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Mr. Gygax the demiurge
Happily created the stirge -
It's like a mosquito
Except you're finito
If your paths should ever converge.
GURPS Swashbucklers (First Edition) (1988)
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Monday, September 28, 2009
A Limerick: The Stirge
Mr. Gygax the demiurge
Happily created the stirge -
It's like a mosquito
Except you're finito
If your paths should ever converge.
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4 comments:
And so you did (take it in a different direction). Very cool. Limericks are like real work and actually take talent.
finito Nice touch.
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Nice! :)
(Although I strongly suspect that Gygax didn't 'create' the stirge wholesale, but rather took the idea of the stirge from Tolkien's "Hummerhorns." I could be wrong, of course!)
Yeah, I figured as much but it worked here... also, according to Wikipedia: "Originally presented as a more bird-like creature, the stirge may be derived from the Roman striga, a vampiric owl-like night bird."
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