Dactylishous!

Wow, the past 2 months flew by. The only reason I've got a couple of free neurons is that I was exhausted and sick this morning, so instead of teaching today I slept until noon, then drank three cups of coffee.

There was an interesting news story yesterday in the Seattle After-Thought Post-Intelligencer. Seems a Coyote trotted into a sub shop in Chicago. I was writing a quiz yesterday when Dr. Kate exclaimed "Did you hear? A coyote in Quiznos in downtown Chicago!"

Some strange connection went off in my head back to 1981, when I was a loyal subscriber to Omni Magazine, a science magazine published by Bob Guccione. The back page of this magazine had a contest every month. One of the contests I remember was "Future Bumper Stickers". I remember this because, a year later, one of my college roommates informed me she had been a winner that month, for the entry "The shortest distance between two points is under construction". That quip is still attributed to said roommate in quite a few Internet Quote databases.

My favorite of these contests was a "Double Dactyl" contest. I had not previously heard of double dactyls, but to this day I think they should be the predominate form of cleverly humorous short verse, rather than the highly popular yet inferior Limerick. If I recall correctly, the winning entry in that contest was

Alien Schmalien
Erich von Daniken
Tells of green spacemen
that come from afar.

Next he'll be telling us
Extraterrestrials
landed in Dallas
to murder JR.

Now if that doesn't bring you back in time 28 years, you are probably too young to be reading this blog anyway.

But that brings me back to my original purpose for this entry. While the emphasis is on the wrong syllables, "coy O te in QUIZ nos in DOWN town chi CA go" just cried out to be turned into a dactyl. So I humbly submit the following;

Coyote in Quiznos
in Downtown Chicago.
A carnivore visits to
score a large sub.

"Roast beef is yummy, now
Add some jerk seasoning!
Tastes more like squirrel
-- ah yes, there's the rub."