| Author | Message | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9432 Registered: 4-2010 |
There. Or better yet, T. Even would work. | ||
| Irader (Irader)
New member Username: Irader Post Number: 31 Registered: 12-2010 |
Is T. Even a real persone? Is the there as in "there is a spider in my mouth" or "There parents eat spider" or "There the spider i was looking for" Is the work as in "at my work i eat spiders" or "I am working towards a colection of half eaten spiders" or "This spider eating website won't work" | ||
| Irader (Irader)
New member Username: Irader Post Number: 32 Registered: 12-2010 |
is t.evens fat. Is T.evens tacking weight los pills? Is anyone taking weight loss pills? Did t. evens tack to many pills. Did anyone take too many pills? Is t. evens the only relevent person? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9434 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is T. Even a real persone? No, FA Is the there as in "there is a spider in my mouth" Yes, that is the meaning of that "there." or "There parents eat spider" No or "There the spider i was looking for" No Is the work as in "at my work i eat spiders" No or "I am working towards a colection of half eaten spiders" No or "This spider eating website won't work" No is t.evens fat. No Is T.evens tacking weight los pills? No Is anyone taking weight loss pills? No... Did t. evens tack to many pills. No Did anyone take too many pills? No Is t. evens the only relevent person? No - T. Even is not a person at all. The puzzle statement is actually three sentences. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9435 Registered: 4-2010 |
Rewriting puzzle statement, using white underscores as spaces: There. Or_better_yet,_T. Even__would_work. | ||
| Irader (Irader)
New member Username: Irader Post Number: 36 Registered: 12-2010 |
Is the title of the puzzle relevent? Is T an abriavation? Is T a person? How Bought a hint? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9441 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the title of the puzzle relevent? Absolutely Is T an abriavation? Yope Is T a person? No How Bought a hint? Sure - the important part of the title is "weight-loss." | ||
| Irader (Irader)
New member Username: Irader Post Number: 39 Registered: 12-2010 |
Is the title of the puzzle relevent? Is T an abriavation? Is T a person? How Bought a hint? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9452 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the title of the puzzle relevent? Is T an abriavation? Is T a person? How Bought a hint? See my previous post | ||
| Irader (Irader)
New member Username: Irader Post Number: 47 Registered: 12-2010 |
when you say wieght loss do you mean for fat people? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 1886 Registered: 9-2010 |
Hmm...to get "T" out of "There", you lose "here." Relevant? | ||
| Irader (Irader)
New member Username: Irader Post Number: 52 Registered: 12-2010 |
Do you nead here? Or there? or T? Is the T bit got something to do with people looking like a T? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9456 Registered: 4-2010 |
when you say wieght loss do you mean for fat people? No Hmm...to get "T" out of "There", you lose "here." Relevant? Yope Do you nead here? Or there? or T? I don't understand. Is the T bit got something to do with people looking like a T? No | ||
| Irader (Irader)
New member Username: Irader Post Number: 71 Registered: 12-2010 |
oh you mean weight loss on words? i.e. shortening them? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9460 Registered: 4-2010 |
oh you mean weight loss on words? i.e. shortening them? Noish | ||
| Irader (Irader)
New member Username: Irader Post Number: 72 Registered: 12-2010 |
are you shortening there? to t? and eventualy nothing (betwean even and would)? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9462 Registered: 4-2010 |
are you shortening there? to t? and eventualy nothing (betwean even and would)? Yes to all - still haven't pegged the "weight-loss" part, though. | ||
| Irader (Irader)
New member Username: Irader Post Number: 74 Registered: 12-2010 |
the word "thee" is taking too many weight loss pills? | ||
| Irader (Irader)
New member Username: Irader Post Number: 75 Registered: 12-2010 |
the word "there" is taking too many weight loss pills? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9486 Registered: 4-2010 |
the word "there" is taking too many weight loss pills? Noish/Yope | ||
| Kaygee (Kaygee)
New member Username: Kaygee Post Number: 626 Registered: 9-2008 |
Does the "weight-loss" refer to a reduction in something? | ||
| Docd (Docd)
New member Username: Docd Post Number: 118 Registered: 12-2004 |
Are we trying to find a particular group of words (sentence, phrase, lyrics, etc.)in this puzzle, which contains the word "There"? And that the group of words would be improved somehow by the "There" being replaced by a "T"? And not be any worse if the "There" was omitted? Is the T capitalised for any reason? Is a unit of weight measurement, or an abbreviation of one, relevant to this? Is a specific word related to weight loss relevant here? ("thin" springs to mind) | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9493 Registered: 4-2010 |
