We spout nonsense in double dactyls

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Plinkity-plonkity,
Stephin the songsmith a-
Bandoned his box set of
Songs about hate --

Cried: "It is utterly
DeMerrittorious
How I just cannot
Get past sixty-eight!"

Rules (more or less breakable):
-- Two stanzas, each of three lines of DUN-da-da-DUN-da-da plus one DUN-da-da-DUN
-- The final lines rhyme with each other
-- First line is usually rhymish nonsense
-- Second line introduces the subject, usually a person
-- Line five, six or seven should be a single word of six syllables

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

(BTW: The most impressive one I've ever seen is probably this compression of Virgil's Aeneid into twelve double dactyls, one for each book.)

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

'Fiddle-de-faddle-dee!'
Sedgwick McGee cried, as
Raising his cassocks he
Mounted a tree

'No top hat, no waistcoat, how
Could this be England? My
Deontological
Tendencies flee!'

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Extra props to anyone who can get in the phrase, 'diddled her nubbin'

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Zoophile, bouophile
Lovestruck Pasiphaë
Hid herself inside a
Cow made of wood.

Up came the creature that
Bovinerotically
Gave her a kid that her
Spouse never could've.

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The rhyme scheme and the other rules instantly put me into a world filled with mad, perverse British aristocrats and eccentrics from the 18th century.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorryman, quarryman
Thistlecrotch Morrissey
Said he wished death upon
President Bush:

"All it would take, as I
Unequivocally
Said long ago, is a
Rush and a push."

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

malachi mulligan

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Ole, is English not your first language? Cos you're shaming me totally :/

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Malachi Mulligan
Shot down a gull again
Hunting in wellingtons
Down at the shore

First he's in jail again
Then out on bail again
Ejaculating:
"I spit at the law!"

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha I'm still in the game. I should be in bed though- it's 2.30am.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh shit, just realised the first line wasn't nonsense. Slocki! That's partially your fault!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

lionel richie
simply outrageous
wondering how he got
big in LA

like sunday morning he
diddled her nubbin and
something was wrong could it
be that he's gay?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

doh that was supposed to be "lionel richie, he's..." etc.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark: Thanks -- No, Norwegian is my first language, but we learn English from quite an early age, and I think I'm quite a lot more interested and trained in the English language than most Norwegians as well...

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Tiddle tum dumbly
Portia is fumbly, her
Corset is loose and
Her hair is undone

"I do not care" Rogers
Heard her declare,
"Unconditional freedom
For women will come!"

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, yes, I'm happier with that one - no match for Ole though.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Look at that scally score
One goal and then one more
Croats 2, England 4
Faith springs anew!

Porca puttana
e disgraziata
La squadra 'taliana
m'imb'rrazza di piu :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Woah! :D

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Mister Potatohead,
Faced with a grater said,
"Cosmetic surgery's
"Not for the likes o' me.

"Given a choice between
"Ugly or that machine
"I would be well advised
"keeping my nose and eyes."

Then from the counter top
Quickly our hero dropped
Down to the kitchen floor
Then he was seen no more.

If he escaped the knife,
Living a better life,
Nobody's able to
Say if it's really true.

But if you had feet for legs
Stuck on with little pegs
Life on the run would be
Fearfully liesurely.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

http://thesurrealist.co.uk/priorart.cgi?ref=old-ILX
http://thesurrealist.co.uk/priorart.cgi?ref=nu-ILX

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 18 September 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Argh wrong thread!

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 18 September 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

this is a good one though.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 September 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

Birthery, mirthery,
Colliner Sparrow dis-
Mantled an orrery
With his bare hands,

Volleyed the orbs round with
Multicentricity,
Cackled with glee "See? the
Cosmos expands!"

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 21 July 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

We spout nonsense in double dactyls

― moley, Friday, 14 September 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

Oh right. Logical infinite regress.

― moley, Friday, 14 September 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

Higgledy-piggledy
Armstrong the astronaut
rode in a rocket ship
up to the moon.

"Not made of cheese," said the
Wapakonetian.
"Sounds kind of crazy, but
it’s a balloon."

― weatheringdaleson, Friday, 14 September 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

This morning's joint composition, about the dog's early-puppyhood habit of eating his own poop:

Giggley Goggley
Gustopher Pilkington
Pooped on a pee-pad and
Ate it all up
He paused to consider the
Gastrointestinal
Issues he shares with two
Girls and one cup

― nabisco, Monday, 2 February 2009 18:10 (seventeen years ago)

Mental!

― moley, Monday, 2 February 2009 21:15 (seventeen years ago)

tbh i prefer 'nabisco jr' to 'gustopher pilkington'

― max, Monday, 2 February 2009 21:19 (seventeen years ago)

Even more mental!

― anatol_merklich, Monday, 2 February 2009 21:22 (seventeen years ago)

Wiggety Wackety
Kris Kross--the Mac Daddy,
The Daddy Mac--and me
Rapped on the door

'Though it was plain to see
I was a prodigy,
Mr Jermaine Dupri
Liked them much more

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Monday, 2 February 2009 21:34 (seventeen years ago)

missed out on the six-syllable word

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Monday, 2 February 2009 21:38 (seventeen years ago)

Hexagon gonahex,
G00blar from ILX
posted in dactyls, but
missed out a word.

Still he gets credit for
orginality --
poems about Kris Kross?
I LOL! That's absurd!

― nabisco, Monday, 2 February 2009 22:05 (seventeen years ago)

Jesus H. Christofaz
Our own Nabisco has
Harped on a failing of
My poor poem

Quite unsurprisingly
Damn near annoyingly
Incomprehensibly
He's OTM

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Monday, 2 February 2009 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

O-genki desu ka
Takeshi Kitano
Actor, Comedian,
Writer, et al

Seems that you are truly
Polymathematical
But I liked you best in
Battle Royale

― talk me down off the (ledge), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 10:30 (seventeen years ago)

Om tom gologota
Helga from Bogota
Tried to adapt
To the world of the Hun.

'I'd rather go'
She opined to her beau
'Back to Bogota. There I have friends.
Here are none'.

― moley, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 11:00 (seventeen years ago)

Hexlius Huxlius
Oh duck-billed platypus
Are you a mammal or
Are you a bird?

Egg-laying, venomous,
Ornithorhynchidae,
One thing is for certain
You are absurd!

― talk me down off the (ledge), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 11:38 (seventeen years ago)

Fliggety Flaggety
Rifle and Raggett-y
Ran into Edward III
Laughed off their heads

Asked what was so funny
They answered stupidly,
Unhilariously
"Two Neds, one Ed!"

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 11:50 (seventeen years ago)

Dactyl von Frankenstein

Zippity-zappity
Baron von Frankenstein
said, "I'm a character,
here, in this book.

Says I'm a blasphemous,
pro-resurrectionist,
God-playing maniac.
Me! Take a look."

Igor the servant said,
"'Modern Prometheus,'"
quoting directly the
words on the front,

"'Shelley's incredulous
übermonstrosity'?
Didn't she WRITE me yet?
God, what a cunt."

― weatheringdaleson, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 12:48 (seventeen years ago)

WINNER

― moley, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 20:46 (seventeen years ago)

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