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undyingking ([personal profile] undyingking) wrote2010-10-26 11:16 am
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Verbosely paraphrased lyrics quiz

My deliberately blank expression is inscrutable, inscrutable; inscrutable to him.

An easy one to start off with...

(I think it was [livejournal.com profile] venta who came up with this idea.)

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2010-10-26 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
In my dreamworld I don't forsee any problems, we're strolling along holding hands.

[identity profile] mr-malk.livejournal.com 2010-10-26 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
In my imagination there is no complication, we walk together hand in hand.

(Kylie Minogue, I Should Be So Lucky... and I don't thank you for making me admit that I know it).

The following is not my own paraphraseology, but that of a friend's father. I think it's brilliant though:

Scintilate, scintilate, globule vivific,
Feign would I fathom thy nature specific,
Loftily poised in the ever-capacious,
Strongly resembling a gem, carbonaceous!

[identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com 2010-10-26 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
Getting it to scan and rhyme is very impressive!

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2010-10-26 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
Nice!

[identity profile] mrlloyd.livejournal.com 2010-10-26 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Bah, got it, but clearly not first...