This post is open to comments to test whether the improved database and new template can cope with people commenting. If you can’t think of anything else to write, I’m rather fond of limericks.
Testing testing testing
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there was a young man from tralee
who was stung on the neck by a wasp
when asked if it hurt
he said, ‘no, not a bit,
it can do it again if it likes!’
Limericks are fun
Haiku can be addictive
Beware their power!
To write a haiku
Takes so much less time to do
Than a limerick.
there was a fat gal from Oz
who smacked herself on the snoz
when asked what she’d done
she sniffled a ton
and cried ‘no reason, just because’
Pretend I wrote something interesting and/or humorous here, OK?
There once was a man from DC
I saw him on CSPAN TV
He took all my rights
Called it “healthcare fight”
Guess I’m lucky to just have BC.
/Nah, I’m not bitter about yesterday.
damn. i didn’t get enough sleep to power up the creativity…no limericks / haikus from me…
So far, so good!
No limericks from me, either, but I’m glad to see Feministe (almost) fully functional again.
“It’s not my revolution if I can’t dance to it.”
Emma Goldman.
Fuck the house bill. It throws half the population under the bus.
Black lines on white screen.
The comment field – it beckons!
Point? I have none. Boo.
Rain falls down on the just and unjust alike*.
*Unless the unjust is 3,000 miles away.
um…. *thinking* …nevermind, y’all are setting the bar too high :)
There was an Old Person of Basing,
Whose presence of mind was amazing;
He purchased a steed,
Which he rode at full speed,
And escaped from the people of Basing.
There once was an jackass from Michigan
Who liked not the pro-choicers bargain
An amendment he filed
Said “Poor women with child:
You’re doomed to back alleys again”
I shall write poetry on haiku
Though longer by lines numb’ring two
Than the subject at hand
Haikus – understand?
Which I’m told themselves have but a few
Limerick? Oh no.
A haiku it is for me.
Stupak can suck it.
Test
There’s a hole in my bucket dear Liza.
The “Subscribe to Comments”
An option that I adore
Is it gone? No more?
I don’t know nothin’ about no birthin’ of no babies!
@Roxie,
never fear, the ’subscribe to comments’ button will return in good time
I feel like it’s about time to riot. Who’s in?
Wow – a limerick
No I think I won’t
There once was a law student, Rex
with diminutive organs of sex
When charged with exposure
He replied with composure,
“De minimus non curat lex.”*
*The law does not concern itself with trifles.
work is the curse of the blogging class
There once was a man from Nantucket…
…sorry, that’s the only one I know. Theme looks lovely, though!
Really like the new theme! Glad to see some (visible) progress – you must be so relieved to have it over with soon!
This is my comment; let me show you it.
I would have written
a couplet but nothing rhymes
with ‘couplet’. Damn it!
I’ll own up to it. Stupak’s mine. Yup, I’m from N. Michigan, and I’m pissed as hell. He can go step off. I’m sure he’ll get a special thanks from anyone in his district that already depends on IHS for health care.
That’s my comment. Y’all can quote me on that on, eh.
Here is a person who’s cramping.
Her comments may seem somewhat lacking.
She took a pill for it,
But the cramps limit her thought
And she wishes for chocolate and cuddling.
Go on. I dare you to tell me PMS isn’t real, hypothetical person who doesn’t believe in such things. And then watch me collapse in angry yelling sobs.
I think that I shall never see
A palm as lovely as a tree.
Palms that roaches crawl within
Fall over in a gust of wind,
Drop ugly fronds into the street,
Afford no shade against the heat.
Still, Tampa highway landscape guys
Adore those palms that I despise.
All along the rights-of-way
They plant those damn things anyway.
A lady from North Carolina
Placed fiddle strings ‘cross her vagina.
With the proper size cocks,
What was sex became Bach’s
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
– Isaac Asimov
I usually only lurk around this blog, but something so wicked has happened here in Brazil against a female university student that I thought you people might want to take a look at it:
(NYT Article)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/08/world/AP-LT-Brazil-Short-Dress.html
A young university student was heckled and threatened with violence and rape by literally hundreds of students after showing up for class in a red mini-dress.
