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Old 2015-11-13, 07:54   #111
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I looked up a Japanese word just now and learned about a form of Japanese verbal comedic entertainment that sort of fits the flow here at the moment:
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An example from Yonezawa Hikohachi's collection:
A man faints in a bathing tub. In the great confusion following, a doctor arrives who takes his pulse and calmly gives the instructions: "Pull the plug and let the water out." Once the water has flowed completely out of the tub he says: "Fine. Now put a lid on it and carry the guy to the cemetery."
For the poor man is already dead. The joke becomes clearer when one notes that a Japanese traditional bathing tub is shaped like a coffin.
I once farted in a wooden bathing tub,
A noisy punctuation of my rub-a-dub-dub,
The thunderous bubble,
Caused me great toil and trouble,
So I started writing a limerick about it, but now I see you said not fart but 'faint',
And what should have become a memorable poetical work of art - well, it ain't.
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Old 2015-11-13, 17:24   #112
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I once farted in a wooden bathing tub,
A noisy punctuation of my rub-a-dub-dub,
The thunderous bubble,
Caused me great toil and trouble,
So I started writing a limerick about it, but now I see you said not fart but 'faint',
And what should have become a memorable poetical work of art - well, it ain't.
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Old 2015-11-13, 17:27   #113
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But the bishop was nobody's fool
He'd been to a large public school
He whipped off his britches
And diddled those b*****s
With a ten inch Episscopal tool.
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Old 2015-11-14, 01:29   #114
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Alas, alas for Uncle Joe;
He's gone beyond the stars.
I miss him, oh, I miss him so.
He had such good cigars.
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Old 2015-11-14, 01:33   #115
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A girl who weighed many an oz.,
Used language I will not pronoz.
Her brother one day
Pulled her chair right away.
He wanted to see if she'd boz.
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Old 2015-11-14, 02:34   #116
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A girl who weighed many an oz.,
Used language I will not pronoz.
Her brother one day
Pulled her chair right away.
He wanted to see if she'd boz.
LOLOLOL!
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Old 2015-11-14, 02:53   #117
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But that didn't bother those two
They said, as the bishop withdrew
The vicar is quicker, and slicker, and thicker,
And longer and stronger than you.
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Old 2015-11-15, 22:21   #118
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There once was a man from Nantucket
Twice forty eight and not yet interred
He went up a hill
It was worth it

Last fiddled with by only_human on 2015-11-15 at 22:23
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Old 2015-11-16, 14:25   #119
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Old 2015-11-17, 06:33   #120
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From Retina's link on transistors, which is truly mind-blowing, for me, comes this link on capacitors, and asides on inductors:
http://amasci.com/emotor/cap1.html
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Old 2015-11-17, 06:36   #121
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Oh Mother Dear
What have we here
That looks like strawberry jam
Hush, hush, my boy
It's just your pa
Run over by a tram.
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