Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - Thorns

Bouts Rimés means "rhymed ends" in French and is a game or challenge where one person (me) makes a list of rhymed words and others (you) write the lines that end with those rhymes, in the same order in which they were given. It was known as Crambo in English and was quite popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Will you help me bring back this hip historical habit?

 

Thorn

Adorn

Bumpy

Jumpy

Prick

Stick

 

 

Above are the words.

Get writing rhyme nerds!

 

There will be no winner. This is just for fun.

Thursday Thoughts - On Bitcoins

Bitman's Tree

by Rachel Hoyt

 

image by idea go via freedigitalphotos.net

 

 

For generations, Bitman males

Had dreamt of growing cash -

Great great grandpa wrote down his fails

And how his pa was rash

To think that planting a few coins

Could sprout unbridled wealth -

(He tested ways to nurture loins

And what brings money health.)

He never did make money trees

Or his son after him,

But little Billy Bitman, (geez!)

His vision was less slim -

"Bits of data around the world

Are like rare gems," he thought.

Soon a new type of coin unfurled,

Not seen, but often bought -

It floated around time and space

With more, then less, value,

No one could see the tree's home base,

But still his dream came true -

A calculation burst a seed

And people bought its leaves,

Fertilized with secrets and greed,

It grew cash one perceives.

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 

 

Bitcoins (to some) are the latest, greatest thing,

but I believe its an imaginary value they bring.

 

 

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Wacky Word Wednesday - Sonder

Sonder

(sohn dehrr)

 

by Rachel Hoyt

 

image by feelart via freedigitalphotos.net

 

 

Sonder is frame of view to ponder -

Belief that we individually wander,

Spin, fall, and float through the wild blue yonder,

Uniquely experience life - sonder.

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 

 

Every week I rhyme and define a new wacky word.

Come on over to indulge your inner nerd.

And, please let me know of any weird words you've heard.

 

 

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