She was shouted at, called “whore” and “bitch” and forced to hide inside a classroom. In the hallway outside her hiding place, people blocked the entrances and climbed the windows, telling the girl that they “would anally rape her for dressing as a hoe”.
She could only leave the campus after being escorted by the police.
One week after the incident, has the University taken disciplinary action against the students responsible for such mess? No. They expelled the girl instead.
The whole thing is unbelievable.
“Wherever you go, there you are.”
-Buckaroo Bonzai.
Test test test.
Oh, a html test mixed with self promotion…. but on lobe blowing topic about how a recruit in the Canadian Armed Forces was raped and then unraped once the ‘correct’ legal forum was found.
I’m here on the morning of Monday
On the look-out for Self Promotion Sunday
Whilst I’m glad to test
I must confess
I’d like to just have my little say…
So here’s what I’ve written about this week:
http://onewomanmanytruths.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-recurring-dream-meeting-my-aggressor.html
There was a young man from tarnation,
Who engaged in a strange relation.
He got into bed with a young lettuce head,
and committed cropulation.
The Self Promotion Sunday post is over at the new back-up blog, Prudence. Best to repost over there so that you’re part of the thread.
This really is just a testing post for the new configuration.
Oops – sorry. I never seem to get the hang over where to post around here… thanks for the advice :-)
Gwennie the good-hearted ghoul
did her best to avoid being cruel.
She offered to mate
with the men that she ate
and then let them drown in their drool.
Looking forward to the full site again!
Beautiful morning, already 53, wish I didn’t have to go to work.
I just happened to come across and read your article on women changing their names when they get married and you ended the article wondering when some “Conservative blog” would call you out…
Therein lies the problem with stereotypes. I am a Conservative blogger and I am way ahead of you on this subject– I wrote a similar article almost two years ago lamenting the fact that American women haven’t revolted over the idea of a name change that began as a very visible sign of ownership. My husband did in fact offer to take my name if I so desired, but truthfully I think a couple should pick a new name together…
So, your lesson of the day is that even Conservative women can be leading the introspection on the feminist front…the only difference is usually we think of feminism as embracing FEMININE qualities because we truly believe woman are awesome –and not ditching all that is feminine while trying to be a MAN!
Here is a limerick I wrote about the movie “Teeth” when it first came out. Yes, I do know that smitage is not a real word, but its meaning is obvious.
It’s a tale of high smitage, a tale,
And beside it all others would pale,
For she has in her ken
To make eunuchs of men
Who against her will plunder her grail.
If you have not seen “Teeth”, by all means rent it…great spoof.
There was a young lad from Mizzou,
whose limericks stopped at line two.
There was young gal from Verdun…
there’s a blog on a “progressive” theme
that’s having tech problems, it’d seem
feministe is its name
awesome posts are its game
and “get better soon!”s what I’ll scream
=)
(in retrospect, I have no idea why I decided to put ‘progressive’ in quotes there. maybe because so many so-called progressives arent? oh well.)
Thought I would do my part to help you test the site. Sorry that I have no witty poetry to offer.
Test 2
testing your test comment, Jill.
There was a young lady named Bright
Who could travel faster than light
She left one day
In a relative way
And came back the previous night
It can handle comments, but can it handle derailing?
ALL OF YOUR POINTS ARE INVALID BECAUSE THEY DO NOT REPRESENT MY EXPERIENCE. See, in particular, my experiences that directly spawn from the various privileges I am ignorant of. Rar rar rar. Also, WTF is up with feminists. Ew. Gross.
Also, I know this woman who disagrees with you! Therefore, you are wrong!
OK, so we now have all the posts and comments left at the back-up blog since last weekend imported back to this site. Thank you for the amusing test comments, everybody!
Hear the cry of the doofus – D’OH!!!!
I made a booboo – I closed comments on all the posts at the back-up blog before importing, and then I forgot to open them again once the posts were all back here. They’re all open again now. Sorry about that, Chief. (Just how many classic TV shows can I reference in a single apology?)
(P.S. We have, separately, enabled the option to close comments on posts older than 30 days. So comments on those posts are still closed.)
OK, exit, stage left.
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