The Edit

by compound complex 25 Replies latest social humour

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  NewYork44M

  Mary had a little lamb. She really wanted a lot, but she was on a diet.
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  Hairtrigger

  CC

  SHHHHH!! I'm counting sheep !

  Little Bo Peep is hunting Mary with a hatchet!!

  She wants to nail Jesus to a tree!!
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  Simon

  Mary had a little lamb
  It was a little bugger
  It climbed upon the table once
  And did one in the sugar

  Mary had a little lamb
  She tied it to a pylon
  A thousand volts went up it's bum
  And turned it's wool to nylon
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  stillin

  Mary had a little lamb

  its' foot was black with soot

  and everywhere that Mary went

  his sooty foot he put.

  (I think I got a little off-topic)
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  jhine

  Mary had a little lamb,

  The doctor nearly fainted !

  The oldies are the best , Jan
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  cantleave

  Mary had a little lamb

  But what she wanted was a horse

  So she took it down the butcher's shop

  and ate it with mint sauce

  (I should have been a poet!)
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  Phizzy

  Mary had a little lamb

  its fleece was black as charcoal,

  it stuck its head between its legs

  and whistled up its ............... er, what rhymes with charcoal ?
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  GrreatTeacher

  There once was a girl

  who had a little curl

  right in the middle of her forehead.

  When she was good

  she was very, very good,

  but when she was bad

  she was horrid!

  EDIT:

  Patient: young female, curly hair

  Diagnosis: bipolar
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  Oubliette

  Magnum: I'm fascinated with language - the mechanics of it, the psychology of it, etc.

  I've been reading Steven Pinker's latest work: The Sense of Style. He sheds a lot of very clear light on how language works as well as how it doesn't through common mistakes in construction of sentences, paragraphs and longer forms.

  He also bashes a lot of grammar myths concerning what is "right" and what is "wrong."

  As it turns out, a lot of well-entrenched grammar rules are just wrong. If it makes sense it's good. A lot of what is left is simply a matter of style, particularly formal versus informal.
  

  For those that don't know, Steven Pinker is a Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language and cognition
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  nancy drew

  Let's play with Mary and her lamb

  with words that rhyme like toast and jam

  and yes the fleece is white as snow

  and where is Edgar Allan Poe

  a ravens crying in the night

  cause Mary's lamb is not in sight