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Animal Talk
By Talisker
25 November 2006
A silly reverse ABCderian about how animals might talk...

I know, silly!

Zebras yap Xenophobically.

Womats' vapid,
unfounded,
trifling,
starts rows.

Question penguins
on nature matters.

Leopards know jokes
in hebrew.

Gibbons foist egregious,
deranged counterpoint,
before acquiescing.



Oli 25/11/06



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Written by shakermaker (48 comments posted) 25th November 2006
Haha! fun stuff, a nice exercise we should possibly all try. Good one.
Back in the sixties
Written by patterjack (1193 comments posted) 25th November 2006
The Australian and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers ran competitins of this sort . Presumably on the pattern set by Punch's Toby Competitions 
 
I found them useful for vocabulary exercises . At least the students were sent to dictionaries , though I could not ever claim that their efforts were in the least literary ! 
 
patterjack

Written by Phil (6713 comments posted) 25th November 2006
Has someone given you a '101 things to do with poetry' Oli? First acrostics, now this. 
 
Fun piece. Try picturing a leopard wearing a prayer hat telling mother-in-law jokes. Made me laugh anyway. 
 
All the best, 
 
Phil. 
 

Written by Witzl (1585 comments posted) 26th November 2006
I'm determined to try my hand at this before anyone can get in there and beat me to the tiny number of words left beginning in 'X.' 'Xenophobically' is a good one; now only x-ray and x-rated remain. 
 
I think you were wise to break this up into chunks -- otherwise it just gets out of hand. (I know because I have tried . . .)

Written by JourneyAtNight (314 comments posted) 26th November 2006
He he, very clever, liked it lots.  
 
Esra :)

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