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Nomad
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Jun 20 2012, 5:47pm
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A limerick I just wrote while sitting in a MSSQL 2012 class...
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There once was a DB named SQL
Its proponents claim there's no equal
Though I'm learning a bit, I just don't give a s***
I've more interest in the Lord of the Rings Prequal
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Nomad
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Jun 20 2012, 5:48pm
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Guess I need to fix my footer //
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grammaboodawg
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Jun 21 2012, 10:26am
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*still smiling BIG* That's sick and TRUE!
I know, I know... Footer's Red X of DOOOOMMMMMM!!!! *thunder roars*
I thought you were just hiding ;)
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
TORn's Observations Lists
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Tampa Phil
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Jun 21 2012, 2:18pm
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How can literary aficianados enjoy poetry which misrepresents RDBMS languages so gratuitously?
And don't get me started on "Prequal".
TP.
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Nomad
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Jun 21 2012, 2:23pm
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I would recommend you focus in on...
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the last half of line three. :-P
I am a windows server/active directory guy who is being forced to take a SQL admin class. I have no desire to become a DBA and as a networking guy if you ask me... SQL is a database.
I concede the second point you made... but prequal rhymes with SQL and thus served my purpose.
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Tampa Phil
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Jun 21 2012, 2:29pm
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There was a TORn poster Nomad
Who's limericks were disappointingly bad
His fifth line replete, with too many beats
Made Tampa Phil ineffiably sad.
TP The Bard.
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Tampa Phil
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Jun 21 2012, 2:42pm
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My post count of 70 in 5 years averages out to 0.0 per day.
So this reply of mine doesn't actually exist, and is a figment of your imagination.
TP The Statistician.
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Nomad
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Jun 21 2012, 2:48pm
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Reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote
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Can't recite it verbatim but the gist was regarding the population of the universe and since life forms were scattered so incredibly thinly across it, the average population is considered to be zero and any being you think you may come across is to be assumed a figment of your demented imagination.
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Tampa Phil
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Jun 21 2012, 2:56pm
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From an entry in the guide titled "The Universe - Some Information To Help You Live In It", copied from the back of a breakfast cereal box.
TP
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Tampa Phil
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Jun 21 2012, 3:02pm
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I'm trying to get my average post count up to 0.1 and join the ranks of the Living (on whom life is wasted**)
TP.
** Another HHG reference.
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Nomad
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Jun 21 2012, 5:20pm
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There once was a Philip from Tampa
My SQL Limerick gave him crampa
My meter I fixed, bad rhythms be nixed
So here Phil is Nomad's revampa
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SirDennisC
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Jun 21 2012, 6:34pm
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There once were a Nomad and Phil
Who's metre was equally ill
They tried and they tried
and they hummed and they sighed
But the rhythm eludeth them still
Nothing personal of course 
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Nomad
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Jun 21 2012, 6:51pm
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As both a music Ed major AND a percussionist, I DO take that personally... I carefully counted out my rhythms on that last one and I'd say perhaps the problem lies with your interpretation of my limerickal form.
^ = downbeats
There ^once was a ^Philip from ^Tampa
My ^SQL Lime^rick gave him ^crampa
My ^meter I ^fixed, bad ^rhythms be ^nixed
So ^here Phil is ^Nomad's re^vampa
SQL to be read as 'Se-quel'
*leaves in a huff* (j/k)
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Silverlode
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Jun 21 2012, 7:03pm
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Why don't you leave in a minute and a huff? *rimshot*
There once was a TORN statistician
Who claimed that the rhythm was missin'
His rhyme now perfected
The robot rejected
What this statistician was dishin'
Silverlode
"Of all faces those of our familiares are the ones both most difficult to play fantastic tricks with, and most difficult really to see with fresh attention. They have become like the things which once attracted us by their glitter, or their colour, or their shape, and we laid hands on them, and then locked them in our hoard, acquired them, and acquiring ceased to look at them.
Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else [make something new], may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds. The gems all turn into flowers or flames, and you will be warned that all you had (or knew) was dangerous and potent, not really effectively chained, free and wild; no more yours than they were you." -On Fairy Stories
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Aunt Dora Baggins
Elvenhome
Jun 21 2012, 7:09pm
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you can take a taxi. (I love the Marx Brothers <3 )
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories
leleni at hotmail dot com
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Nomad
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Jun 21 2012, 7:10pm
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SirDennisC
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Jun 21 2012, 7:26pm
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Yes, I see what you're doing now...
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there's a caesura (//) after "fixed" which I suppose is implied by the comma (or breath mark).
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Tampa Phil
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Jun 21 2012, 7:57pm
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A robot from the Midwest
Considered his stanzas the best
But lacking in diction, his words were a fiction
And sorely failed the test
TP
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Nomad
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Jun 21 2012, 8:07pm
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In the old days I would have just sterilized your imperfection by now.
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In these enlightened days I can accept your opinion and carry on in the knowledge that I am Nomad... I am perfect.
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Tampa Phil
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Jun 21 2012, 8:33pm
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Help, I'm Stuck In A Limerick Loop
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An itinerant poster TP
Who long hence these forums did flee
Now shows up not dead, in this limerick thread
Causing regulars to ponder "who he?"
Somebody hit CTRL-C.
TP.
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Patty
Elvenhome
Jun 21 2012, 8:35pm
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Nobody beats the Silver one at anything to do with language.
Permanent address: Into the West
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Nomad
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Jun 21 2012, 8:37pm
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I like the tag there even if it doesn't fit strict form. I found that once I get beyond the horsehead I get terrible reception and thus can go for months at a time without being able to logon to TOR.N
I wonder if the newbies even know how old this place it.
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Annael
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Jun 21 2012, 9:18pm
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I come here to give you some news
The possessive pronoun of "whose"
Is never elided
It's simply not needed
To do so gives this girl the blues.
The way we imagine our lives is the way we are going to go on living our lives.
- James Hillman, Healing Fiction
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NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967
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Ataahua
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Jun 21 2012, 9:20pm
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How is that imperfect footer working for you? >:) /
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Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded b*****d with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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