Does the "weight-loss" refer to a reduction in something? Noish/Yope Are we trying to find a particular group of words (sentence, phrase, lyrics, etc.)in this puzzle, which contains the word "There"? Yope And that the group of words would be improved somehow by the "There" being replaced by a "T"? Yope And not be any worse if the "There" was omitted? Yope Is the T capitalised for any reason? Yes Is a unit of weight measurement, or an abbreviation of one, relevant to this? No Is a specific word related to weight loss relevant here? Yes (tiny -ish) ("thin" springs to mind) But not this HUMOROURS HINT: If you take too many weight-loss pills, you become entirely... | ||
| Kaygee (Kaygee)
New member Username: Kaygee Post Number: 632 Registered: 9-2008 |
invisible? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9514 Registered: 4-2010 |
invisible? No... | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 1906 Registered: 9-2010 |
Intangible? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1325 Registered: 6-2008 |
Withered? Ethereal? (which have "there" in them) | ||
| Docd (Docd)
New member Username: Docd Post Number: 120 Registered: 12-2004 |
Weightless? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9520 Registered: 4-2010 |
Intangible? Withered? Ethereal? (which have "there" in them) None of these, but... Weightless? ...this one! Which means... | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 1908 Registered: 9-2010 |
Weightless poetry? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9526 Registered: 4-2010 |
Weightless poetry? There we go! The solution directly involves weightless poetry. Side note: any examples of said weightlessness are welcome in this puzzle. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 1910 Registered: 9-2010 |
There once was a pair of LTPF guys, Called Greg and Matt, whose puzzles surprise And on LTPF the joke's Usually on Mr. Coke Though we've occasionally given Balin the prize. (I figure weightless poetry doesn't have to make any sense, but I think you both are awesome. Not that I don't think so about anyone else, because that'd be silly. But you are.) | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9532 Registered: 4-2010 |
There once was a pair of LTPF guys, Called Greg and Matt, whose puzzles surprise And on LTPF the joke's Usually on Mr. Coke Though we've occasionally given Balin the prize. (I figure weightless poetry doesn't have to make any sense, but I think you both are awesome. Not that I don't think so about anyone else, because that'd be silly. But you are.) Thank you, both for the compliment and for that excellent sampling of weightlessness right there. | ||
| Rbruma (Rbruma)
New member Username: Rbruma Post Number: 1092 Registered: 9-2009 |
Your puzzle statement ressembles a haiku. Is a haiku relevant? To add one myself and since I cannot find my favourite in English, I'll add one from the same author, the famous Matsuo Basho: First winter rain-- even the monkey seems to want a raincoat. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9535 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is a haiku relevant? No, but... To add one myself and since I cannot find my favourite in English, I'll add one from the same author, the famous Matsuo Basho: First winter rain-- even the monkey seems to want a raincoat. Nice one! Snow falling outside Wet light flakes are coming down Looks like God's dandruff. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 1913 Registered: 9-2010 |
How about... Wormpuzzles are fun But only if MIDI made sense Which, sadly, it does not. | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1328 Registered: 6-2008 |
I just Googled "weightless poetry", expecting it to be a real literary term, but all roads lead back to the LTPF, so I'm guessing it's a neologism from here. Anyone care to fill me in? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9540 Registered: 4-2010 |
I just Googled "weightless poetry", expecting it to be a real literary term, but all roads lead back to the LTPF, so I'm guessing it's a neologism from here. Anyone care to fill me in? Not sure how to best summarize what it is, so I will use Woubit's words: "It doesn't weigh anything." While some poetry is about heavy topics - life and death, hard times, love, and so one - weightless poetry is quite the opposite, and is usually quite silly. Kaylee's example just above is a pretty good one. A few archived puzzles which might help you out: "Wait - Less Poetry!" by Beroean "Anything to feel weightless again" by Woodworm "That a cherry was as red" by Woubit And there's an old chatroom discussion somewhere about the stuff. Quite entertaining, really. | ||
| Woubit (Woubit)
Moderator Username: Woubit Post Number: 1254 Registered: 5-2007 |
Technical note: the haiku is not entirely a free verse form, since although haiku need not rhyme they must consist of three lines with respectively five, seven and five syllables (more strictly five moras, where a mora is a unit of sound whose meaning is hotly debated by linguists when they have nothing else to do, which is most of the time). It is of course possible to write rhymed haiku - one of the more subtle wastes of time in the field of weightless poetry is the "limeraiku", which combines the rhyming scheme of the limerick with the metrical scheme of the haiku: For limeraikus We should use, perhaps, the chaps With higher IQs. The punctuation Of the puzzle statement is Bizarre. On purpose? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9652 Registered: 4-2010 |
