RCTQ squimish

Can we spell J O K E? Sheesh, lighten up!
PAT

dreamboat wrote:

So why are you people making fun of my writing.
So I mispelled something, haven't you ever made a
mistake in typing something?
dreamboat
"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
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Perhaps she recieved one of those horrible flaming squishies on her front
step.. that would make me squeamish..... um.. oh.. squimish... ahhhh...
never mind.
Diana

"Sharon Harper" wrote in message
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A Squimish???? Hmmm, can't say I've been lucky enough to get one of

those!

I've received a "squish" - d'ya think they're the same??? LOL

--
Sharon From Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under)
http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html

"dreamboat" wrote in message
.com...

I received a squimish today. Was so happy to get it.
Thanks to the person in NY that sent it to me.
dreamboat/Dorothy in Texas

Dreamboat;
We JOKE around a lot here in RCTQ land. If you've read the posts
more than a week or so you would notice this. Don't take offense,
just try to lighten up. This place is about FUN!
PAT, who of course NEVER makes any spelling/terminology errors

dreamboat wrote:

So why are you people making fun of my writing.
So I mispelled something, haven't you ever made a
mistake in typing something?

because that is Diana and Sharon for you!!!
come on, it was not an ordinary typo, it was funny!

dreamboat wrote:

So why are you people making fun of my writing.
So I mispelled something, haven't you ever made a
mistake in typing something?
dreamboat

--
Dr. Quilter
Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens
http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali
(take the dog out before replying)

On Tue, 18 May 2004 10:39:05 +0100, Kate Dicey
wrote:

Sharon Harper wrote:

Dreamboat please stop taking offence - I was having a joke. Lord knows I've
made enough spelling mistakes and other errors to be able to laugh at
myself. Sorry if I've hurt your feelings.

I like that spelling error/typo. As a dyslexic teacher of English, I
have to say that I have made one or two that have gone down in fambly
history... ('Evan the Geog' will live forever! He was part of a letter
that said 'even the geog[raphy] exam was ok').

I also like Nanny Og's attitude to spelling: she knew how to START
spelling banananananana, but never knew when to finish...

I am usually pretty good about correcting my typos. ("Wow!" you say,
"she really does spell that badly?" Yup.) This comes from writing in
groups that will pounce on typos and spelling errors and hold them up
as prizes to discover new and wonderful definitions for. Just
recently I myself defined a new typo induced word. A lass in another
group "oggled" my hips (don't even ask how a thread evolved to contain
my hips!).
I defined oggle as pertaining to a state of Nanny Ogg-ness.
So far the group has restrained itself, and not gone on to speculate
what that has to do with my hips.

My best most productive spelling rule to date has been: When in doubt
add more vowels (or consanants depending on which you are waffleing
over). It hasn't improved my spelling any, but it has produced some
marvelous new words!

By the by, DH had to get on my case about the even/evan thing. He
kept pounding me with: Evan is a boy even if Eve disagrees.

NightMist
Men who can improvise in dactylic hexameter need to be watched.
You never know what they will do in the middle of a conversation.
--
"It's such a gamble when you get a face"
- Richard Hell

NightMist wrote:
Men who can improvise in dactylic hexameter need to be watched.
You never know what they will do in the middle of a conversation.

Oh dear. My husband can improvise in iambic pentameter; I'd better keep
an eye on him! (er, well, we do have 3 sons, perhaps I kept *too* close
an eye on him? *giggle*)

--
the black rose, wench with a wrench
proud to be owned by a yorkie

Nah, all winks and nudges aside, the idea of you procreating with that sort
of person doesnt scare me nearly as much as the notion of some people who
have chosen to have kids. Im actually feeling more hopeful about the future
of humans now. I do, however, need to go look up iambic pentameter and
dactylic hexameter . I seem to remember that IP is a poetry form...the other
sounds math-like.
Diana, who can make up limericks in her head

"the black rose" wrote in message
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NightMist wrote:
Men who can improvise in dactylic hexameter need to be watched.
You never know what they will do in the middle of a conversation.

Oh dear. My husband can improvise in iambic pentameter; I'd better keep
an eye on him! (er, well, we do have 3 sons, perhaps I kept *too* close
an eye on him? *giggle*)

--
the black rose, wench with a wrench
proud to be owned by a yorkie

Diana Curtis wrote:

Nah, all winks and nudges aside, the idea of you procreating with that sort
of person doesnt scare me nearly as much as the notion of some people who
have chosen to have kids. Im actually feeling more hopeful about the future
of humans now.

Hehe, thank you. My husband, actually, is one of the sweetest, gentlest
human beings you'd ever want to meet, plus he's hard-working,
well-educated and highly intelligent (family report is that his IQ is in
the 180's somewhere). Our sons are likewise highly intelligent. And
oooh, yeah, I know how lucky I am! :-)

--
the black rose, wench with a wrench
proud to be owned by a yorkie
http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts

Oh yeah, and both are poetry forms.

Iambic pentameter is common in Shakespeare. Iambic is the rhythm
(da-DA) and pentameter is the number of beats (5). Iambic pentameter
goes thusly:
da-DA da-DA da-DA da-DA da-DA
ex: Beshrew | that heart | that makes | my heart | to groan |
(Shakespeare, sonnet 133)

Dactylic hexameter is more commonly used in ancient epic poetry (like
Homer and Virgil -- epic poetry defines and is defined by dactylic
hexameter). Dactylic rhythm is a mixture of DUM-diddy and/or DUM-dum,
and hexameter is 6 beats, thus:
DUM-diddy DUM-diddy DUM-diddy DUM-diddy DUM-diddy DUM-dum (can't end in
diddy, and the important part is that the stress is on the first
syllable of the beat)
ex: Down in a | deep dark | hole sat an | old pig | munching a | bean
stalk |
ex: arma vi | rumque ca | no, Troi | ae qui | primus ab | oris (first
line of Virgil's Aeneid

Wow, that just sparked off an intense desire to go dust off Homer and
Virgil....

