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It's Limerick-Off time. So please join me in writing a limerick using this RHYME WORD at the end of any one line: WRY or RYE or AWRY.
My Blog's Contest Entry Link is here: http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2024/02/10/limerick-off-wry/
@penprompts
#Limericks #Poetry #Humor #Humour #LimerickContest #PoetryContest #LimerickOffs #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt -
Thanks for another fun Limerick-Off. The winners are...
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2024/02/10/limerick-off-award-518/Congratulations to our Limerick-Off Award Winner, the COACH-Themed Limerick Winner, the Random Word Generator Limerick Winner, and to the Honorable Mention Winners.
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Gaseous Gripes #limerick
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2024/02/07/gripes-humor/#MastoPrompt for January 25 #Umbrage
#Humor #Humour #Limericks #Poetry #Rhyme #Limerick #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt
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Here's my Random Words Generator limerick for my latest Limerick-Off. There's info about the Random Words Generator Limerick Challenge (as well as the other two limerick challenges in this contest) at this Limerick-Off entry link: http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2024/01/13/limerick-off-grand/
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#Limericks #Poetry #Humor #Humour #LimerickContest #PoetryContest #LimerickOffs #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt -
I always illustrate my Limerick-Off THEME with a limerick. The current THEME is COACHES.
If you'd like to enter the latest Limerick-Off contest (3 separate challenges), all the info you need and the main entry link is here: http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2024/01/13/limerick-off-grand/
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#Limericks #Poetry #Humor #Humour #LimerickContest #PoetryContest #LimerickOffs #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt -
I always illustrate my Limerick-Off Rhyme-Word with a limerick. In this case, the Rhyme-Word is GRAND.
If you'd like to enter this contest (3 separate challenges), all the info you need and the entry link can be found here: http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2024/01/13/limerick-off-grand/
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#Limericks #Poetry #Humor #Humour #LimerickContest #PoetryContest #LimerickOffs #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt -
It's Limerick-Off time. Please join me in writing a limerick using this RHYME WORD at the end of any 1 line: GRAND.
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2024/01/13/limerick-off-grand/
There's also a themed-limerick contest. Theme: COACHES.
Finally, there's also a Random Word Generator Contest.
@penprompts
#Limericks #Poetry #Humor #Humour #LimerickContest #PoetryContest #LimerickOffs #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt -
Thanks for another fun Limerick-Off. And the winners are...
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2024/01/13/limerick-off-award-517/Congratulations to our Limerick-Off Award Winner, the PERKS-Themed Limerick Winner, the Random Word Generator Limerick Winner, and to the Honorable Mention Winners.
@penprompts
#Limericks #Poetry #Humor #Humour #LimerickContest #PoetryContest #LimerickOffs #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt -
#Trump #Quatrain
http://www.madkane.com/madness/2024/01/02/trump-quatrain-2/#MastoPrompt #Boundless
Thanks to @stevencudahy for the #Prompt#Trump #USPolitics Trump #Quatrains #Election2024 #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt
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Here's my Random Words Generator limerick for my latest Limerick-Off. You can find info about the Random Words Generator Limerick Challenge (as well as the other 2 limerick challenges in this contest) at my Limerick-Off entry link:
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/12/09/limerick-off-goal/
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#Limericks #Poetry #Humor #Humour #LimerickContest #PoetryContest #LimerickOffs #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt -
I always illustrate the Limerick-Off THEME with a limerick. In my current Limerick-Off, the THEME is PERKS.
If you'd like to enter the latest Limerick-Off contest (three separate challenges), here's the entry link:
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/12/09/limerick-off-goal/@penprompts
#Limericks #Poetry #Humor #Humour #LimerickContest #PoetryContest #LimerickOffs #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt -
I always illustrate the Limerick-Off RHYME-Word with a limerick. In my current Limerick-Off, the RHYME-Word is GOAL or GOALS or GOAL’S.
In case you'd like to enter the latest Limerick-Off contest, the entry link is here:
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/12/09/limerick-off-goal/
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#Limericks #Poetry #Humor #Humour #LimerickContest #PoetryContest #LimerickOffs #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt -
It's Limerick-Off time. Please join me in writing a limerick using this RHYME WORD at the end of any one line: GOAL, GOALS, or GOAL'S.
My Blog's Contest Entry Link is here: http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/12/09/limerick-off-goal/
And please don't forget the separate themed-limerick contest. The new theme is PERKS.
Finally, there's also a Random Word Generator Contest. (Please see my Blog Contest Entry Link for details.)
@penprompts
#Limericks #Poetry #Humor #Humour #LimerickContest #PoetryContest #LimerickOffs -
Thanks for another fun Limerick-Off, which is officially over. And the winners are...
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/12/09/limerick-off-award-516/Congratulations to our Limerick-Off Award Winner, the Mistake-Themed Limerick Winner, the Random Word Generator Limerick Winner, and to the Honorable Mention Winners.
