How should you pick up the ball and throw it

This page, which languagehat linked because of the awesome limericks:

There was a young fellow named Cholmondeley,
Whose bride was so mellow and colmondeley
That the best man, Colquhoun,
An inane young bolqufoun,
Could only stand still and stare dolmondeley.

among others, which certainly do win my endorsement, also has a fabulous poem by Robert Graves, which I reproduce for my convenience hereunder: