Defining Vs Non-Defining

To use “that” or substitute “which”
Knowing this would make me quite rich 
Wrong words are a glitch
That we hate and do switch
Since an editor’s ire is a b*tch


Author's note: I have been writing technical material for the past year, which has taken all my creative energy. I have missed many of the wonderful poets who live here. The good news is that the people I work for are beginning to embrace database publishing. 

We have all the paragraphs in one table, and "assemble" the paragraphs into documents using another table by importing record keys. Most people are not interested in this kind of thing, however, it could save us all a lot of money and lead to better technical publications from my employer.  

So, the site has some filtering for political correctness. At first, I thought I had left a word off, but alas, no. Is a little humor that bad?

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Date: 9/14/2020 9:50:00 AM
Hi Duke, how wonderful to see you on soup - you and Tom Cunningham are masters of limericks -this was great fun and clever - I hope you are well my friend. Blessings and hugs, Jennifer.
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Jan Allison
Date: 9/14/2020 2:49:00 PM
I second that comment Jennifer and 2 of the nicest people too:-) hugs jan xx
Date: 9/13/2020 9:34:00 AM
Love this! You've always been so clever with your Limericks. Hope you are doing well my friend. Always, Laura
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Duke Beaufort
Date: 9/14/2020 3:36:00 AM
Laura, I am so very pleased. I know it is good when I get a complement from you--since I respect and admire your talent and thinking. Anyone who reads your work is in for a significant treat. We hope we can use some restraint from the craziness that seems to overwhelm us sometimes. I must have at least some OCD. It leads to some very strange situations. With fondness!!
Date: 9/3/2020 3:59:00 PM
love the humour here Duke, hope all is good with you and your loved ones:-) hugs Jan xx
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Duke Beaufort
Date: 9/14/2020 3:35:00 AM
Yes, Jan, TY. I will stop by shortly and read some of yours.
Date: 8/25/2020 3:36:00 PM
thanks for your generous comment to me today, Duke. Can't wait to see new things from you over here.
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Duke Beaufort
Date: 9/14/2020 3:54:00 AM
I will get back here at some time soon. The project I have spent over 18 months on is a bit like Venus Paradise Coloring for paragraphs and lines. Just take the numbers (record keys) of what you want and put them in the order they should appear. This has applications for poetry if we wanted to try it. We could have all kinds of lines we could assemble into who knows what. Too funny.
Date: 8/23/2020 3:29:00 PM
Good one, both the limerick and the authors note: is a little humor that bad :-) How you doing in this coronavirus lockdown? I'm not working anymore. The guy I was taking care of shot himself in the head "dead" He was turning 85 in June & his cancer came in 5 spots. So he went in to get them removed. He came home after a month. 4 days later he was gone. His wife died 1 1/2 years ago from cancer. Anyways I came over here coz my poem The Loneliness Within Me wae featured. Take care.
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Duke Beaufort
Date: 9/14/2020 3:52:00 AM
You were probably the best thing in his life at this point, and even that was not enough. Sorry to hear this story, but there is a lot of suffering in this strange world of ours.
Date: 7/19/2020 11:59:00 AM
Duke, was checking to see if you are still around. Sorry you can't be here more! One thing I learned is that "that" is used a lot more than which!! But which is preferred after a comma, for non-restrictive adj clauses. I think your job would be kind of interesting if I understood technology.
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Duke Beaufort
Date: 9/14/2020 3:51:00 AM
TY Andrea, You are the rock of this site!!!
Date: 4/26/2020 9:46:00 PM
Hi Duke! Wonderful to read you... need all the humor I can get. And that word in particular I've embraced. ;), xomo
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Duke Beaufort
Date: 9/14/2020 3:50:00 AM
TY so much, I see you are a kindred spirit. Wonderful!!!
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