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VIDELICET used in a way,
When seen in its oft used display,
Appears as brief 'viz',
Whose appearance is
Just meant to mean "that is to say."
--- Chris Papa

VIDELICET may seem alien,
So we mean not use it daily and
You can be sure
If you do, your
Likely called sesquipedalian.
--- Daniel Ford

There is no ease with VIDELICET.
It is not big with the jelly set.
Despite tries gamely,
Most eyes are namely
Focused on stars who big belly get.
--- Daniel Ford

I VILIPEND those who can't spell,
And throw in an extra "L".
A medical degree
Is no guarantee
That one is educated as well.
--- Daniel Ford

We disparage misspelled VILIPEND
And wonder, "When will this fillip end?"
They think, "Never!" but
Digesting through gut,
Remember one's own villi tend.
--- Daniel Ford

That Homer was clever, was he,
With metaphors free as could be.
He'd have readers fawn,
Over rosy tinged dawn,
And describe a VINACEOUS sea.
--- Chris Papa

VINACEOUS does describe my hide
After exposure front and backside
To our long daylight hours,
Which produce great flowers,
But produces my visage as "fried."
--- Barb

Baked artichoke with VINAIGRETTE,
Tasty hors d'oeuvre that you get,
And you surely must know,
The leaves are plucked so,
And not chewed, or it you'll regret.
--- Chris Papa

Sour wine that makes nice VINAIGRETTE
Did come from cellar with epithet,
Regretting wine lost,
Seductions plans tossed,
Viagra for the erector set.
--- Daniel Ford

VINCULUM keeps it together,
Acting as sort of a tether,
Ligament or line,
It helps define,
Parts that are "birds of a feather."
--- Chris Papa

Bones are tied by a VINCULUM;
Orifice split by a speculum,
But I'll not surmise
That doctor's surprise
At diff 'twixt pit and pendulum.
--- Daniel Ford

Hungry Hannah sought sex VIRTUOSO,
Some guy whose organ would grow so,
Wher she was near,
But married, I fear,
Poor Peter, who performed just so-so.
--- Chris Papa

My tailor is really VIRTUOSO.
Do I think so? No, I know so!
His tailor skills
Give me the chills.
There's no one I know who can sew so.
--- Norm Brust

Though most of our life doesn't go so,
We strive to the jobs VIRTUOSO,
Except for some few,
The work when it's through,
Is better described as just so-so.
--- Chris Papa

Masterly work VIRTUOSO
By artist virtuous, oh so,
May include concepts blue,
But between me and you,
Just is not quite appropos so.
--- Daniel Ford

The skillful artist, VIRTUOSO,
Sings of love in the style arioso.
Then goes to soft shoes
For singing the blues,
About bains of life doloroso.
--- Daniel Ford

My transverse colon gives me pain;
Got colonoscopy again.
I hate this procedure,
But I will endure
Through VISCERAL probe against grain.
--- Daniel Ford

VISCERAL, of organs internal,
May be the site of pains infernal,
For doc to discuss,
As each little viscus
Must have its own rhythm diurnal.
--- Daniel Ford

My friend is seriously overweight.
His diet he will regularly TITIATE.
He eats salami on rye,
Then cocoanut pie,
Instead of the salad I wish he ate.
--- Norm Brust

We make ineffective, VITIATE.
When bumbling love we initiate.
For resulting jolt
Causes love to bolt,
Leaving naught for priest to officiate.
--- Daniel Ford

A contender he might have been,
Right there in the heavyweight scene,
Except that Demetrius
Had a jaw VITREOUS,
And was carted from ring, quite serene.
--- Chris Papa

Our Congress, that group of debaters,
Best known as professional haters,
With tongues VITRIOLIC,
All need high colonic,
So flow will come out of new craters.
--- Chris Papa

VITRIOLIC came from glassidity,
And caustic effects of acidity.
Today there's so much
Angry speech and such,
We think that one is just gassidity.
--- Daniel Ford a

