A change of pace for one week only

[Grand Moff Muffin]

martinm
10/03/07 at 06:45 AM #1
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On Thursday I had a daft idea.
I hadn't even had a beer.
'Twas inspired by Ralph and Paul,
Whose poetic talents entered the hall.

The idea is for the Hub in Week Eleven,
Of this year Two-Zero-Zero-Seven,
To hold its debates in form of verse.
It could have been considerably worse.

It's not like me to be so silly.
It makes me sound a bit like Wheelie.
Come, show that you're still young at heart,
And not a party-pooping old... person.

Martin
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Legios
10/03/07 at 07:30 AM #2
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What about those of us who are unable to write in verse? (Like me - by the time I actually managed to wrap my head around verse enough to be able to write it the week would be over.) Are you suggesting that we not be allowed to post for a week?

Karl

martinm
10/03/07 at 08:20 AM #3
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No.

It's just a suggestion of innocent fun.
Don't take it seriously or I'll hit you with a bun.

Martin
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GrahamThomson
10/03/07 at 10:11 AM #4
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I didn't think I could do it,
But somehow we'll all get through it.
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Cullen
10/03/07 at 02:16 PM #5
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I like this idea, yes I do.
I'll think on it more while I have a poo.
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Legios
10/03/07 at 04:08 PM #6
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Quote:
Originally Posted by martinm

"No.

It's just a suggestion of innocent fun.
Don't take it seriously or I'll hit you with a bun."

<scthoink> *Well-deserved comedy bun strikes Karl*

A important lesson I have learned
A lesson I have sorely earned

Whilst still cranky about my work I should not post
For that would help us all the most.

Fulsome Apologies are offered
in the hope they will be taken in the spirit proffered.

Karl

martinm
10/03/07 at 04:19 PM #7
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It's good to have you on board for a while,
I hope the week succeeds in raising a smile.
It may be tricky to post in rhyme,
But even harder to be cranky at the same time.

Martin
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Marc
10/03/07 at 05:10 PM #8
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I read this thread just there now
I say theres no need to have a cow.

We can talk in the form of rhyme
You can do it - take your time.

I think a week might be too long
Unless we decide to record a song

We could soon be number one
Rhyming can be so much fun!

AndyTurnbull
10/03/07 at 05:43 PM #9
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The thought of turning all poetic,
Might leave some apoplectic,
But me I willing to diversify,
so on Monday I will give it a try.

Andy
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The_Doctor
11/03/07 at 02:30 PM #10
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I just had some cheese on toast,
Though I should not boast.

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ElliottHopkins
11/03/07 at 08:15 PM #11
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Bloody Hell this week I'll be quiet.
Better have a go and try it.

Kayevcee
11/03/07 at 10:26 PM #12
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This next week will not be fun.
My rhyming skills are next to none.
Toy reviews will be a test.
Perhaps I'll write them in my vest.

That link above is quite absurd.
Tenuous is not the word.

-Nick
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Nigel
12/03/07 at 02:41 PM #13
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I've only just seen this thread,
My verse round boards already spread.

I had wondered why the rhyme.
I now shall do it all the time.

Not this week shall I write prose.
But only rhyme shall I compose.

Autobots alliterate,
Decepticons in meter, great!

Maximal and Predacon,
This rhyming's fun so bring it on!

If you find your rhyming's poor,
Please look not for the open door.

For you could do so much worse
Than type your posts in a blank verse.
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martinm
12/03/07 at 04:37 PM #14
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The Hub now has a new claim to fame,
The nuttiest board in this Internet game.
I can't believe everyone's going along with it.
Still, it shows we can laugh at ourselves, so please stay strong with it!

Martin
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When I was a little boy, my mother used to say to me, "Elwood" - she always called me "Elwood" - "as you go through life you must be either 'oh, so smart,' or 'oh, so pleasant.'" For years - I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. (Elwood P Dowd)

The_Doctor
12/03/07 at 05:28 PM #15
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For dinner I had chicken,
Indeed it was kickin'!

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Nigel
12/03/07 at 06:21 PM #16
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Right then, I will shortly be
Switching off, to watch Vict'ry.
But, though, just before I go
There is something you should know:
Whilst this rhyming thing is fun,
It can't really run and run.
For as you will shortly find,

There is nothing to rhyme with sausage.

But don't give up! Don't be undone!
For as as I said, the rhyming's fun!
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knight_beat
12/03/07 at 08:17 PM #17
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Though finding the correct words may trouble your mind,
After careful consideration you will eventually find
The nearest words to rhyme with sausage
Are in fact, hostage and cottage.

martinm
13/03/07 at 06:21 AM #18
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There's not such a problem with sausage,
If you've been subject to bossage,
Or sat around wallowing of dossage.
We're on the brink of a Moss Age.
I think I'm now at a lossage.

I read that nowt rhymed with orange,
Except perhaps for lozenge.

