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# magnificent
by the way, you can tell you need sleep when you start making up poems like this:

there once was a marmot called henry
who lived up an manatee's chimney
one day he fell down
landed on a clown
who happened to be rather friendly
(I helped save b3ta! Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 1:57, archived)
# Monsieur Pedantic a dit..
That's a limerick, not a poem
(Chromatically Challenged, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 1:59, archived)
# is that like
that's a marsupial, not a mammal?
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:00, archived)
# If you're a pedant
yes :)
(Chromatically Challenged, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:01, archived)
# er
so you're a play acting pedant who gets it slightly wrong for subtle trolling?
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:03, archived)
# Who's
Play-acting?
(Chromatically Challenged, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:07, archived)
# to be an uber pedant....
...you could say that it is verse, but whether or not it deserves to be called poetry is another matter.

Of course, I don't know what I'm talking about. All I remember about English classes at school, is that my teacher won a scooter on Sale of the Century.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:09, archived)
# I think peom is quite tricky to define
and basically comes down to the writers intention. There isn't an obvious grammatic rule you could use. There's plenty of stuff that's considered poerty that has neither regular metre or rhyme. And there's prose that does. Probably. I dunno. It's all just words. Gay words with pink fullstops.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:15, archived)
# Touche
dictionary.reference.com/search?q=prose
(Chromatically Challenged, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:17, archived)
# you're missing my point:
there is prose that reads like poetry and poetry that reads like prose. Therefore it's the authors intention that makes it one or the other. Yes there are conventions - but there is plenty of stuff that doesn't conform.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:20, archived)
# OK
whatever
</Wayward>
(Chromatically Challenged, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:24, archived)
# yeh yeh
tiredness/stupidity/laziness sigh
(I helped save b3ta! Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:02, archived)
# do manatees
have chimneys?

I've only encountered one, on Monkey Island 4
(I helped save b3ta! Batsgirl, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:01, archived)
# another one
i once met a man with a lisp
who looked rather like a crisp
I named him wheat snack
he cried like a sap
so i hit him and thus fixed his lisp


sigh
(I helped save b3ta! Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:05, archived)
#
*pats reassuringly on shoulder*

"it's ok..."
(I helped save b3ta! Batsgirl, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:07, archived)
# mmm
i once had a bag full of gourds
and a garage of broken down Fords
I then got a knife
and murdered my wife
now they won't let me near matches


freestyle limericks are fun
(I helped save b3ta! Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:08, archived)
# ok!
I need cheering up, all this politics has made me sad :(
(I helped save b3ta! Batsgirl, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:13, archived)
# i would regail you
with some incredible story about something or other, but i think my eyes are about to fall out, so i better go keep them safe with my eyelids.

In bed.

Night night.
(I helped save b3ta! Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:16, archived)
# night babe
xxx
(I helped save b3ta! Batsgirl, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:19, archived)
# Wooo!
they are indeed.
I like that one...
and they won't let me near matches either
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:38, archived)
# hmmm
There once was a weboard called b3ta
With images that could not be sweeter
It's changed quite a bit
with all this political shit
and without it, it'd be so much neater
(Chromatically Challenged, Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:11, archived)