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1. about 2 hours ago on That is Priceless

   I’m sure one might make a case that a finial is not a mere knob, but since the only rhyme for finial is perineal, perhaps that’s Fate’s way of hinting that only an a-hole would pursue it further ;-)

2. about 5 hours ago on That is Priceless

   The Republican’s already didn’t make them like that when TR had to start the Bullmoose Party

3. about 5 hours ago on That is Priceless

   Then the interenet came along

   and he now sings a happier song

   Several hours a day

   he’s on webcam to play

   for tips when he shows them his …

4. about 5 hours ago on That is Priceless

   just KNEW there would be a reference to newel coming. Saved us the trouble ;-) HOWEVER – you’re going to have to find a rhyme for finial, since that’s what his hand is actually touching

   ok, let’s see…

   With insistence as stubborn as a mule

   I maintain it’s the finial, not the newel

   I don’t mean to boast

   but the newel’s just the post

   not the knob, says this nitpicking fool.

5. 4 days ago on That is Priceless

   You can tell he’s not taking a piddle:

   he sits on the rim, not the middle.

   He’s just checking the manual

   “Percussionists Annual”

   For he can’t tell a flam from a paradiddle.

6. 12 days ago on That is Priceless

   Mary Bridget thought that her best bet

   was to copy Marie Antoinette

   for that hairstyle so Gallic

   hid her hydrocephalic

   deformity neath a hair net

7. 12 days ago on That is Priceless

   (okay here’s a lame one anyway:)

   Mary Bridget thought that her best bet

   was to copy Marie Antoinette

   for that hairstyle so Gallic

   hid her hydrocephalic

   deformity neath a hair net

8. 12 days ago on That is Priceless

   I had considered writing a limerick if only I could find a convincing rhyme for hydrocephaly… but it’s too late now to get any traction even if I did, so no…

9. 19 days ago on That is Priceless

   Face and hands are a ruddy red-brown,

   but her torso is white as a clown.

   And as for her dress

   well, the whole things a mess.

   Is she pulling that rag up or down?

   (or did Pissaro just photoshop her head on?)

10. 20 days ago on That is Priceless

    Then the LeCrueset sisters gathered around the crystal ball they had fashioned (as was their wont) from ugly, heavy enameled iron…