Unrapped

playing on the old cabbage always the critic or you worst nightmare like John crambo crossing the Rhine and reason an umpire falls to see to forgive is divine a gumbo of thoughts travial as they may become it is humor to error the meter and time sad as it is some give a verse and others terse but secondly the urban chilled are ins taught to think outside your box like the dozen's seedlings bursting from pod is it really a dog eat doggerel Ed.

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John Beam

Date: 3/19/2012 8:52:00 PM

The Dozens is a game among two contestants, common in African American communities, where participants insult each other until one gives up or violence erupts. It is customary for the Dozens to be played in front of an audience of bystanders, who encourage the participants to reply with more egregious insults to heighten the tension and consequently, to be more interesting to watch. Among African Americans it is also known as "sounding", "joning", "woofing", "wolfing", "sigging", or "signifying

John Beam

Date: 3/19/2012 8:50:00 PM

Crambo is an old rhyming game which, according to Strutt, was played as early as the fourteenth century under the name of the ABC of Aristotle. It is also known as Capping the rhyme. The name may also be used to describe a doggerel poem which exhausts the possible rhymes with a particular word.