Idiomatic Fanatic
More idioms than you can shake a stick at...59 total reviews
Comment from mystery poet
I got lots of laughs out of this one. Such a pleasure to read with no need for racking your brain to figure, what the heck does this mean. Pure delight and a great contest offering. Much luck to you!!!
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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I got lots of laughs out of this one. Such a pleasure to read with no need for racking your brain to figure, what the heck does this mean. Pure delight and a great contest offering. Much luck to you!!!
Comment Written 26-Nov-2011
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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Thank you. I appreciate your kind words.
Lots more 'noracking required' fun in my portfolio if you care to look.
Steve
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I'm intrigued! I love reading fun writing. Good luck in the contest!!!
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Newbie, I see - welcome aboard!
Part of the learning experience can be trawling through a few chosen portfolios when and if you ever have the time - writing reviews and then replies to reviews keeps me away from my own writing more than enough of the time!
My port is a mix, but leans towards funny rhyming stuff like this one and then a few more serious pieces just to challenge myself
Steve
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I'll be seeing you through your writings soon! LOL!!!!!!!
Comment from babylonia
steve,
if only it is just deserts. LOL you definitely deserve a great dessert. you made me smile at all the things you used in this one. one possible spaggie.
If ev'ry cloud is siver(silver)-lined
imagery is excellent. good luck~
love,
barbara
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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steve,
if only it is just deserts. LOL you definitely deserve a great dessert. you made me smile at all the things you used in this one. one possible spaggie.
If ev'ry cloud is siver(silver)-lined
imagery is excellent. good luck~
love,
barbara
Comment Written 26-Nov-2011
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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Thanks for the review and the spag alert.
Steve
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steve,
you are very welcome.
love,
barbara
Comment from Trybuck
Might want to get a bigger unbrella, cause even a goat's got enough sense to get in out of the rain.
I think you should have went for forty, that might have won it for you...
Very well done, now take a bough, Buck
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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Might want to get a bigger unbrella, cause even a goat's got enough sense to get in out of the rain.
I think you should have went for forty, that might have won it for you...
Very well done, now take a bough, Buck
Comment Written 26-Nov-2011
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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Thanks, Buck - maybe a few more verses would push it to fifty!
Steve
Comment from Adri7enne
I haven't gone through so many cliche's in one sitting since Moses was a toddler. LOL! You sure can rhyme, though, Steveh. I thoroughly enjoyed this poem. I grinned all the way through it. Fun stuff. Good luck in the contest.
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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I haven't gone through so many cliche's in one sitting since Moses was a toddler. LOL! You sure can rhyme, though, Steveh. I thoroughly enjoyed this poem. I grinned all the way through it. Fun stuff. Good luck in the contest.
Comment Written 26-Nov-2011
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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Thank you. I appreciate your kind words and one more cliche to add to my list!
Steve
Comment from KiwiGal
OK, you know this one will tickle the funny bone; I imagine it tickled yours while the words were pouring out of you.
Very clever to get the rhyming and cohesion in so (apparently) effortlessly.
And how absolutely fascinating: I always thought it was 'desserts' as well - probably because I aligned it with 'having your cake and eating it', and sweets are a way of rewarding one.
I never linked it with the old French verb 'deservir' (serve well) which doesn't figure in the modern Google translate. Thanks for the lesson .. I'll find out if the verb is still used in French, because there are some I'm lining up to get their just deserts at the moment ......
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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OK, you know this one will tickle the funny bone; I imagine it tickled yours while the words were pouring out of you.
Very clever to get the rhyming and cohesion in so (apparently) effortlessly.
And how absolutely fascinating: I always thought it was 'desserts' as well - probably because I aligned it with 'having your cake and eating it', and sweets are a way of rewarding one.
I never linked it with the old French verb 'deservir' (serve well) which doesn't figure in the modern Google translate. Thanks for the lesson .. I'll find out if the verb is still used in French, because there are some I'm lining up to get their just deserts at the moment ......
Comment Written 26-Nov-2011
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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Learn something new every day
Helps to keep Old-Timers at bay!
