A limerick and a haiku (senryu) with teeth today. First, my limerick:
I think I’m becoming unglued —
Not my mind, but a cap caught on food.
But I can’t blame the guy
Who implanted it. Why?
I forgot to get perm-glued — not shrewd!
And now my haiku (senryu):
The left and the right
May mouth off at each other,
But both hate dentists.
Now, of course, it’s your turn. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write some verse about dentists and/or teeth. When you’ve posted your poem(s), please return here and add a direct link to your themed poetry, using Mr. Linky. And please post a comment as well.
| 1. Elephant Small 2. vincent hefter 3. Alan Summers 4. Lilibeth 5. Rob Kistner 6. kouji | haiku poems |
7. Joyce 8. Nickers and Ink 9. sister AE 10. Oliver 11. USpace 12. USpace |
13. Ben Cousins 14. Val Russell 15. Holly 16. Unsay Moon |
UPDATE: Mr. Linky is now closed, but you can still add links to your dental verse in the Comments. And if you’d like to participate in a new poetry prompt, you can always find my latest one here.
UPDATE 2: Happy National Toothache Day! (celebrated yearly on February 9th) And happy Dentists Day! (celebrated yearly on March 6th)
Life-Saving, Spam-Fighting WordPress Plugin
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008I don’t usually write about technology, unless I’m writing limericks and haiku about sundry computer, spam, email, voice mail, and other techie aggravations.
But I’m making an exception today because I want to share my wonderful discovery: WP-SpamFree. I’m not exaggerating when I say it miraculously removes the WordPress comment spam moderation headache. How? It blocks all spam coming from bots; i.e., almost all spam. So it never even gets into your moderation queue.
I don’t know about you, but I used to wade through so much spam while moderating comments, that my eyes would glaze over and I’d inadvertently delete a legit comment. In fact, sometimes I’d get so disgusted, that I’d delete all pending comments without looking at them — I just didn’t have time to scan them and find the very few worth keeping.
Anyway, a few days ago I installed WP-SpamFree on both of my WordPress blogs, and my moderation woes ended immediately. Now my comments moderation screen is almost spam-free — it just shows just a bit of human-posted spam plus comments worth approving. So no more wasted time and no more accidentally deleted legit comments.
Hurray!
Oh … in case anybody’s wondering … I was NOT paid to rave about this fabulous (and free) plugin.
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