# Message-Board World **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 1999, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463 "1999-09-23T16:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/21 "1999-09-24T19:28:00Z")
Pluto- that one hurt. I read it to a good friend on the phone just now and was thinking it sounded pretty good until i got to the word ‘fardels’ and we both cracked up. Oh well, there’s just no graceful way to say “fardel” and “contumely”. heh. * * * [OfficeGirl’s Cubicle Farm](http://www.homestead.com/allusions/allusions.html) “Argue for your limitations; sure enough, they’re yours.” ---
**Author:** ![JoeBlank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JoeBlank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeBlank)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/22 "1999-09-24T20:07:00Z")
I think you did a great job, OfficeGirl, on both my list and Pluto’s. I’m gone for the weekend. See if you and Byz can get someone else to play, to keep this thread going. I’ll check back Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/23 "1999-09-24T20:07:00Z")
With apologies to Margaret Wise Brown: Goodnight to be And not to be Good night, troubles in a sea. Good night arrows And good night slings Good night to what outrageous fortune brings. Good night proud man’s contumely, Good night conscience cowardly, Good night fardels hard to bear, Good night, questions everywhere. (Actually, this probably belongs in the "Brain Games #2 thread. Oh well.) ---
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/24 "1999-09-24T20:14:00Z")
\>\>\>clapping for fretful porpentine\<\<\< that was entertaining. i’m so glad you posted it. anyone want to post the next list of words for the challenge? * * * [OfficeGirl’s Cubicle Farm](http://www.homestead.com/allusions/allusions.html) “Argue for your limitations; sure enough, they’re yours.” ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/25 "1999-09-24T22:06:00Z")
I should have known you’d tackle that one Fretful. (Don’t tell O.G., but I think yours is better! Do you think she heard us?) I’m working on another list but so far all I’ve got is: spangled ramparts gallantly gleaming * * * “non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem” – William of Ockham ---
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 1999, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/26 "1999-09-25T12:07:00Z")
ouch. next words then. vanity soliloquy mesh nylon cigarette drawbridge miscellaneous * * * [OfficeGirl’s Cubicle Farm](http://www.homestead.com/allusions/allusions.html) “Argue for your limitations; sure enough, they’re yours.” ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 1999, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/27 "1999-09-26T02:47:00Z")
After giving you all a hard time I guess I have to try it myself. No laughing! Why, when I soliloquize, Do life’s drawbridges seem to rise? And vanity and reason mesh And slide like nylon glides on flesh? As flame ignites a cigarette, Solitude enflames me, yet I am frightened of the rush Of feelings miscellaneous. ## Metrically, pluto “non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem” – William of Ockham ---
**Author:** ![No\_Me\_Ayudes\_Compadre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/no_me_ayudes_compadre/32/5224_2.png) [@No\_Me\_Ayudes\_Compadre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Me_Ayudes_Compadre)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 1999, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/28 "1999-09-26T05:01:00Z")
# vanity soliloquy mesh nylon cigarette drawbridge miscellaneous Parrot the Clown sits on the edge The drawbridge between his heart and head Vanity fades with passing years His cigarette burned, his veins all bled Miscellaneous thoughts of death and life He’d like to die but lives in dread The nylon wire didn’t cut his neck His painted face lives on instead The mesh of thoughts won’t let him rest As he paints his face all blue and red His soliloquy ends, the mirror breaks And Parrot’s free from his daily bread. * * * “Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?” ---
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 1999, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/29 "1999-09-27T16:15:00Z")
NICE JOB, El Mariachi and Pluto. You put my measly ramblings to shame. Next words, anyone? * * * [OfficeGirl’s Cubicle Farm](http://www.homestead.com/allusions/allusions.html) “Argue for your limitations; sure enough, they’re yours.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463.md?page=1)