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Feb 08, 2009
For the oldest existing Welsh rhyme,
Go fourteen centuries back into time.
Composed in "Gododdin" ,
In the fort of "Din Eidin" !
Edin-burgh ,it's called in its prime !!

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Feb 08, 2009
"Y Gododdin " was composed by Aneirin,
Whilst further west lived the poet Taliesin,
Strathclyde the latter,
Midlothian the former,
But WELSH was the language they wrote in !!!
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Feb 08, 2009
"Welsh" is Germanic for "British",
First coined by new Saxon English,
When they came to the land,
East of Offa's wide band
Called us "Romanised Strangers" or "Welisch" !!
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Feb 08, 2009
RedKite wrote:Dutch/Flemish , it's all West Germanic !
Not like French , which is close to Hispanic,
Both "Deutsch" and word "dutch",
Mean "brothers" as such !!
But "Dutch" language is called LOW GERMANIC!!

"Friesian" is the closest to English ,
"West Germanic" like German and Flemish !
The English were GERMANS,
Made FRENCH by the Normans!!
Only the Welsh were TRUE BRITISH !!


you forgot the Cornish....and possbly the Isle of Man (but who doesn't...)
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Feb 08, 2009
Welsh language came down from the "BRITISH"
So did the language called Cornish,
Both are P-Celtic,
But Manx is Q-Celtic,
Like Scots Gaelic ,that makes it IRISH!!

Avon's the Welsh word for "river",
Dover's the Welsh word for "water"
Morecambe's "curved sea",
"Mor Cam" it should be,
Cumbria like Cymru means "brother"
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Feb 08, 2009
The Welsh word for "head" is just "Pen"
It can also mean "top", do you ken?
Gaelic is "kin"
So Q-Celtic fits in !
But Pennine was Welsh, way back when!!
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Feb 09, 2009
The "Old English" of Beowulf seems odd,
Since he wrote in Germanic ....the sod!
Then the Normans brought French,
To confuse English wench!!
But the Welsh spoke the language of God !!!!

Then when Chaucer wrote of his tales ,
He described all Canterbury males,
His English was "Middle"
Unlike Beowulf's "old" riddle ,
But the language of God stayed in Wales!!!
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Feb 13, 2009
I see that not one has replied ,
To historical facts I supplied !!
Where are the rhymers?
The Syllable Timers ??
Chaucer would have certainly tried !!!!!!
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Feb 13, 2009
RobbyG wrote:Absolutly great are these limericks guys...,
never did I heared... something so nice.

What struck me most, is the needle going toast,
I mean the Burj Dubai, wasn't it fly...!

It might be a crisis, but not for Dubai's missises,
As long as Mo's here, the money will flow my dear.

The boom that we faced, at the bust we just dazed,
Now the dollars will burn, but remember....a form of growth will return.

:geek:


hey RobbyG..

i agree with you..
As long as Mo is here , money aint gonna STOP :D
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Feb 18, 2009
"The money won't stop" says this Hack!
"With Mo there will not be a lack"!!
What makes MO TO BORROW?
Like there's NO TOMORROW???
When Mo KNOWS he must pay it all back!!
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Feb 22, 2009
Robby G wants to see lower case,
No caps, cos they're really base !!
Yet he uses RR,
Those caps ...will you bar?
Will Robby look truth in the face?
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Mar 01, 2009
I see that the land of abu dhabi,
Has been left to hold Dubai's babby,
Now the big emirate,
controls smaller one's fate,
That was told me by Mo the cabbie !!
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Mar 01, 2009
The land of Dubai is broke,
Abu Dhabi handles Dubai as joke,
Big spending from both emirates,
Now suffering from low oil generates,
Its time to trade commodities like coke
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Mar 01, 2009
Now the land that is called Abu Dhabi ,
Is picking up errant child's tabby !!
It helps out Dubai,
And you all know why!!
Dubai's Tonto , whilst AD's Kemo Sabby!!!
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Mar 01, 2009
The land of Dubai is flat broke !
And AD does NOT see the joke !!!
AD has to pay!!
To keep vultures at bay,
It's time that its spendthrifts AWOKE!!!
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Mar 01, 2009
Tonight I walked cross the beach,
Saw a woman angry out of breach,
She slapped on my butt,
Another in my gut,
She said she witnessed rising a leech
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Mar 01, 2009
Dubai wanted "biggest and best",
So experts came at its behest,
Without being too funny!!
They only came for the money!!
And those words are not spoken in jest !!
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Mar 01, 2009
On This Saturday night I have said ,
A great deal from inside my head ,
It's always "Bad bet!"
To get too much in debt!!
That's it !! Now I'm off to my bed!!
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Mar 01, 2009
Dubai builds the 'biggest and best',
It contracted expats that wanted a nest,
It wasn't all funny,
Lots of honey but no 'real' money!
The pearls are now stolen from the chest.
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Mar 01, 2009
I'll write to you all come tomorrow,
About this huge story of sorrow,
Can't Dubai comprehend?
That the spending must end??
Since we all must return what we borrow !!!!
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Mar 01, 2009
This day is Saint David's Day ,
He once spoke over Cardigan Bay!
"Wisdom, not greed!!
Is what we all need !!"
Saint David spoke TRUTH all the way!!
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Mar 01, 2009
Remember on Saint David's Day ,
Another fine truth he did say !
"Do the small things !!!"
He told peasants and kings!!
"For greed will only lead you astray!!"
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Mar 01, 2009
My cabbie who drove to and fro ,
Informed me that his name was Mo,
He was from Bangalore,
Do you want to know more?
In two shakes he drove to my door !!
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Mar 01, 2009
When you look at syllable count,
You must put an equal amount
In each limerick,
You must do that trick!!
Three eights and two fives will account !!
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Mar 01, 2009
The first of your two lines must rhyme
With the last one all of the time,
Line three and line four,
Must rhyme some more,
To create a poem sublime .
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Mar 01, 2009
Since Robby's first language is Dutch,
His rhymes are quite good ,as such,
To rhyme in strange lingo,
Is harder than bingo,
Although I don't play very much.
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Mar 01, 2009
Redkite has his own thread,
without him it would be dead.
But no fear I'm here to save the day,
with my post that is of OMG YAY!!
Now back to work for my daily bread.
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Mar 01, 2009
A limerick like Red Kite, I wanna write,
The art to make it sound so right,
To get it right, shall I write n write,
Till poetic harmony I attain,
Even in the middle of the night!!
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Mar 01, 2009
Here's a man who's not happy, Oh dear !!
His nick-name says that much , I fear !!
"Misery called life"
You need a good wife!!
Or else you may well hit the beer !!
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Mar 01, 2009
MC, you must understand well ,
And listen to that which I tell,
These lines are shorter
See that ? You oughta!!
And this one is longer as well!!
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