Tuesday, April 27, 2010

CLXXXXIII - A little capricious nonsense.

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Susan, at Stoney River has a micro-fiction challenge where you must
write a short story in 140 characters or less. (Is this a Twitter thing?).
Anyway, today's prompt was a photo of a goat (above).
140 characters just cries out for a limerick.

A goat who answered to Billy,

Lived in a field that was flat, not hilly.

To survey his estate

He climbed on a crate
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Unaware that he really looked silly.

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© J Cosmo Newbery
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22 comments:

  1. Capricious? Ah -- I LOVE puns, and I played around with "cabrito" for a while but completely missed this one. Most excellent!

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  2. So, it's come to this: goat limericks?

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  3. I VOTE FOR YOU!!! ha...wait

    good one J Cosmo

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  4. Ah, this one was great! Cute Billy goat too.;)) Silly looking or not.;)
    xoxo

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  5. Gotta give Billy props for using props ;)

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  6. Liked it...very creative...

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  7. I never would have thought of using a Limerick. Nicely done.

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  8. a capricious limerick? just the kind of fresh air memes always need :)

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  9. You're so good at this!
    Limericks make me stumble badly :-(

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  10. This might be the first limerick Monday yet. :)

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  11. One should always survey estates from the highest vantage point. Thank goodness for that crate!

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  12. cute and funny ; well done.

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  13. lol. a fun little poem...king of the crate...

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  14. silly hilly billy

    very contageous

    you rock at the 140 dash



    moondustwriter

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  15. Very funny... I quite like Twitter-like fiction...

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  16. I do love a good limerick! Thanks!
    http://mairmusic.wordpress.com/

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  17. Indeed Sir, this Rivals the Chicken in Silliness.

    Capital!

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  18. LOL, this really did make me laugh. Very clever little piece.

    I'm here from Jingle's rally, check me out if you feel so inclined. I'm at http://ithoughtitup.wordpress.com

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  19. WOW! As I was reading the prompt...I was thinking J won't be able to do this...not even J. You did it beautifully...amazing.

    Dan

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  20. is that counting the spaces and commas, too?
    perhaps set the goat free and see what it can do.
    if it can dance, all the better
    more MUSIC and less of the letter.
    baa-aa-aa, uh oh, it chewd Aunt Marth'a hat feather. SHOO!

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  21. Oh this one was such fun reading

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  22. Boneman: The rules said 140 characters. I don't take the spaces to be characters.

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