Thursday Links
Photo by Brooklynnative from the Brownstoner Flickr pool. A Rush Into Refinancing as Mortgage Rates Fall [NY Times] 14-Year-Old Shot in Brooklyn [NY Times] Protect Yourself and Your Property [NY Daily News] DOT Preparing Brooklyn Streets for the Next Blackout [Brooklyn Eagle] Slopers Reject Cell Phone Tower [Brooklyn Paper]
Photo by Brooklynnative from the Brownstoner Flickr pool.
A Rush Into Refinancing as Mortgage Rates Fall [NY Times]
14-Year-Old Shot in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Protect Yourself and Your Property [NY Daily News]
DOT Preparing Brooklyn Streets for the Next Blackout [Brooklyn Eagle]
Slopers Reject Cell Phone Tower [Brooklyn Paper]
Plastic date
Use with hate
Need a mate
I know haiku don’t rhyme…but do I get extra credit.
One last limerick…hard doing this while arguing about terrorism in the toll thread!
There once was a man in Bed Stuy
Whose humor was witty and dry
His taste was for Asians
And boys spicy as Cajuns
His favorites were Chinese and Thai
Once again What rants
The Mutant Asset Bubble
Off his meds again
How about a redneck haiku?
Damn, in that tube-top
You make me almost forget
You are my cousin
Shall we move on to haiku now class?
Sushi and wasssssabi for those that come up with the best haiku (invoking the vision of a thread from many weeks ago) 😉
Biff,
I was writing poerty. NO rules in poerty.
http://www.creativity-portal.com/bc/bruce.price/rules-poetry.html
“I wasn’t writing a limerick
So, don’t be a snob and d..”
– The above example of a poem is to attributed to an anonymous BRG.
“Calgon, take me away!”
I’m sure DIBS knows some “ancient Chinese secrets”!
I had a feeling BRG was racking her brain for something that rhymes with “Biff”. But BRG, I thought you might be more creative with the word “stiff”.
Regardless, please read the following. Key words are “five-line” and “strict form” and “witty” and “humorous”:
A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict form, originally popularized in English by Edward Lear. Limericks are witty or humorous, and sometimes obscene with humorous intent.
The following example of a limerick is of anonymous origin.
The limerick packs laughs anatomical
In space that is quite economical,
But the good ones I’ve seen
So seldom are clean,
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
There once was a man named Biff
Who was an elitist and a stiff
He spent his day
riling a girl from the bay
with corny lines
mixed signals and signs
She was not amused
and left him defused