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doreenp
Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 147
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 12:44 am Post subject: Ode to a Dangling Participle????? |
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If I may, I would like to impose on your banterings and request your help with a small problem i have. I have found these postings to be , for the most part, from well informed , extremely entertaining people with, it seems, many talents that lie in many different places. So on to my request.
I will be leaving my place of employment and after 2 1/2 years of working with these ladies, I am moving on for more sunnier destinations. These ladies are having a dinner for me and i know i will be called upon to say a few words, They are a fun group, this is not a serious thing. We have had a steady on going commentary on "dangling participles" and i must say that they are extremely good at coming up with what a dangling participle is, a definition that would never be found in any dictionary or grammar book.
So, I would like to make a poem, limerick, rhyme, or an "Ode to a Dangling Participle" sort of thing but alas, my talents lie elsewhere and not in creating this sort of thing.
May I cheat and ask for your help? Any one with any writing talents out there that could help me out?
Many thanks, a "Newbie in hiding".
btw, when do you graduate from a Newbie to the formal "Tefler" status? |
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khmerhit
Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 1874 Location: Reverse Culture Shock Unit
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 12:54 am Post subject: |
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Scanning Dave's boards with idle curiosity, my fingers clicked the mouse on the latest post. You want a poem with a dangling participle, you say?
Hmm. Can anyone help out there? I'll see what I can do, but I make no promises, Im afraid. Wandering on his way, his feet tripped over the curb.. |
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lajzar
Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 647 Location: Saitama-ken, Japan
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:14 am Post subject: |
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khmerhit, I had always assumed you are a guy. If that assumption of mine is correct, then I can only assume you picked that avatar out of a perverse sense of humour  |
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khmerhit
Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 1874 Location: Reverse Culture Shock Unit
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:24 am Post subject: |
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Perverse? Me? Most perspicacious of you, Sandwich, Lozwich, Lajzar Yeah, it doesnt take much to keep me amused. It was intended for Capergirl but I STOLE it---ssssshhh... also, its the only avatar I have found that works properly.
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khmerhit
Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 1874 Location: Reverse Culture Shock Unit
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:46 am Post subject: |
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There was a young woman from Perth.
Though her diction was perfect from birth,
Her participles dangled
So often they mangled
Her native esteem and self-worth.
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Lanza-Armonia

Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Posts: 525 Location: London, UK. Soon to be in Hamburg, Germany
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 3:23 am Post subject: |
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An Ode to the danggling particle,
Is of joy, fun times and glee,
It likes to play all night and day,
Except when I have to pee.
I wake up every morning,
greeted by this rock.
The missus doesn't need to ask,
If she can suck my c--k.
After one's morning feast
(A great start to the day),
I relise it's my wife's brother
shi-te, boy? Am I gay?
I went to talk to the missus,
to see what she had'ta say.
She took the morning of her work,
so we could all go play.
Back upstairs, fast as children,
Clothes flying left and right.
I grabbed her se-xy hair and said,
"You're gunna come tonight".
On to our games, jumping on the bed,
The other guy feels left out, so he watches instead.
To see such a dangle that doesn't dangle anymore,
"I ode to your dangly bit, but she is still a *beep*".
I smacked him in the face with a four-iron dangle,
He fell to the floor with a bang.
With such a hard c ock knocking people out,
I have now no time to dang.
On with our ceromony,
Vivir Senorita!
She was more beautiful,
Than I ever s-exidita.
Passion by night, love by day,
Orgasms, multiple and true.
The white-stuff fires everywhere,
And sticks to her like glue.
There was so much of it that,
We stuck together all night.
We didn't know what to do,
So downstairs we took flight.
Phoned 999,
"We're on our way"
How are we gunna explain this,
No Idea, I play.
Trouble, dilema, a messy nuisance,
We were in a caper.
I just can't wait to see my friends,
When they read the morning paper.
This is The Ode To One's Dangly Bit
Stiff and gloryious pleasure on tap
Just be careful when you scream her name
Or bring your hard mat's hat!
---- Lanza-Armonia March 20th, 2003
What do you guys think of that one?
It's little dodgy but tweek it however you like |
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gingermeggs

Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 162
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 3:58 am Post subject: |
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What do you guys think of that one?
It's little dodgy but tweek it however you like |
VERY dodgy!!!.don't give up your day job. |
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Lanza-Armonia

Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Posts: 525 Location: London, UK. Soon to be in Hamburg, Germany
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 4:34 am Post subject: |
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My day job being teaching grammatically incorrect English to people who will never leave there home town, let alone the country, to use said English while I get to check out a fasinating country.
Try again John....
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Capergirl

Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1232 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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khmerhit, I had always assumed you are a guy. If that assumption of mine is correct, then I can only assume you picked that avatar out of a perverse sense of humour  |
He's just trying to get back at me for hijacking his thread last week.
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