Martin
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Nigel
13/03/07 at 07:20 AM #19
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I think you will find you're clutching at straws:
No real sausage rhymes, it is a lost cause.

The same, of course, goes for the fruit of orange.
A proper rhymed word is well out of your range.
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Stomski
13/03/07 at 11:08 AM #20
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Mine brain it huts from all's poor verse,
People's scanning and rhythm does make me curse.

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martinm
13/03/07 at 05:36 PM #21
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Neither scanning nor rhyming is compulsory in poetry,
Free your mind (something something something oetry).

Martin
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The_Doctor
13/03/07 at 07:04 PM #22
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Hee hee ho ho ha ha,
Such quality rhyming makes me call my Ma!

-Ralph
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Hug_Man
14/03/07 at 06:21 PM #23
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You all need a hug,
Even if you have a bug.
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martinm
16/03/07 at 06:23 AM #24
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You've all done remarkably well,
I thought you'd bid me go to hell.

As reward let's have the prose Hub exhumed,
Friday midnight normal service can be resumed.

From tomorrow I'd like all to nominate
Top rhymes from the week to celebrate.

Martin
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When I was a little boy, my mother used to say to me, "Elwood" - she always called me "Elwood" - "as you go through life you must be either 'oh, so smart,' or 'oh, so pleasant.'" For years - I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. (Elwood P Dowd)

Nigel
16/03/07 at 12:10 PM #25
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Is it really nearly time
To end our venture into rhyme?
Well, I feel that's such a shame,
It has been such a joyful game.
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Kayevcee
16/03/07 at 02:05 PM #26
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Rhyming could be bad for my health.
Much more of this and I'll top myself.

-Nick
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Dave
16/03/07 at 03:47 PM #27
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Hub banter this week has been lots of fun
Though keep it and I fear someone will fire a gun
One thing however that is a little weird
The thread for week eleven has disappeared.
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The_Doctor
16/03/07 at 04:18 PM #28
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I will never stop rhyming,
Even if I have slightly bad timing.

-Ralph
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Nigel
16/03/07 at 04:37 PM #29
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Rhyming has become a habit.
Will we all be able to quit?

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The_Doctor
16/03/07 at 04:38 PM #30
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No no no no no!
Not even for some cocoa!

-Ralph
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Nigel
16/03/07 at 05:10 PM #31
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Abominus
Bruticus
Claw Jaw
Defensor
Evac
Flak
Great Shot
Hotspot
Ironhide
Joyride
Kickback
Leozak
Motormaster
Nautilator
Octane
Powertrain
Quickstrike
Railspike
Superion
Trypticon
Unicron
Venom
Wolfang
X-Brawn
Oh, I give up!
Be-dup-dup.
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Nigel
17/03/07 at 10:27 AM #32
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Well, now we have passed the time
For ceasing our posts in rhyme.

No! It seems I can't do it.
I'm stuck writing as poet!

Is it now to be my curse:
Typing evermore in verse?
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martinm
17/03/07 at 10:43 AM #33
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Could be.
We'll see.

Martin
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payres
17/03/07 at 01:00 PM #34
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Please make it stop.
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The_Doctor
17/03/07 at 03:28 PM #35
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Like Nigel, I cannot stop,
If I keep going I may just pop!
I wish I was Optimus Prime,
He would never do so much rhyme!

-Ralph
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GrahamThomson
19/03/07 at 08:30 AM #36
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So the rhyming has finished?
But my love for it hasn't diminished.
It's a shame I was away,
Just for three day.
But on my enforced sojourn,
I was dealing with a VAT return.
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The_Doctor
19/03/07 at 10:21 AM #37
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I really hate VAT,
Attack it with a vampire bat!

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martinm
19/03/07 at 05:32 PM #38
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Highlights (?) of Hub rhyming week (this thread excluded)

Martin:
A man on an Internet forum
Lost all sense of proper decorum.
He asked all to rhyme
And thus pass the time.
If they're wise they'll simply ignore'm.

Dave:
Hadn't thought things through
Not quite sure what to do

Graham:
Saturday night was spent on the lash,
Was dragged to a strip club and saw some gash.
But I wasn't won over,
And then was hungover.
So it's back to work,
But I feel such a berk,
For being part of the rhyming assault.
I blame Martin, it's all his fault!

Marc:
Another working week has started
I turn around and ask "who farted"?

Ralph:
Amused am I by the name of Bebo,
It makes me go "Hee, ho!"

Gavin:
I think not you sorry fool,
For that I am way to[o] cool.

Nick D:
On Wednesday still I cross the pond,
and though of Irish hubbers I'm fond
unless you have a magic wand
I'll not see you until we... stond
aloof, at Westin's bar, like Bond.

I f@#$ing hate you, McV.

Andy (Bogatan):
This rhyming is not for me.
I'm having pizza for tea.

Marc:
This comic I will surely go buy
Enjoy it I will, perhaps with some pie!

Nigel:
But there's a question I must broach,
To our illustrious Mr Roche.
What exactly do I spy
Along inside Shockwave's right thigh?

Nick R:
The answer, dear Nige, is frightfully simple
Like a wool-headed oik, or the cause of a pimple
The detail you note is some pipe-like hydraulics,
Exposed to to the world, as the Purple One Frolics.

I hope I have helped you, though I rue with a sigh
Your frightening interest in Shockwave's inner thigh.

Ralph:
I could not give a toss,
Of me they are not the boss!

Chris:
Buggery toss, what a load of old balls
Instead of ensconsed within studio walls
I'm sat on the sofa at my good homestead
'cause recording's been moved to next Tuesday instead.

Andy T (not funny but a sign of taste nonetheless):
I've previously said that my favourite TF show is Victory,
3 eps into Masterforce has made a liar of me.

Nigel:
D'oh! I did misread again!
It seems of Rumble, I don't ken.
Now at last, I understand:
He has his arm, but has no hand.

Stomski:
It could be worse and oh so wrong,
if you'd thought he had a wheel based dong.

Nigel:
Oh, that made me laugh so hard!
Stomski, you are such a card!

Ode to Rumble's robot dong,
Hidden 'neath a silver thong:

Gadget perpendicular,
Hidden when vehicular.

Charles:
Soon the whole net will see James' wares
Where Jollup takes Wheelie Downstairs.
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You can kill Wheelie, but the rhyming lives on!

Martin

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The_Doctor
20/03/07 at 05:36 PM #39
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Wheelie will never die!
Do not make a grown man cry!

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Cullen
21/03/07 at 08:27 AM #40
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Rhymes came and went.
And now we are spent.
I hope we are bent.
On having another such splendid event.
In the future I meant.
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[Andy Turnbull]

Excellent - I'm glad to see that thread has been rescued.

Andy

[The Doctor]

As am I!

-Ralph

[Shockprowl]

Ah a thread from before my time
the fact it is saved is no crime
I laugh out loud in my Ambulance Station
this wonder we must share with the nation
the skill, the wit the merry glee
I fear I've let out alittle wee

(it's very late, we've been very busy, and I'm very tired......)

[The Doctor]

It is great to see it again,
What ho! I shall pick up my pen!
And I shall tell tales of Wheelie,
Who round the girls never gets a feelie!

-Ralph

[Grand Moff Muffin]

Though it may make Nick shudder
And even call for his mother
I feel it my duty to alert
Anyone not named Bert
To the fact that the next Hub rhyme week
Is due in March, in the lead-up to the Cardiff meet
And we're now closer to the one to come
Than we are to the last great one.

Martin

[The Doctor]

Nick will able to cope,
Like a snowboarder on a slope!
He shall call upon his toy powers,
And not hide behind a bunch of flowers!

-Ralph

[Grand Moff Muffin]

thedoctor said:

And not hide behind a bunch of flowers!

That's a cruel way to describe your fellow Scots Hubbers, I must say.

Martin

[Nigel]

It's all right, it's a bunch of well 'ard thistle flowers.

[The Doctor]

It is raining outside,
In the library I may carry out genocide!
For lunch I had fish and chips,
Any more noise and I get out the whips!

-Ralph

[Grand Moff Muffin]

Only six weeks until annual Hub rhyming week comes around once more!

It's been an annual event for the last one year, and it would be a shame to break with tradition.

Martin

[legios]

Traditions are important things. And if folk don't get together and start them then they would never get started.

Karl

[The Doctor]

We all so love rhyming week,
Of the past here is a peek!

-Ralph

[blueshift]

Mar 23, 2017 15:51:52 GMT The Doctor said:

We all so love rhyming week,
Of the past here is a peek!

-Ralph

Whilst this rhyme is quite bitchin'...
Ralph, report to the security kitchen!

[The Doctor]

No I will not go,
Like Santa who says:"Ho!"

-Ralph

[Grand Moff Muffin]

Mar 23, 2017 15:51:52 GMT The Doctor said:

We all so love rhyming week,
Of the past here is a peek!

-Ralph

Past... or not too distant future???

Said the bishop to the butcher.

Martin

[blueshift]

Mar 23, 2017 17:58:27 GMT Grand Moff Muffin said:

Mar 23, 2017 15:51:52 GMT The Doctor said:

We all so love rhyming week,
Of the past here is a peek!

-Ralph

Past... or not too distant future???

Said the bishop to the butcher.

Martin

As our back-up Phil, I will not be meek
I declare next week Rhyming Week!

[Pinwig]

I thought rhyming had a specific week?
Moving it seems a bit of a cheek.

[The Doctor]

When real Phil returns he will be so pleased,
I predict he will not at all be cheesed.

-Ralph