anth
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 16:36 +0000, Ecnerwal wrote:
> In article
> <7e46e42c-2387-40e3-85f5-986c87c21db9@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
> "joseph.santaniello@gmail.com" <joseph.santaniello@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On May 19, 5:57pm, Doug Taylor <dtay...@dreamscape.com> wrote:
> > > I think that I shall never like
> > > A poem as much as my new bike.
> > > Carbon fiber, boutique brand;
> > > Set me back five thousand grand.
>
> $5,000,000.00 - a bit spendy even for an overweight poseur's bike.
> To keep the rhyme while retaining a plausibly absurd number, perhaps:
> Set me back a good five grand.
Set me back eleven grand
Or "seventeen", "twenty nine". Or going the way the subject of that poem
wouldn't: "one point five", "almost a".
> In article
> <7e46e42c-2387-40e3-85f5-986c87c21db9@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
> "joseph.santaniello@gmail.com" <joseph.santaniello@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On May 19, 5:57pm, Doug Taylor <dtay...@dreamscape.com> wrote:
> > > I think that I shall never like
> > > A poem as much as my new bike.
> > > Carbon fiber, boutique brand;
> > > Set me back five thousand grand.
>
> $5,000,000.00 - a bit spendy even for an overweight poseur's bike.
> To keep the rhyme while retaining a plausibly absurd number, perhaps:
> Set me back a good five grand.
Set me back eleven grand
Or "seventeen", "twenty nine". Or going the way the subject of that poem
wouldn't: "one point five", "almost a".