Comment from bichonfrisegirl

Excellent

Hi Craig,

Ha! It could have been worse, they could have broken the relationship by text or email. :( Your limerick poem is the perfect way to convey the meaning of "telepheme".

Excellent aabba rhyme scheme, and good pairing of picture and poem. Thanks for sharing another new word. ~~ Connie

 Comment Written 11-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018

Thanks for the fun review, Connie. They could also have ended it with arsenic in the coffee, so I guess you have a point there! Cheers, Craig

Comment from Joy Graham

Excellent

I recognize the old phone in the picture. It's nice to reflect on the old ways we used to do things. Now cell phones and texting and video chatting are all the rage.

I have never heard of the word, telepheme. You taught me another new word. I need to read the dictionary more lol!

Joy xx

 Comment Written 11-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018

lol you won't find about half of these in the dictionary either, Joy - I've checked! Thanks for the kind review - Craig

Comment from Gloria ....

Excellent

So that's where the idea came from. I figured it was something like one of those rotary phones. I wonder if it's been possessed by that Chucky Good Guy, guy?

Excellent Limerick in perfect form. Good to see you're sticking by the book and skipping words that don't inspire you. One's man's boring might be another man's gold, yes?

Great job, you.

Gloria

 Comment Written 10-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018

Thanks so much, Gloria. It isn't necessarily harder work to come up with something from a "boring" word, but it's a lot less fun. Cheers, Craig

Comment from tfawcus

Excellent

Now that really is ending a relationship at arm's length! The ultimate disconnection! Mind you, these days, I guess that breaking up by text or email is even more wounding - what you might call e-strangement, I suppose.

 Comment Written 10-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018

lol Tony, eStrangement works for me, especially on an iPhone. Cheers, Craig

Comment from kiwigirl2821

Excellent

Hello Craig. You know this is a bloody fantastic word and a terrible situation to be in. I had a girl that I knew one time and she did it through a text. Does that count? Awesome write mate. xoxo deborah

 Comment Written 10-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018

A girl you knew, huh? That's what they all say - what did your text say? (I'm just teasing you). Thanks so much, Deborah. Cheers, Craig

Comment from Phyllis Stewart

Excellent

Wow, that old phone startled me. I remember when that's all we had. Amazing how the world has changed during my lifetime. And it's going faster all the time.

Good word, telepheme. Most messages are that today, but they're textephemes. :)

 Comment Written 10-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018

I'm pretty certain that's the exact model I had when we were kids. Many thanks, Phyllis - Craig

Comment from Jannypan (Jan)

Excellent

This is a great limerick Craig. Good job on its form. Your message comes through loud & clear, too. The picture is perfect for your well chosen words. I guess in today's tech world this would be equivalent to receiving the same by email. Thanks for sharing. Jan

 Comment Written 10-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018

Yep, Jan. I've heard of people being given notice en masse of retrenchments from their work by email too. I think that would be even worse. Thanks for the lovely review, Craig

Comment from BeasPeas

Excellent

Hi Craig. What a clever way to teach your readers a new word. "Telepheme," I love it. We had an old phone like that when I was a kid. In my opinion it was much nicer then to have the privacy of a telephone call than to walk around with a rectangle glued to head and hand. Nicely done limerick. Marilyn

 Comment Written 10-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018

I'm pretty certain that is the exact model we had when I was a kid, Marilyn. Many thanks for the great review - Craig

Comment from Sandra du Plessis

Excellent

A very well-written Limerick about breaking up over the telephone, cellphone, and texting are seen as something that only a coward would do, which can't face the other person.

 Comment Written 10-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018

Very true, Sandra. I've heard of people being given notice en masse of retrenchments from their work by email too. I think that would be even worse. Totally cowardly acts. Many thanks, Craig

Comment from --Turtle.

Excellent

Hey, Craig,

Read through this limerick. Fun theme and I like the downgrading aspect of telepheme here. Maybe it's meaning includes the live conversation by telephone, but with the sense of outrage, or by using a less known phase than over the phone... It makes it as not quite a live phone conversation. Like the message is a recording, or text, or a recording that's been converted to text...

There's something about taking even a bigger step away from actual interaction that drives all sorts of insult when it comes to breaking up. Though, on one hand... if someone really is going to break up with me, part of me equally wants to avoid direct interaction. But I think there's also an element where it, as painted through this limerick via words like - nightmare, and extreme -- that to use this less personal break up method is rude.

Maybe a step better than scrawling the message across your ex's car... (wonder if there's a word for that : D vandeleme?)

I thought this was entertaining and fun.

 Comment Written 10-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 10-Mar-2018

LOL I like your new word, Turtle - I might have to use it somewhere. Many thanks for the great review. I'm hopeless at breakups, although I haven't been through one in a very long time, and hope not to in the foreseeable future. Not so much the letting go part, just the awkward conversation. Your example is the ultimate "rude breakup"! Many thanks, Craig