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He was a Turk, a wizard from the Bosphorus
His spells, we all agreed, sounded totally monotonous
Ponderous, not at all sonorous
In a tongue that was to us quite barbarous
But alas—alas!—he’d spotted us
It seemed the wizard wanted us
We were, he said, to be his hostages
Bait, he said, to catch a hippopotamus
Ridiculous, we said
It would be far less preposterous
To use us to catch a horned rhinoceros
75 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Preposterous
crispina kemp 
Absolutely wonderful. Love all those rhymes and of course a horned rhino. What was he thinking?
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I nearly didn’t include the horn. But you can’t have a rhino without a horn!
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How very clever of you! What an entertaining write! 💫
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Thank you. I love silly rhymes
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This is so much fun.
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Thank you. That’s how I like it!
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My pleasure
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😊
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💕
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Amazing use of words well done as usual
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Thank you, Frank. I thoroughly enjoyed the penning!
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You have not left me cantankerous with this wonderful use of preposterous!
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But maybe I’ve left you all the more prosperous!
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Indeed!
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Oh my friend, I’ve just found you in my spam folder. But fear not, I did rescue you before doing a total empty. (Hope no one else was hiding there!)
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You are a better woman than I. My spam gets so out of control that I just empty it without going through the potential true people. I shall see if closing the comments after 21 days helps as a few bloggers have stated.
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I check and answer comments at least once a week. But I don’t check that spam folder!
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That’s great. I seem to have fixed the spam situation thanks to suggestions from other bloggers. Just close the comments after x amount of time. Some 21 days, some 30, some 120.
I just checked and instead of my usual more than 1000 after three days, I had five…
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That’s fixed it! I might try that too. But how many days? I think for me it needs to be more than 30
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I put it at 30. Now, in about five days, I only have 7 – and all except for one on from my About page.
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Well done!
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I am truly gobsmacked by the results. None last week!
A friend, however, said she wanted to comment on a post from July and couldn’t because comments were closed. I explained the why but she let me know through Messenger 😉
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Swings and roundabouts!
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Indeed! But that stress I felt at having thousands of spam? Gone!
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Yay!
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Excellently done, Crispina. A fun read, indeed. 🙂
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Thank you, Bill. I thoroughly enjoyed composing it!
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