Election Results -- National

[John Miller]

The voters have answered the call
Adding spark to a rather drab fall
Rumsfield has quit;
The Government, split,
Will prob'ly do nothing at all! *

* So what's new?

Inasmuch as vitually everything the Government does hits me in the
pocket, I LIKE it that way.

For the record, I voted mostly Libertarian.

--
hard...@neto.com (John Miller)
(903) 632 5226

[rhubarb]

     I propose that Azul's corner (herein) which gets very little activity,
be expanded to include commentary and questions about limericks
in a prose mode.
     For example
            1. Who is David Alan Brooks.  He has a large amount
                of lims out on the internet.
            2. The same goes for Rory Ewins.  I suspect he is a form
                category or pseudonym.
            3. Who is M J McGuire who wrote the superb Jonah-Yale Lim.
            4.  I have seen veiled references to a google burying ground for
                 for old limericks.  If it exists, would some one show me how to
                utilize it.
            5. To minimize flames:
                        "Let's be astronauts!  Earth can't restrain us!"
                        You ansered "Not me," which was heinous.
                        So I flew to the stars,
                        Venus, Pluto, and Mars!
                        You stayed home and Saturn Uranus.
                                Alkahuna

Onward!

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[Hugh Clary]

rhubarb <rhu...@ida.net> posted incorrectly, in html:

> I propose that Azul's corner (herein) which gets very little activity,
>be expanded to include commentary and questions about limericks
>in a prose mode.
> For example
>1. Who is David Alan Brooks. He has a large amount
>of lims out on the internet.
>2. The same goes for Rory Ewins. I suspect he is a form
>category or pseudonym.
>3. Who is M J McGuire who wrote the superb Jonah-Yale Lim.
>4. I have seen veiled references to a google burying ground for
>for old limericks. If it exists, would some one show me how to
>utilize it.
>5. To minimize flames:
>
>Let's be astronauts! Earth can't restrain us!"
>You ansered "Not me," which was heinous.
>So I flew to the stars,
>Venus, Pluto, and Mars!
>You stayed home and Saturn Uranus.
>Alkahuna
>Onward!
>Jim McWilliam
>
>

In Usenet, I've never a hanker
For other than text, so with rancor
I'm kicking my foot
At McWilliam, who put
The 'w' into the anchor.

(solution below)

jnaxre

[RanDog]

Almost too cleverly, Hugh Clary penned, in text:

Our flames won't be minimized soon
For Jim has untidily strewn
His trash in this space.
He's named when you place
An 'r' in the middle of moon.

(solution below)

zbeba

~~~~~~~~~~

Unf Wvz rire jevggra na bevtvany yvzrevpx va uvf yvsr?

~~~~~~~~~~

Jim:

For info on David Alan Brooks, click here:
http://davidalanbrooks.com/html/exploits.html

For info on Rory Ewins, click here:
http://www.speedysnail.com/rory/

I've no clue about McGuire.

The Google Groups archive is a de facto graveyard for Limericks. AJL
contributions date back to 1995 (over 20,000 topics, many which are long
threads with multiple Limericks) and AAL contributions to 1999 (nearly 5000
topics). It's quite easy to find things using Google's outstanding search
engine. If you would have used that search engine, you would have seen that
I posted Alkahuna's astronaut Limerick from OEDILF in AJL (along with a
number of my own) just last month (Tiddy, Hugh and John kicked in some good
ones too):
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.jokes.limericks/browse_frm/thread/f5354d6cda692276/ab06c0108688138f?lnk=gst&q=astronaut&rnum=1&hl=en#ab06c0108688138f

[Hugh Clary]

<snips due space considerations>

Jim McWilliams wrote:

>> I propose that Azul's corner (herein) which gets very little activity,
>>be expanded to include commentary and questions about limericks
>>in a prose mode.
>> For example
>>1. Who is David Alan Brooks. He has a large amount
>>of lims out on the internet.
>>2. The same goes for Rory Ewins. I suspect he is a form
>>category or pseudonym.
>>3. Who is M J McGuire who wrote the superb Jonah-Yale Lim.
>>4. I have seen veiled references to a google burying ground for
>>for old limericks. If it exists, would some one show me how to
>>utilize it.
>>

"RanDog" <rand...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>For info on David Alan Brooks, click here:
>http://davidalanbrooks.com/html/exploits.html
>
>For info on Rory Ewins, click here:
>http://www.speedysnail.com/rory/
>
>I've no clue about McGuire.
>
>The Google Groups archive is a de facto graveyard for Limericks. AJL
>contributions date back to 1995 (over 20,000 topics, many which are long
>threads with multiple Limericks) and AAL contributions to 1999 (nearly 5000
>topics). It's quite easy to find things using Google's outstanding search
>engine. If you would have used that search engine, you would have seen that
>I posted Alkahuna's astronaut Limerick from OEDILF in AJL (along with a
>number of my own) just last month (Tiddy, Hugh and John kicked in some good
>ones too):
>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.jokes.limericks/browse_frm/thread/f5354d6cda692276/ab06c0108688138f?lnk=gst&q=astronaut&rnum=1&hl=en#ab06c0108688138f
>

Google's Group Advanced Search page offers lots of
options for searching old posts. One can search simply
the limerick groups:

http://tinyurl.com/ygyahr

Or, options are available to search any combination of
key words/terms & dates at:

http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

But, all kidding of Master James aside, his total collection
of limericks prolly exceeds those of Tony Davie (Ærchie
has them preserved on his site), and he has even
tried to find ways to catalog them in databases. Likely
not totally successful, admittedly, but he keeps trying.

And, his suggestions about how to better utilize the site
make sense to me. Still, it's still Azul's baby, and his
proposals seem to violate her original charter. That being
so, I am forced to include a lim here to stay within those
guidelines.

At risk that I cover with soot
A hero, forthwith I will put
The suggestion that Holmes
Was in fetishist tomes,
Since he shouted, "The game is afoot!"

[RanDog]

Licking Azul's boots, Hugh Clary shuddered and gushed forth with:

> <snips due space considerations>
>
> Jim McWilliams wrote:
>
> >> I propose that Azul's corner (herein) which gets very little activity,
> >>be expanded to include commentary and questions about limericks
> >>in a prose mode.
> >> For example
> >>1. Who is David Alan Brooks. He has a large amount
> >>of lims out on the internet.
> >>2. The same goes for Rory Ewins. I suspect he is a form
> >>category or pseudonym.
> >>3. Who is M J McGuire who wrote the superb Jonah-Yale Lim.
> >>4. I have seen veiled references to a google burying ground for
> >>for old limericks. If it exists, would some one show me how to
> >>utilize it.
> >>

[snip]

>
> But, all kidding of Master James aside, his total collection
> of limericks prolly exceeds those of Tony Davie (Ærchie
> has them preserved on his site), and he has even
> tried to find ways to catalog them in databases. Likely
> not totally successful, admittedly, but he keeps trying.
>
> And, his suggestions about how to better utilize the site
> make sense to me. Still, it's still Azul's baby, and his
> proposals seem to violate her original charter. That being
> so, I am forced to include a lim here to stay within those
> guidelines.
>
> At risk that I cover with soot
> A hero, forthwith I will put
> The suggestion that Holmes
> Was in fetishist tomes,
> Since he shouted, "The game is afoot!"

Your fetish suggestion I've bought, son,
But NOT Jimmy's prose-ridden rot, son!
It wouldn't be cool
If, like Sherlock, Azul
Would quip, "Cut out the poetry, Watson."

To see the Holmes quote above in context, reference "The Adventure of the
Retired Colourman":
http://tinyurl.com/yaqvjh