Diana Curtis wrote:

Nah, all winks and nudges aside, the idea of you procreating with that sort
of person doesnt scare me nearly as much as the notion of some people who
have chosen to have kids. Im actually feeling more hopeful about the future
of humans now. I do, however, need to go look up iambic pentameter and
dactylic hexameter . I seem to remember that IP is a poetry form...the other
sounds math-like.
Diana, who can make up limericks in her head

"the black rose" wrote in message
...

NightMist wrote:

Men who can improvise in dactylic hexameter need to be watched.
You never know what they will do in the middle of a conversation.

Oh dear. My husband can improvise in iambic pentameter; I'd better keep
an eye on him! (er, well, we do have 3 sons, perhaps I kept *too* close
an eye on him? *giggle*)

--
the black rose, wench with a wrench
proud to be owned by a yorkie





--
the black rose, wench with a wrench
proud to be owned by a yorkie

That was a lovely explaination.
The mind that can compose those on the fly must be an interesting one
indeed.
I noticed you didnt ask to hear a limerick. No matter. I can only do those
when the inspiration hits.
Diana

"the black rose" wrote in message
...
Oh yeah, and both are poetry forms.

Iambic pentameter is common in Shakespeare. Iambic is the rhythm
(da-DA) and pentameter is the number of beats (5). Iambic pentameter
goes thusly:
da-DA da-DA da-DA da-DA da-DA
ex: Beshrew | that heart | that makes | my heart | to groan |
(Shakespeare, sonnet 133)

Dactylic hexameter is more commonly used in ancient epic poetry (like
Homer and Virgil -- epic poetry defines and is defined by dactylic
hexameter). Dactylic rhythm is a mixture of DUM-diddy and/or DUM-dum,
and hexameter is 6 beats, thus:
DUM-diddy DUM-diddy DUM-diddy DUM-diddy DUM-diddy DUM-dum (can't end in
diddy, and the important part is that the stress is on the first
syllable of the beat)
ex: Down in a | deep dark | hole sat an | old pig | munching a | bean
stalk |
ex: arma vi | rumque ca | no, Troi | ae qui | primus ab | oris (first
line of Virgil's Aeneid

Wow, that just sparked off an intense desire to go dust off Homer and
Virgil....

Diana Curtis wrote:

Nah, all winks and nudges aside, the idea of you procreating with that
sort
of person doesnt scare me nearly as much as the notion of some people
who
have chosen to have kids. Im actually feeling more hopeful about the
future
of humans now. I do, however, need to go look up iambic pentameter and
dactylic hexameter . I seem to remember that IP is a poetry form...the
other
sounds math-like.
Diana, who can make up limericks in her head

"the black rose" wrote in message
...

NightMist wrote:

Men who can improvise in dactylic hexameter need to be watched.
You never know what they will do in the middle of a conversation.

Oh dear. My husband can improvise in iambic pentameter; I'd better keep
an eye on him! (er, well, we do have 3 sons, perhaps I kept *too* close
an eye on him? *giggle*)

--
the black rose, wench with a wrench
proud to be owned by a yorkie





--
the black rose, wench with a wrench
proud to be owned by a yorkie

Ok Diana,

I'll bite....

I would love to hear one of your limericks

Shona who won a limerick contest a few years back in NZ

"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
...
That was a lovely explaination.
The mind that can compose those on the fly must be an interesting one
indeed.
I noticed you didnt ask to hear a limerick. No matter. I can only do those
when the inspiration hits.
Diana

"the black rose" wrote in message
...
Oh yeah, and both are poetry forms.

Iambic pentameter is common in Shakespeare. Iambic is the rhythm
(da-DA) and pentameter is the number of beats (5). Iambic pentameter
goes thusly:
da-DA da-DA da-DA da-DA da-DA
ex: Beshrew | that heart | that makes | my heart | to groan |
(Shakespeare, sonnet 133)

Dactylic hexameter is more commonly used in ancient epic poetry (like
Homer and Virgil -- epic poetry defines and is defined by dactylic
hexameter). Dactylic rhythm is a mixture of DUM-diddy and/or DUM-dum,
and hexameter is 6 beats, thus:
DUM-diddy DUM-diddy DUM-diddy DUM-diddy DUM-diddy DUM-dum (can't end in
diddy, and the important part is that the stress is on the first
syllable of the beat)
ex: Down in a | deep dark | hole sat an | old pig | munching a | bean
stalk |
ex: arma vi | rumque ca | no, Troi | ae qui | primus ab | oris (first
line of Virgil's Aeneid

Wow, that just sparked off an intense desire to go dust off Homer and
Virgil....

Diana Curtis wrote:

Nah, all winks and nudges aside, the idea of you procreating with that
sort
of person doesnt scare me nearly as much as the notion of some people
who
have chosen to have kids. Im actually feeling more hopeful about the
future
of humans now. I do, however, need to go look up iambic pentameter and
dactylic hexameter . I seem to remember that IP is a poetry form...the
other
sounds math-like.
Diana, who can make up limericks in her head

"the black rose" wrote in message
...

NightMist wrote:

Men who can improvise in dactylic hexameter need to be watched.
You never know what they will do in the middle of a conversation.

Oh dear. My husband can improvise in iambic pentameter; I'd better
keep
an eye on him! (er, well, we do have 3 sons, perhaps I kept *too*
close
an eye on him? *giggle*)

--
the black rose, wench with a wrench
proud to be owned by a yorkie





--
the black rose, wench with a wrench
proud to be owned by a yorkie