Daintier, smarter, better dressed...Antique high heel red doll shoes!

[msfledermaus]

..Or in my case red and white striped pirate socks for the company party. Yarrrrr.

Hey, it's the only fun I get at work these days. Big Brother's always a-watchin' and there's more and more work every time I turn around... It's an under-the-sea-kind of theme, so I'm whipping out the damn pirate socks. And the matching scarf. Yarrr, goddammit, Yarrr!!!

Hey, where'd the resto fo my pirate socks go? I had quite a few, with little jolly rogers all over it, and they're all missing? *heavy patient sigh* Alllright, who's making sock-puppets out of my pirate socks? Fess up...if you lie to me it'll be all the worse for you. I might have to tie you to the mizzenmast and sing "Xanadu" at you. You know I'll do it.

Anyway, off to check the bilge and beat back the rats....yarrr....

Comments

[banana.livejournal.com]

In Xanadu did Captian Maus
A stately pirate dome decree
Where Alf, the sacred parrot ran
Through gun-decks measureless to man
Down to the Spanish Main...

Squawk! Pieces of eight!

[spooble.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Xanadu.

[savage.livejournal.com]

Pirates now? Jeez.. I think you've gone through most of my weird little interests in the last week. That's just plain wierd. ;)

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Can't seem to help it. I'm a weirdie, that's for sure, ask anyone...

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

You sick, sick SICK little lego-man..I KNEW you of all people would like Xanadu...

[savage.livejournal.com]

Heh heh....sure, that's what they all say...

Happy holidays and stuff!

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's incredible!!!

Of course, we gotta work Olivia Neutron-Bomb into the next stanza, since she sang the threatening song of choice. Muahahahahaaa!!!

*Gives Polly a cracker*

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Hey, you too...hope Santa doesn't hit the reindeer stalls to fill your stocking or anything:)

[savage.livejournal.com]

I was going to say he did that last year, but then the raindeer don't just stop making that sort of thing. Do they?

Ack. Don't take any wooden nickles.

[spooble.livejournal.com]

Have it on DVD.

[banana.livejournal.com]

I went and looked up the rest, as I only knew the first bit, and it was a bit dull. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam isn't much better:

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it

...so we'll just publish it as it is and hope no one notices.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

You know, I memorized Xanadu a long time ago..I can remember bits and pieces. *shrug*

maybe we should stick to limericks or something, eh?

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

why am I not suprised?!?!?

OOog....and I thought I was a glutton for punishment...

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

*Laughs*
True, they're pretty much in constant production there...
I promise, no wooden nickles. Maybe the occasional wooden penny, just for kicks.

[banana.livejournal.com]

OK. I'll start:

There was a young lady named Maus

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Who got all her poets in-Haus,

[banana.livejournal.com]

But the verse made her curse

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

And the haikus were worse,

[banana.livejournal.com]

But she 'scaped having 'nana as spouse

[banana.livejournal.com]

So she threw them all out, crying "RAUS!"

[banana.livejournal.com]

And the lim'ricks made you want to de-louse

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

bravo! bravo!!!
*clap clap clap clap*

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, that's even funnier!!!

Raus, raus, mein klein freund banana!!!
(Heh, it's fun to shout Raus, it is!)

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I did, didn't I?

I still have that story somewhere, too:)

The sordid truth

[banana.livejournal.com]

This is where I confess that I used a rhyming dictionary. 8~)

Re: The sordid truth

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

OOh, you scheming varmint!!!
I wish I'd thought of that!!

Re: The sordid truth

[banana.livejournal.com]

That was the sordid truth. The sad truth is that they don't help much. It's pretty easy to come up with most of the rhymes yourself, and the dictionaries only give you one or two you hadn't thought of. The best ones are often not even in the dictionaries ("raus", for example).

Re: The sordid truth

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

this is true...only you ould have ome up with "Raus"

What else rhymes with Maus? I think we've done them all..

Maus
haus
spouse
louse
grouse
delouse
Krause
blouse
ummmm....dowse?

Re: The sordid truth

[banana.livejournal.com]

Gauss and Strauss rhymed, but I couldn't squish them into the limerick.

Re: The sordid truth

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Ooog....that's really pushing hard, J.

maybe we should find other rhymes...what the heck is a Gauss, anyway?

Re: The sordid truth

[banana.livejournal.com]

Gauss was a mathematician who made it onto German bank notes. If you've ever degaussed your computer screen, he's responsible because a unit of magnetism is named after him. However, if you've never degaussed your computer screen ask someone to show you how to do it. It's entertaining in an alarming sort of way.

Re: The sordid truth

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I see......

You're so educational:)