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I Tried.

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Submitted by Bart the General on Sat, 08/18/2012 - 11:33am

There once was a man from Nantucket,

who tried to roast spaghetti in a bucket,

but I couldn't think of any more rhymes

because I ran out of time,

and the square root of twenty-five is three.

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Bart-

Submitted by intrepid_heart on Sat, 08/18/2012 - 4:34pm.

I'm not quite sure if you meant this to be as funny as it was to me, or if it's a work in progress. THe title made me think it was supposed to be humorous, so if that's what you were going for, you did a great job.

...I'm babbling...

I love how the last line doesn't fit at all or make any sense. Good work. Your poem put me in a really great mood because it was mindlessly funny.

"And as always, innocent like roller coasters."

Ah, the nonsensical nonsense trick.

Submitted by Candlelight on Sat, 08/18/2012 - 4:45pm.

There once was a man from St. Bees,

who was horribly stung by a wasp.

When asked, "Does it buzz?"

He replied "No, it doesn't.

I'm so glad it wasn't a hornet."

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Funny!

Submitted by Shea_Savage on Sat, 08/18/2012 - 7:29pm.

It took me a second to realize the square root of twenty-five wasn't three. It might be time for me to go back to school. 

Good job; this made me smile.

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Haha! I love this. Especially

Submitted by ada on Sat, 08/18/2012 - 7:43pm.

Haha! I love this. Especially the last line.... I wish I could write something really random like that and actually have it sound good, and not like I've completely lost my mind. Most of the stuff I write is so different from this so it would be quite a leap. This made me crack up, especially after reading Shea_Savage's comment, because even though I know the square root of 25, I didn't even realize that until I read her comment, and even then it took me a minute to figure out what the real square root of 25 is. (5, of course. I felt so dumb afterwards, but it's always nice to laugh at yourself once in a while)

 

-ada
"Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations."