Higgledy Piggledy,
Eleanor Roosevelt
How did you manage to
Do FDR?
Sexual Intercourse
Wasn’t his frailty
He did my clerk in the
Back of his car!
Higgledy Piggledy
AlexandriOC
Playing Among Us with
leftists on Twitch
Chats about politics
Hypermillennially
Media Mastery
Tweaks Moscow Mitch
Higgamus Hoggamus,
Dusseldorf Germany,
What kind of hops do you
Use in Altbier?
High Alpha bittering,
Tettnang or Hallertau,
Using top fermenting,
Makes it top tier!
Haggledum Paggledum
Antonin Scalia
What do you think of the
Cases you judge?
Legal opinions can’t
Change with the seasons - the
Framers were psychic - and
So I can’t budge.
The one-word line was one of the rules from a contest in the Mensa Bulletin back in '80 or '81.
It’s a good rule, but it won’t be enforced in this particular game. Maybe if I did it again.
I’d just like to link to a previous thread on this topic, featuring (as you may see) the daughter of one of the co-inventors of the form. Funnily (to me, that is. I laughed inwardly to myself), I have just now returned home from the Bronx Zoo; my first visit since 1995, which was meant simply to salvage something from a trip to the Fordham branch of the New York Public Library, reported to possess the only copy of “Jiggery Pokery” in the NYPL system (I didn’t find it and made use of a book searching service, managing to procure a copy for a bit less than $50. This remains to date my only use ever of any such service).
Anyway, before too much time passes, though I can’t make rules for this thread in this forum on this website, I’d like to remind everyone that in a proper double-dactyl either the fifth, sixth, or seventh line must be a single word. I’ll try to contribute something new to this thread in the next day or two or three,
Higgeldy Piggeldy,
Alice in Wonderland,
Fell down a rabbit-hole,
With a queen sparred,
Who issued sentences
Decapitational.
“Hah!” said the gutsy girl,
“You’re such a card.”
Higgeldy Piggeldy,
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Wrote a concerto which
Made people snore.
With hypnotherapy
He struggled on and off,
Had some great triumphs and
Settled the score.
^^ Wonderful pun!
Higgledy piggledy
Candidate Hillary
Got left behind on the Lock-Her-Up Trail,
Exoneratedly,
No longer pilloried,
She’ll be the one watching
Trump trudge to jail.
Higgeldy Piggeldy
Jennifer Aniston
Struggled in Cali ‘til
Scoring with “Friends”.
Famed for her haircut and
Saccharine movies she
Broke up with Brad Pitt and
Soothed her split ends.
Thanks for the link to the 2003 thread. Some of those are great. Anything that uses the word “uncallipygian” gets my vote.
Even in the old thread, sensible rules were often ignored. They will be in this thread, but I agree using more longer words is better form.
Look forward to more efforts.
And I rhymed lines 2 and 6.
Yes, it was cleverly constructed.
I did the same in mine (almost)
Higglety Pigglety,
Cameron Mackintosh,
How’d you produce shows like
Les Miserables?
Claude-Michel Schönberg and
Good Alain Boublil were
Certainly helpful to
Me for that job!
Higgeldy Piggeldy,
Ludwig von Beethoven,
Wrote on the treble and
Also bass clef.
Sestercentennial
December sixteenth,
We’d sing Happy Birthday,
Except Ludwig’s deaf.
Heated Repeatedly
Young Jonathan Lennon,
Refused to eat dinner, or
Soften this stance.
Don’t eat the carrots, said
Pa, diplomatically.
All I am saying is
Give peas a chance.
(Dedicated to Jonathan Chance)
Higgledom Piggledom
Forty-fifth President
Pardoned himself for the
Twenty-third time
I am Abraxas, so
Don’t pay my taxes, it’s
My parapraxis, and
That’s not a crime.
groooooaaaannnnn