so soon?

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Oops. No penguins.

So that no spheniscus feel bereft
(and if I have some musing left)
I'll dash off this rhyme with penguin
lest some posters - lent to sanguine -
take a mind to send me packing
on a zephyr. Sadly, lacking
pentametric urges,
additional poetic surges
must wait for further critical dissing
about what or whom I have left missing.

Humbled I

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Wow, Ira you have outdone yourself. For those who need the additional info, as I certainly did, here is an explanatory link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheniscus

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"Dash away, dash away, dash away home!"
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by HopefulRailUser:
[QB] Wow, Ira you have outdone yourself.

Thanks Vickster!!

A bit of praise and inspiration goes a long way to keeping the muse active. Glad you liked them. I am rather fond of those last two myself, especially considering I just whipped'em out.

Ira

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Ira, your talent lends much to this already talented forum. I always look forweard to seeing what you can come up with (I suppose the grammer police will be out since I should have said with what you can come up. Ugh!!)
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