TOUGH H. Simpson finally closes the valve,
DYING klaxon alarm tails off.
PLUME of radioactivity over Springfield averted:
DOUGH!
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TOUGH guy, packin’ heat and crackin’ knees,
PLUME perfectly set in his fedora,
DYING for some wise guy to slip up:
DOUGH has to be collected for the boss.
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2022-08-21 words
TOUGH, DYING, PLUME, DOUGH
Yer Granny
Oh yer
CANNY shove yer granny off a bus;
NOMADder if she never makes a fuss.
SNORT loud she might and biff yer, she’s
CABIN (‘scuse the cold) for to get yer; oh yer
CANNY shove yer granny off a bus.
(Sorry for the matching line at the end, aficionados!)
The opening line ‘pinched’ from this song
Weird Noises
unCANNY thoughts began when
NOMAD finally settled down–
CABIN life full of strange sounds.
SNORTing? Did he laugh in his dreams?
Goeth Before the Fall
NOMAD, having never settled down, thinks himself
CANNY–too shrewd for the nerds and the
CABIN-dwelling weirdos–and
SNORTs at the thought of losing.
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2022-08-20 words
CANNY, NOMAD, CABIN, SNORT
Canny
A SCOT, wha hae with Wallace bled, did
FEIGN that he himself were dead; used
CHALK to mark his face as pale, and
EAGER, lived to tell the tale.
[With apologies to Robbie Burns and nothing to do with this DQP]
Separated by a Common Tongue
A SCOT from the lowlands, hired in no-show’s stead,
FEIGNs calm, opens the one door of little highlands school,
CHALK and other supplies–he’s walked it all from the station four miles back.
EAGER kids greet him: each other’s accents barely decipherable.
Social Engineering
FEIGN a smiling disposition, wear the
ASCOT to match your eyes; don’t seem too
EAGER or they’ll simply
CHALK it all up to happenstance.
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