Yes, this was just a piece of fun - and you're right, these ones just pour out. My fave line/verse was combining wheat/chaff with against the grain, but no one has commented - am I being too subtle?
Steve
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Oh no, I got it, but if I picked out all the lines I liked, I'd probably end up quoting the whole thing! I actually really liked "that old fat lady's..." i.e. you sometimes didn't quote the actual saying but turned it into a little test (do you know that line?). I enjoyed both.
I've been quiet for so long, I did some pot-stirring; the Devil made me do it.
Someone wrote a piece lauding Britain (how great it was) and became very miffed when I wrote back a long list of cultures and countries it crushed along the way.
I can't help myself. Every now and then I have to step out of line, hit a raw nerve, string someone along, take someone for a ride, toss my hat into the ring, toot my own horn, upset the apple cart, walk into the lion's den... miaow...
Comment from sweetwoodjax
this is very well written, kiwi, a great job writing this idiom poem with all the cliches, it made me smile and i recognized all but one of them. it should be silver lined, not siver lined. good luck in the contest.
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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this is very well written, kiwi, a great job writing this idiom poem with all the cliches, it made me smile and i recognized all but one of them. it should be silver lined, not siver lined. good luck in the contest.
Comment Written 26-Nov-2011
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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Thank you. I appreciate your kind words and the spag alert - fixed now
Steve
Comment from Joan E.
I enjoyed the wonderfully synergistic illustration and the rhyming title along with your whimsical combination of so many idioms, in rhyming quatrains, no less. I don't have any "wild oats" left, but I do "dig" your "poem!" Bravo, and best wishes in the contest. -Joan
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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I enjoyed the wonderfully synergistic illustration and the rhyming title along with your whimsical combination of so many idioms, in rhyming quatrains, no less. I don't have any "wild oats" left, but I do "dig" your "poem!" Bravo, and best wishes in the contest. -Joan
Comment Written 26-Nov-2011
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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Like me, you maybe enjoy rolled oats more than wild ones these days!
Thanks for the kind words.
Steve
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You got that right--just about every morning with extra flax seeds and cinnamon--sometimes yogurt, sometimes almond milk! Happy Sunday- Joan
Comment from Wendyanne
Well you have certainly managed to use a lot of idioms in this fun piece of poetry which is an achievement in itself. Good luck with this
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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Well you have certainly managed to use a lot of idioms in this fun piece of poetry which is an achievement in itself. Good luck with this
Comment Written 26-Nov-2011
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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Thank you. I appreciate your kind words.
Steve
Comment from heyjude
steve, very well done. You must have had to think a
while to remember all of these or at least I would have.
Very well crafted. I enjoy it. Love the humor in it. Good luck in the contest. You may have a winner there.
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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steve, very well done. You must have had to think a
while to remember all of these or at least I would have.
Very well crafted. I enjoy it. Love the humor in it. Good luck in the contest. You may have a winner there.
Comment Written 26-Nov-2011
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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Thank you, Judy. I appreciate your kind words.
Steve
Comment from humpwhistle
I do indeed dig this poem, Steve. I am a sucker for
lists of any sort. I'm certain that you had fun
writing this because I had so much fun reading.
I'm guessing that you probably have
thirty more verses, and will think of several more
before you get this out of your system.
Well done.
Peace, Lee
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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I do indeed dig this poem, Steve. I am a sucker for
lists of any sort. I'm certain that you had fun
writing this because I had so much fun reading.
I'm guessing that you probably have
thirty more verses, and will think of several more
before you get this out of your system.
Well done.
Peace, Lee
Comment Written 26-Nov-2011
reply by the author on 26-Nov-2011
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Thans, Lee.
Google certainly makes writing something like this so much easier - find a decent list and then pick out the ones with potential for humour or meter...
Whatever did they do in the old days - they must have used their brains!!
Thanks for the sixer - appreciate it.
Steve
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My pleasure, Steve, but what's Google? I never heard of it. I'm just brilliant. Peace, Knucklehead