An addict who's classed VITRIOLIC
Craves caustics like some alcoholic.
His gut will get burned,
Until he has learned
To lay off of the acid carbolic.
--- Cyn

The bombast with words VITRIOLIC,
Extols his views hyperbolic.
I know what I hear
And receive with less cheer,
And accept like a long high colonic.
--- Chris Papa

A mafioso who was frequently drunk
Often crashed with a very loud thunk.
For his brain, alcoholic,
Spewed curses VITRIOLIC,
Till he landed in the capo's trunk.
--- Norm Brust

There once was a VITUPERATE lass
Whose very voice could etch glass!
She sure couldn't sing,
(It wasn't her "thing"!)
But she could chew balls made of brass!
--- Chris Papa

Judge Roberts may soon need a friend,
Now that he's very close to the end.
Near Pat Leahy date,
Who'll VITUPERATE,
'Cause Judge too far right seems to bend.

(Roberts is nominee for US Supreme Court Fall 2005)
--- Chris Papa

In bad-mouthing, we VITUPERATE
And trust the victim recuperates.
But sometimes the adder
Responds in ways badder,
The gross insult to exuperate. (excel, surmount)
--- Daniel Ford

Hermit Dave would not VIVIFY gal
He kept as a sexual pal.
He said, "I'm the sort
Who enjoys the sport
Eschewing expensive Whore Sal.
--- Chris Papa

VOCIFEROUS clients disturb
Librarian in our suburb.
She'd all of them gag,
Or place a brown bag
Over heads, to enforce a strict curb.
--- Chris Papa

Through advertising VOCIFEROUS,
For caraway umbelliferous,
Makers of Beano
Draw Vegans keeno
With answers non-suderiferous. (non-sweating)
--- Daniel Ford

To those loud-mouthed vegan, herbivorous,
Stop lecturing us savages, carnivorous!
You are what you eat,
And I'm made of meat,
So I'll ignore your protest VOCIFEROUS.
--- Norm Brust

This is file kal

Those loud protestors VOCIFEROUS,
Growing in numbers proliferous,
Are not so welcome
When it seem Hell's come.
The Satanic are luciferous.
--- Daniel Ford

A very VOCIFEROUS yokel,
Charmedall the dumb natives local.
He became their mayor,
Now each high tax payer
Resents his high living baroqual.
--- Chris Papa

While chickens may VOLANT be,
I hardly see one perched in a tree.
Just frozen bottom
Where Frank Perdue got 'em,
Is about all that I ever see.
--- Chris Papa

Of her own strong VOLITION, intent
On a plane south to Lima she went;
Museum exotica,
Concerning erotica,
Took her on as a practiced docent.
--- Elois

Political pundits now rate,
John Kerry from the old Bay State.
Based on his votes cast,
And record amassed,
A swaying VOLTE-FACE candidate.
--- Chris Papa

The policy reversal of VOLTE-FACE
Will not come from current assault boss.
He refused to tax
Anyone who him backs
And guarantees kids budget fault loss.
--- Daniel Ford

'Tis said that our Atlanta lasses,
Have VOLUBLE ways, like molasses.
Though slow in their speech,
Each pert Georgia peach,
Excels in attracting men's passes.
--- Chris Papa

The flowing stories so VOLUBLE
From tellers fixing the soluble,
Are told with candor
To the bystander,
In hope that he will not call you bull.
--- Daniel Ford

Stadium with VOMITORIA
Is needed for transit gloria,
When the crowd is sick
Of missed field goal kick
And considers moratoria.
--- Daniel Ford

VOMITORIUM, aisle, choose it;
I thought it for guys that booze it,
The stagger to place,
To fall on their face,
And promptly proceed to "lose it."
--- Chris Papa

I'll describe my dog's appetite...
VORACIOUS it is with each bite.
Once homeless and thin,
I took him right in;
Now he thinks he's king! And he's right!
--- Maggie

