Friday, May 01, 2009

Verse And Worse

Random Wit, Errant Rhyme. Not A Literary Crime

In snowy Mount Buller, beside the ghost gums
The young maths genius practised his sums
Speed + Angle x Drag = Tangle
Yes, he could ski without fandangle

5 comments:

  1. Fandangle...a terrific and truly memorable word! Another winner!

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  2. Ah! But could he raggle-taggle a quadrangle?

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  3. That is nice. My first time to come across the word: fandangle.

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  4. Yes, it's probably helpful to be good at math to prevent getting mangled or strangled when wrangling with a mountain...

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  5. But the theorem he learned of Pythagoras
    He forgot it completely when asked in maths class
    He tried to remember in the depth of his blues
    Which one of three sides was the hypotenuse!

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