Technical note: the haiku is not entirely a free verse form, since although haiku need not rhyme they must consist of three lines with respectively five, seven and five syllables (more strictly five moras, where a mora is a unit of sound whose meaning is hotly debated by linguists when they have nothing else to do, which is most of the time). It is of course possible to write rhymed haiku - one of the more subtle wastes of time in the field of weightless poetry is the "limeraiku", which combines the rhyming scheme of the limerick with the metrical scheme of the haiku: For limeraikus We should use, perhaps, the chaps With higher IQs. I won't even try! Or else I would get, you bet, Some tears in my eye. The punctuation Of the puzzle statement is Bizarre. On purpose? It is, isn't it? Was my intent to confuse? A little bit, yes. As I have stated Already, the statement-thing Is three sentences: "There." "Or better yet, T." "Even [blank] would work." | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1337 Registered: 6-2008 |
Are you merely making a statement of what weightless poetry would be, if taken to the extreme? In other words, that the simplest (and therefore most weightless) poem is just one word, like "there", but one could even reduce it to a single letter? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9682 Registered: 4-2010 |
Are you merely making a statement of what weightless poetry would be, if taken to the extreme? A certain example of it, yes. In other words, that the simplest (and therefore most weightless) poem is just one word, like "there", but one could even reduce it to a single letter? Yes, but again, we're looking for a specific example of weightless poetry that is being reduced. | ||
| Woubit (Woubit)
Moderator Username: Woubit Post Number: 1261 Registered: 5-2007 |
A poet who hailed from Bay Shore Whose limericks stopped at line four, When asked to explain Said "Sometimes, my brain Refuses to work any more". But another, from Clacton-on-Sea, As arrogant as he could be, Said "I am so bright I could go on all night, But I choose to end mine at line three. While an elderly minstrel of Crewe Whose limericks stopped at line two Said "I could waste time Finding words that would rhyme, But I cannot be bothered - could you?" There once was a man of Verdun Whose limericks stopped at line one. He gave up poetics, Took up dianetics... Let us hope the poor chap's having fun. But here is my Balin, my hero, Whose limericks stop at line zero. Long life, my dear friend - And may yours never end In the manner of Emperor Nero. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9687 Registered: 4-2010 |
A poet who hailed from Bay Shore Whose limericks stopped at line four, When asked to explain Said "Sometimes, my brain Refuses to work any more". But another, from Clacton-on-Sea, As arrogant as he could be, Said "I am so bright I could go on all night, But I choose to end mine at line three. While an elderly minstrel of Crewe Whose limericks stopped at line two Said "I could waste time Finding words that would rhyme, But I cannot be bothered - could you?" There once was a man of Verdun Whose limericks stopped at line one. He gave up poetics, Took up dianetics... Let us hope the poor chap's having fun. But here is my Balin, my hero, Whose limericks stop at line zero. Long life, my dear friend - And may yours never end In the manner of Emperor Nero. Well, that didn't take you much toil, And you definitely weren't at all foiled. I should not be surprised That in front of my eyes It was Woubit who this one did SPOIL. **********SPOILER********** One of the more well-known examples of weightless poetry is that of the poet from Crewe whose limericks stopped at line two. Recently, I read of the spin-off "There once was a man of Verdun," which implies that his limericks stopped at line one, but you couldn't actually say that, else the limerick would have more than one line. That got me thinking...what about the poet from Kurd? His limericks would stop at one word, so his autobiographical limerick would read "There." But why stop there? I next thought about the poet from Vetter; his autobiographical limerick would stop at one letter, and would read "T." Of course, one could go even more to the weightless extreme, as there is a poet from Gaul, who didn't write limericks at all. The limerick about this poet would simply not exist - it would be blank. In that case, the most weightless poem of all would be that which is literally weightless - a poem which does not exist. So to all of you puzzlers who thrived, I'm glad that this one you survived. And so just to be nice, I'll give you this advice: Limericks usually stop at line five. But then again, this is weightless poetry, where rules aren't even guidelines. | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 548 Registered: 9-2010 |
There once was a man from LeFurrple Who wrote a poem verse ending in "purple" He said "I need a rhyme" But I'm out of - | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9920 Registered: 4-2010 |
The recent winner of a Washington Post contest, concerning poems on the news: Gribbedy grabbedy, Airport security Fondles my stuff in an Intimate way. Many object to this Microanalysis; Sadly for me it's the Height of my day. | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 599 Registered: 8-2010 |
Here's one I came up with about iambic pentameter: There are ten syllables in every line, With emphasis on every other one. This poem is an iambic one of mine, And writing like this can be rather fun! |