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#Limericks #Poetry #Humor #Humour #LimerickContest #PoetryContest #LimerickOffs -
NOT Folderol #Limerick
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/11/18/limerick-writing-humor-6/Thanks @stevencudahy for the #fodder #prompt #vss365today (November 7)
#Humor #Humour #Limericks #Poetry #Rhyme #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #WritingPrompt
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NOT Folderol #Limerick
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/11/18/limerick-writing-humor-6/Thanks @stevencudahy for the #fodder #prompt #vss365today (November 7)
#Humor #Humour #Limericks #Poetry #Rhyme #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #WritingPrompt
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NOT Folderol #Limerick
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/11/18/limerick-writing-humor-6/Thanks @stevencudahy for the #fodder #prompt #vss365today (November 7)
#Humor #Humour #Limericks #Poetry #Rhyme #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #WritingPrompt
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NOT Folderol #Limerick
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/11/18/limerick-writing-humor-6/Thanks @stevencudahy for the #fodder #prompt #vss365today (November 7)
#Humor #Humour #Limericks #Poetry #Rhyme #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #WritingPrompt
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NOT Folderol #Limerick
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/11/18/limerick-writing-humor-6/Thanks @stevencudahy for the #fodder #prompt #vss365today (November 7)
#Humor #Humour #Limericks #Poetry #Rhyme #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Prompts #WritingPrompt
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What’s my excuse for posting this limerick? It’s November 15th, National #Drumming Day.
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/11/15/drum-humor/#Bawdy #Childcare #Humor #Humour #Limericks #Poetry #Rhyme #Limerick #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
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The Nasty Conductor
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/09/20/conductor-humor-3/#Music #Musicians #Musician #Drummer #Percussion #Conductors #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humour #Humor #Idiom #Poetry #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
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Embracing The Rules (Limerick)
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2023/07/13/limerick-writing-humor-5/#MastoPrompt #Confine
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Happy "International #Cello Day"
My beau plays the cello. His bow
Makes the loveliest music I know.
I love him, I think,
But my mother, a shrink,
Says I won’t, once I’ve heard Lorne Munroe.http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2021/12/29/cello-humor-2/
#Cellos #Cellist #Cellists #Music #Musician #Musicians #Limerick #Limericks #VerseThursday
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"National Bird Day" gives me a good excuse to post this limerick about an aggrieved roommate:
“I’m sick of your cockatiel’s turds!
Plus it bit me again!” — angry words
From a roommate, unmuffled,
Whose feathers were ruffled.
“I’m moving. Your pet’s for the birds!”http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2022/01/05/bird-limerick/
#Bird #Birds #BirdDay #Wildlife #Limericks #Limerick #Pets #Poetry #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #VerseThursday
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When someone’s upset and says, “Drat,”
The word sounds appallingly flat.
Such a mealy-mouth curse!
So genteel — I’m averse.
Kindly try to swear better than that.#Poetry #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme
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Trump's impenetrable dome proposal reminds me of a 1985 sequence in the Doonesbury comic strip, from the time when Reagan had proposed to do the same with his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which was nicknamed "Star Wars" after the Star Wars movie series (episode IV was released in 1977 and VI in 1983, so it was a familiar and exciting popular metaphor, and, if you'll pardon the pun, offered a new hope).
The comic makes its point well. Everyone should read it:
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1985/11/22
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), a lovely but now defunct organization that created forums where I learned a great deal about technology ethics, originally focused on debunking the notion that it was a good idea to rely on AI and SDI to protect the US or to guide 'launch on warning' systems at speeds that would not involve humans.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Professionals_for_Social_Responsibility
We need CPSR or something like it today. Too much is happening in tech that is unchecked. Although organizations like eff.org and epic.org have continued to field some of the issues, and there are some new ones like Center for Humane Technology (CHT) that give me fresh hope in the ethics arena.
But tech is a big area and there's always room for more ethics.
And by ethics I don't mean cute rules about how to do things right, I mean relentless asking of hard questions about whether what we think is right is really right. It is the asking and even re-asking of hard questions in a dynamically changing landscape, not any particular static plateau of answers, that keep us ethically honest.
In the modern fast-paced world of tech we tend to defer ethics until we can see what it can do. Then later when we know what it can do, we say it is too entrenched to go back. So pesky ethics is never in play. That is a very dangerous way to run a society. Star Trek,and science fiction generally, is full of cautionary tales about the myriad paths to disaster that can happen when ability outpaces wisdom.
Historically it's lucky people did stay in the loop, asking hard questions. Anyone who doesn't know the story of Stanislav Petrov should take a moment to read and ponder it:
Stanislav Petrov: The man who may have saved the world
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24280831.ampAlso the idea of something impenetrable gives the sense of an arms race, undoing all the work done to reduce nuclear threats no side can win.
The modern risk is from within, not by remote launch, but Trump believes in massive expenditures on infallible walls. It is a metaphor for his belief in racism; or vice versa, I'm not sure, but the two are intertwined. It's about insulating and purifying us. He believes safety is achieved by separating Good People from Bad People in order to allow some resulting Utopia to thrive. It's a gross fantasy from start to end.
This dome folly would also bring huge cost with little benefit, modern warfare having changed to be so much more asymmetric in ways that this would not address. But it WOULD likely delight the capitalist military industrial complex, who will surely find a way to toss donations his way.
Sadly ironic that the party that adores telling us we must spend within our means and that government programs must pay for themselves will line up lobbyists to tell us "but not in this case". Reagan spent out of control, ballooning the national debt, in ways Trump seems excited to repeat.
#Doonesbury #SDI #Trump #Reagan #Nuclear #Tech #Technology #risk #risks #CPSR #CHT #StarWars #Capitalism #AI #ethics #Warfare #DebtLimit #Military #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #Racism #SciFi #StarTrek #politics #society