Eager appetite VORACITY,
Provides beings with tenacity;
Much food to devour
In course of luch hour,
Though fullness clouds perspicacity.
--- Daniel Ford

VORACITY, ready to eat
Anything that they might meet,
As dog owners know,
From tail, head to toe,
Canine apetites can't be beat.
--- Chris Papa

The lady would VOUCHSAFE her favor
For many a young lad to savor.
But crabs and "the drip"
Caused business to slip,
As youth became wiser, not braver.
--- Chris Papa

From December's cold naive waif
Sought comfort of favors vouchsafed.
But soon his bliss
From Miss's kiss
Turned to dance of itches and chafe.
--- Phil Kinay

VOX POPULI, voice of the "fellers",
Though praised by most history tellers,
Of having effect,
Would still, I suspect,
Would have kept all of us, cave dwellers.
--- Chris Papa

VOX POPULI is an unreliable source
For picking stocks on the borse.
It's been known for quite long,
That the crowd's always wrong.
Better put your money on a horse.
--- Norm Brust

Such a geode-like hollow as VUG
Might suit Dave like a bug in a rug,
Where little crystal
There in tube distal,
Could glow for his honey in the fug.
--- Daniel Ford

A raghead named Subramanian
Had a meal cooked by a Romanian.
It wasn't the heat
That made him repeat,
But the effect of the garlic was VULCANIAN.
--- Norm Brust

There once was a VULCANIAN smithy,
Who thought that he was quiet witty.
He'd make horse shoe hoops,
In fanciful loops,
Which ladies wear 'cause they're pretty.
--- Chris Papa

They sure get to help their hips rise.
So it is to no one's surprise,
They get to perplex
The opposite sex,
And bring out that bulge in their flies.
--- Chris Papa

A use for a VULCANIZED tire:
Construction of funeral pyre.
Rollovers are rife,
With much loss of life;
Could Firestone itself yet expire?

(Firestone tire scandal year 2000 USA)
--- Nick

The star of the house was a prize
For men of great stamina and size.
She'd insist on safe sex,
Then made moves complex,
Which caused condoms to VULCANIZE.
--- J'Carlin

Daddy Goodrich, who never chastized,
While tending an offspring prized,
To fix child's wet bottom,
He went out and got him
Pants that he could VULCANIZE.
--- Chris Papa

Today's VULGATE, well berated,
Has good sense eliminated.
"Like", "Ya know" and such,
Mean not very much.
I'd like them "ex-communicated."
--- Chris Papa

Though it may cost many a dollar,
That lady with the red VULPINE collar,
Has no shame at all.
Insults will befall
Through animal lovers fierce holler.
--- Chris Papa

There once was a wise wight WAGGISH,
Who dressed up in girls clothes, haggish.
The result of this fad,
Was that he soon had
Rumpled reputation faggish.
--- Chris Papa

I sometimes give Chris a hard time
When he inserts old Dave in a rhyme.
Though I may appear naggish,
My intention is WAGGISH.
I'm really fond of that bucket of slime.
--- Norm Brust

While "bucket of slime" has a ring,
About when of Dave I might sing,
It praiseworthy, ain't.
I'd ask you to paint,
A much more poetical thing.
--- Chris Papa

The hay in out-of-way WAIN,
On which many lovers have lain,
With cute Cupid's doin'
And much heavy wooin',
Brings brides to corral their new swain.
--- Chris Papa

A waitron is from outer space,
And though it may serve me with grace,
I never leave tip
'Cause I think it's hip,
To wipe smile from a robot's face.
--- Chris Papa

Oh where is my genderless WAITRON?
Out eating the meal of a patron?
Or having a smoke
With genderless folk,
As genderless food the stove bakes on?
--- Elois

Yes, pity that poor Walter Mitty,
As he walks around New York City
In James Thurber roast
Like Caspar Milquetoast,
Frustrated without a mate pretty.
--- Daniel Ford


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