Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!gmf From: gmf@uvacs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: An Espy form Message-ID: <1423@uvacs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 18:04:45 EDT Article-I.D.: uvacs.1423 Posted: Mon Aug 6 18:04:45 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 01:06:23 EDT Lines: 36 On p. 158 of An Almanac of Words at Play , by Willard Espy, I find John Dame May Oscar Was Gay Was Whitty Was Wilde But Gerard Hopkins But John Greenleaf But Thornton Was Manley Was Whittier Was Wilder Here are some I made up: Jubal When Max Grant Was Early Was Born, Wood But Matthew Max But Immanuel Was Prior Was Baer Kant Arthur Gypsy Lee Andy Got Balfour Rose Was Devine But a Homer's When Alexander But the Lord A Homer Calder Was Acton Here's a pure example: **************************************** * I think there is an entertainer * Bobby * named Leslie Cann. If so, we have * Is Short * the rather macabre: * But Frank * * Is Shorter * Natalie * * Wood * * But Leslie * * Cann * * * **************************************** Gordon Fisher